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Boggit

October 06, 2016, 07:43:18 PM
Just hoping y'all in Florida - Starfury, Sir Slash etc all remain safe, and hopefully you don't get your homes damaged.

According to the news it is a Cat5 hurricane with an 11' tidal surge (Katrina that hit New Orleans was a Cat 3). Stay safe guys.
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bayonetbrant

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October 06, 2016, 07:46:53 PM
Remember that Katrina itself isn't what wrecked New Orleans. It was the levee breaking afterwards from the storm surge.
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W8taminute

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October 06, 2016, 07:47:47 PM
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Barthheart

#3
October 06, 2016, 07:50:59 PM
Hey Brant, are you in for any of this after Florida?

bbmike

#4
October 06, 2016, 08:08:53 PM
From the projected path I think Florida is in for it after Florida.
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Barthheart

#5
October 06, 2016, 08:11:45 PM
Yeah.. that curl back is wild...

bayonetbrant

#6
October 06, 2016, 08:42:24 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on October 06, 2016, 07:50:59 PMHey Brant, are you in for any of this after Florida?

We're going to get more rain than normal, but the wind / lightning isn't supposed to be any worse than a heavy thunderstorm here.  I'm far enough inland that unless the wind blows a tree on a power line, we should be fine.
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steve58

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October 06, 2016, 08:48:49 PM Last Edit: October 06, 2016, 08:51:45 PM by steve58
Think it was briefly a Cat 5 a few days ago, but right now its a Cat 4.  I've got a sister that lives a bit north of Charleston, SC and she evac'd a couple hours ago.  Hope it keeps steering east.  Any Grogs in its vicinity, stay safe and dry!
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Sir Slash

#8
October 06, 2016, 10:12:43 PM
Thanks for the Well-Wishing all but we should be just fine here-- just some wind and rain tonight and tomorrow. My wife's cousin lives Titusville on the east coast right in Matthew's path. She called him today and offered our place for him and his family but he said they were going to stay where they were. People get used to the small storms that come close and don't take one like this one seriously. But a Cat 4 at it's center is like a Cat 4 tornado out in the mid-west, it'll leave nothing behind but wreckage. But the good news is my Son-In-Law's named Matthew so I get to make bad Hurricane-Jokes about his name.
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airboy

#9
October 08, 2016, 09:52:58 AM
This storm is close to maximally bad for property right on the coast.  A storm surge of 7-10 feet clobbers stuff close to the beach.  That much of a wall of water also makes streams and rivers reverse their flow for a ways inland.

But Haiti is where the worst of this was.  They don't have the infrastructure.  They also lack property rights so there are no trees (really - look at Haiti vs the Dominican Republic on Satellite.    Haiti is brown.).

bayonetbrant

#10
October 08, 2016, 10:12:03 AM
we're getting rained on pretty good here, but the wind hasn't been too bad, so far

Had a few smaller branches blow down, but power is still on, and not expected to be a problem.  Might take a hike down the hill to see the creek in a bit; should be pretty high...
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bbmike

#11
October 08, 2016, 10:29:00 AM
I really hope this storm starts moving east and out to sea.
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bayonetbrant

#12
October 08, 2016, 10:32:13 AM
Quote from: bbmike on October 08, 2016, 10:29:00 AMI really hope this storm starts moving east and out to sea.

chicken...
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bbmike

#13
October 08, 2016, 11:11:22 AM
Nah, I just don't want to have to make a mad dash to Reedville to secure a bunch of stuff. More like laziness.  :P
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-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

bayonetbrant

#14
October 09, 2016, 09:02:40 AM
We survived. My car had tree branch take out the back window and we lost power around 230pm yesterday and it's still not back, but parts the neighborhood are coming back now, so I hope ours is back soon. No damage to the house but some limbs in the yard to clean up.

Could've been much worse us, but we're ok. Picnic dinner by firelight last night and early to bed.

When our European cousins ask why we have our overpreparedness fetishes, this is why.
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