TROPICAL STORM/HURRICANE ISAAC

The Way I C IT...

Why Can't We Fight Mother Nature?
Sure We Can! But it doesn't necessarily mean all will win.

 

TROPICAL STORM ISSAC BY PASSES PUERTO RICO

 

 

 

 

BUT SLAMS INTO HAITI HARD,

Displacing almost 7,000 and killing 7 so far

May they Rest in Peace and be given blessings and mana from heaven. in Jesus name.

 

Haiti

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac's Winds Shred Tent City

August 25, 2012

In Haiti, tens of thousands of people are still living in tents following the 2010 earthquake. David Darg of Operation Blessing, a relief agency in Haiti reports Tropical Storm Isaac hit the refugee camps hard.

Lord please deliver them from anymore suffering.

2,300 Red Cross workers sent to help

 

 

                       

 

"Isaac" llega a R. Dominicana con fuertes lluvias y amenaza a Haití y Cuba

Santo Domingo, 24 ago (EFE).- (Imagen: Orlando Barría) La tormenta tropical "Isaac" azota con sus intensas precipitaciones el sur de la República Dominicana y Haití, donde se esperan acumulaciones de lluvia de entre 100 y 200 milímetros y existe riesgo de inundaciones y deslizamientos de tierra.

"Isaac" llega a R. Dominicana con fuertes lluvias y amenaza a Haití y Cuba Santo Domingo, 24 ago (EFE).- (Imagen: Orlando Barría) La tormenta tropical "Isaac" azota con sus intensas precipitaciones el sur de la República Dominicana y Haití, donde se esperan acumulaciones de lluvia de entre 100 y 200 milímetros y existe riesgo de inundaciones y deslizamientos de tierra.

English Translation

"Isaac" reaches R. Dominican with heavy rains and threatens Haiti and Cuba

Santo Domingo, Aug 24 (EFE). - (Picture: Orlando Barria) Tropical Storm "Isaac" with heavy rains lashing the south of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where rainfall accumulations are expected between 100 and 200 mm and there risk of flooding and landslides.


"Isaac" reaches R. Dominican with heavy rains and threatens Cuba Haiti and Santo Domingo, Aug 24 (EFE). - (Picture: Orlando Barria) Tropical Storm "Isaac" with heavy rains lashing the south of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where accumulations are expected rainfall of between 100 and 200 millimeters in the risk of flooding and landslides.

 

 

 

Tropical Storm Isaac pestañas Cuba, con las llaves de la Florida en la mira

LA HABANA (AP) _ La tormenta tropical Isaac azotó Cuba el sábado después de su paso por Haití donde dejó tres muertos, en tanto siguió rumbo a la Florida donde se declaró el estado de emergencia porque podría llegar como huracán, según las autoridades.
Isaac ingresó en la mañana a Cuba a unos 45 kilómetros al oeste-suroeste de Punta de Maisi, extremo oriental de la provincia de Guantánamo, y a más de 900 kilómetros al este de La Habana, informó José Rubiera, del Instituto de Meteorología de Cuba, a la televisión cubana.
Se registraron olas de hasta seis metros, marejadas e inundaciones costeras, en la ciudad oriental de Baracoa, en la cual el Malecón se veía totalmente inundado, según imágenes de la televisión cubana que transmitió desde las siete de la mañana del sábado un programa informativo especial con motivo del paso de la tormenta por la isla.

English Translation

Tropical Storm Isaac lashes Cuba, with Florida Keys in sights

HAVANA (AP) _ Tropical Storm Isaac hit Cuba on Saturday after passing through Haiti which killed three people, while heading to Florida followed that declared the state of emergency that might come as a hurricane, according to authorities.

Isaac joined the morning to Cuba about 45 miles west-southwest of Punta de Maisi, the easternmost province of Guantanamo, and more than 900 kilometers east of Havana, said Jose Rubiera, the Meteorology Institute of Cuba, Cuban television.

There were waves up to six meters, storm surges and coastal flooding in the eastern city of Baracoa, in which the Malecón looked totally flooded, according to Cuban television footage that aired from seven in the morning of Saturday a special news program due to the passage of the storm on the island.

Cuba

 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

 

 

 Dominican Republic

 

High Threat for Tornadoes from Isaac

August 25, 2012

The Weather Channel Severe Weather Expert Dr. Greg Forbes says Isaac could bring flooding rain and a chance of tornadoes to Florida.

Warning signs: A man walks along along the Tampa Bay waterfront today in St Petersburg, Florida as storm clouds gathered

 Tampa Gas Stations Nearly Empty

 

Cars leave the Lower Keys, Florida (AFP Photo / Marc Serota)

 

Final preparations: Tampa residents were making final preparations for the arrival of Tropical Storm Issac by filling sandbags at a Hillsborough County Public Works Service Center; the storm hit Haiti earlier today and is headed for Florida

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac delays GOP Convention

 

 

 God Be With Those Which ISSAC Hits 

 

 

 

Isaac was blamed for four deaths in Haiti.

The death toll in Haiti from the storm has risen to seven. One being a little 10 year old girl when a wall fell in her house and killing her.

Isaac drew new strength early Sunday during a warm-water crossing of the Florida Straits after causing weekend havoc in Cuba, where it downed trees and power lines.

Key West urges evacuations.

Key West and Marathon Airports Closed 8/26/12.

Miami Interntional cancelling flights.

Leigh County, thousands without power.

A small number of South Floridians - more than 8,000 customers - are already without power in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties.

Orlando Airports advises to call regarding flights.

Florida Power Outages in Miami Dade and Monroe Counties.

All public transportation in Miami stopped at noon today, 8/26/12.

Still a Strong Tropical Storm as it moves through the keys 8/26/12.

 

 

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Florida West Coast seems to be safe 8/26/12.

Just lots and lots rain and wind gusts expected in Tampa, if any.

 

 

 

After 2004 Hurricane Charly

Tampa did not get a direct hit but as it crossed over,

the water in the lake rose, we had some downed branches, some fences torn off, lots of wind and horizontal rain with the sky greying with each hour that passed.

 

 God Bless Us All, Everyone

A Snake In The House

3/20/12

I was visiting with my parents and was on the computer when my mother walked in and calmly told me that there was a snake in the house.  I looked up at her in disbelief as I stood up.  "A snake? Where?"  She led me to the area between the living room and the kitchen counter to where the snake was nestled against the wall below the counter top.

Yipes! To some it may not have seemed to be so big a snake but to a family of hometown New Yorkers, it was one big uninvited house guest!  "It's just a garden snake" I said coolly" no use creating a panic but I didn't know what kind of snake it was at all and I was frightened of it. My parents are both in their 80's and obviously did not know how to rid their home of this creature, so it was up to me to do it. "Wait," I said as I ran into the room where my purse was and quickly returned with my digital camera in hand.  "What the heck are  you going to do with a camera?"  My dad was clearly annoyed that I ran back with my Olympus in hand.  Did he think I had gone to pull my Snake Charmer Flute out of a wicker basket from the room?

I asked my mom if she had a pair of gloves so that I can wear them to pick up the snake but after I had the gloves on and bent down towards the snake, I had a rapid change of bravado when I saw it lift it's head and look directly at me, knowing that I was the one to contend with. Was it going to lunge at me, how far it could stretch during it's leap? 

"Dad, a broom! Could you get me a broom?"  My father went out through the sliding glass door in the living room and returned with a worn out broom but didn't hand it to me.  "Help me! I can't do this alone!"  I heard the urgency in my voice as well as my dad's.  "Que tu quieres que yo haga?" My father was asking me what I wanted him to do in Spanish with the same nervous sound in his voice that I had previously had when asking him to help me.  I asked him for the broom and he passed it over to me.  My mother must have realized that this was a woman's job because she quickly left and returned with her own weapon, a dried up old gray mop which they also kept out in the patio area. 

It was on now!

I leaned forward and pushed the broom into the snake's middle area but it stretched out further.  My mom was towards my right and instinctively lunged at the snake with her mop as well, assisting me in pinching it against the wall.  My dad realized that we had not done anything more than to arrest it from moving from the place it had been at all along and he yelled out to us in a more urgent voice pitch, "Pero saca lo pa fuera!" "But take it outside!"  How in heck was I going to do that without removing our weapons from it and picking it up?  I asked my mom to remove her mop and told her that I would keepit pinned. Once mama stood clear, I tried to sweep the snake towards the entry door but it slithered side ways as both my parents yelled in unison for me not to let it get away; I was screaming also. Our adrenaline was pumped, my fathers eyes were bugged, my mother's face, determined as she backed me up with her dried up mop in hand.  The snake had now, slithered under a table in the foyer.

The picture below is where it had found shelter at but I photo shopped a snake image and pasted it onto the photo I snapped of the location it was hiding in.  My mother removed her dry twigs decoration from under the table where she displayed her candle decor and I was able to continue sweeping at the intimidating slithery pest again.

The picture below is photo shopped just to give you an idea of where the snake had later hidden once we were in pursuit.  I couldn't very well let go of my broom to capture this Kodak moment.

"Dad, abre la puerta! Open the door", I shouted desperately as once again, I pinned the snake under the broom.  My 83 year old father, in his blue house shorts, white wife beater and slippers opened the entry door.  Wfile standing outside, he leaned his frail body forward and held the door opened with the tips of his 3 middle fingers.  I lifted the broom up and off of the snake and struck it as if I had been playing golf and trying for a hole in one.  The snake hurled into the air and down to the floor again, everyone screamed as it slithered, prompting dad to let go of the door.  Papa was now standing outside and my mother and I inside screaming as we both got busy pushing the snake under the door with our beat up broom and mop.  It really was a hilarious situation.  Mom and I pushed and pushed at the snake, all the while I was yelling for my father to open the door and telling him that we were trying to shove it outside but that he must open the door.  Mother was the one who opened it after realizing that dad, was certainly not going to place himself in the line of fire and have that snake landing at his feet.  As my mom held the door, I managed to sweep the snake out.  Mama then released the door and I pushed it shut.  Now I am yelling out to my father, afraid to open the door again.  "Dad, is it gone?"  "No, it's still inside the house"!  Papa was still yelling.  Inside the house? No, it couldn't be, my mom and I were in the foyer in the same location where we had finally managed to push it through the bottom of the door.  Very  slowly, I opened the door and suddenly the snake dropped back into the foyer. Mom and I screamed and jumped but I kept sweeping at it with the broom. The door was now held ajar by mother.  I frantically swept and golfed and screamed until it finally landed outside by the welcome mat. 

Papa was yelling at me to push it towards the furthest area from the entry way.  He words jumped out in Spanish.  I understood his level of intensity because the snake was now slithering all over the place and much faster than before; it could still make it's way back into the house.  I alternated from sweeping to the golf swing until the snake finally landed inside the stone pit to the right of their condo's entry door. "Kill it," my father yelled out, 'Pour Chlorox on it," he continued. "It's gone dad relax, they were here first you know.  We live in Florida, you should have been long adjusted to living with all these creatures by now," I said as I walked back into the house, knees trmbling.

My father followed me in as he continued admonishing me for not throwing bleach on the rocks.  "Now it will return during the night," he said.  "It won't come in here dad, it will find it's way towards the grass soon."  It's just a garden snake, I added, 'they do not bite."  I hoped.

"Yeah, they don't bite but I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night because that thing has worked it's way back into the house, crawled up the bed and wrapped itself around my ankles."

"Dad, you know that's not going to happen."  As I walked towards the room where my purse was, I could hear my mother mumbling about how they have to find a new place and move away now.  Drama queens run in my family.

TODAY,  3/21/12

Again, my mother walks in to tell me that there is yet another snake outside of her door in the stone pit; once again I go to see.  Sure enough,a small black thinner snake nestled against the wall of the pit; it was much smaller than the one my mother and I had swept away yesterday and yes, once again, I grabbed my camera. I took close ups of this one since it was so much smaller and was not in the house. 

 My mother came out with a gallon of bleach in her hand thinking the I would drown the snake in it but I refused saying, "No mom, I am not going to burn a creature to death."  "But what if it comes into the house again?" She asked.  I walked outside and noticed a man wearing an orange colored construction hard hat having a smoke beneath the shae of a tree.  "Excuse me" I said, 'do you think you could help me?" The man walked over and I explained what was occuring, including yesterday's event.  He smiled, asked where it was and followed me in.  This is what happened next.

The video below, though very short, is monetized.

The Way I C It... People who move to tropical places should accept the fact that they are sharing space with natures creatures who have lived there many more years before the transients invaded their territory.