Get Ready, Florida

Don M.

Don M.

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Just as the horrific damage to Houston is starting to come into full focus, another, and even stronger hurricane, Irma, may well be headed for Florida. It would probably be wise for anyone living in that State to pay close attention to the weather news, and start planning their escape.

https://weather.com/storms/hurrican...rricane-warning-puerto-rico-leeward-islands-0
 

I'm watching it closely over here in Mobile, Alabama. It could very easily hit us too. We're only about 50 miles west of Pensacola Florida.
 

Trade said:
I'm watching it closely over here in Mobile, Alabama. It could very easily hit us too. We're only about 50 miles west of Pensacola Florida.
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Pack your stuff and get out while the getting is good. Don't be a victim. You can always come back if it misses your place. This is going to be more Trump Karma. It's sad that so many have to pay for his stupidity. But then, all these states that are getting hit, voted for him. I think Irma is going to be a lot worse than Harvey....it's already a cat 5.
 
hangover said:
Pack your stuff and get out while the getting is good. Don't be a victim. You can always come back if it misses your place. This is going to be more Trump Karma. It's sad that so many have to pay for his stupidity. But then, all these states that are getting hit, voted for him. I think Irma is going to be a lot worse than Harvey....it's already a cat 5.
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I'm 25 miles from the Gulf and on relatively high ground, 95 feet above sea level and my house is a solid old school brick one built in 1960. It's been through many Hurricanes in it's time. And Irma is still a couple of thousand miles away. The forecast is still up in the air for here. It might hit us in a week or so. Or it might miss us by 500 miles. So I'm not ready to panic just yet.
 
hangover said:
Pack your stuff and get out while the getting is good. Don't be a victim. You can always come back if it misses your place. This is going to be more Trump Karma. It's sad that so many have to pay for his stupidity. But then, all these states that are getting hit, voted for him. I think Irma is going to be a lot worse than Harvey....it's already a cat 5.
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What does Trump have to do with this ?
 
Falcon said:
What does Trump have to do with this ?
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Trump is causing the disasters with his treatment of Mexicans and Muslims. "You shall reap what you sow." Bigotry and hate is powerful negative energy. There are also wild fires burning up the west, because Trump cut funding to the forest service.
 
hangover said:
Pack your stuff and get out while the getting is good. Don't be a victim. You can always come back if it misses your place. This is going to be more Trump Karma. It's sad that so many have to pay for his stupidity. But then, all these states that are getting hit, voted for him. I think Irma is going to be a lot worse than Harvey....it's already a cat 5.
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He has pretty much decimated FEMA... and here we may be facing TWO.. not just one major Hurricanes.. as well as wild fires... He has also cut disaster relief funding from his budget... Pretty sad for those who will be affected directly.... But ALL of us will be affected in some way for sure.
 
We were going to visit my sister who lives in a beach town near Melbourne FL. We spoke to her on the phone last night, she is evacuating to higher ground. We will visit next month, weather permitting.
 
I decided to meander over to Wallymart today to get some water. Water all gone. ALL gone. No water at Publix, either. Well, thank goodness I have some empty containers for my own water. Right now the projection is to hit Miami and go right up the middle of the state. Guess who lives right in the middle of the state? Yep, that would be me.

Saturday, we came home a month early from North Carolina so that the Spousal Equivalent could take his long-awaited bucket list motorcycle trip. He was supposed to leave this weekend, but who knows now? He doesn't want to leave me here alone if a hurricane is headed this way (I wholeheartedly agree...) Nor does he want to head north if the hurricane ends up skipping up the coast, which it might. We'll just have to sit and wait.

We're pretty high and dry, so not worried about flooding. Just the wind. At least we have a new roof and chimney. And 12 cans of tuna and half a bottle of vodka. The essentials are taken care of.
 
My sister in law and her mother have hotel reservations in northern Florida. My brother has to stay in Miami as he is a cop and will be assigned to the shelters as protection.
 
jujube said:
I decided to meander over to Wallymart today to get some water. Water all gone. ALL gone. No water at Publix, either. Well, thank goodness I have some empty containers for my own water. Right now the projection is to hit Miami and go right up the middle of the state. Guess who lives right in the middle of the state? Yep, that would be me.

Saturday, we came home a month early from North Carolina so that the Spousal Equivalent could take his long-awaited bucket list motorcycle trip. He was supposed to leave this weekend, but who knows now? He doesn't want to leave me here alone if a hurricane is headed this way (I wholeheartedly agree...) Nor does he want to head north if the hurricane ends up skipping up the coast, which it might. We'll just have to sit and wait.

We're pretty high and dry, so not worried about flooding. Just the wind. At least we have a new roof and chimney. And 12 cans of tuna and half a bottle of vodka. The essentials are taken care of.
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Jeebus, jujube - this is serious. You'll need more vodka. A lot more.
 
Hoot N Annie said:
Jeebus, jujube - this is serious. You'll need more vodka. A lot more.
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The latest update now has it at 185 mph. That's a super storm!

What's really scary is that the force of a wind is geometric in relation to it's speed. So a 180 mph wind isn't twice as forceful as a 90 mile an hour wind. It's four times as forceful.

Still too early to tell where the US mainland might be hit.
 
hangover said:
Trump is causing the disasters with his treatment of Mexicans and Muslims. "You shall reap what you sow." Bigotry and hate is powerful negative energy. There are also wild fires burning up the west, because Trump cut funding to the forest service.
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This thread is about a hurricane, and is not a political thread. Your personal opinion of our President has nothing to do with the hurricane, and it is totally OFF-TOPIC, hangover.

Also, as Matrix has repeatedly stated, this is a friendly seniors forum, and personal insults to anyone, including the President, are just not allowed by the forum rules.
Please try to stay on topic and be more agreeable in your comments about others.
Thank you. HFL
 
This evening, the Weather Channel is calling Irma the worst hurricane in recorded history...with winds of 185 MPH. If this thing holds together and hits the U.S., the devastation could equal or surpass anything Houston just went through.
 
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[FONT=&quot](CNN)As Floridians cleared supermarkets of bottled water and emptied gas pumps, people in the northeastern Caribbean were making last minute-preparations before powerful Hurricane Irma hit their islands.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Late Tuesday, the massive Category 5 storm was almost upon islands like Antigua and Barbuda with near-record 185 mph sustained winds. In its 11 p.m. ET advisory, the US National Hurricane Center said the eye of the hurricane was 50 miles from the two islands.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The center of the storm was moving to the west-northwest at 15 mph.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The hurricane center said the extremely dangerous core of Irma would hit the northern Leeward Islands -- which include Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla -- Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It's too early to tell whether the storm will make landfall on the US mainland, but forecasts show it could turn toward Florida over the weekend.[/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]Until the early 1950s, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year. Over time, it was learned that the use of short, easily remembered names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. In the past, confusion and false rumors resulted when storm advisories broadcast from radio stations were mistaken for warnings concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]In 1953, the United States began using female names for storms and, by 1978, both male and female names were used to identify Northern Pacific storms. This was then adopted in 1979 for storms in the Atlantic basin.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]NOAA’s National Hurricane Center does not control the naming of tropical storms. Instead, there is a strict procedure established by the World Meteorological Organization. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of male and female names which are used on a six-year rotation. The only time that there is a change is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate. In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in a season, any additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet.[/FONT]
 
hangover said:
Trump is causing the disasters with his treatment of Mexicans and Muslims. "You shall reap what you sow." Bigotry and hate is powerful negative energy. There are also wild fires burning up the west, because Trump cut funding to the forest service.
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As much as I disapprove of Trump, I think it is a wee bit of a stretch blaming him for hurricanes and wildfires.
 
I just watched the 1 a.m. news. Now they're projecting that it might come up the east coast of Florida. They were showing a semi loaded up with water and other supplies that was supposed to go to Texas......now it's going to stay in the parking lot in Brevard County in case it's needed. Every town in the area is gearing up for sandbag distribution tomorrow.

Lord have mercy, what is happening to our country? My sister who lives in Seattle said she woke up this morning to ash all over everything from the fires in Cle Elum, an hour and a half away.
 
jujube said:
I decided to meander over to Wallymart today to get some water. Water all gone. ALL gone. No water at Publix, either. Well, thank goodness I have some empty containers for my own water. Right now the projection is to hit Miami and go right up the middle of the state. Guess who lives right in the middle of the state? Yep, that would be me.

Saturday, we came home a month early from North Carolina so that the Spousal Equivalent could take his long-awaited bucket list motorcycle trip. He was supposed to leave this weekend, but who knows now? He doesn't want to leave me here alone if a hurricane is headed this way (I wholeheartedly agree...) Nor does he want to head north if the hurricane ends up skipping up the coast, which it might. We'll just have to sit and wait.

We're pretty high and dry, so not worried about flooding. Just the wind. At least we have a new roof and chimney. And 12 cans of tuna and half a bottle of vodka. The essentials are taken care of.
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Keeping you in prayer.
 

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