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Post by AlanC on Sept 5, 2017 6:44:46 GMT -5
Looks like she is coming to pay a visit. Hey let's have a contest to see who has stood in the eye of a hurricane the most times.
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Post by brucemacneill on Sept 5, 2017 7:00:27 GMT -5
Only a couple came through Massachusetts when I was a kid but standing in the eye, in the sun was interesting for a few minutes. Good luck down there, looks like it's headed more to Florida than North Carolina just now. That could change though.
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Post by Marshall on Sept 5, 2017 7:16:08 GMT -5
The track they are showing now will be rough on Florida.
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Post by kenlarsson on Sept 5, 2017 7:27:49 GMT -5
This is now a category 5 monster, I'm concerned............
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Post by Marty on Sept 5, 2017 7:28:50 GMT -5
The Keys are gonna get hit!
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Post by millring on Sept 5, 2017 8:05:21 GMT -5
The skies have been storing up some serious storming for the past decade. Time to unleash.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Sept 5, 2017 8:44:17 GMT -5
I prefer to be standing in the shadows of love.
Mike
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 5, 2017 9:07:39 GMT -5
How could you evacuate the keys? One highway leading straight to Miami, right? Then up a very narrow state. I think I'd be leaving now to be safe.
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Post by theevan on Sept 5, 2017 12:13:55 GMT -5
Looks like she is coming to pay a visit. Hey let's have a contest to see who has stood in the eye of a hurricane the most times. You win!
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Post by kenlarsson on Sept 5, 2017 12:40:39 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Sept 5, 2017 14:44:36 GMT -5
How could you evacuate the keys? One highway leading straight to Miami, right? Then up a very narrow state. I think I'd be leaving now to be safe. The radio today says it takes 3 days to evacuate the keys. One road out.
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Post by brucemacneill on Sept 5, 2017 14:59:46 GMT -5
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Post by Doug on Sept 5, 2017 15:15:26 GMT -5
I'm guessing I'd win the standing in the eye but it's been too many to count since 1960.
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Post by brucemacneill on Sept 5, 2017 17:33:33 GMT -5
I have a niece who manages a hotel on Antigua. Her plan had been to go to her son or daughter's around Orlando but that doesn't seem like a good idea so she posted this: "For my friends & family...we will be in a concrete bldg hillside so safe from flooding & no roof to blow away...we have plenty rum, cigs, beer, canned stuff oh yea & water..track us via: Love to all www.windy.com/?18.526,-65.094,7" Irma should hit Antigua with 180mph winds tonight. I suspect she'll wish she had stayed on the mainland rather than returning to the islands after a hurricane she rode out on St Croix years ago.
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Post by AlanC on Sept 5, 2017 18:04:25 GMT -5
It was a hard decision but Faithful Wife and I are leaving around 2 or 3 AM tomorrow. All our children and grandchildren will remain in Orlando. My S-I-L is a capable, smart, responsible guy who is making preparations. My baby daughter had planned on going but couldn't get off work till Thursday afternoon. It is the consensus from all around here that by then, the Turnpike from Miami which is the only road to I-75 from here will be a parking lot. We told her she will probably need to go to her sisters and ride it out with then. My son is probably staying also and he has my generator that got us thru the month of no electricity after Katrina (and then Evan when they got hit later... don't remember the name of that one).
Anyway, we are cut-n-runners leaving all our chirrens. Not a good feeling but I have to recognize that my S-I-L is capable, my son is 30 years old, I am a codger, and I have to let them grow up and deal with adversity by themselves.
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 5, 2017 18:26:35 GMT -5
And the obligatory:
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Post by kenlarsson on Sept 5, 2017 19:40:08 GMT -5
Claire and I are staying in Spring Hill, (35 miles north of Tampa), our daughter Kelly is in Tampa going through a job interviewing process for a career change. A week from next Thursday we're supposed to be flying to Dublin for a two week vacation in Ireland, that is if our house is ok and there's a functional airport in Tampa. If this storm doesn't make landfall and traverses the west coast of Florida close to shore we're totally fucked. I hate to say it cause someone else will be screwed but I'm hoping for a big turn to the east.
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Post by Marshall on Sept 5, 2017 19:46:55 GMT -5
I have a niece who manages a hotel on Antigua. Her plan had been to go to her son or daughter's around Orlando but that doesn't seem like a good idea so she posted this: "For my friends & family...we will be in a concrete bldg hillside so safe from flooding & no roof to blow away...we have plenty rum, cigs, beer, canned stuff oh yea & water..track us via: Love to all www.windy.com/?18.526,-65.094,7" Irma should hit Antigua with 180mph winds tonight. I suspect she'll wish she had stayed on the mainland rather than returning to the islands after a hurricane she rode out on St Croix years ago. I remember Evan telling us about the Tabasco sauce company that has a bunker down in Looziana where all the employees can bring in their families and hunker down and ride out a hurricane. They have a big pot of jambalaya always cooking throughout the storm.
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Post by Doug on Sept 5, 2017 20:39:29 GMT -5
Orlando is fairly safe. My uncle and aunt from Cocoa Beach always came to Orlando to ride out the hurricanes and I went to their house to keep the looters away. Once swam across the bay off the Banana River in the eye from their house. Boy was I stupid. The 4 in '04 had us with out power for 28 days. When you live in the country with a well no power is no water. My daughter the #2 person at the N. FL induction center for DOC says they are lining up buses to transport inmates. My brother in Orlando lives on a lake and he sweats heavy rain. Most common home construction in FL is block on slab which is mostly solid against hurricanes. If it's bad enough roofs sometimes leave, leaving just the walls and slab.
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Post by AlanC on Sept 6, 2017 8:39:58 GMT -5
Ken....Tampa? Cat 4 or 5? Uh.. um... well damn. Take care, brother. Been there, done that. Not fun.
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