southsider2k5 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 The Southern Keys took a pretty direct hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iWiN4PreP Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Storm Chaser Jeff Piotrowski's chase of the storm, in Eye now on Marco islands: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBEydlDnJN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 04:28 PM) I'm at the bar watching football but they're saying this is category 2 now. So people won't even die right? Â Depends on who is around the storm surge. Miami is flooded out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 04:48 PM) Did most evacuate? Seems like it's not living up to the hype, thank god. Â Yea most evacuated but there is always the stubborn ones. I still see it listed as Cat 3, and the back end of the storm is supposed to be the stronger part of the storm. Â Plus, Jose might just follow it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 04:48 PM) Did most evacuate? Seems like it's not living up to the hype, thank god. A lot of people did but we have no idea how many people are left. There are hundreds of businesses that wouldn't let their employees leave, much of the peninsula ran out of gas on Thursday, and if people couldn't afford to leave or find gas they would have been stuck in place. Â A lot of people have been sharing photographs taken from the exposed beaches when the first half of the storm surge has lowered the ocean by 3-4 feet. If they're still near that beach when it comes back in on the other side of the eye, they're goign to die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 They were doing a live shot in downtown Miami this morning and a couple of clowns rode by on bikes. They had the wind at their backs. I wonder if the morons made it back or if they had another spot to go west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 04:28 PM) I'm at the bar watching football but they're saying this is category 2 now. So people won't even die right? Â People are stupid so there will be some deaths, but thankfully it seems to be a slight dud so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenryan Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 (edited) Been without power since 8ish at my parents in Orlando. I flew back in from NY on Friday and wasnt going to go home to Tampa. Some heavy winds and rain but the worst is getting close. Actually the wind is really howling as i type this out. Â My sister lost power in the Boca area earlier this morning but it just turned back on. Another sister left Boca earlier this week to go to Naples. Of course that backfired but she is with her boyfriend and his parents and they live east of 75, a decent ways from the gulf. Nothing overly bad where she's at, especially compared to the flooding near the beach and on Marco Island. Â A coworker of mine lives in the Daytona area and just lost power maybe an hour or so ago. She sent a text out saying some people in her neighborhood have been robbed at gun point. f***ing disgusting. Â Â So far 3 deaths so far. All because people were driving in it. Edited September 11, 2017 by zenryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted September 11, 2017 Author Share Posted September 11, 2017 Stay safe zenryan. Praying your property avoids flooding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Florida got really lucky that Cuba took a big chunk out of Irma and that it ended up pushing back east rather than riding up the whole coast. Glad the damage there seems relatively limited, even if there are a whole lot of people without power right now. We saw what this storm was capable of on some of the other islands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 11, 2017 -> 12:05 PM) Florida got really lucky that Cuba took a big chunk out of Irma and that it ended up pushing back east rather than riding up the whole coast. Glad the damage there seems relatively limited, even if there are a whole lot of people without power right now. We saw what this storm was capable of on some of the other islands. Â Plus the track it took over florida kept it from recharging at all. 50 miles either direction and we are talking about a much bigger beast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenryan Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 I'm sure south Tampa and across the bay into St Pete/Pinellas County got some flooding. Hope not but in 2015 it rained for a couple weeks straight, 3rd wettest August in Tampa since 1890, and South Tampa flooded bc the drainage from the bay came up in the streets. I'm as far northeast in Tampa as you can be and still have a Tampa mailing address so I'm good. Sounds like a lot of debris. Â Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted September 11, 2017 Author Share Posted September 11, 2017 And thankfully Puerto Rico avoided it, could have been very difficult for them to rebuild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 The rain we are getting now is an outer band of the storm formerly known as Hurricane Irma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 A friend of mine lives in Florida and the beach by his house is completely destroyed. Here is before and after pics, the storm sucked all the sand off the beach and wrecked the dunes  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 My wife has a trip planned to North Miami in about 3 weeks. The area she is staying was just re opened to civilians and an the hotel currently has 30 minute wait time on the phone. Should be interesting to follow how ready it will be in early October Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 There is not a single living person on Barbuda anymore, all 1,800 residents have left. Â https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital...m=.ceab1b7ea45f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Harvey threaded itself between my son in Brownsville and my daughter in Houston. Her house was safe from the flooding but there was devastation close by. Â Those that remember FlaSoxxJim might like to know after "camping" without electricity at his house his power was finally restored earlier today. From the pictures he posted he was eating well while cooking on a coleman camp stove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 ‘Rapidly Intensifying’ Hurricane Maria Takes Aim at Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 18, 2017 -> 01:48 PM) ‘Rapidly Intensifying’ Hurricane Maria Takes Aim at Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands  God f***ing damnit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Maria is bearing down in Puerto Rico right now, intense winds in San Juan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 100% power loss in PR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshPR Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 95% of people dont have water and 95 to 100% of comunications down. Last I heard from my family was around 10am this morning. Last radio station went down around 12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 QUOTE (JoshPR @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 03:08 PM) 95% of people dont have water and 95 to 100% of comunications down. Last I heard from my family was around 10am this morning. Last radio station went down around 12. Hope your family is doing okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) PR faces 4-6 months before power is fully restored  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hurric...sm_npd_nn_tw_ma   The rain gauge near Caguas, PR also measured 14.31" in one hour. That's a candidate for the most ever, worldwide.https://t.co/3C9429shTS— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 21, 2017  Edited September 21, 2017 by StrangeSox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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