Floridians, I know you're old hands at this hurricane stuff, but stay safe as the storm approaches early next week.
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Floridians, I know you're old hands at this hurricane stuff, but stay safe as the storm approaches early next week.
Just saw they're now predicting a Cat 4 to hit the East coast. Yikes.
Expected to hit Vero. My daughter is a dispatcher for Vero PD. Future son in law is a police office for Feldsmere which is just north of Vero. They are hunkered down. I fly back into Palm Beach Sat night at midnight (I am in MN at the Mayo clinic with my father). I am hoping my flight gets in without delay as my wife is home alone and her going thru a hurricane would not be good for me because it would somehow be my fault
I have talked to a few of my clients today and 4 of them have cancelled plans to visit Florida this weekend and next week. Looking at the available weather data, my prediction is that your flight should land in some breezy and probably rainy weather. However, if you do not have an overriding reason to get back to Stuart and your wife is good traveling alone then I would call her and ask her to pack a few changes of clothes for you and for her, and tell her to head for Atlanta on Sat morning and you change your plane ticket from a Florida one to one in Atalanta.
Watching a national news broadcast last night led me to believe that if you have not bought your obligatory 10 gallons of bottled water, 10 cases of beer and a case of Cheetos and raman noodles then you are sol for the foreseeable future in Florida. They showed one lady walking around a grocery store with mostly empty shelves carrying a taped up sack of Cat food that looked like it had been run over by a truck, 2, 16 ounce bottles of water and what looked like a quart of olive oil. I got the impression that she had decided to stock up before the storm hit and when she got there that was all that was left and she was not walking out empty handed.
I got my flight switched so I fly into West Palm Sat at 2:40 pm rather than midnight. Gives me time to put up shutters, then watch the game on delay....then head out for some night time beer and college football
Dang, the latest shows it going directly through Stuart.
Be careful, Doc. Attachment 8336
I am a bit further south but still pretty much on line with Doc's location. And if this storm slows down to 5 miles per hour or slower, we will absolutely get pummeled over here.
Honestly, I expect my house to suffer major damage. It will withstand up to a Cat 3, but sustained winds with gusts way over that intermittently over possibly a 24 hour period, and I will be homeless.
I don't need this, not this close to retirement. But this is the hand I've been dealt, so I have to deal with it.
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Prayers for the safety of you, your family and friends in the area. As well as the whole of Florida.
Prayers for all of our Florida brethren.
You guys stay safe, you hear!
I saw that screen shot and it took me back. I used to live a couple miles north of the Jensen Beach causeway on Hutchison Island, Atlantis 3 Condo’s.
I rode out Hurricane David in 1979, in Rio. (pronounced Rye’o for those not familiar)...
Hunker down!!
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You Florida guys all stay safe. Im sure LG&E and KU are already heading that way.
Prayers guys
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You want to know how bad the focast/prediction is? Jim Cantore is here in Stuart. I am at the Rochester Airport now, heading home. ETA 2:30....time to clean garage so I can get both cars in, and put up shutters assuming I can find where the previous owner put the nuts. Our first storm in new house
Have the democrats blamed Trump yet? Have the GOP blamed Obama? And will Obama take credit if it turns before hitting FL? Although it is possible that Trump blew it off the coast since he has enough wind, and he want border security
Seriously, last update has it turning before hitting FL which is best case for me. Hope it does then drops in intensity before making landfall in Ga or north. Best would be a U turn before hitting anything but the bahamas
My pbm is I have a fantasy draft on Sunday and 2 on Monday
I thought I heard where NHC has issued a mandatory evacuations for Martin Co. (low lying areas) which everything in Martin Co is low lying. The current forecast has it following a similar path as David, where it came in between W. Palm and Jupiter, then hugged the entire east coast coast of Fl. before making its way up the entire eastern seaboard.
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Hey Doc! Guess who I saw on TV this morning from Stuart, Florida?
Jim Cantore.......😁
On the possible bright side (for us over here on the west side of Lake Okeechobee), almost all of the forecast models have this thing turning north before it touches the east coast.
At least that's what the forecast says now.
Lastest is it is suppose to crank north offshore. Would be huge if so. Will still get hammered but not with Wall Wind. Still expecting 100 mph winds which I have experienced. Anything Cat 2 or less is just a good storm. 3 causes concern and 4/5 is "poop your pants"
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Where's Jim?
The high pressure front moving northwest opened up the way for Hurricane Dorian to stay further out to sea and turn northward.
I hope it stays like this.
And I feel for the folks in the Bahamas and the Carolinas.
And I am certainly glad that I will likely not be homeless going into retirement.
And let's all not forget that this storm is still unpredictable and a long way from being over.
I meant northeast, not northwest. Apologies.
Now Cat 5, 180 mph. Please stay over water.
We are now wihin cone for 110 mph winds. That I will take
suncat looks to be out of the woods. Me, not so much. Predicting 90% chance of hurricane force winds. 4-7 foot storm surge (far less than I expected... and good because I'm about 20 feet above sea level, and about 1/2 mile from the Indian River, which for those unfamiliar with FL geography, the Indian river basically the edge of FL. Just off the coach is the "barrier islands" (for us that is Hutchison and Jupiter). Between the barrier islands and FL proper is the Indian River. And in theory we have 2 segments of land between us and the ocean to block the surge. Hutchenson Island and Sewell's point with is a pennisula as the St Lucie Inlet
Looking more and more like the exact same track that David took in Sept 1979 straight up FL’s entire east coast starting just north of Palm Beach.
Hunker down...
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