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*** Official 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Thread *** (1 Viewer)

culdeus said:
Just throw that out.  Irma took an unexpected right turn from 2-6pm.  It looked to have enough movement in it that maybe we'd be looking at this thing going rouge.  Never was gonna happen.  

Looks like Eye will split the gap between Tampa and Orlando and exit to the GOM tomorrow briefly before coming back onshore.
Rouge is a bad color for Hurricanes. It doesn't please the eye

 
So since Jose is missing the east coast and Irma should be done in a couple days, that should be it for a season right? 

Being on the outer banks I am going to do some major assessing of my house.  At some point we are going to get clipped like Florida and we shouldnt procrastinate.   Looking into shutters, generator and roof straps are step one.

 
So since Jose is missing the east coast and Irma should be done in a couple days, that should be it for a season right? 

Being on the outer banks I am going to do some major assessing of my house.  At some point we are going to get clipped like Florida and we shouldnt procrastinate.   Looking into shutters, generator and roof straps are step one.
A little early in the season to be thinking this is it

 
So since Jose is missing the east coast and Irma should be done in a couple days, that should be it for a season right? 

Being on the outer banks I am going to do some major assessing of my house.  At some point we are going to get clipped like Florida and we shouldnt procrastinate.   Looking into shutters, generator and roof straps are step one.
Remember, Matthew was in October last year.

 
So a mobile morgue is heading to the middle keys. Yikes. 
Horrible. Friend of mine is a fishing guide based out of Cudjoe Key. He and his dad were safely in Atlanta by Friday night, late. They hauled two of their boats with them. Friend fears for neighbors that didn't evacuate.

 
Brother rode out the storm in Port St Lucie no probs.  Folks got pictures of their place in Tampa from the neighbors. Boat stayed up on the lift and the house seems unscathed. Awesome. 
 

 
Sandy got NYC right before Halloween
yep...Halloween was basically canceled here on Long Island, I want to say Sandy made landfall here on the 29th and into the 30th. No power for a few weeks and debris everywhere, nobody was letting their kids go out trick or treating. 

 
So a mobile morgue is heading to the middle keys. Yikes. 
Met three people at the bar here in Panama City that had evacuated from the keys. Two live on Summerland Key and one on Cudjoe. The guy who lives on Cudjoe was going to stay but they talked him out of it and end up flying on a personal plane (apparently Summerland Key has their own private airstrip) to this area. The Cudjoe guy was thankful and didn't have good thoughts about what may or may not be there when he gets back. 

 
So since Jose is missing the east coast and Irma should be done in a couple days, that should be it for a season right? 
Jose is still a threat to the east coast. One of the latest long term model has it making landfall around the NC/VA border in 9 days (another has it going out to sea). Weather models are not very accurate that far out, but Jose still needs to be watched.

 
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Looks like this TS is coming right over my house in SW Georgia later today - wind is picking up and getting solid rain. We have huge pine trees around my house and along the roads. I'm expecting the worst - hoping for the best. We lose power in most any thunderstorm - I have a Genrac running on a propane tank. Hopefully this storm runs out of juice a bit more today as it goes across land and the gusts are minimal.

 
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no news stories about the keys at all........it's like news outlets forgot about them.  is it simply that you can't there anymore?

 
yep...Halloween was basically canceled here on Long Island, I want to say Sandy made landfall here on the 29th and into the 30th. No power for a few weeks and debris everywhere, nobody was letting their kids go out trick or treating. 
Believe it started on the 28th and went into the 29th, because the 29th was supposed to be the day we moved into our new house. Yeah that didn't happen!

 
no news stories about the keys at all........it's like news outlets forgot about them.  is it simply that you can't there anymore?
I posted something right above... but yeah, I agree. the silence is scary. have to assume it's the loss of power and the difficulty in getting out there. but even if that's the case- it would be great if somebody was reporting it. really hoping loss of life is minimal to null.

 
no news stories about the keys at all........it's like news outlets forgot about them.  is it simply that you can't there anymore?
Seen a couple of videos and brief statements, but I agree about the lack of info.  Might be a matter of access for the time being.

 
no news stories about the keys at all........it's like news outlets forgot about them.  is it simply that you can't there anymore?
This morning, a large convoy headed south from the mainland to clear the roads, inspect the bridges, bring food and fuel, etc. I imagine there is surveillance by air and boat. Maybe rescue from the south. But I haven't heard anything about casualties on the local Miami stations

 
Was just watching an interview with mayor of Tampa and he alluded a few times to Tampa being much more fortunate than Jacksonville. I've been out of the loop on the storm for just a bit. Did Jax get slammed? What happened there that would lead to the mayor's comments?

 
Per the weather channel regarding the keys: "A large airborne relief mission mounted by the Air Force and Air National Guard was being organized, Senterfitt said, including “disaster mortuary teams."

 
When I think of places to ride out storms the first place that comes to mind is somewhere the military has to come to 36 hours after the storm starts.

 
Worried about a buddy who owns a house on Marco Island.

Seems like the brunt of this storm hit everything hard between Marco & the Keys.

 
Was just watching an interview with mayor of Tampa and he alluded a few times to Tampa being much more fortunate than Jacksonville. I've been out of the loop on the storm for just a bit. Did Jax get slammed? What happened there that would lead to the mayor's comments?
The northeast side of the storm seemed to get a lot more rain and wind than the southwest side did, probably due to it sucking up water from the Atlantic as it traveled, whereas the west side of the storm experienced shear over the gulf so there was no rain coming from the gulf. Still windy but not as bad without the rain. 

Jacksonville also has the problem with a river that travels north and then dumps into the Atlantic. The storm rain is now trying to drain from the land via that river, but can't because the Atlantic is both surging and reaching high tide pushing the flow the opposite way. 

 
Speaking of military, the urban legend of MacDill AFB having a special sonar to repel hurricanes lives on...no direct hit since it was built in '39.

 
The northeast side of the storm seemed to get a lot more rain and wind than the southwest side did, probably due to it sucking up water from the Atlantic as it traveled, whereas the west side of the storm experienced shear over the gulf so there was no rain coming from the gulf. Still windy but not as bad without the rain. 

Jacksonville also has the problem with a river that travels north and then dumps into the Atlantic. The storm rain is now trying to drain from the land via that river, but can't because the Atlantic is both surging and reaching high tide pushing the flow the opposite way. 
Thanks. Did they get a bunch of damage as a result of all this?

 
“I have friends that need help. I have supplies for them,” said Key Largo resident Tony Gibus. “We’re capable people in the Keys, we don’t need our hands held. ...We’re not tourists.”

"No one should be able to keep you out of your home,” he said.

That was a sentiment echoed by many waiting at the gas station. And many, like Gibus, said that after Irma, they wouldn’t evacuate again."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article172537476.html

A glimpse of why some people refuse to evacuate.  It's a long article, but interesting read.

 
Worried about a buddy who owns a house on Marco Island.

Seems like the brunt of this storm hit everything hard between Marco & the Keys.
saw this blurb in the Miami Herald:

No injuries reported on Marco Island

11:00 a.m.: Less than 24 hours after Hurricane Irma made landfall on Marco Island as a Category 3 storm Sunday afternoon, firefighters were still assessing damage.

There have been no reports of storm-related injuries or fatalities. "Not that we know of, yet," said Chris Bowden, a public information officer for the Marco Island Fire Department. "We are still doing welfare checks and things like that," he said.

On Monday, local officials re-opened locked bridges connecting the barrier island to the Florida mainland just west of Everglades National Park. Marco Island residents were ordered to evacuate on Sept. 8, though some stayed behind.

Bowden said that on first glance, Irma left behind extensive flooding, and lots of downed power lines and trees in most of the roadways.

— DANIEL CHANG

 

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