Hurricane 2024

[Norseman]

[warthog]

And now we wait.

[teleee]

And now we wait.

Been wondering how you were doing - thought I might have to send in theKeyWest squad to the rescue! Good look amigo will be thinking of you


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[DBdude]

live weather cams

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2...ndfall-videos/

[muted reborn]

Whoa. This one, right this second, is crazy. It has 4 cams but the pier one has fast moving water...

[The SnowShow]

^^^ whoa!!

20 tornadoes reported today across FL. Crazy.

Sounds like it’s coming in further south (Sarasota and Ft Myers) and there are a lot of people not evacuated in those areas than in the Tampa/St Pete’s area. Ugh, not good.

[Harry]

My brother & SIL who I wrote about earlier in this thread are way north of this current storm. But SIL was born in Miami and has lots of friends & family scattered all over Florida. Since they have a small farm in GA they offered up spare beds or RV space on the farm in case anyone wanted to evacuate.

So far the only evacuee to show up is “Buddy” the horse.

[The SnowShow]

12” of rain has already fallen in the Tampa area.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Large tornado touched down about a mile from my parents house in Vero Beach.

[The SnowShow]

17” of rain in St Pete’s.

Part of the roof of Tropicana Field ripped off.

[bodywhomper]

The field was suppose to house first responders helping with response.

Read that st Pete potable water system is shutdown because a main broke.

[The AD]

A bit early to declare victory, but so far things don't seem quite as dire as the predictions. Seems like the worst damage so far was due to the tornadoes.

[highangle]

The field was suppose to house first responders helping with response.

I understand they made other plans when they found out Tropicana Field was only rated for 110mph winds of short duration.


Tornado on the E. coast did fuck up a county sherrif's office, with what looked like 40 or so cop cars trapped by a collapsed roof and structural steel.

[Bunion 2020]

people make a lot of mistakes about who controls the weather

they’re not political appointees, of course

the most senior one has been there since the Reagan administration. his name is Dennis (he won’t give his last name)

he keeps saying he’s going to retire, the commute is getting to him

they operate out of Abraham Lincoln’s eye (the left one) in Mount Rushmore and getting there is just impossible

the office politics are a mess, too

Dennis is all about waterspouts

Sheila has her heart set on derechos for everyone and she won’t take no

Karen on the other hand favors haboobs

(they choose them based entirely on how much fun they are to say)

most days they don’t agree on any weather at all

but when they have a big deadline coming up they stay late and order in sandwiches and you can see the eye shining late into the night

don’t tell FEMA about us, they are always saying. FEMA will be so upset that we exist, all those hours of work they put in, trying to help people

or the National Weather Service, says Karen

oh god, Sheila says, imagine the weather service finding out!

trying to track storms, trying to get good information, when all they need to do is come here and grab a sharpie

it’s a good thing for us that everyone who has been looking for a group of people controlling the weather has been so antisemitic, says Dennis. this is the last place they will think to look

that is a common mistake

if anything the office is a little too Christian for comfort

there is a bible on a shelf marked open to the flood for easy reference and sometimes for inspiration Sheila goes and flips through Revelation

but yes they move hurricanes all over the map

that’s the primary thing that they do

the second one is decide what to order for lunch

this often takes a long time

it is not that they’re indifferent to human suffering exactly but they have a quota to reach or they don’t get paid

and Sheila needs the health insurance

a few years ago they had budget cuts and it was just awful

so little weather

and once, drawing some winds on the map, they ran out of ink and a gale died down and several boats that had been about to founder on Lake Michigan were saved

it’s not really political although they are prepared to be political if given direction

there is a big chart in the office listing who voted how and if you call your congressman he can try to get them to stop the winds

so far no congressman has succeeded

only one ever even managed to call and they were so surprised they picked up

but then they just sat on the line saying nothing and finally he gave up

they’re honestly mostly good community members although Karen has been volunteering less

she says, because of Everything That’s Going On and won’t elaborate

Dennis goes online and gives without apparent irony to the gofundme’s of the victims of his storms

and then he shows up monday and gets back to moving them around

i think Donald Trump will come shut them down

if he can find them

he has to know where to look

when Donald Trump gets back in power he is ending the whole enterprise for good

or sending the worst storm that he can think of to his least favorite people

he’s still making his mind up which

of course they’re real

(as real as the button that you push for economic prosperity. big and red and in the oval office. you can’t miss it)

sometimes people talk about climate change but we know nothing we can do makes any difference, we can’t even get them to keep serving breakfast at taco bell

all the important decisions are made in rooms we aren’t in so we can’t possibly impact the weather

but the government can and they are

there’s a room somewhere

we just have to keep looking for the room

[plugboots]

Huh?

[bagtagley]

Nice! Wearing a WNRN shirt as we speak.

[warthog]

Shout out to the Tocobaga Indians, once again.

https://www.yourtango.com/news/nativ...mpa-hurricanes

[warthog]

In positive news, our beloved 2015 QX80 is going to be totaled, just as a lot of little shit was starting to go wrong with it.
My wife has been driving a Silverado all week, and now really is digging the truck. Her uncle is CEO of Tallahassee Ford, and we are headed that way Saturday to drop off her rental and buy something. I have her leaning heavily to the 2020 Raptor they have on the lot. THAT would be a pretty fun positive out of this storm.
Oh, and I will probably get a new roof, which I will pay to upgrade to metal stone coated tiles and put R rated foam underneath. Should cut my energy bill by 40% + in the summer, and the roof is a lifetime roof. No more worrying about that.

Lastly, we have to drywall 2 ft of most of the house so the plaster guy can do the finish work. My girls will be learning a trade. Nothing wrong with all of us having a little more sweat equity in this home of ours.

Little wins in the face of so much shit. Thankful last night went our way, but sad for friends that it really didn't.

[2FUNKY]

Good news for the most part warthog! My kids came away unscathed thankfully! One of them will be without power for a couple days It sounds like but that is the worst of it.


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[hawkgt]

In positive news, our beloved 2015 QX80 is going to be totaled, just as a lot of little shit was starting to go wrong with it.
My wife has been driving a Silverado all week, and now really is digging the truck. Her uncle is CEO of Tallahassee Ford, and we are headed that way Saturday to drop off her rental and buy something. I have her leaning heavily to the 2020 Raptor they have on the lot. THAT would be a pretty fun positive out of this storm.
Oh, and I will probably get a new roof, which I will pay to upgrade to metal stone coated tiles and put R rated foam underneath. Should cut my energy bill by 40% + in the summer, and the roof is a lifetime roof. No more worrying about that.

Lastly, we have to drywall 2 ft of most of the house so the plaster guy can do the finish work. My girls will be learning a trade. Nothing wrong with all of us having a little more sweat equity in this home of ours.

Little wins in the face of so much shit. Thankful last night went our way, but sad for friends that it really didn't.

good to hear, this is some positive thinking!!!!

[warthog]

good to hear, this is some positive thinking!!!!

I tend to leave the hypothetical "What Ifs" to my wife. I deal in reality response. No point worrying about what might happen, just respond to what does happen. Might be my Eagle Scout background? Either way, we work well together. She plans for every scenario and I am the mind and muscle that handles it all. She also handles all the paperwork and yelling at people. She is much scarier than I am, I blame the Sicilians.
One major positive out of this, my girls get to see how well their parents work in crisis. There has been little to no freaking out or yelling between us two. The kids got a little heat when they acted like this was only affecting them. Typical teenager shit, but we didn't have no time for that, and they got lit up by both of us.
I hope this experience turns out to be a great learning time for them, and they strive to find someone that compliments their strengths and weaknesses as well.

[Foggy_Goggles]

The twister that was generally near my parents house actually touched down about 75yds away. Sounds like there house is mostly fine accept for a few solar panels.

I haven't seen any pics as they have no internet and limited cell but they have a genny.

Sent from a 6 m/s face melting thermal

[BmillsSkier]

In positive news, our beloved 2015 QX80 is going to be totaled, just as a lot of little shit was starting to go wrong with it.
My wife has been driving a Silverado all week, and now really is digging the truck. Her uncle is CEO of Tallahassee Ford, and we are headed that way Saturday to drop off her rental and buy something. I have her leaning heavily to the 2020 Raptor they have on the lot. THAT would be a pretty fun positive out of this storm.
Oh, and I will probably get a new roof, which I will pay to upgrade to metal stone coated tiles and put R rated foam underneath. Should cut my energy bill by 40% + in the summer, and the roof is a lifetime roof. No more worrying about that.

Lastly, we have to drywall 2 ft of most of the house so the plaster guy can do the finish work. My girls will be learning a trade. Nothing wrong with all of us having a little more sweat equity in this home of ours.

Little wins in the face of so much shit. Thankful last night went our way, but sad for friends that it really didn't.

Glad to hear all those positives Warthog!

[spanky]

Good to hear they evacuated. My aunt and uncle in Venice (zone c) left for the east coast. Another aunt lives in Osprey (zone a) and is staying. She’s on the second level in a concrete building, but is literally spitting distance to the boats in the marina.

This was the surge at mom’s for Helene…

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Thankfully all family made out relatively OK. The surge in the canal at my mom’s was a “little bit” higher than Helene (according to a neighbor).

[t-the-east]

That umbrella stand has seen some shit