Yeah, hurricane season again!! - 2003-04 Mach 1 Registry Owners Club

FloridaOrange · 06-01-2006, 12:27 PM

Happy June 1st, especially to those along the gulf coast. Maybe we can catch a break this year. Anyone do anything different to prepare this year?

I was going to get shutters around the house but haven't yet. The roll downs with motors would have run me ~$20K just for the back porch

I may still get accordians but this year I'll be slapping the plywood back up.

rhite95 · 06-01-2006, 12:46 PM

I am going to do the same thing I did last year plywood,water 5 day cooler
and hope no storms come my way.

GRB60 · 06-01-2006, 12:50 PM

Good luck to those of you in the hurricane prone areas.

rhite95 · 06-01-2006, 12:56 PM

Thanks I think we are going to need some luck.

jerry pugh · 06-01-2006, 01:06 PM

I purchased another generator this year for my pump house and had it wired for 220. We went without water last time for a total of over 20 days due to the three hurricanes. I kepr all my lumber and sheet metal for my windows and doors. Two years ago I put the Mach in the barn and almost lost it and the barn. The wind blew so hard, 101 MPH that the barn leaned but never went down. I have a concrete block garage now and the Mach will be parked in it for this years hurricanes. I hope we can skip them again this year but I don't think we will. I'm in central Florida, and good luck to you guys on the east and west coasts, that's where the wind is the strongest.

01TruBluGT · 06-01-2006, 01:30 PM

Well I still haven't finished my house from Katrina. I am hoping to be back in within the next 2 weeks so hopefully nothing will come my way before then.

As for preperations....I have plywood for the windows and a nice shinny AR-15 just incase I decide to ride one out.

Here is the funny part of it all. "Experts" are saying it is going to be another busy season predicting 13-16 Total storms. How is that another "Busy" season considering we had 28 last year.....13-16 seems like a walk in the park. They are also only predicting 4-6 of them to be Cat 3 or higher compared to last years total of 4 Cat 5's alone.

merfsiu · 06-01-2006, 01:32 PM

Ya, I am selling my house and moving back up north.

grimreefer · 06-01-2006, 01:53 PM

New generator and some storm shutters here. Haven't taken any major hits in my area for a long time, but we still got some pretty strong effects.

FloridaOrange · 06-01-2006, 01:56 PM

I did pick up a generator when Wilma rolled through, had it on for all of 10 minutes when the power came back on. I should pull that out and run the stabil out of it to some fresh gas.

HotRod · 06-01-2006, 04:03 PM

Hopefully we can have a very mild season compared to what we are getting "used" to. I would recommend getting some extra ammo, just in case. You have to protect whats yours.

machowner · 06-01-2006, 04:36 PM

Still knocking on wood and crossing fingers that Jacksonville keeps lucking out and not getting hit by the storms. I was going to UCF in orlando last year. It was something else.

ONDSAUS · 06-01-2006, 04:49 PM

Well Im considering moving back to Miami , thats going to suck if I get caught in any Hurricans while Im moving back.

Pete

falcongtho3 · 06-01-2006, 08:00 PM

Here we go again. Gotta start collecting the goods; candles, water containers, batteries, and thinking about M.R.E.'s. Gonna ba another 'fun' one...or one of those 'f' words...

Hammer · 06-01-2006, 08:29 PM

Wow it is that time of year again, I want to say good luck to all of you in areas that can be hit directly and those prone to the flooding as the storms move inland.

I wish you all well and keep the family safe

RoDog723 · 06-01-2006, 09:02 PM

Well here we go again. I'm in the panhandle. Getting new plywood this year.
Will be sawing for window fit this weekend. Got the generator primed and ready. Getting my extra gas containers filled this weekend. Got enough water for 5 days for family of 4. MRE's on the way.
Man, I hate this crap. 3 years in a row whats up with that.
Luckily I have a garage for the Mach.

Rodog
Shalimar Fl.

dantheratman · 06-01-2006, 09:58 PM

hope its not too bad around here the Mach has to sleep outside!!!!

B4THUNDER · 06-01-2006, 10:14 PM

Man, this area is so torn-up from Katrina! There's already 65K homes damaged/destroyed from that storm...now theres FEMA trailers everywhere so if we get hit again Biloxi might as well close its doors....yes its that bad here! I got orders to Germany though so my home which received no damage is for sale.....I hope someonejums on it!

4a7191a · 06-01-2006, 11:15 PM

im in beaumont here, stayed last time, if anyone is around the area, ill have another hurricane stay party, lol, this time there will be a keg, the only thing that we didnt have here was enough gas, but i went um..... how you say.........."finding" (scored my buddys boat tanks), its hard to run a 18500 watt generator, and the dvd, surround sound, a/c , coffee maker, and my 600watt blender,tv, and everything else, heck i cooked a $75 brisket, feed a bunch of people and even the cops stoped buy to get coffee, and chat, this year we should have more anti looter weapons, we only had 30 loaded arms last time, its was like a war zone, but with lots of booze, a dude shot a guy down the road from me, it really wasnt that bad, felt bad for other people not as well of as i was, so during the day we went around to the ice points and drove though neighborhoods and gave out ice to help out ,it was too hot during the day to drink anyways.

Mark04Mach1 · 06-01-2006, 11:16 PM

yeah, pls be alert and becareful for you guys that live in the coast

spr03 · 06-02-2006, 07:05 AM

Just put a new roof on the house. Going to trim the trees. Filling up the gas cans this weekend for the generator. Food and water when and if the time comes. Always hope for the best,

FL Mach 1 · 06-02-2006, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spr03

Just put a new roof on the house. Going to trim the trees. Filling up the gas cans this weekend for the generator. Food and water when and if the time comes. Always hope for the best,

Trees!!!!!!!!!! What trees? We lost most of the big trees around our house during Charley. Still got the plywood in the storage unit from Charley, hopefully it will stay in the storage unit.

The_Wretched · 06-03-2006, 10:45 AM

i hate florida. we had major damage to out house. almost 90k worth of damage. hopefully this year won't be as bad. but im definately hating florida. always have, always will. can't wait to leave.

Murder Snake · 06-03-2006, 10:50 AM

Yep, here we go again, oh for joy for joy!!!!

FloridaOrange · 06-03-2006, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Wretched

i hate florida. we had major damage to out house. almost 90k worth of damage. hopefully this year won't be as bad. but im definately hating florida. always have, always will. can't wait to leave.

See ya!

The Mach Says · 06-04-2006, 08:53 PM

Hurricanes get me tons of overtime.................I need to finish paying off the 2nd Mach 1...............that way I go back to only one car payment!!

JC

06-01-2006, 12:27 PM	#1
FloridaOrange SCS Homie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southwest Florida Posts: 3,643	Yeah, hurricane season again!! Happy June 1st, especially to those along the gulf coast. Maybe we can catch a break this year. Anyone do anything different to prepare this year? I was going to get shutters around the house but haven't yet. The roll downs with motors would have run me ~$20K just for the back porch I may still get accordians but this year I'll be slapping the plywood back up.

06-01-2006, 12:46 PM	#2
rhite95 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: FL Posts: 1,951	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! I am going to do the same thing I did last year plywood,water 5 day cooler and hope no storms come my way. __________________ 2011 Kona Blue GT500 Stock for now 2004 MACH 1 Competition Orange (SOLD) 2007 Sport Trac Limited Oxford White V8 4X4 Magnaflow cat-back SCT XCalibrator 2 K&N Drop in Filter

06-01-2006, 12:50 PM	#3
GRB60 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Harleysville, PA Posts: 2,144	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Good luck to those of you in the hurricane prone areas. __________________ 2003 Torch Red 5 spd w/ IUP Built: 7/16/03

06-01-2006, 12:56 PM	#4
rhite95 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: FL Posts: 1,951	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Thanks I think we are going to need some luck. __________________ 2011 Kona Blue GT500 Stock for now 2004 MACH 1 Competition Orange (SOLD) 2007 Sport Trac Limited Oxford White V8 4X4 Magnaflow cat-back SCT XCalibrator 2 K&N Drop in Filter

06-01-2006, 01:06 PM	#5
jerry pugh machcop Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Cloud, Fl. Posts: 70	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! I purchased another generator this year for my pump house and had it wired for 220. We went without water last time for a total of over 20 days due to the three hurricanes. I kepr all my lumber and sheet metal for my windows and doors. Two years ago I put the Mach in the barn and almost lost it and the barn. The wind blew so hard, 101 MPH that the barn leaned but never went down. I have a concrete block garage now and the Mach will be parked in it for this years hurricanes. I hope we can skip them again this year but I don't think we will. I'm in central Florida, and good luck to you guys on the east and west coasts, that's where the wind is the strongest.

06-01-2006, 01:30 PM	#6
01TruBluGT Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,248	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Well I still haven't finished my house from Katrina. I am hoping to be back in within the next 2 weeks so hopefully nothing will come my way before then. As for preperations....I have plywood for the windows and a nice shinny AR-15 just incase I decide to ride one out. Here is the funny part of it all. "Experts" are saying it is going to be another busy season predicting 13-16 Total storms. How is that another "Busy" season considering we had 28 last year.....13-16 seems like a walk in the park. They are also only predicting 4-6 of them to be Cat 3 or higher compared to last years total of 4 Cat 5's alone.

06-01-2006, 01:32 PM	#7
merfsiu A Conservative Liberal Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: chitown Posts: 305	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Ya, I am selling my house and moving back up north. __________________ Sure wish i could use my sig pic.

06-01-2006, 01:53 PM	#8
grimreefer U.S. Merchant Marine Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Titusville, FL... currently: San Diego Posts: 2,438	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! New generator and some storm shutters here. Haven't taken any major hits in my area for a long time, but we still got some pretty strong effects. __________________ '08 BGM TBSS (3SS/2WD) - Bone Stock

06-01-2006, 01:56 PM	#9
FloridaOrange SCS Homie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southwest Florida Posts: 3,643	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! I did pick up a generator when Wilma rolled through, had it on for all of 10 minutes when the power came back on. I should pull that out and run the stabil out of it to some fresh gas.

06-01-2006, 04:03 PM	#10
HotRod I Love Being Blown! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Orlando, Fl. USA! Posts: 1,567	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Hopefully we can have a very mild season compared to what we are getting "used" to. I would recommend getting some extra ammo, just in case. You have to protect whats yours. __________________ Rod K. '04 Ram 2500 Q/C 4x4 CTD

06-01-2006, 04:36 PM	#11
machowner Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: TN Posts: 1,455	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Still knocking on wood and crossing fingers that Jacksonville keeps lucking out and not getting hit by the storms. I was going to UCF in orlando last year. It was something else. __________________ 2004 Azure Blue, 5sp. Build Date: 1/24/2004 Other: 2000 Lincoln LS V8, White Pearlescent Tri-Coat 1995 F-150 4x4, 5.0, duals, custom interior

06-01-2006, 04:49 PM	#12
ONDSAUS Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 155	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Well Im considering moving back to Miami , thats going to suck if I get caught in any Hurricans while Im moving back. Pete __________________ 2002 GT Previous best on old set up 10.76 @ 124.49 Sold, But not Forgotten! 2004 Mach 1 TOTALED! 306 rwhp ~ 328 ftlbs N/A

06-01-2006, 08:00 PM	#13
falcongtho3 Moderating at Mach 1 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Baton Rouge, La. Posts: 16,279	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Here we go again. Gotta start collecting the goods; candles, water containers, batteries, and thinking about M.R.E.'s. Gonna ba another 'fun' one...or one of those 'f' words... __________________ Krewe de la Mach Rouge #340804 13th Mach 1 built 11/07/02 Build Date 12/13/02 Delivery

06-01-2006, 08:29 PM	#14
Hammer Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Goshen, Ohio Posts: 2,597	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Wow it is that time of year again, I want to say good luck to all of you in areas that can be hit directly and those prone to the flooding as the storms move inland. I wish you all well and keep the family safe

06-01-2006, 09:02 PM	#15
RoDog723 RoDog Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Shalimar,FL Posts: 8	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Well here we go again. I'm in the panhandle. Getting new plywood this year. Will be sawing for window fit this weekend. Got the generator primed and ready. Getting my extra gas containers filled this weekend. Got enough water for 5 days for family of 4. MRE's on the way. Man, I hate this crap. 3 years in a row whats up with that. Luckily I have a garage for the Mach. Rodog Shalimar Fl.

06-01-2006, 09:58 PM	#16
dantheratman Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: here,here Posts: 592	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! hope its not too bad around here the Mach has to sleep outside!!!!

06-01-2006, 10:14 PM	#17
B4THUNDER God LUVS Boost!! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: K-Town, Germany Posts: 796	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Man, this area is so torn-up from Katrina! There's already 65K homes damaged/destroyed from that storm...now theres FEMA trailers everywhere so if we get hit again Biloxi might as well close its doors....yes its that bad here! I got orders to Germany though so my home which received no damage is for sale.....I hope someonejums on it!

06-01-2006, 11:15 PM	#18
4a7191a Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: beaumont texas Posts: 1,344	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! im in beaumont here, stayed last time, if anyone is around the area, ill have another hurricane stay party, lol, this time there will be a keg, the only thing that we didnt have here was enough gas, but i went um..... how you say.........."finding" (scored my buddys boat tanks), its hard to run a 18500 watt generator, and the dvd, surround sound, a/c , coffee maker, and my 600watt blender,tv, and everything else, heck i cooked a $75 brisket, feed a bunch of people and even the cops stoped buy to get coffee, and chat, this year we should have more anti looter weapons, we only had 30 loaded arms last time, its was like a war zone, but with lots of booze, a dude shot a guy down the road from me, it really wasnt that bad, felt bad for other people not as well of as i was, so during the day we went around to the ice points and drove though neighborhoods and gave out ice to help out ,it was too hot during the day to drink anyways. __________________ 2004white mach1 2001 svt lightning 2011 Mitsubishi Evo X 1999 F250 7.3L

06-01-2006, 11:16 PM	#19
Mark04Mach1 No mames.... Join Date: May 2006 Location: Del Rio, Texas Posts: 2,449	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! yeah, pls be alert and becareful for you guys that live in the coast __________________ sold all my cars..

06-02-2006, 07:05 AM	#20
spr03 Spooky ownes the night. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Central FL Posts: 167	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Just put a new roof on the house. Going to trim the trees. Filling up the gas cans this weekend for the generator. Food and water when and if the time comes. Always hope for the best, __________________ 04 Oxford White Auto IUP Build Date 02/03/04 Home 10/20/04 K&N Magnaflow Catback -------------------- Other car 87 Buick Grand National

06-03-2006, 10:45 AM	#22
The_Wretched Mach Fiend Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 622	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! i hate florida. we had major damage to out house. almost 90k worth of damage. hopefully this year won't be as bad. but im definately hating florida. always have, always will. can't wait to leave. __________________ "The road is an open field for the All-American Pony." 06 BLK GTO 6-speed 04 TR Mach 5-speed

06-03-2006, 10:50 AM	#23
Murder Snake Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: florida Posts: 2,194	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Yep, here we go again, oh for joy for joy!!!! __________________ 1996 Cobra #6840 formerly, Frankenstang Two defining forces died for you. Jesus Christ died for your soul. The American Soldier died for your freedom. Think about it. "....be the lightning in me that strikes relentless." "It's a lot easier to pacify a country when it's citizens can't shoot back" Gray Anderson, Mayor, "Jericho"

06-04-2006, 08:53 PM	#25
The Mach Says Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 748	Re: Yeah, hurricane season again!! Hurricanes get me tons of overtime.................I need to finish paying off the 2nd Mach 1...............that way I go back to only one car payment!! JC __________________ '06 Black Trailblazer SS; 13.6 @ 101 '98 Black SVT Contour #4115 Gone but not forgotten: '03 Black Mach 1 A4 (13.7 @ 104); '03 Torch Red Mach 1 M5 (13.4 @ 106), '01 White SVT Lightning (13.4 @ 103), '78 Silver Z28, '95 Lincoln Mark VIII, 3 T-birds

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