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Several weeks ago, I had posted a pair of 'fat furry' sketches done by Derrick Fish - the artist/creator of "Dandy & Company" - which he was kind enough to do for me, in return for my sending him a number of full-color comic strip gags that were published in his webcomic during his annual "Total Chaos" (fan tribute) event. I'd drawn them all in 2004 - during the first of two consecutive years of bad weather during 'Hurricane Season' (2005 being the worst of the two years).
I threw in a separate full-color drawing (done entirely with special pencils) of his canine character 'Dandy' teamed up with my bobcat 'fursona' - caught in the middle of one of these storms. (Coincidentally, it was drawn during Hurricane Frances, while I was hunkered down in my mother's condominium.) Fish liked the image so much, he posted it in a separate section of his "D&C" website, recommending that readers use this image as possible 'wallpaper' for personal computers. I'm willing to make this same proposal...
BTW, Fish is still drawing "Dandy & Company", but is presenting it on a more limited basis, due to personal problems (both health-wise and vocational). He could always use a little monetary support from his loyal fans, in order to keep both his website and his webcomic running. For more details, visit the site at http://www.dandyandcompany.com
'Dandy' © Derrick Fish
'Rob Cat' © his player
'Hurricane Frances' © Mother Nature
I threw in a separate full-color drawing (done entirely with special pencils) of his canine character 'Dandy' teamed up with my bobcat 'fursona' - caught in the middle of one of these storms. (Coincidentally, it was drawn during Hurricane Frances, while I was hunkered down in my mother's condominium.) Fish liked the image so much, he posted it in a separate section of his "D&C" website, recommending that readers use this image as possible 'wallpaper' for personal computers. I'm willing to make this same proposal...
BTW, Fish is still drawing "Dandy & Company", but is presenting it on a more limited basis, due to personal problems (both health-wise and vocational). He could always use a little monetary support from his loyal fans, in order to keep both his website and his webcomic running. For more details, visit the site at http://www.dandyandcompany.com
'Dandy' © Derrick Fish 
'Rob Cat' © his player 'Hurricane Frances' © Mother Nature
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I actually live in Nova Scotia, Canada. I am a crazy avid weather nut, I have been since I was a kid and after experiencing a cat. 3 storm where I live in 2003 and several smaller ones since, I decided I'm going to be making my career as a professional storm chaser. I'm in the midst of completing my 2 year photographers/photojournalism class in uni, and will be then stepping up for a few years of meteorological learninz' (lol) at a different university.
Actually...I don't have any relatives anywhere in the US.. I was just watching and wishing that i was there during the storm... lol. (and I do it for every big storm covered on CNN!)
Actually...I don't have any relatives anywhere in the US.. I was just watching and wishing that i was there during the storm... lol. (and I do it for every big storm covered on CNN!)
Well, I actually HAVE been down here for several big storms. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina passed through my part of the Florida peninsula (as a 'Category 2' storm) before making its way to New Orleans (as a 'Category 5' storm). That hurricane was strong enough to uproot a number of ficcus trees behind my condo building...
Several weeks later, Hurricane Wilma passed through my area - going from west to east, instead of the other way around as Katrina had done. (This storm was just a few miles per hour short of becoming a 'Category 3' hurricane!) The destruction was far greater than before, as a majority of roofs had their shingles blown off, many windows were blown out, loosely connected signs, lampposts and traffic lights were blown off, and power lines were knocked down (causing outages that had lasted up to two weeks in some areas; five days in mine). And, of course, a number of surviving ficcus trees behind my building were uprooted. (Today, there are only four trees that still remain standing behind said building.)
Most recently (in 2008), my part of south Florida had to deal with Tropical Storm Fay - the main damage of which was caused by its outer bands of high winds and heavy rain (in spite of the fact that said storm was over 200 miles to our west, in the Gulf of Mexico). Fay now holds a dubious record of being the only tropical storm in meteorological history to pass through the same state, no less than FOUR TIMES!
Anyway, I've seen documentaries about 'storm chasers', following the paths of tornadoes, cyclones, thunderstorms, and hurricanes. It's a very dangerous preoccupation, Streaks, but if you wish to pursue it, I wish you the best of luck! Meanwhile, if you wish to come down here (with the rest of the 'snow birds') and catch a glimpse of a tropical depression, which (in turn) can turn into a tropical storm. which (in turn) can turn into a full-fledged hurricane, you'd better hurry. "Hurricane Season" (along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA) ends on November 30th (although the 2005 season was extended to the end of that year, when more storms [ones that had to be named after letters of the Greek alphabet, when the list of English-named storms ran out] showed up after November 30th)!
Several weeks later, Hurricane Wilma passed through my area - going from west to east, instead of the other way around as Katrina had done. (This storm was just a few miles per hour short of becoming a 'Category 3' hurricane!) The destruction was far greater than before, as a majority of roofs had their shingles blown off, many windows were blown out, loosely connected signs, lampposts and traffic lights were blown off, and power lines were knocked down (causing outages that had lasted up to two weeks in some areas; five days in mine). And, of course, a number of surviving ficcus trees behind my building were uprooted. (Today, there are only four trees that still remain standing behind said building.)
Most recently (in 2008), my part of south Florida had to deal with Tropical Storm Fay - the main damage of which was caused by its outer bands of high winds and heavy rain (in spite of the fact that said storm was over 200 miles to our west, in the Gulf of Mexico). Fay now holds a dubious record of being the only tropical storm in meteorological history to pass through the same state, no less than FOUR TIMES!
Anyway, I've seen documentaries about 'storm chasers', following the paths of tornadoes, cyclones, thunderstorms, and hurricanes. It's a very dangerous preoccupation, Streaks, but if you wish to pursue it, I wish you the best of luck! Meanwhile, if you wish to come down here (with the rest of the 'snow birds') and catch a glimpse of a tropical depression, which (in turn) can turn into a tropical storm. which (in turn) can turn into a full-fledged hurricane, you'd better hurry. "Hurricane Season" (along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA) ends on November 30th (although the 2005 season was extended to the end of that year, when more storms [ones that had to be named after letters of the Greek alphabet, when the list of English-named storms ran out] showed up after November 30th)!
Oh yes, I know the joys of '05, nothing like a transitional year storm... GO ZETA!
No worries about getting to see something, Hurricane Juan in 2003 that scored a direct landfall on Halifax where I live as a storm only 3km/h short of becoming a cat. 3 was enough to finally quench the thirst I was looking for when it came to enjoying storms. Nova Scotia actually sees more landfalling storms than Florida. Mind you- they aren't all necessarily hurricanes when they hit, however, we've had 3 this year already, 2 tropical storms and 1 hurricane. My area is also unique, because by the time the storms make up this far, they take on what are known as extratropical characteristics, the storm swings out in a big comma shape..and the worst of it is actually behind the storm on the back end whereas down where you are, the worst spot in a storm is right in front of it. (Then we have the winter versions of hurricanes/TS's up here too... imagine Frances, stretched out over 3 days, hurricane force winds with blowing snow, complete blizzard conditions, our best here was just over 3 feet of snow in just over a day!!, and temperatures between -20 and -30 :P... now THOSE are fun!)
I do plan (once finished all my schooling) to come down to either Florida or south carolina and set up 'base' down there for the season and find myself an old junker car that will get me places and be my storm HQ lol!!
No worries about getting to see something, Hurricane Juan in 2003 that scored a direct landfall on Halifax where I live as a storm only 3km/h short of becoming a cat. 3 was enough to finally quench the thirst I was looking for when it came to enjoying storms. Nova Scotia actually sees more landfalling storms than Florida. Mind you- they aren't all necessarily hurricanes when they hit, however, we've had 3 this year already, 2 tropical storms and 1 hurricane. My area is also unique, because by the time the storms make up this far, they take on what are known as extratropical characteristics, the storm swings out in a big comma shape..and the worst of it is actually behind the storm on the back end whereas down where you are, the worst spot in a storm is right in front of it. (Then we have the winter versions of hurricanes/TS's up here too... imagine Frances, stretched out over 3 days, hurricane force winds with blowing snow, complete blizzard conditions, our best here was just over 3 feet of snow in just over a day!!, and temperatures between -20 and -30 :P... now THOSE are fun!)
I do plan (once finished all my schooling) to come down to either Florida or south carolina and set up 'base' down there for the season and find myself an old junker car that will get me places and be my storm HQ lol!!
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