Evacuation!

[phantomxc]

well since i am lucky enough to live in florida -_- I get to see this thing happen....so im going to be taking pics and such and trying to upload them here as long as i can....cause i know im going to loose power....lol...Im dreading it >_< well like an hour ago I went on top of this bridge and took some cool pics of the traffic from the evacuation. Its been stop and go allllll day.... well heres the pic

http://img12.exs.cx/img12/1822/11151.jpg

little blurry but ya i dont know how to work a digital camera and change all the settings...plus it was pitch black but it goes on as far as we can see both directions and has been like that all day. have fun.

im also going to upload pics tomorrow of the outerbands coming in. Im getting on my roof ^_^

[Krilnon]

Those motion trails are awesome!

Hope you aren't hurt by the storm/hurricane.

[wizard]

Interesting... maybe we can get some good pictures. ;)

[DariusMonsef]

Hurricane??? That's your concern?!?!?!

If I were you I'd be concerned about this thing...

[Krilnon]

WTF??!! Wow, that is very creepy. Maybe its that alien friend of Kirupa's.

[aknatn]

agreed I like the trails :crazy:
really though, be safe during the Hurricane, but if you can snap some more shots we'd all appreciate it I'm sure. There's nothing like first hand perspective to clarify a situation.

[eilsoe]

oh come one.. he clearly just wiped his nose with the lens before he snapped the pic :P

[DariusMonsef]

I don't know man... that "thing" is making me more and more creeped out. It's too small to be a smudge. The sharpness and brightness of the lights mean it was a pretty bright light and also what is odd is that most of the stars that are near it aren't all motion blurred so it there a chance that thing is that shape?

[Krilnon]

Looks rather saucer shaped to me.

[CanadianGuy]

lol it's probably a weather balloon

Why are you evacuating? btw

[wizard]

It's the hurricane-causing UFO... duh :sigh:


For a second there I thought you had inserted that into the pic., then I went and looked at the original and well... I'm going with Eilsoe's "theory."

[Krilnon]

Well he lives in florida, so I assume its the hurricane heading towards there. ;)

[DariusMonsef]

Wizard... Nope that is in his original...

[aknatn]

come on you guy's are nut's!

It's obviously the glare of a car light in a birds eye, geez. ;)

No really it must be an alien studying Mass Evacuations in preparation for a global assault. This is why I own guns... :pirate3:

[DariusMonsef]

aknatn... exactly they are studying how we evacuate so when they launch their attacks on our major cities they'll know how to cripple our escape routes.

I don't know how much more obvoius this all can get.

[prstudio]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/FLOAT/VIS/20.jpg
^that's why they are evacuating...

It's headed straight for my parents on the west coast, and then up to my town. yay. :(

Hope all you fellow florida crackers are safe!

[aknatn]

jesus h christ (what's the h for?) that thing is huge. I hope you all have a big hole to hide in... :ne:

[Krilnon]

That thing is pretty big. Didn't some hurricanes already hit Florida recently?

[prstudio]

lol if you compare it on the map its the pretty much the size of the southeast U.S.

[kirupa]

Maybe its that alien friend of Kirupa's.No...it isn't him this time (plays some x-files music) :alien2:

EDIT: Yeah pr - one of the news shows said that the hurricane is the size of Texas! Though I don't think it is that big...

[wizard]

The thing that makes it worse, it's not more powerful than Charlie, but it's so big it covers a lot of ground at once.

[phantomxc]

lol who ever did the alien thing you have nothing to worry about...its motion blur and I live 10 mins away from the orlando international airport. Its a really pretty night though. I'll upload some better motion blurs...I picked that one cause it was the clearest lol.


http://img78.exs.cx/img78/2192/598.jpg

heres my fav

http://img78.exs.cx/img78/7489/599.jpg


I was sitting on top of the fence on top of the bridge ...it was kinda scary lol people were all looking at me.

[wizard]

I was sitting on top of the fence on top of the bridge ...it was kinda scary lol people were all looking at me....thinking you were going to jump.

Good pictures, I think. The day time pictures should look better :ne: .

[phantomxc]

ya lol then I can actually look at the buttons I was pressing >_<

I could of made those pictures so there was no trail but it needs all that time to gather all the light and the cars were moving slowly enough to make it look like that...but the long white headlights is like 2 cars lol. but im looking forward to taking some good pics....especially the morning after. I wish I did after charley...looked like someone bombed us. who knows when i can upload them though...depends when i get power back (goes to charge the ipod)

[prstudio]

largest evacuation in florida's history i heard someone say...

major interstates have 5 lanes going north and one lane going south.

woo boy - buckle down!

[prstudio]

here's a little link -
nice video about 1/3 down the page about hurricane tracking/predicting/ and how they form.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5876681/