Irma

Plan on staying and now it looks as it is taking more eastern track, prepare and stay safe to all ....
 
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Seaslugs I LIKE that 'I guess salt is the worst damage around Illinois' man that's the truth:p:p:p Thank goodness for beaters. And they hold up a hundred times better than they used to most cars of all makes I see running around here that are even ten years old look pretty good. It's rare to see one rotted out unless it has had poor body work done from a collision with a deer. Deer are more damaging to our cars than tornadoes even!!

Oh yeah and insurance. Some close friends moved last month from Illinois to Kansas to be near their daughter. He told me 'House insurance is FOUR times more expensive than back home for the same coverage due to all the tornado damage'. Yikes.

You guys down south take care and we all wish the very best for you. The news the other nite said one of the dangers from Houston they are warning folks about is to watch for snakes-alligators- and fire ants floating on the water. That would have to go for Florida too this coming weekend.
 
Jeff/Illinois said:
Seaslugs I LIKE that 'I guess salt is the worst damage around Illinois' man that's the truth:p:p:p Thank goodness for beaters. And they hold up a hundred times better than they used to most cars of all makes I see running around here that are even ten years old look pretty good. It's rare to see one rotted out unless it has had poor body work done from a collision with a deer. Deer are more damaging to our cars than tornadoes even!!

Oh yeah and insurance. Some close friends moved last month from Illinois to Kansas to be near their daughter. He told me 'House insurance is FOUR times more expensive than back home for the same coverage due to all the tornado damage'. Yikes.

You guys down south take care and we all wish the very best for you. The news the other nite said one of the dangers from Houston they are warning folks about is to watch for snakes-alligators- and fire ants floating on the water. That would have to go for Florida too this coming weekend.
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yea i saw videos of the floating balls of fire ants...awful haha. Yea cars seem to hold up pretty nice anymore - full size trucks seem to go to s**t real fast still though. Seen plenty of bubbled paint tailgates, holes in rear bumpers, rear wheel wells and cab corners on less than 10 year old trucks...
 
To all my fellow Floridians. Please take heed and be safe. No matter where this monster goes in the state from what's showing we all are going to have some effects. I have been doing this weather thing 65 years and this is the first time I am actually have some fear of survival. Here inTampa were supposed to have wind gusts of 45 to 85 miles per hour. And that depends on the turn the storm makes in the southern tip of fl.
However the east side of Florida is going to have winds of upwards of 155 to 185 miles per hour . If it shags a little too the west that's what I will have here.
What ever the outcome we will survive with the blessing of the big man from above. anyone in Tampa that needs help email me if I can get there I am your man Godspeed to all
 
FWIW:

It is always sad to see on TV how after a hurricane has caused such terrific damage, that many residents never ever tried to heed the warnings. They never will.

Experience shows that even though today's residents already witnessed hurricane damages on TV in other areas, many will continue to always refuse to leave.

The most dangerous residences are the thousands of light non-structural House Trailers in trailer parks that blow away like empty tin cans on a windy street. House Trailer Manufacturer's Associations have lobbyist to insure that their very cheap structures do not have to meet the more stringent wind loads of Local Building Codes.

Local government officials who have no survival training whatsoever have abandoned their historically working military type FM radios and went to modern cell phones. Water rises, generators at bases of cellphone towers flood and cease to function, and an entire city is without communication for rescuing police, firemen, hospitals, etc. etc.

Many will wait until the last minute, and when they call, all of the neighboring town motels are full and there is no place to go.

Always best to stop to think about family survival, and to carefully plan in advance.
 
I can't even imagine being in a situation where you know it's coming and there is nothing you can really do about it. My heart goes out to all that may and will be affected. About the worst we get is perhaps a forecast of -40 for a week and I can just dress for that and plug the truck in. I just can't imagine. Stay safe out there.
 
Just heard from one of my brothers in west Palm that both Fort Lauderdale and Miami airports will now close tonight. This means that his flight out tomorrow morning is cancelled and he can not get out. I also understand that Orlando will be in direct sight of IRMA. If that does not change your plans nothing probably will.
 
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I just rented a car and left Miami at noon Wedesday and drove 26 hours to get out of Miami
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From what I saw on The Weather Channel last nite you must have made all of 10 miles:cool:

They showed people running out of gas on the Interstate, LONG lines of cars trying to get gasoline at the gas station, and police cars escorting gasoline tanker trucks. Looked like Mad Max over Thunderdome:eek:

Also on the news were stories of bottled water at $4 a bottle and some guy was hawking a plane ticket out of Miami for $10,288.

People at their finest. The reason I live in a rural farm area, away from crowds and people.
 
FWIW:

Just like in powerful Betsy, Katrina, and the many others, uninterrupted interstate evacuation routes are so few that in some particular areas, traffic slows to almost a halt.

Next cars run out of gas in slow moving traffic and have to be pushed to the side of the congested highways where departing families are stranded in the middle of nowhere.

If large convoys of gasoline fuel trucks were dispatched immediately, lots more residents could still have fuel to safely evacuate where lots of more intense misery and danger could be avoided.

"Never" covered in our News are the hard core looters already thinking about where to look for the tons of very, very expensive .... both legal and illegal drugs .... located in all of our large U.S. cities today.

Cell phones and I-pads for serious hoodlum looters ..... these minor items are just mere bagatelle items and lagniappe items for amateur type looters.

Just like in any major crisis, in military combat, or in war ..... one sees either the very best coming out of an individual .... or .... one sees the very worse coming out of an individual at times like this ..... we are most blessed to be in this country where we have along history of helping one another at times like this.

Let us hope & pray for our wonderful neighbors.
 
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Jetblue just left a message that our flight Monday is cancelled. Disney has refunded our tickets, so We're staying home.
That doesn't stop my wife, now we are headed over the border to New York state on Monday any way. :)
Jeff
 
JDupuis said:
Jetblue just left a message that our flight Monday is cancelled. Disney has refunded our tickets, so We're staying home.
That doesn't stop my wife, now we are headed over the border to New York state on Monday any way. :)
Jeff
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Florida's loss is New York's gain!
 
I was amazed at the destruction caused by Andrew. It looked like a big lawnmower went over some areas.

My sister-in-law is a nurse in North Miami Beach and she is working during the storm. Some people just can't leave for a variety of reasons.
 
My brother lives in Davie, east of Ft. Lauderdale, and they got off pretty easy, without much damage, except power is still off. Would have been very different if it had been further east.
 
The eye of Irma supposedly sailed right over us hear in Hernando County, FL. Lot's of wind and rain, but thankfully, no flooding in my neighbor hood. The wind did topple over a good size pine tree in our back yard. It missed my workshop (and parking for
my '31 deluxe roadster) by about 6 ft. All in all, I thank God for sparing us of any real damage, like with our health.

Bob-A
 
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