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

gump said:
That's my thought. Also plan to take 19 down the west side instead of 75 again. Just wonder how much info we'll have.
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Henry Ford said:
Racetrac tends to be up and running pretty quickly after storms, and is keeping a site page that shows what types of fuel are available at various locations.  They currently don't have any stations open in FL, but this should say where they are up and running when they are:

http://www.racetrac.com/gasshortage
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A Racetrac on 19 on Friday

 
Capella said:
My wonder too. Really discussing whether we should just wait till Wednesday. 
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I booked another night here.   Plan on traveling back Wednesday from Mississippi.   Seemed like a lot of gas stations on I-10/I-75 have power and gas supply issues.    (Gasbuddy.com)

Expecting worst/praying for the best.   Will post updates on gas/traffic as I have them.  

 
gump said:
Anyone w info on gas availability Tampa and North? I've heard Port is closed for now with debris so nothing coming in, and North Florida counties are out.
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We are heading out from Panama City Beach around 4a or 5a tomorrow morning. Heading out with a full tank and hope to get to Tampa before re-filling however if I get to a gas station that has fuel and I'm 3/4 tank or less, I'm stopping to top off. We drove up the west coast from Miami on Thursday and it was smooth sailing until we got to Perry FL on 98 at about 6am. 

Not sure where I'm going to head to the East but we have some options once we get to Bradenton (70 to 98 to 27) or (80 to 27) or I-75 or 41 again. We can make those choices on the fly tomorrow depending on how traffic is looking via Waze/Google Maps/FL511.com. I am the navigator with the iPad/iPhone while my wife drives and it worked well so I can look up open stations and better traffic options.

Regarding fuel, I read that Port of Tampa opens at 2p Tuesday however they have some reserves at the fuel terminal that the tanker trucks are using to fill stations in the area. Port Everglades didn't have an ETA for opening when I last checked. 

The GasBuddy app was super helpful for us on the way up and was probably 95-97% accurate. It helped that we started our drive at 10p and drove through the night. Didn't come across any lines.

 
Update - Lost power 3 am Monday morning. Not much sleep . Sounded like somebody threw you in the trunk of a 72 Olds98 and then went thru a never ending car wash. Every once in a while you hear wood or metal or something but have no idea what is hitting the house.

Result was a bunch if small to medium size limbs down but nothing major. Biggest problem was flooding. They called for 8 to 10 inches of rain and 2 feet of surge. Comparable or a little less than Matthew.

They didn't factor in the NorEaster we got Thursday thru Sun. Or Irma being to the West and Matthew to the east. Heavy flooding downtown and anyplace that flows into St. Johns.  They got 5.7 feet of surge, more than Donna which was a direct hit.

Our creek in the back is normally 3 feet wide and about a foot deep. It was about 50 feet across today. We had several feet of standing  in backyard.  House is high and dry though. Cell signal spotty.

Exhausted from cleanup and helping a couple elderly neighbors.

Nobody knows quite sure when colleges will start back. Roads are in bad shape. Most of city without power yoday. Some have been restored, but not me.

Thankful that's my biggest worry right now.

 
JaxBill said:
Update - Lost power 3 am Monday morning. Not much sleep . Sounded like somebody threw you in the trunk of a 72 Olds98 and then went thru a never ending car wash. Every once in a while you hear wood or metal or something but have no idea what is hitting the house.

Result was a bunch if small to medium size limbs down but nothing major. Biggest problem was flooding. They called for 8 to 10 inches of rain and 2 feet of surge. Comparable or a little less than Matthew.

They didn't factor in the NorEaster we got Thursday thru Sun. Or Irma being to the West and Matthew to the east. Heavy flooding downtown and anyplace that flows into St. Johns.  They got 5.7 feet of surge, more than Donna which was a direct hit.

Our creek in the back is normally 3 feet wide and about a foot deep. It was about 50 feet across today. We had several feet of standing  in backyard.  House is high and dry though. Cell signal spotty.

Exhausted from cleanup and helping a couple elderly neighbors.

Nobody knows quite sure when colleges will start back. Roads are in bad shape. Most of city without power yoday. Some have been restored, but not me.

Thankful that's my biggest worry right now.
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Glad to hear you are okay.

When this thing started going up the middle of Florida instead of hugging the west coast, my first thought was Jacksonville and how much of the northeast Florida topography drains through it. In fact, Jacksonville would have been better off had the eye gone to the Atlantic again and went to the left of Jacksonville. The path it took dumped the maximum amount of water it could on northeast Florida. This morning, when I heard the media start focusing on how bad the Jacksonville flooding is, I said "well duh!" The only thing worse for Jacksonville than the path it did take would have been a direct landfall hit. Again I'm glad you're okay, but a wee bit bitter about the "Meh" comment. I'll let it slide. You deserve it.  

JaxBill said:
Politician Spock said:
I don't know if it will get back to the Atlantic.... but if I was in Jacksonville right now, I'd be leaving. 
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Meh. Local mets still saying tropical storm conditions with worst between Midnight and noon.

NWS forecast-

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=30.16470520000007&lon=-81.61674549999998#.WbXdKdGQxPY
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Finally got power at 5:30am in North Tampa.  I'm beat from hanging / removing plywood.  Some relatives from lower areas evacuated to my place, including my 94yo grandmother.  

Some large trees fell in the neighborhood including a grand oak that completely blocked a road.  It's going to take a crew day just to cut a large enough opening for a car.  

I also found a baby squirrel, I tried to reunite it with mother, but with the him of generators nothing was coming near. I'm going to have to find somewhere to take this thing.  Oh, and my pixel got wet and won't charge.  On the positive note, this site still works on my wife's phone!

 
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culdeus said:
So based on everything we know basically not a mass casualty event in the keys?

Sure seems like it. 
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Fortunately, most people in trailer parks left. The local media interviewed a guy who was the only resident of an oceanside trailer park, around MM 88 (Islamorada), who stayed during the storm. He had built an elevated concrete structure to ride out hurricanes. Most trailers in his community had severe damage and some were completely gone - just a concrete slab. There are about 10,000 mobile units in Monroe County. 

 
So basically what I can cobble together, given the fact that so little info is out there on the impacts due to lack of mobility in and out of the affected areas for trees.

  • Barbuda and several islands in the direct path are nearly completely devastated, including large areas of USVI/BVI and looking at years to get back.  
  • Puerto Rico came out of this relatively ok all things considered
  • Nobody has any idea what's going on in Cuba but photos look awful flooding wise
  • Keys got hit hard, but hardly got wiped off the map.  
  • Wind damage wasn't so bad anywhere in Florida outside of old trees hitting power lines (mostly), building codes from post-Andrew seem to have done their job quite well it would seem.  Mobile homes got completely demolished, but I think that isn't a huge shock.  
  • Flooding and storm surge was much lower than expected in south florida and higher than expected in areas like Jax, won't be Harvey like damage but would assume some homes have similar result.  
Doubt this tops Harvey from US damage, maybe.  Hard to say.  

 
culdeus said:
So based on everything we know basically not a mass casualty event in the keys?

Sure seems like it. 
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You have to admit that Irma took a path where the least people live across the state - it was weird watching it move around the major population spots it could have found.

 
Henry Ford said:
From the Roll Call thread:

People who checked in pre-storm who we haven't heard from yet are:

@rustycolts

@greedygoat

@Gianni Verscotchie

@flranger

@E Street Brat

Other than that, everyone who checked in there is safe (though many without power).  Anyone know any of these five in real life?
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I mean based on the data we have the odds of a serious injury or issue is very low.  Most likely they are without power and/or internet. Or...have more important things to do than check in on the internet forums.

 
culdeus said:
I mean based on the data we have the odds of a serious injury or issue is very low.  Most likely they are without power and/or internet. Or...have more important things to do than check in on the internet forums.
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Yes, that is likely. Obviously I try not to update the "check in" thread with "I assume everyone's okay because of the general data about injuries in Florida, have a good one."

 
flranger said:
All good but no power in Polk
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Thanks.  That leaves 3 - @rustycolts is expected to be out of touch until he has power again because he inexplicably doesn't own a cell phone, @greedygoat seemed fine back in Boca from Orlando when last we heard, but had just posted about news of home invasions in his area, and @Gianni Verscotchie left home in Ft. Myers for Orlando at last check in.  No doubt all is well and look forward to hearing from all of them.

 
I'm from Ft. Myers as well.  We evacuated to Blue Ridge, GA.  3 families got a cabin.  2 of the other families started back this morning.  We're leaving early tomorrow morning.  I've heard from friends in the area that i75 hasn't been bad getting back home.  I'm worried that it's going to be brutal.  Basically, from Tifton down to FM looks like getting gas can be quite the adventure. 

My house didn't sustain any damage.  When they thought Irma was going right up 41 to FM from Naples, I thought for sure my house was done.  Don't have power back in my subdivision, but the two other families that left this morning do have it; so hopefully, it'll be sooner than FPL's forecasts of Sept 22

 
El Floppo said:
I just looked a track that seems to be going in circles. can that be right?
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Yes.  It is in a odd spot.

I think the model that has it going ashore as a decent cat 1 in Canada is pretty lol.  I'm pretty sure I'm moving to the moon if a hurricane hits Canada.  

 
Drove ATL back to FL coast today, 10 1/2 hours but made it home. Lost a bunch of roof shingles, going to need a new roof. Other than that, no damage.

Brother and his family left Atlanta at noon and in 6 hours, made it all the way to Tifton. Pulled off and got a hotel. 

 
My wife works for EPA that covers the USVI and she is hearing that damage there is pretty devastating especially on st. Thomas which is basically cut off from the rest of the world. Not making the news right now but apparently destruction is much worse then any place hit elsewhere in U.S. 

 
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