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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #150 on: September 05, 2017, 04:29:28 pm »
My son in West Palm Beach has a flight to Cancun on Sunday. He is taking a wait and see attitude. Of course, he is young and invincible.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #151 on: September 05, 2017, 04:55:10 pm »
My family is in Tampa.   Not sure about evac yet but will decide soon.

Keeping all in my prayers.  Surface winds in last recon 185 mph.  Storm is wider than Fla, doesn't really matter much where it hits. Latest Bastardi forcast is still landfall Naples/Ft Meyers
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #152 on: September 05, 2017, 04:58:34 pm »
Keeping all in my prayers.  Surface winds in last recon 185 mph.  Storm is wider than Fla, doesn't really matter much where it hits. Latest Bastardi forcast is still landfall Naples/Ft Meyers





Prayers for all involved.  Likely going to be quite an evacuation overload.  Plan and leave early folks, Godspeed.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #153 on: September 05, 2017, 04:59:06 pm »
Keeping all in my prayers.  Surface winds in last recon 185 mph.  Storm is wider than Fla, doesn't really matter much where it hits. Latest Bastardi forcast is still landfall Naples/Ft Meyers

The 185mp winds aren't the entire width of the storm.  I think they are at the eye wall and out a small way.  Maybe 10 to 15 miles.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #154 on: September 05, 2017, 05:01:20 pm »
Keeping all in my prayers.  Surface winds in last recon 185 mph.  Storm is wider than Fla, doesn't really matter much where it hits. Latest Bastardi forcast is still landfall Naples/Ft Meyers

Now I'm worried about my brother who just bought a house on Siesta Key and is remodeling it.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #155 on: September 05, 2017, 05:09:45 pm »
Now I'm worried about my brother who just bought a house on Siesta Key and is remodeling it.

I'm no expert but I would tell him to get out.  As I understand evac orders have been issues for the keys.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #156 on: September 05, 2017, 05:18:42 pm »
I'm no expert but I would tell him to get out.  As I understand evac orders have been issues for the keys.
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/905102664878489600

Monroe County, FL issues mandatory evacuation for visitors and residents in Florida Keys due to Hurricane #Irma

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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #157 on: September 05, 2017, 05:35:45 pm »



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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #158 on: September 05, 2017, 05:52:32 pm »
Siesta Key isn't in what is considered The Keys.  It is on the west coast of Florida around Sarasota, about an hour, maybe a little more, south of Tampa.  Not saying the storm isn't headed there, just a geography FYI. 

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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #159 on: September 05, 2017, 06:00:18 pm »
FWIW, if I lived in Florida, I'd have a hotel room booked in Tennessee, all meds refilled, a cell phone charger and would be packing the car to get on the roads while they're still passable.

But this might just be me.   



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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #160 on: September 05, 2017, 06:02:09 pm »
My son in West Palm Beach has a flight to Cancun on Sunday. He is taking a wait and see attitude. Of course, he is young and invincible.

I doubt if it will be up to him.  I don't expect there to be many planes left in South FL by Sunday.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #161 on: September 05, 2017, 06:08:14 pm »
Have we ever had back-to-back major hurricanes come ashore within a couple of weeks of one another before?  I expect even the Salvation Army, Red Cross, etc., will be struggling to cope.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #162 on: September 05, 2017, 06:17:42 pm »
Keeping all in my prayers.  Surface winds in last recon 185 mph.  Storm is wider than Fla, doesn't really matter much where it hits. Latest Bastardi forcast is still landfall Naples/Ft Meyers

They are starting mandatory evacuations in the Keys tomorrow.  We were going to ride it out in the center of the state, but we'll go further north into GA.  Storm shutters are up.  They are telling people not to panic in FL -- ya right.  Cat 5 the size of the entire state barreling towards us and not to panic and to wait till the weekend!  The weekend will be too late to leave.  Normally they start evacuations from the Keys first and on up. I'm praying that Irma takes a sharp turn away from FL, but that doesn't seem likely.  Jose is a Cat 2 right behind Irma.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #163 on: September 05, 2017, 06:17:51 pm »
FWIW, if I lived in Florida, I'd have a hotel room booked in Tennessee, all meds refilled, a cell phone charger and would be packing the car to get on the roads while they're still passable.

But this might just be me.   

It's never that easy.  People have work pets school and financial limitations.  It's easy to say all that is secondary to survival but the decision is rarely clear cut.

For example do you not show up for your job because the weatherman says something might happen.  These things are very very chaotic.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #164 on: September 05, 2017, 06:18:46 pm »
Have we ever had back-to-back major hurricanes come ashore within a couple of weeks of one another before?  I expect even the Salvation Army, Red Cross, etc., will be struggling to cope.

Katrina and Rita were about  2 weeks apart

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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #165 on: September 05, 2017, 06:21:42 pm »
Have we ever had back-to-back major hurricanes come ashore within a couple of weeks of one another before?  I expect even the Salvation Army, Red Cross, etc., will be struggling to cope.

We had 4 hits in Florida during the 2004 season

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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #166 on: September 05, 2017, 06:22:53 pm »
Katrina and Rita were about  2 weeks apart

Oh, that's right.  I'd forgotten about Rita, sad to say.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #167 on: September 05, 2017, 06:24:32 pm »
We had 4 hits in Florida during the 2004 season

I can't fathom.  Then again, I live in the path of frequent tornadoes, so what do I know.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #168 on: September 05, 2017, 06:25:16 pm »
I wonder if anyone has told Antifa about the big 3 day white supremacist gathering in South Florida this weekend???
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #169 on: September 05, 2017, 06:25:47 pm »
Have we ever had back-to-back major hurricanes come ashore within a couple of weeks of one another before?  I expect even the Salvation Army, Red Cross, etc., will be struggling to cope.

Here's recent activity for multiple storms:

2008:
* Ike:        September; Cat 2; Texas
*Gustav:   September; Cat 2; Louisiana
*Dolly:      July; Cat 2; Texas

2005:
*Wilma:     October; Cat 3; Florida
*Rita:        September; Cat 3; Texas/Louisiana border
*Katrina:   August; Cat 3; Louisiana
*Dennis:    July; Cat 3; Florida

https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2017/08/24/all-hurricanes-hit-u-s-since-2005/598113001/



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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #170 on: September 05, 2017, 06:26:29 pm »
I wonder if anyone has told Antifa about the big 3 day white supremacist gathering in South Florida this weekend???

They're meeting on the beach, aren't they?

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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #171 on: September 05, 2017, 06:27:31 pm »
FWIW, if I lived in Florida, I'd have a hotel room booked in Tennessee, all meds refilled, a cell phone charger and would be packing the car to get on the roads while they're still passable.

But this might just be me.   

Yes.  Indeed.  Planning on heading out sometime tomorrow or Thursday at the latest.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #172 on: September 05, 2017, 06:27:57 pm »
They're meeting on the beach, aren't they?

Why yes, yes they are.
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #173 on: September 05, 2017, 06:28:06 pm »
FWIW, if I lived in Florida, I'd have a hotel room booked in Tennessee, all meds refilled, a cell phone charger and would be packing the car to get on the roads while they're still passable.

But this might just be me.   
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Re: Live Thread: Hurricane Irma Is Heading Towards The Gulf Of Mexico
« Reply #174 on: September 05, 2017, 06:28:39 pm »
Yes.  Indeed.  Planning on heading out sometime tomorrow or Thursday at the latest.

Stay safe!!