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*** Official 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Thread *** (2 Viewers)

JaxBill said:
I understand why people do this but it's also why stations are running out. Florida turnpike gas stations have forbidden filling gas cans.
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I don't understand why, if you leave your house with a full tank of gas and backup, you'd need to stop on the turnpike.

The idea is to be prepared before now.

 
Hurricane preparedness happens in June/July, not September.  A full hurricane kit (flashlights, first aid, extra car battery, gas, blankets, etc.) should be sitting in the garage/shed waiting.  If you don't use it, you use the gas in your car once the season ends (within 6 months of getting it.)

If you fill gas cans, you do it down the street, not once you get on the highway - because as neighborhoods empty out, people won't need that gas station to be full of gas anymore the same way people on the highway do.

 
ArbyMelt said:
Just telling you my experience from Rita. EVERYONE had the same thought. It was 20 hr trip to Austin (instead of 2 hours) for some. Waiting it out 1 more day was the shark move.

Again, I don't recommend this. But be prepared to wait in traffic. To have cars run out of gas (blocking traffic), cars overheating. I saw it all first person when I drove up to I-10 from my house.

Hopefully Florida is not a mass exodus at the same time like Rita was. Be prepared. Sounds like everyone is leaving today.
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Our plan is to pack up tomorrow and get everything in place and leave NorthFlorida Saturday morning, heading west on I-10 to Pensacola.

 
The part that I don't understand is Google maps has dark red on all of the North South thorofares thru the state line but I-10 looks mostly green like nobody is heading west. I know there aren't  alot of hotel rooms in the panhandle but you've got Dothan and Montgomery. With coastal GA and SC evacuating, ATL hotel rooms may be scarce.

 
Wife getting called to work County services starting tomorrow with 12 hour shifts.  Doesn't look like we are able to get out of here anyway.  I have most of the panels up on the windows except 1.  I need more industrial Velcro to get that one in place and the sliders in back.  They actually let in light so so not bad.  Supposedly good through Cat 3.  Better than bare windows at least.  

 
Kal El said:
Took backroads to get to Lakeland, and gas is all but gone.
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Damn, I am worried it's too late for some folks then.  I have a few family members in rural Alachua and Bradford Co and they are staying.  They expect gas to be available and I can't tell them otherwise.

 
Here in Miami the gas runs out during the day and gets replenished at night. There's no reason why the gas trucks aren't able to get through at least until Saturday or so.

 
Dedfin said:
Damn, I am worried it's too late for some folks then.  I have a few family members in rural Alachua and Bradford Co and they are staying.  They expect gas to be available and I can't tell them otherwise.
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To be fair, I saw those stations at about 1 am. Since then, at least 2 of those stations got fuel in. Still, word is that I-75 is a nightmare.

 
Henry Ford said:
Tip for anyone leaving today/tomorrow: find the emergency shelters for the counties you'll be driving through to get out.  Drop a pin in them on a map on your phone/save the numbers and note whether they'll take your pets/family members/etc. In the worst case scenario (your car breaks down, someone hits it and renders it inoperable, whatever) you'll have a fully prepped plan in place and there's no need to freak out. 
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Henry, if a Zombie Apocalypse ever happens I'm coming to find you. 

 
My truck has a 25 gal. gas tank and a 20 gal supplemental tank.  It only gets around 15 mpg on the highway but it will get that regardless, almost, of its load.  With the supplemental tank I get around 675 miles of range.  With 6 Jerry cans holding another 30 gal.  It has range.  When I sent my brother I had the Jerry cans full. I told him to gas up both truck tanks north and west of Tampa so he could get down to Naples and back maybe on that alone and he would have the Jerry cans if he got stuck in traffic.

He was fine, everyone is now in Atlanta.  Gas along the highway was an issue for some but not so much once they hit Georgia.  Apparently he gave away one of my Jerry cans, and the gas inside to some hottie stalled out on the side of the road. out of gas.  With my parents, sister, and her kids in the car all he got in return was a thank you.  Me, I get nothing but one can gone.  Oh well, probably the right thing to do.  Save the hot ones, let nature cull the uglies if they can't fend for themselves.

 
JaxBill said:
We take 301 all the time going from Jax to Gainesville or Tampa. Speed is constantly changing and there are lights in every hick town. Waldo and Lawtey are notorious sped traps.

Looks like you could go 1 to 100 to 20 thru Palatka and hang a right onto 301 in Hawthorne. Slow but you should be moving.
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Ah Palatka. Been through there many times 

 
In The Zone said:
Henry Ford said:
Tip for anyone leaving today/tomorrow: find the emergency shelters for the counties you'll be driving through to get out.  Drop a pin in them on a map on your phone/save the numbers and note whether they'll take your pets/family members/etc. In the worst case scenario (your car breaks down, someone hits it and renders it inoperable, whatever) you'll have a fully prepped plan in place and there's no need to freak out. 
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Henry, if a Zombie Apocalypse ever happens I'm coming to find you... to eat your brain
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FYP

 
ArbyMelt said:
Just telling you my experience from Rita. EVERYONE had the same thought. It was 20 hr trip to Austin (instead of 2 hours) for some. Waiting it out 1 more day was the shark move.

Again, I don't recommend this. But be prepared to wait in traffic. To have cars run out of gas (blocking traffic), cars overheating. I saw it all first person when I drove up to I-10 from my house.

Hopefully Florida is not a mass exodus at the same time like Rita was. Be prepared. Sounds like everyone is leaving today.
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That was my experience too. Made it 3 miles to the highway and one exit down the highway in 4-5 hours. Turned and went back home.

The roads were completely cleared out 24 hours before any of the storm showed up.

That said, Rita was a city evacuating, and Irma is a state evacuating. I don't know that you can count on it happening the same way. But if you don't think it is worth trying with the current traffic conditions, can still ready yourself to leave and if it clears out enough in time, go then.

 
Ditkaless Wonders said:
My truck has a 25 gal. gas tank and a 20 gal supplemental tank.  It only gets around 15 mpg on the highway but it will get that regardless, almost, of its load.  With the supplemental tank I get around 675 miles of range.  With 6 Jerry cans holding another 30 gal.  It has range.  When I sent my brother I had the Jerry cans full. I told him to gas up both truck tanks north and west of Tampa so he could get down to Naples and back maybe on that alone and he would have the Jerry cans if he got stuck in traffic.

He was fine, everyone is now in Atlanta.  Gas along the highway was an issue for some but not so much once they hit Georgia.  Apparently he gave away one of my Jerry cans, and the gas inside to some hottie stalled out on the side of the road. out of gas.  With my parents, sister, and her kids in the car all he got in return was a thank you.  Me, I get nothing but one can gone.  Oh well, probably the right thing to do.  Save the hot ones, let nature cull the uglies if they can't fend for themselves.
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My father did tell me many times "Son, an ugly man walks around with his head held high, every man alive knows he'd kick their ###es."

Never understood why he was so sure I needed to hear that.  

*cough, cough*

 
I was just a boy when that one came through.My dad says I can't possibly remember it but I do.When your a child you really pick up when your parents are scared.We had 6 oak trees in our yard before the storm 3 after it passed.

 
rustycolts said:
I was just a boy when that one came through.My dad says I can't possibly remember it but I do.When your a child you really pick up when your parents are scared.We had 6 oak trees in our yard before the storm 3 after it passed.
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The oaks trees are what scare me. We have 3 big ones. Would feel pretty squared away otherwise. 

 
I just waited in a gas line for 45 minutes and the gap pumps "failed".  They didn't run out of gas, the pumps malfunctioned.  I want to shoot someone.

good news is it's three more gas tanks that got in from amazon that I was trying to fill.

 
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Capella said:
The oaks trees are what scare me. We have 3 big ones. Would feel pretty squared away otherwise. 
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Just had my biggest one fall in my back yard 3 weeks ago because of all the rain thing was huge over 100 years old.I was pissed when it happened homeowners gave 1800 back so I guess it was a blessing in disguise I only have one left hopefully it makes it through this.

 
Ensemble gfs big shift west. 

TT site crashed. Will get link in a sec. 

This is ungood foe those wishing for an east track.

 
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