08-11-2004, 07:01 PM
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Location: NW Florida
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Originally posted by TheWildcard
Air is made up of many other gases like hydrogen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen, but from this you get enough oxygen to breath. During a storm the barometric pressure drops greatly causing movement of all layers of air and in the case of lighting the electrical discharge and high heat splits the molecules in the air and seperates the weak bonds between atoms resulting in many things but the one we are concerned with is O2 a purer form of oxygen called Ozone is produced. Your brain works better with more oxygen which is why you feel so slow and groggy when you sleep for a long period of time or when you recover from passing out. Your muslces also use oxygen to perform tasks, this is why you gasp hard when you are overworked, this is your body trying to pull in more oxygen to replace the oxygen that has been taken out by "work" This is why you will see athaletes breathing in medical grade oxygen on the sidelines sometimes to recover quickly.
So when hurricanes come in they push ozone out of the higher atmosphere and also splits oxygen molecules into pure oxygen with the lightning. Down south when the storms come in we sometimes have what are called "Hurricane Parties" this is because no one can go anywhere and everything is closed but un-known to most people honestly their feelings of bliss are coming from the breathing in of purer and purer oxygen. Most people have friends over to be together and party you know drink, play games and have sex haha. Many kids in the south are "hurricane babies" lol. Trust me if you guys just get one of the storm arms and not get the wall (the bad part of the storm) the parties will be at a fever pitch as everyone will be on free drugs! The skies will be dark but there is plenty of light, the storms are pretty and you may get lots of sheet lightning (where lighting races horizontally across the sky instead of coming straight down) the temperature will be around 75*, there will be humidity but it will feel like cool mist instead of the normal muggyness.
If there is a problem down there just listen to the officials in the hotel, they may evacuate you to a hospital but most hotels are set up for storms down here, they have large areas in the middle of the builging, generators, plenty of food and water and are close to emergency response teams. But like I said we see these come in week after week around this time, nothing new to us so try to remain calm even if there is a problem, Miami is still there after all so you know it is not THAT bad.
From my board.
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It can get ugly real quick.
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