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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #35 on: September 29, 2022, 06:48:16 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #36 on: September 29, 2022, 07:42:41 AM »
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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« Reply #37 on: September 29, 2022, 07:59:56 AM »
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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« Reply #38 on: September 29, 2022, 08:00:27 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #39 on: September 29, 2022, 08:19:06 AM »
Lee County Sheriff is reporting hundreds dead. That's a bit south of Sarasota though. What a tragedy.

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« Reply #40 on: September 29, 2022, 08:53:10 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #41 on: September 29, 2022, 09:04:12 AM »
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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« Reply #42 on: September 29, 2022, 09:21:34 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #43 on: September 29, 2022, 09:33:46 AM »
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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« Reply #44 on: September 29, 2022, 10:42:01 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #45 on: September 29, 2022, 10:56:37 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #46 on: September 29, 2022, 11:06:29 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #47 on: September 29, 2022, 11:08:44 AM »
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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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #48 on: September 29, 2022, 11:45:38 AM »
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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« Reply #49 on: September 29, 2022, 11:54:52 AM »
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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« Reply #50 on: September 29, 2022, 11:55:04 AM »
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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« Reply #51 on: September 29, 2022, 04:00:50 PM »
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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« Reply #52 on: September 29, 2022, 05:18:34 PM »
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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« Reply #53 on: September 29, 2022, 06:22:04 PM »
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.

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Re: Hurricane Ian.....
« Reply #54 on: September 29, 2022, 06:28:06 PM »
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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« Reply #55 on: September 29, 2022, 06:32:40 PM »
I'm so sorry emtee.
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« Reply #56 on: September 29, 2022, 06:38:50 PM »
My wife told me the causeway to Sanibel island is gone. We honeymooned down there back in ‘05.

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« Reply #57 on: September 29, 2022, 07:24:22 PM »
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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« Reply #58 on: September 29, 2022, 08:08:45 PM »
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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« Reply #59 on: September 30, 2022, 11:01:01 AM »
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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« Reply #60 on: September 30, 2022, 02:26:33 PM »
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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« Reply #61 on: September 30, 2022, 02:58:43 PM »
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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« Reply #62 on: October 03, 2022, 06:22:02 AM »
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).