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beguile

Sep 12, 2003, 2:21 PM

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Hurricaine Season

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Aloha: As 1 doing his homework 1st before plunging head long into a move, it hit me that OUR hurricaine season is YOURS as well,yet Mexcio is a landmass with lots of big obstructions. WE have 2 of those here on the BIgIsland that did nothing on Sept 1 to impede the enrgy and flow of the one that hit here,Thank God with little damage

So , in Mexico one can get a major 'hit' out of the annoying GULF and as well off the PAcific coast. So, my question is, inland areas, with say 5,000' or more of elevation , how are they affected? Does the big blow get over the Coastal tanges & inot say Guadalajara, or SMdA, or at the southern end say in Oaxaca City? I know form past experience that the US S. West has its "monsoon" season to dread which is PAcific rain bearing weather pushed up inot the US! I know that Mexico has a rainy season which seems like Hawaii to depend more on WHERE one is than a simple balnaket statement like MONSOON which would mean the whole country like huge areas of India/SE ASIA are inundated with torrential rain.So how do the interior Colonial cities fair when a big blow comes knocking on your doors?

MAhalo,

Ted Powell

Waikoloa, HI

dumois

Sep 12, 2003, 4:51 PM

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Re: [beguile] Hurricane season

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Only noticeable effect here in Guadalajara is a lot of rain.

Saludos desde Guadalajara,

Dumois

Judy in Ags

Sep 12, 2003, 5:40 PM

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Re: [dumois] Hurricane season

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That seems to be true here in Aguascalientes (elevation 6,000 feet) also.

hummer

Sep 12, 2003, 9:08 PM

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Re: [beguile] Hurricaine Season

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Like Guadalajara and AGS, we seem to only get a bit more rain here in Guanajauto - about 7000'. And, in the high plains, we can always expect a bit of wind.

jrice

Sep 15, 2003, 7:41 PM

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I've driven a VW bus into an active hurricane.

I've waded through knee-deep storm surge on major urban streets.

I suggest that you definitely pay attention to hurricanes, but you have to realize that it is usually -- not always, but usually -- the water, not the wind, that does the damage.

The biggest Atlantic Hurricane in five years is headed toward North Carolina at the moment. It has declined to a mere 125 mph storm so far -- but then again, its predecessor, MItch, was barely a hurricane by the time it hit land. It killed thousands.

AT this moment, tens if not hundreds of thousands of Mexicans are evacuated from their homes in the Bajio region of Guanajuato, Queretaro, etc., due to flooding caused by a rainstorm.

A few years ago, a tropical depression on the Atlantic ridge killed many people as hillsides collapsed, etc., in towns such as Teziutlan.

Then again, I'm 50 years old as of Tuesday and have lived all but a few months of my life in serious earthquake country. A storm is easy, easy, easy to prepare for, in comparison.

And Sept. 11 has taught us -- may their souls, as I am sure they are, be damned to the most Satanic corners of hell -- that not all risks are natural.

beguile

Sep 16, 2003, 10:56 AM

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Aloha & mahalo for sharing. We were just over run by one Sept 1. I have a great radar image I saved showing all but 3 tips of this island under a swirling mass of clouds. I slept thru it! It was not a biggee.Looks good on radar but I`ve been thru much windier conditions in Portland, Or. After living in Washington state before coming to Hawaii I lived thru a couple of earth movers. No one except the PhD`s counts them here on the Big Island as they are so frequent with 1 active, 1 waking & 1 mystery volcanoes. The probelm arises for guys like me is just this: We think we`ve lived thru things, and get a'Not to bad!" attitude and then a real monster is let loose!