Dorian projected to be CAT 2 hurricane when it gets to Florida....

[VenomJockey]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...devastated-Bahamas-wake-Hurricane-Dorian.html

Hate to see the damages done in the Bahamas....now, imagine if this monster would have hit the W. Palm Beach area as a Cat 5, crossed Florida into the Gulf, restrengthened and then nailed the Gulf Coast! Be glad this thing turned North when it did.

But the U.S. mainland isn't out of the woods yet..still have almost two months to go, and there is another one forming off the Africa Coast that is heading due West and may well make it to the Caribbean and into the Gulf of Mexico. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php

 

[DrPrepper]

I have seen news reports of people in the Bahamas getting desperate, frustrated, and under extreme stress. I think if these people would have had prepared, all their preps would have blown away. Now they are reliant on their government. Not a good place to be.

 

[TexasFreedom]

DP,

"Prepping" also involves your choice of places to live. Living on a flat island in the Carribean would not be a good choice.

And, you prep for the likely scenarios. A hurricane there would be prep #1. That means storing your preps in a way that will survive a hurricane. That would mean a buried storage.

Of course, most people there live in such poverty that 'prepping' means having tomorrow's meal planned. Living in a 10x10 tin lean-to is a different realm that we can imagine.

I'm not faulting the people there. And their gov't is completely unprepared and incompetent. So if they are to be saved, they will require other countries to step up. Everyone always looks to the US to "save them", then turn around and spit in our eye the next week.

 

[tmttactical]

I used to live in Komifornia, then in Kentucky --- now in Arizona. komifornia had the nasty surprise earthquakes. Kentucky had those yearly tornadoes. Arizona, nothing, no natural disasters. So it is much easier to plan for SHTF, you can pretty much bet it will be a man made problem.

 

[DrPrepper]

I used to live in Komifornia, then in Kentucky --- now in Arizona. komifornia had the nasty surprise earthquakes. Kentucky had those yearly tornadoes. Arizona, nothing, no natural disasters. So it is much easier to plan for SHTF, you can pretty much bet it will be a man made problem.

Arizona has a man made problem, MS13. I am only kidding... well sort of... my aunt lives there and complains about them. She is moving back to Texas at the end of this month.

 

[Brent S]

I have seen news reports of people in the Bahamas getting desperate, frustrated, and under extreme stress. I think if these people would have had prepared, all their preps would have blown away. Now they are reliant on their government. Not a good place to be.

Agreed, if they had preps that didn’t blow away or get flooded then they would have to deal with desperate looters now. Bugging out would have been the only wise thing to do for this storm.

 

[Gazrok]

So glad this missed us. I still have debris to haul off from 2 yrs ago's storm. This time, my wife and I were on a trip in GA, so weren't home, and our daughter was home alone with all the animals (including a full stable of horses). So we were pretty worried.

The day before we left, was all storm prep, just in case. (boarding windows, etc.). At one point, we were this close to scrubbing the vacation.... So glad we didn't.