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I'm not going to go 'there' other than to say (i) it's a current issue, (ii) presumably, this is a place where some degree of levity and lightheartedness is both welcomed and tolerated, (iii) I feel doubly punctured by your selective inclusion of only certain 'offenders' and (iv) I won't be casting any aspersions your way solely on account of the fact that we might disagree with respect to a particular topic. Have a nice day.
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Let's keep on topic or is that off topic ?
It's a bad storm that is going affect a lot more people than it has already. Having worked medical missions in Haiti I know that country has little ability to take even a glancing blow to the northern part of the island. If Miami takes a direct hit it's going to have a huge impact.
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https://www.windy.com/?gfs,24.367,-76.520,6 Fortunately it looks like Haiti is going to be spared the worst of it. Savannah may not fare so well; https://www.windy.com/?gfs,2017-09-1....902,-83.661,6
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Savannah could get worked over really hard if the river floods.
I have family near the Ogeechee which isn't far away and they're heading out. They're just off the banks of it and no way sticking around to find out what a 3' surge would do. Quote:
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[QUOTE=BobO;2230637]https://www.windy.com/?gfs,24.367,-76.520,6
Fortunately it looks like Haiti is going to be spared the worst of it. Thanks for that. They still have little ability to deal with the flooding that will occur.
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Man, if you mess up the timing on this, that's a nasty headwind!
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I'm about 200 miles N of Miami....(NE of Orlando) and we don't know where the storm is going yet. But people are panicking. Grocery stores are cleaned out, and there is no gas around. People just go nuts.....and even if storm comes this way....it's about 3 days out for us. People buy all this water....and yet even though I have been thru a lot of power loss times thru the years with storms, have never lost water. We don't flood around here. Faucets still work. Pool has 18000 gallons clean water in it. Neighbors the same. Will ride Saturday probably. At least wife laid in a good supply of beer.
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We have friends in the FL/MIA area. By chance, they had planned a several week trip to PA and will miss all of it. Crazy lucky. |
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The storm surge and possible high tide could put everything under 20 feet of water, not counting waves.
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It's spooky. We're on the space coast of FL. Bugging out tomorrow morning with my parents (50s/60s), three grandparents (85+) with varying levels of alzheimer's and general old people-ness, and my mentally handicapped aunt and uncle. I can't even imagine how disorienting and scary this is for my grandmother with alzheimer's.
I topped up with gas at about 8pm this evening, no line or anything at any of the gas stations on the barrier island. Publix this afternoon was out of almost everything bread-like besides some random bagels. Grabbed a couple packages of plain bagels and some peanut butter to add to our boxes of stuff we're taking. No plain water at all. Some sparkling water - maybe like five cases. Some vitamin water, tons of sodas, not much gatorade/powerade. We're only going as far as Orlando, which looks like it will still get potentially devastating wind, but at least won't get the 1-3 meters of swell in the intracoastal waterway that was projected as of the 5pm update according to the local papers. That puts about 1-2 meters of water in my parents' house, similar amounts in my grandparents' place and in the bike shop at which I work. I was fully mentally expecting during hurricane Matthew last year to have no house, no job, and my car which we had to leave behind all destroyed. Was lucky then, who knows this time. I know there are other paceliners here on the spacecoast, as well as other parts of florida..hopefully everyone is as prepared as they can be, and is able to get outta dodge and to somewhere with relative safety. |
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that's what sag support is for!
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Here in Tampa we're getting ready and mostly holding tight. Some areas on the coast are going to be evacuated. We've been lucky on wind and flood control is actually good in this region.
If no trees land on the house Sonic-Wife and I will be okay and we've plans B and C if we aren't. |
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threads merged and renamed to keep the discussion centralized.
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