Tropical Storm Fay

[InletBchDweller]

Mr. IBD has us supplied with MRE's. :roll: Not my choice of cuisine but I guess if it came down to it...

 

[Smiling JOe]

MRE = Meals Refused by Ethiopians. Had to eat them on a mountaineering excursion I did with the Army one time. Better than eating crickets and grubs, so its all relative. Tip number ? for emergency food items -- do not supply it with Oreos or other tasty food, b/c you will eat it way too fast and may run out of food. Stock it with nasty, but edible food, like MREs, and you are guaranteed to stretch them out.

 

[scooterbug44]

You can do SO much better than MRE's!

One of my staples is jarred salmon - straight from the fishery in Alaska so it keeps for up to a year and makes a quick lunch or appetizer when served w/ crackers and fresh fruit.

 

[InletBchDweller]

trust me, I dont like them, if you only new my husband (SJ you do:roll he is Mr. "failing to prepare is preparing to fail" guy. He actually got excited b/c the last box had jambalaya and etoufee with little bottles of Tobasco.

We always have plenty of propane so we cook quite a bit on the grill. The MRE's have (thankfully) just sat in their box while we feasted on what is in the freezer.

MRE = Meals Refused by Ethiopians. Had to eat them on a mountaineering excursion I did with the Army one time. Better than eating crickets and grubs, so its all relative. Tip number ? for emergency food items -- do not supply it with Oreos or other tasty food, b/c you will eat it way too fast and may run out of food. Stock it with nasty, but edible food, like MREs, and you are guaranteed to stretch them out.

You can do SO much better than MRE's!

One of my staples is jarred salmon - straight from the fishery in Alaska so it keeps for up to a year and makes a quick lunch or appetizer when served w/ crackers and fresh fruit.

 

[30A Skunkape]

If you want some haute cuisine while hunkered down... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5449979

 

[beachmouse]

One thing about models is that not all of them work well in all circumstances. According to the Storm 2K crowd, you can usually disregard the BAM models for this area- they were designed for and are most accurate when forecasting storms deep in the tropics and don't handle interaction with the North American landmass very well.

CLIP doesn't really work with current data at all- it's a description of what happened in the past with other storms of similar strength in a similar location. (It's included as a sort of error-check in a lot of model packages- if you're getting weirder results than CLIP, then you might be getting bad data or something)

 

[TreeFrog]

One thing about models is that not all of them work well in all circumstances. According to the Storm 2K crowd, you can usually disregard the BAM models for this area- they were designed for and are most accurate when forecasting storms deep in the tropics and don't handle interaction with the North American landmass very well.

CLIP doesn't really work with current data at all- it's a description of what happened in the past with other storms of similar strength in a similar location. (It's included as a sort of error-check in a lot of model packages- if you're getting weirder results than CLIP, then you might be getting bad data or something)

Have a look at Jeff Masters' review of the models, at:

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/models.asp

At the time he wrote this (2005), none of the individual models were able to outperform the NHC official forecast in track prediction.

He updated the review 8-17-07. You'll have to scroll well down the archive, it has the whole month of August.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/archive.html?tstamp=200708

To grossly summarize his comments, the top ones at track prediction are GDFL, GFS, NOGAPS, and UKMET, with HWRF as a new addition. Of the models that attempt to consolidate a consensus result, Florida State Superensemble is the best.

 

[TooFarTampa]

If you want some haute cuisine while hunkered down... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5449979

One thing about models is that not all of them work well in all circumstances. According to the Storm 2K crowd, you can usually disregard the BAM models for this area- they were designed for and are most accurate when forecasting storms deep in the tropics and don't handle interaction with the North American landmass very well.

CLIP doesn't really work with current data at all- it's a description of what happened in the past with other storms of similar strength in a similar location. (It's included as a sort of error-check in a lot of model packages- if you're getting weirder results than CLIP, then you might be getting bad data or something)

The collective intelligence on this site is just one reason to love SoWal.com.

 

[InletBchDweller]

The collective intelligence on this site is just one reason to love SoWal.com.

I was trying to quote you but thanked you but that is ok. Yes, isn't it funny how we come to SoWal for information when we could just Google it.

 

[Wanda]

How ironic that a State Farm Insurance ad appears on the Wunderground map tracking Fay across Florida.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200806_5day.html#a_topad