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Subject: PLEASE POST UPDATE EARLY DUE TO HURRICANE CHARLEY
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I live in Tampa and most likely the power will be going out at the time the update usually gets posted. So, if anyone has any contact with Frankie, tell him to think about the people at the bottom.

I don't know what is worse a hurricane, or not being able to read the update. What if he reveals a new level, or weapon?

  • 08.13.2004 10:03 AM PDT
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Sorry Charlie, no early update.

Free battle rifle to whoever can catch the reference.

[Edited on 8/13/2004 10:27:17 AM]

  • 08.13.2004 10:04 AM PDT
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ummmm..put in flood

  • 08.13.2004 10:05 AM PDT
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Do you have to type the title in all caps, Im sorry but its really annoying, Im sorry about the hurricane that will cause the power to go out and all the damage it may cause, but this topic will get noticed whether or not you put it in caps or not, and may get more posts if you dont put it in all caps because most people dont like when things are in all caps. Also most likely the weekly update isnt written yet its only 11 o clock at bungie. It not even get posted today like last weekly update it was posted on saturday.

  • 08.13.2004 10:15 AM PDT

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I still love your Signature -- but I sympathize -- I'm in St. Pete. We got about an hour left I think...

  • 08.13.2004 10:21 AM PDT
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Yeah i think its really unfair, I dont live there but i think maybe bungie should think about thier fans in florida and the cayman islands and such and give them an early update!

  • 08.13.2004 10:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
I still love your Signature -- but I sympathize -- I'm in St. Pete. We got about an hour left I think...


Thanks.

I havent been really checking the weather latly, Im guessing its really bad, I have been hearing alot latly about it, I hope no one gets hurt in it. I guess Ill go check now.

Edit: Wow thats a huge one!

[Edited on 8/13/2004 10:28:47 AM]

  • 08.13.2004 10:27 AM PDT
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That is a good reason to put out the update for it... get to it frankie!

  • 08.13.2004 10:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: jshine77
Sorry Charlie, no early update.

Free battle rifle to whoever can catch the reference.


lmao.

  • 08.13.2004 10:34 AM PDT
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"Do you have to type the title in all caps, Im sorry but its really annoying, Im sorry about the hurricane that will cause the power to go out and all the damage it may cause, but this topic will get noticed whether or not you put it in caps or not, and may get more posts if you dont put it in all caps because most people dont like when things are in all caps. Also most likely the weekly update isnt written yet its only 11 o clock at bungie. It not even get posted today like last weekly update it was posted on saturday./''
SORRY EVILPOO I DIDN"T REALIZE THIS BOTHERED SO MANY PEOPLE

[Edited on 8/13/2004 10:40:58 AM]

  • 08.13.2004 10:39 AM PDT
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well........... it does.

  • 08.13.2004 10:42 AM PDT
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — With a powerful hurricane whirling toward Florida's densely populated middle Gulf Coast on Thursday, authorities ordered the largest evacuation ever in the Tampa Bay area, telling hundreds of thousands of people to seek higher ground before Hurricane Charley storms ashore sometime today.

The hurricane swept over Cuba late Thursday with high winds, a strong storm surge and heavy rain. As in Florida, many areas on the island were evacuated.

The path of the storm has changed course westward, meaning it should make landfall farther north on the Florida peninsula than originally predicted — somewhere near Tampa and St. Petersburg, both major metropolitan areas.

Frank Lepore, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said Charley's center, packing winds of at least 110 mph, should make landfallnear Clearwater.

The state had braced the day before for Tropical Storm Bonnie, which ended up moving across the state with little effect. Ben Nelson, a meteorologist with the state, described it as having "minimal winds, nothing over about 40 mph." The storm weakened into a tropical depression as it moved into southern Georgia.

"Bonnie brushed by us without being too much of a concern, but we are waiting on Charley — it has the potential to become a Category 3 hurricane, and we are watching very closely to see what areas will be affected," said Erin Geraghty, a representative for the Florida Department of Emergency Management.

Officials said they were especially worried by the possibility of freakishly high tides, or storm surge, whipped up by Charley's potent winds. The area's last major hurricane, in 1921, caused a 10 1/2 -foot surge of water in Tampa Bay. If a storm surge that size hit today, it could cause enormous destruction because of much greater development and population.

"The storm surge is the biggest danger," said Gary Vickers, Pinellas County director of emergency management.

As Charley drew closer, evacuations were ordered along Florida's western coast. Residents of Sanibel and Captiva, slender strands off southwest Florida, were given until midnight to leave. Other wispy barrier islands to the north, in Manatee and Sarasota counties, were also ordered to evacuate. Mobile home owners in Manatee County were told to seek more secure shelter.

Gov. Jeb Bush, who declared a statewide emergency Wednesday, urged Floridians in a television interview not to take the oncoming storm lightly. He noted that meteorologists were predicting Charley would become even more potent.

"Take it seriously," said Bush, who experienced a major hurricane with his wife and children when he was a developer in the Miami area. "A Category 3 storm can be deadly."

In Pinellas County, a peninsula bound by Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, emergency officials ordered a mandatory evacuation by 6 p.m. Thursday of waterfront properties and all other neighborhoods located no more than 17 feet above sea level. It was the first so-called Category C evacuation in county history.

"There's an awful lot of people looking to move swiftly," said Maggie D. Hall, a spokeswoman for the county government. "We're anticipating a mass exodus."

Local churches and schools were to open as hurricane shelters in the evening. Marcia Crowley, Pinellas County director of communications, said it was the largest evacuation in the county's history, affecting 350,000 people, or more than a third of all Pinellas residents.

Floridians are often blasé about tropical storms, but worries about Charley put tens of thousands of people on the road and heading inland more than 24 hours before the hurricane's expected landfall. The Howard Frankland Bridge, the major connection between Tampa and St. Petersburg, was bumper to bumper eastward by 6 p.m. Thursday.

"Basically, if you can see the water, you're too close," said Larry Gispert, in charge of emergency operations in Hillsborough County.

Up and down Florida's Gulf Coast, people closed up homes and businesses, shopped for supplies and got ready to flee or hunker down.

Jeffrey J. Beggins, a real estate agent in Indian Rocks Beach, was covered in sawdust and wood splinters Thursday afternoon as he and co-workers cut plywood to board up his office, which he said was located just 5 feet above sea level.

"I'm a Florida native, and I've seen plenty of false alarms in the past," the 30-year-old businessman said. "This one just seems like it's real. If this one hits, we are going to feel a lot of fury." After protecting his office, Beggins said he had to pull his boat out of the water and hurricane-proof his home before leaving for a safer area.

John Korszeniewski, owner of the Sunburst Inn, a 10-room oceanfront motel in Indian Shores, said he and his wife, Bernadette, who once ran a motel in Oceanside, Calif., had decided to ride out Charley after telling their guests they had to leave. After all, said the suntanned man with a Navy tattoo, they had survived earthquakes in California.

"We put all the shutters down, tied all the furniture down, moved everything we could indoors, tightened everything down basically, and we are waiting to see what goes," said the 56-year-old innkeeper, who bought the blue-and-yellow motel a year ago. "We fell in love with this area. It's not a hurricane that is going to chase us away."

Across the Tampa Bay area, traffic lights bobbed and street signs wobbled in high winds spun off by Bonnie, a small taste of what Charley was to bring.

Randy Crowe, 46, a homeless man panhandling outside a Tampa McDonald's at lunchtime, said he didn't know what he was going to do.

"I reckon I might go into a building. Don't know if they'll let me in," he said.


Hope that made everyones day better. =)

  • 08.13.2004 10:43 AM PDT
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Guy who posted big report, just there, thanks. Its serious stuff though, i got some friends on the cayman islands where its suspected to hit, and Got two friends in florida. And all these friends are halo 2 fanatics, And i play splinter cell 2 online with the guys from cayman islands, so I'm pretty worried bout em. They check out the updates too, I hope bungie take this into consideration and post it early, although the people who may be effected by the hurricane, shoudl really be worrying about more things than missing the update eh? :P

  • 08.13.2004 10:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: RedLeader
Guy who posted big report, just there, thanks. Its serious stuff though, i got some friends on the cayman islands where its suspected to hit, and Got two friends in florida. And all these friends are halo 2 fanatics, And i play splinter cell 2 online with the guys from cayman islands, so I'm pretty worried bout em. They check out the updates too, I hope bungie take this into consideration and post it early, although the people who may be effected by the hurricane, shoudl really be worrying about more things than missing the update eh? :P


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  • 08.13.2004 11:01 AM PDT
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good luck guys...Stay in your basement....I look forward to playing you guys in Halo 2 on XBL... Don't die...

G/l

  • 08.13.2004 11:03 AM PDT
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They wont die, The thrill of playing the latest Bungie game runs thick throught thier veins, They will do anything to stay alive and face the strongest storms to prepare them selves for the halo 2 live experience, no hurricane can stop the hardcore gamers of Florida! Keep on trucking guys, and stop kicking my ass every game i play on xbc, please?

  • 08.13.2004 11:09 AM PDT
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amen

  • 08.13.2004 11:12 AM PDT
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UPDATE: *damn*- Looks like Sarasota is gonna get pummeld. I hope my friend Leo is ok, the radars are showing some Gigantic patterns..............Sarasota is the "Hot Spot" for Charley. Best wishes for everyone one in FL, I give you my hope. Keywest isn't that bad, but its flooding. Best Wishies FL.

  • 08.13.2004 11:31 AM PDT
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You guys stay alive as best you can. Bungie'll be pissed if they loose more minions because of the weather.

  • 08.13.2004 12:06 PM PDT
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Im in Orlando...a lot of floridians here

We'll be alright, I'm originally from south florida and I survived Hurricane Andrew so this Charlies thing should be a piece of cake...i'll be online playing some Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow


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  • 08.13.2004 12:14 PM PDT
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If you read the big report, I live in Manatee county, one of the county's being forced to evacuate. Luckily, we are just outside of the Level C, as it's called, evacuation zone so we don't have to leave. I should actually say I'm surrounded by the Level C zone. I live on an elevated part of the city, so if the waters actually get as bad as they predict I might be on an island later tonight. I am worried about missing the update as a matter of fact, but it's all good. We're ready for it, I'm not dieing until I beat Halo 2, and thats a promise.

Also, Floridians don't have basements! We're in Florida! Lol.

  • 08.13.2004 12:19 PM PDT