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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: CrimsonSunrise on September 27, 2022, 02:44:58 PM
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Well this is our first Hurricane season in our new Florida home. Wouldn't you know it... the first Hurricane hitting the state is supposed to steamroll right over us in North Port. Think we got all the prep done, shutters are up and everything is off the lanai and pool area. Gonna be putting the new generator to the test come Thursday morning probably. Anyone else affected by this storm??
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My son and his family just moved from Orlando proper, to Alamonte Springs just north of there. While they are inland, it still looks like the remnants of the storm are going to bulldoze over the top of them by Thursday. I hope everyone stays safe.
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Tampa resident here, so it was originally projected to hit us direct but now looks like it may be south of us (still hard to say) but either way looks like we're going to get a ton of rain north of the eye of the hurricane. I have a new home too and it's going to be interesting to see how bad the flooding gets.
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Good luck to all in the pathway :heart
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Good luck to every one down there.
We had scheduled a trip to Universal this week for Halloween Horror Nights back in the spring and I told my wife the only thing I worried about is that it’s during hurricane season. Sure enough. Thankfully we were able to reschedule to the end of October.
Stay safe.
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I am southwest of Orlando and unfortunately right in the crosshairs. Just got a phone alert that our county is under a hurricane warning.
I an on team A at the hospital and will have to stay there for a minimum of 48 hours beginning tomorrow morning. My wife, daughter, son in law, grandkids and other friends and family will be cramming into my daughter's home. We're as ready as we can be. The rest is up to Mother Nature.
I went through Irma and it was an event I will never forget. This one might be a little worse.
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I know a co-worker that moved to Indialantic Florida about a year ago working remotely. That's a precarious place to be if you look at the map. Storm surge can come in from either direction. Wouldn't want to be on that island during a hurricane. :eek She's right on the eastern edge of the forecast cone. Says she'll be alright if they don't lose water and power.
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I am southwest of Orlando and unfortunately right in the crosshairs. Just got a phone alert that our county is under a hurricane warning.
I an on team A at the hospital and will have to stay there for a minimum of 48 hours beginning tomorrow morning. My wife, daughter, son in law, grandkids and other friends and family will be cramming into my daughter's home. We're as ready as we can be. The rest is up to Mother Nature.
I went through Irma and it was an event I will never forget. This one might be a little worse.
Curious question, does the hospital give you guys and gals a place to sleep food and stuff? A hotel or at least a basement or something?
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I am southwest of Orlando and unfortunately right in the crosshairs. Just got a phone alert that our county is under a hurricane warning.
I an on team A at the hospital and will have to stay there for a minimum of 48 hours beginning tomorrow morning. My wife, daughter, son in law, grandkids and other friends and family will be cramming into my daughter's home. We're as ready as we can be. The rest is up to Mother Nature.
I went through Irma and it was an event I will never forget. This one might be a little worse.
I saw that they activated hurricane warnings for the Orlando area, the focus initially had been on the Tampa area and they got a lot of preparation done. As it goes with these storms the tracks keep changing and areas that are least prepared or expecting to get hit see the worst damage.
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I am southwest of Orlando and unfortunately right in the crosshairs. Just got a phone alert that our county is under a hurricane warning.
I an on team A at the hospital and will have to stay there for a minimum of 48 hours beginning tomorrow morning. My wife, daughter, son in law, grandkids and other friends and family will be cramming into my daughter's home. We're as ready as we can be. The rest is up to Mother Nature.
I went through Irma and it was an event I will never forget. This one might be a little worse.
Curious question, does the hospital give you guys and gals a place to sleep food and stuff? A hotel or at least a basement or something?
I will be on a blow-up air mattress in my office. They will provide meals. We have to be on-site, no hotel, to ensure operations continue and patients are well cared for. After the storm passes team B will releive us and I can go home. It comes with the territory when you work at a hospital in a hurricane zone.
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be safe anyone who is in the path....
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I am southwest of Orlando and unfortunately right in the crosshairs. Just got a phone alert that our county is under a hurricane warning.
I an on team A at the hospital and will have to stay there for a minimum of 48 hours beginning tomorrow morning. My wife, daughter, son in law, grandkids and other friends and family will be cramming into my daughter's home. We're as ready as we can be. The rest is up to Mother Nature.
I went through Irma and it was an event I will never forget. This one might be a little worse.
I saw that they activated hurricane warnings for the Orlando area, the focus initially had been on the Tampa area and they got a lot of preparation done. As it goes with these storms the tracks keep changing and areas that are least prepared or expecting to get hit see the worst damage.
Yeah, Tampa was going to get crushed so maybe this track is better. If 12+ feet of water blew into Tampa Bay for 36 hours, we wouldn't be able to recognize it after the storm. It's gonna hit as a cat 4 near Sarasota/Ft Myers. They are predicting over 30" of rain in some places. That's hard to comprehend.
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I hate to say it but I agree, even though I'm getting the brunt of it now, a direct hit on Tampa would have been a disaster for sure. For the Orlando folks hopefully it will be downgraded to a TS by the time it gets to you. All the models I've seen is for it to dissipate quite quickly once it makes landfall. 2004 and Charlie were brutal for Port Charlotte/North Port/Punta Gorda, hopefully this one's intensity will be lower as the models predict.
I am southwest of Orlando and unfortunately right in the crosshairs. Just got a phone alert that our county is under a hurricane warning.
I an on team A at the hospital and will have to stay there for a minimum of 48 hours beginning tomorrow morning. My wife, daughter, son in law, grandkids and other friends and family will be cramming into my daughter's home. We're as ready as we can be. The rest is up to Mother Nature.
I went through Irma and it was an event I will never forget. This one might be a little worse.
Where are you at?
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First storm for me as a new Florida resident. I'm just north/east of Orlando proper (Oviedo specifically), so with any luck it'll just be a tropical storm by the time it gets here.
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Hurricane Fiona hit Atlantic Canada as a tropical storm on the weekend and the damage was immense.
Stay safe everyone. Hope this hurricane loses intensity before making landfall.
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Stay safe everyone! Hurricanes are something i've never experienced in my part of the world and hope I never will. It's such a crazy phenomenon and I think it's hard to truly understand what it's like unless you see it with your own eyes.
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155 MPH.
Some parts of Florida might br forever re-shaped. Scary stuff.
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Could land anywhere near the Port Charlotte, Fort Myers, Punta Gorda areas. This thing is massive, almost Cat 5 when it hits landfall with 12 - 16 ft storm surge. That is kinda insane. Going to be very rough.
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As a former Florida resident who had to evacuate my home when I was a kid due to a hurricane, I wish safety and the best of a bad situation for everyone there now.
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gl everyone in FL
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The Stadler family is in the line of fire. My parent's condo is in Cape Coral, though mom is in assisted living about five miles away. She's safe, and will be well-taken care of. My brother is a police officer in the county north of Cape Coral (which is Lee County) and he's been on duty/on call since yesterday at 9:00am. I worry for him. I worry for the condo (though it's just property in the grand scheme of things). I was down there from Sunday to yesterday; I considered staying, to ride it out, but in hindsight, I'm glad I left. I would likely have had to evacuate and I'd have had nowhere to go.
I worry.
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I have a lot of family in the Venice area, and I'm hoping they'll be okay. Hopefully, they're all hunkered down at my uncle's house further inland and ready to stay there for a little while.
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Hope everyone in the path can stay safe
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I'm in east Orlando. 2004 was a bad fucking year for us. My neighborhood looked like it endured the shock and awe air strike. I had a tree fall on the house, and had to stay in a hotel for over a month.
I don't care to repeat that experience again.
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Sandy was a nightmare when that happened in NY/NJ, these hurricanes and their storm surge can be really bad.
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I didn't realize we has so many FL residents in the group. Hope everyone stays safe and has minimal property damage.
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Landfall as Cat 4 with 150 mph winds at Fort Myers at 3:10 pm.
Some of the footage is insane.
https://twitter.com/mikebettes/status/1575180210219139080?s=20&t=JLGAaXqdAO88EXX4mUIgQA
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Landfall as Cat 4 with 150 mph winds at Fort Myers at 3:10 pm.
Some of the footage is insane.
https://twitter.com/mikebettes/status/1575180210219139080?s=20&t=JLGAaXqdAO88EXX4mUIgQA
Then you have people like this:
https://twitter.com/ZachCoveyTV/status/1575132828626477056
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Landfall as Cat 4 with 150 mph winds at Fort Myers at 3:10 pm.
Some of the footage is insane.
https://twitter.com/mikebettes/status/1575180210219139080?s=20&t=JLGAaXqdAO88EXX4mUIgQA
Then you have people like this:
https://twitter.com/ZachCoveyTV/status/1575132828626477056
Well, they are Floridiots after all!
Wow, that first vid is insane. Can't imagine what it would be like to be in that mess.
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I am late to this thread, but hoping for safety for all members and their families and friends affected at all by this natural disaster. Mother Nature is a cruel bitch.
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My sister's in Orlando. Haven't heard an update from her in a couple of hours. Hope everything's okay.
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Hopefully we can get a check-in from all who are down there.
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Wasn't too bad for the Tampa area, some areas lost power and debris spread around. Nothing major like Fort Myers, Naples area. Really feel bad for them down there, they felt the brunt of the storm.
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Wasn't too bad for the Tampa area, some areas lost power and debris spread around. Nothing major like Fort Myers, Naples area. Really feel bad for them down there, they felt the brunt of the storm.
I spent 80% of my life in Pinellas county so I was really worried for my parents/brother who still live there. Then I saw the shift to south and my gut dropped because from my experience in Florida it's a huge ask to get people to evacuate in the first place but if the track of a hurricane is near the outer limits than most people aren't going anywhere. It makes it worse when hurricane tracks are often unpredictable outside of a couple days which casts a wide shadow of doubt for the entire population. My thoughts are with all the people down there.
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My brother-in-law is in the Orlando area. So far, he is safe and sound, hasn't lost power yet.
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How's the Sarasota area? My boss' in-laws were instructed to evacuate and they refused, and now they haven't responded or made contact since yesterday.
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I don't know for sure, I'm assuming they had very high storm surges and winds. I have coworkers in the Bradenton area who lost power all night amid heavy rain and flooding, and that's close to Sarasota.
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How's the Sarasota area? My boss' in-laws were instructed to evacuate and they refused, and now they haven't responded or made contact since yesterday.
Reporting yesterday showed power outages, downed trees and debris on streets. I don't think the flooding was bad in that area.
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Lee County Sheriff is reporting hundreds dead. That's a bit south of Sarasota though. What a tragedy.
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How's the Sarasota area? My boss' in-laws were instructed to evacuate and they refused, and now they haven't responded or made contact since yesterday.
My brother is a cop in Sarasota County, and his text to me today: "We got drilled."
Lee County Sheriff is reporting hundreds dead. That's a bit south of Sarasota though. What a tragedy.
Lee County is the two south of Sarasota County (Charlotte County, which got hit directly by Charlie about 2004) and where Ft. Myers and Cape Coral are. I know Ft. Myers Beach got HAMMERED. I don't know how far that damage stretched. My parents old condo is in Cape Coral, not far from the Caloosahatchee River and in the Zone A flood zone, but I don't have any word yet if the storm surge reached that building (mom is in memory care at a facility about five miles from there).
The "problem" so to speak, is that saying "Lee County" doesn't really narrow it down; you've got Sanibel Island, Captiva Island and Pine Island all right off shore and they would have taken the brunt of the wind and storm surge and that's all "Lee County". I would venture to say that most of the deaths were out that way. Not at all to say that everywhere else shouldn't worry, but there's a lot of variability in a short distance down there. The canals can both help and hurt as well (Cape Coral has something like 400 miles of canals that ultimately feed to the Gulf) in terms of dissipating some of the storm surges. That doesn't help the beaches and islands though.
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By the way, anyone still watch The Weather Channel? I did for a spell yesterday afternoon, and that crazy bastard Jim Cantore is still at it. That fucker was out in Punta Gorda (just north of Cape Coral, in Charlotte County) and was literally just standing in the middle of the Tamiami Trail (Rte. 41, which runs from TAmpa to MIAMI) bracing himself against the wind. At one point, he got blown over, and at another he got hit with a palm frond. I'm not sure what he's trying to prove, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
In the spirit of the times, they made him wear one of those helmets they used to make the Little Leaguers wear, with the two earflaps.
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I don't, but that particular clip has made its way across social media yesterday. I saw it posted many times. Wild stuff.
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By the way, anyone still watch The Weather Channel? I did for a spell yesterday afternoon, and that crazy bastard Jim Cantore is still at it. That fucker was out in Punta Gorda (just north of Cape Coral, in Charlotte County) and was literally just standing in the middle of the Tamiami Trail (Rte. 41, which runs from TAmpa to MIAMI) bracing himself against the wind. At one point, he got blown over, and at another he got hit with a palm frond. I'm not sure what he's trying to prove, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
In the spirit of the times, they made him wear one of those helmets they used to make the Little Leaguers wear, with the two earflaps.
I tuned in after they had already made him stop being out in the open. He was around a corner (off-camera) and the roof came off a building and a road sign blew past within 30 seconds of each other. He probably would have been injured, if not worse, if he had still been out there.
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By the way, anyone still watch The Weather Channel? I did for a spell yesterday afternoon, and that crazy bastard Jim Cantore is still at it. That fucker was out in Punta Gorda (just north of Cape Coral, in Charlotte County) and was literally just standing in the middle of the Tamiami Trail (Rte. 41, which runs from TAmpa to MIAMI) bracing himself against the wind. At one point, he got blown over, and at another he got hit with a palm frond. I'm not sure what he's trying to prove, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
In the spirit of the times, they made him wear one of those helmets they used to make the Little Leaguers wear, with the two earflaps.
Didn't watch the channel but did see that clip of him, really lucky it was just that small branch.
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Hey all, just checking in. Thankfully minimal impact for me. No flooding where I live, the rain has mostly let up, and the wind is slowly calming down (still in the 40-50mph range at the moment). My power blinked out momentarily maybe half a dozen times, but that was about it.
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Hey all, just checking in. Thankfully minimal impact for me. No flooding where I live, the rain has mostly let up, and the wind is slowly calming down (still in the 40-50mph range at the moment). My power blinked out momentarily maybe half a dozen times, but that was about it.
How much rain are you supposed to get? Some places up by you I heard could get double digit rainfalls. What was the highest wind? Have you ever been through that before? Wind scares the shit out of me, personally. I've been in 70 mph winds and that's it; that was enough to make me wish for a basement to hide in!
Glad you're okay. :) :tup
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By the way, anyone still watch The Weather Channel? I did for a spell yesterday afternoon, and that crazy bastard Jim Cantore is still at it. That fucker was out in Punta Gorda (just north of Cape Coral, in Charlotte County) and was literally just standing in the middle of the Tamiami Trail (Rte. 41, which runs from TAmpa to MIAMI) bracing himself against the wind. At one point, he got blown over, and at another he got hit with a palm frond. I'm not sure what he's trying to prove, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
In the spirit of the times, they made him wear one of those helmets they used to make the Little Leaguers wear, with the two earflaps.
I watch The Weather Channel every day. Jim Cantore isn't trying to prove anything. He just loves what does and being out there in the thick of it. You should see him in the middle of a thunder snow storm. He goes fucking nuts because thunder snow is very rare.
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By the way, anyone still watch The Weather Channel? I did for a spell yesterday afternoon, and that crazy bastard Jim Cantore is still at it. That fucker was out in Punta Gorda (just north of Cape Coral, in Charlotte County) and was literally just standing in the middle of the Tamiami Trail (Rte. 41, which runs from TAmpa to MIAMI) bracing himself against the wind. At one point, he got blown over, and at another he got hit with a palm frond. I'm not sure what he's trying to prove, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
In the spirit of the times, they made him wear one of those helmets they used to make the Little Leaguers wear, with the two earflaps.
I watch The Weather Channel every day. Jim Cantore isn't trying to prove anything. He just loves what does and being out there in the thick of it. You should see him in the middle of a thunder snow storm. He goes fucking nuts because thunder snow is very rare.
That was snarkier than I really meant it; I just wasn't aware of what motivates him at this point, but as I said, I do find it entertaining and informative.
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Part of my family lives in Ft. Myers and I can't get in touch with them at all. They're inland a bit and they've been through a few hurricanes so I'm hoping they didn't see any flooding and were adequately prepared enough and just not able to get a cell signal at the moment.
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By the way, anyone still watch The Weather Channel? I did for a spell yesterday afternoon, and that crazy bastard Jim Cantore is still at it. That fucker was out in Punta Gorda (just north of Cape Coral, in Charlotte County) and was literally just standing in the middle of the Tamiami Trail (Rte. 41, which runs from TAmpa to MIAMI) bracing himself against the wind. At one point, he got blown over, and at another he got hit with a palm frond. I'm not sure what he's trying to prove, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
In the spirit of the times, they made him wear one of those helmets they used to make the Little Leaguers wear, with the two earflaps.
As you know, I was definitely watching. At one point, it looked like he was in an entrance to a parking garage fighting the wing, and he literally was doubled over trying to recover.
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https://www.wftv.com/news/local/osceola-county/watch-drone-video-shows-extensive-flooding-around-large-hospital-kissimmee/J6RWHK3Q5NAAVC5LI25CQFQUFI/
This is a drone shot of my facility. Like most of Kissimmee we were under 3-5 feet of water. Many colleagues vehicles are destroyed. I'm still here until tomorrow at noon when team B relieves us. No clue about my house yet. As it stands, unless the water recedes substantially overnight, none of us parked in the garage you see in the video are getting out. The water is 5' deep at the garage entrance and the entire ground floor is about 4' deep. But I'm safe and that's all that counts. One more night on an air mattress.
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I'm glad you're safe. I hope your house is ok. And that you're parked on the top floor of that garage.
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https://www.wftv.com/news/local/osceola-county/watch-drone-video-shows-extensive-flooding-around-large-hospital-kissimmee/J6RWHK3Q5NAAVC5LI25CQFQUFI/
This is a drone shot of my facility. Like most of Kissimmee we were under 3-5 feet of water. Many colleagues vehicles are destroyed. I'm still here until tomorrow at noon when team B relieves us. No clue about my house yet. As it stands, unless the water recedes substantially overnight, none of us parked in the garage you see in the video are getting out. The water is 5' deep at the garage entrance and the entire ground floor is about 4' deep. But I'm safe and that's all that counts. One more night on an air mattress.
Did not know it got that bad near Orlando, insane flooding. Glad you're ok.
I've been watching some of the storm chasers and some of the footage they have is insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbeqChPvlQk&ab_channel=MaxOlsonChasing
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https://www.wftv.com/news/local/osceola-county/watch-drone-video-shows-extensive-flooding-around-large-hospital-kissimmee/J6RWHK3Q5NAAVC5LI25CQFQUFI/
This is a drone shot of my facility. Like most of Kissimmee we were under 3-5 feet of water. Many colleagues vehicles are destroyed. I'm still here until tomorrow at noon when team B relieves us. No clue about my house yet. As it stands, unless the water recedes substantially overnight, none of us parked in the garage you see in the video are getting out. The water is 5' deep at the garage entrance and the entire ground floor is about 4' deep. But I'm safe and that's all that counts. One more night on an air mattress.
That is ridiculous. So far inland at that.
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I'm so sorry emtee.
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My wife told me the causeway to Sanibel island is gone. We honeymooned down there back in ‘05.
Hope everything is okay for you Emtee, as well as everyone else dealing with this.
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So, my parents live in Cape Coral. They didn't go anywhere and stayed home for the hurricane. I talked to my mother Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning. I ended up calling her around 4pm yesterday after what was supposed to be the worst and she said they had lost power at 1:30, but the weather really wasn't "that bad". She said they had some wind and rain, but only had lost part of their pool screen and some roof shingles.
Apparently the eye passed right over them, so they were spared for the most part. They did get the tail of the hurricane last night, but the last I talked with her, at 9pm, it was starting to die down. I told her I'd check in in the morning.
I tried calling her phone this morning...right to voicemail. Same with my father's phone. My understanding was that there were serious storm surges throughout the night, and I was hoping they weren't flooded out. I was actually really worried.
My mother finally texted me at 2:20 this afternoon..."We are OK. Mess to clean up outside." Wow! So I called her. Their phones were dead and they managed to charge them on their computer's battery. They lost their pool screen totally, and they had debris in their front yard. Their road is clear. I should say that most of their neighbors rode it out as well.
My mother has no clue of the devastation all around them. Cape Coral literally sat in the eye of the hurricane and it protected them. A fucking miracle.
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Hey all, just checking in. Thankfully minimal impact for me. No flooding where I live, the rain has mostly let up, and the wind is slowly calming down (still in the 40-50mph range at the moment). My power blinked out momentarily maybe half a dozen times, but that was about it.
How much rain are you supposed to get? Some places up by you I heard could get double digit rainfalls. What was the highest wind? Have you ever been through that before? Wind scares the shit out of me, personally. I've been in 70 mph winds and that's it; that was enough to make me wish for a basement to hide in!
Glad you're okay. :) :tup
I'm pretty sure we were forecasted to get 12-18 inches of rain, don't know what the final number actually was. Winds must have topped out above 60mph because the worst of it was probably in the 12am-5am window and we still had winds ~55mph a few hours later. Not sure if we hit 70+ though.
The only comparable experience for me was Sandy, which the storm then was worse but I also was riding it out in a basement and not by myself. I stayed up until the tornado watch expired at 1am and then managed to get a little sleep before my phone spazzing out over a flash flood warning woke me up.
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So, my parents live in Cape Coral. They didn't go anywhere and stayed home for the hurricane. I talked to my mother Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning. I ended up calling her around 4pm yesterday after what was supposed to be the worst and she said they had lost power at 1:30, but the weather really wasn't "that bad". She said they had some wind and rain, but only had lost part of their pool screen and some roof shingles.
Apparently the eye passed right over them, so they were spared for the most part. They did get the tail of the hurricane last night, but the last I talked with her, at 9pm, it was starting to die down. I told her I'd check in in the morning.
I tried calling her phone this morning...right to voicemail. Same with my father's phone. My understanding was that there were serious storm surges throughout the night, and I was hoping they weren't flooded out. I was actually really worried.
My mother finally texted me at 2:20 this afternoon..."We are OK. Mess to clean up outside." Wow! So I called her. Their phones were dead and they managed to charge them on their computer's battery. They lost their pool screen totally, and they had debris in their front yard. Their road is clear. I should say that most of their neighbors rode it out as well.
My mother has no clue of the devastation all around them. Cape Coral literally sat in the eye of the hurricane and it protected them. A fucking miracle.
I can confirm this; it seems like the islands and the beach took the brunt of it. I am grateful on so many levels.
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I am also surprised at the number of forumers impacted by Ian. Glad to hear everyone so far from here is safe.
I'm seeing a lot of posts on Twitter from people looking for missing relatives. Heartbreaking.
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Thanks so much for the thoughts. My house is fine but I feel sort of a strange sense of guilt that we are ok when so many others are not.
The water receeded almost completely overnight and I was able to go home this morning.
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I am also surprised at the number of forumers impacted by Ian. Glad to hear everyone so far from here is safe.
I'm seeing a lot of posts on Twitter from people looking for missing relatives. Heartbreaking.
My brother was doing search and rescue up to Saturday (his unit may still be doing it, but that was his first time off since reporting on Tuesday morning).