Tropical Storm Ida projected to hit as a Cat 3, maybe 4...

[cr8crshr]

Having lived also on the Gulf Coast and then on the Atlantic Coast, I have had my share of that experience. It ain't fun when the pucker factor and BP starts going through the roof. I prefer the West but lately, I am beginning to also have issues as to the droughts and the way CA is constantly burning up. Oh we do have our share here in NV with fires burning the sage brush and such as there isn't a lot of trees up here in the Basin. It seems that the whole damn World is going through disaster after disaster, and droughts. Mother Nature is definitely mad at us!!! Bio you hunker down and get done what you need to and then you and the Family stay safe. Damn and now more $$$$'s for Gas...It just never seems to end...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[biomedtechguy]

Thanks again to all.
Picked up stuff around the "construction project" house 2½ blocks off the beach in westernmost Mississippi this morning. I got a camera up and running, so until the power or internet go out, I can keep an eye on the weather.
3:40pm at the house in Mississippi:

Not bad. Actually nice here too, and I'm about to drive my Roadrunner to my friend's house where it will be safe from flooding.
Wife is working at the V.A. so I probably won't see her until Tuesday.
A few things to move out of the garage after I get the Roadrunner out, and then just strap in and hang on.
Just heard about a possible shift east! That is WAY worse for me, but it's still too early to know.

 

[eldubb440]

good luck and stay safe

 

[funknut]

Storm looks like a doozy! Hoping for the best.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Praying for you.

You should keep your bird up here at my house during the stormy season.

Tornado belt or flood plain. One one can plan for the other is a big ?

 

[biomedtechguy]

Well, I got my RR to my buddy's garage, safe and sound.
Speaking of "sound" I let her sing a little before putting her away for the storm.

 

[biomedtechguy]

Thanks Mar...
Hey, waayyy back around 1978-79 or so, I had my 71 Charger R/T and I was a regular attendee and occasional participant in the races right off Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans. I'd cruise the lake often, it was THE thing to do, and watch the races on Wisner Blvd, occasionally lining up the R/T.
Well a friend had a 70 383/Pistol Grip Roadrunner, N96, buckets, console, stock in great used condition. He got a Superbird, and while we were impressed, "regular guys" could buy them back then. Anyway, he said the RR was for sale, and I told my best friend who went ahead and bought it. That's the guy whose garage I have my 70 Roadrunner at.
Here's a few pix.
The newer Challenger R/T is his son's car, 6 speed manual. His only child, a good young man, is deployed in "the middle east" with the National Guard, so prayers for him are welcomed and received with gratitude.
The car under the cover is an 85½ "flatty" Chrysler Conquest with a mildly built 69 (high compression) 318 4bbl and a Torqueflight. It sounds and runs good, and looks great, and has won multiple awards at car shows and Starion/Conquest events. The red Conquest TSi is a 2JZ swap, and is probably in the 500 HP range, modest for a turbo 2JZ.
Sorry for the lens flare, I have to get the small rectangular protective glass replaced on my phone's camera lens.

 

[MarPar]

That's so cool you're still friends with him after all these years. That Conquest has gotta fly!!

 

[funknut]

Great cars! I was just at a cars & coffee yesterday and a guy there had a black 2JZ swapped Conquest. I had seen one there a couple years ago in a dark green with an LS2. Love those cars.

 

[biomedtechguy]

That's so cool you're still friends with him after all these years. That Conquest has gotta fly!!

He got me connected with my 89 Fiji Blue TSi. He was shooting this video in my Conquest on The Dragon in Pigeon Forge:

Yeah Mar, his dad and my dad were both on the N.O.P.D., we're Italian, and love Mopars...
He used to ride his Yamaha Daytona 400 2 stroke street bike on the rear wheel from the traffic light (starting line) down the entire ¼ mile on Wisner Blvd back in the late 70s when we would gather for street races. That was a real crowd pleaser! He had a Yamaha V-Max in the 90s.
He traded that for a Yamaha 900YZ? (it was a Yammy 900) corner carver, and on his first ride with a motorcycle club in Mississippi he got into a turn too hot and wiped out, smashing his ankle on a fence post. After about a month, they had to amputate his lower left leg.
I knew I'd never, ever have a fraction of his motorcycle riding skills, and although I've pushed my tweaked 2011 V-Rod through turns and in general, his experiences kept me from getting a Ducati instead of my Harley-Davidson V-Rod. It's fast enough for me, especially at my age.

 

[biomedtechguy]

a guy there had a black 2JZ swapped Conquest.

We brought a trailer to Baltimore MD to look at a black 2JZ Conquest a guy had for sale. My friend passed on it, just too much money for what it was. That was about 5 years ago.

 

[moparsaver]

Glad your ok… Stay safe Bio!

 

[Curiousyellow71]

Looks like a big one. Hold on down there.

 

[Hemirunner]

According to the fake news, your hospitals are overflowing as much as your levees...

 

[biomedtechguy]

Well, the power just went out, and although I have a couple of portable generators setup outside the garage door of the raised house, that will run TV & satellite, refrigerators, freezers, and a few other odds and ends, I'm PISSED because I believe the power company flipped a switch.
After the last storm that had power out for over a week, they came in and trimmed and cut trees way back, so I figured I'd have power longer than before.
The water hasn't really come up, but I expect that to change late today and overnight. It seems like the worst storms do their worst in the dark.
I'm going to finish running my extension cords, and probably fire up the TV and Satellite, and get my cellphone back to 100% and charge a battery "bank charger" for my phone.

 

[biomedtechguy]

According to the fake news, your hospitals are overflowing as much as your levees...

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Not the V.A. and I have a reliable source.

 

[oldbee]

Good luck...

 

[biomedtechguy]

Crazy...
Power is back ON.
Makes me think even more that they "threw a switch".
I went ahead and topped of 1 generator w/gas and fired it up. Ran some power cords, moved one, and a multi outlet power strip. I'm careful not to overload an extension cord, and use heavy gauge for the longer runs/higher loads. So I have some of that setup if/when I have to go back to the generator(s).
My DirecTV Genie must not have liked what the power it got, even though it uses a transformer, it had that tell-tale "electronics burning" smell, and I think it's shot...
I had 2 weeks worth of stuff recorded on it.
Being as I had an Audio/Video career, I have a backup sat receiver so I'm watching the local news for now.

 

[Budnicks]

Biomed/Steve Hopefully you fair well...

car sounds/looks good too

stay high & dry, be safe

 

[biomedtechguy]

Thanks Budnicks
It's not bad now. The power being back on is really great, internet too. Here's a video I just took: