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NOAA: Hurricane Ian megapage - one stop for links to all NOAA & NHC information. Tons of good pages to bookmark.

FEMA - Hurricane Ian

Florida Division of Emergency Management - Hurricane Ian

The White House has approved Florida’s request for Emergency Declaration for Ian.

This storm is going to be really bad! It’s a Category Four and heading towards Five! ?

Are there any FSUers in Florida trying to evacuate? Staying put? Ian is expected to hover slowly and the storm surge is expected be up to +12 feet!

As I find additional useful links for safety, charities, data, updates - I will post them to this thread.
 
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ilovepaydays said:
NOAA: Hurricane Ian megapage - one stop for links to all NOAA & NHC information. Tons of good pages to bookmark.

FEMA - Hurricane Ian

Florida Division of Emergency Management - Hurricane Ian

The White House has approved Florida’s request for Emergency Declaration for Ian.

This storm is going to be really bad! It’s a Category Four and heading towards Five! ?

Are there any FSUers in Florida trying to evacuate? Staying put? Ian is expected to hover over the Orlando area and the storm surge is expected be up to +12 feet!

As I find additional useful links for safety, charities, data, updates - I will post them to this thread.
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I’ve been following him https://twitter.com/icyclone

I just read on CNN too late to evacuate now but there were def huge amounts of people evacuating if you look at his twitter.
 
I am really surprised at the lack of coverage of Ian herein. I guess not many on this site live down south. Florida is a HUGE mess--the storm hit BOTH sides of the state--and SC will soon be bad also.

My oldest grandson, 20, is a junior at University of South Carolina. After Orlando, the storm went out into the Atlantic as a Tropical Storm, but is now reemerging as a hurricane aimed directly at his university in SC, but fortunately they are in the interior of the state.

I, merely the grandmother, told my oldest child, his mother, he should have driven home tonight to them in NC, but there's a football game tonight and he needs to get off his resumes in order to apply for summer internships, due tomorrow, hopefully before power goes out--so what do I know. He went to market and bought water & peanut butter...
 
I am sure there are many fsu members who live in Florida.May be they lost power and that's the reason we are not hearing from them?
 
Vash01 said:
I am sure there are many fsu members who live in Florida.May be they lost power and that's the reason we are not hearing from them?
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I would think that’s likely. I’m not sure how many FSU posters are in Florida. Hopefully they are safe.
 
Vash01 said:
I am sure there are many fsu members who live in Florida.May be they lost power and that's the reason we are not hearing from them?
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Yes, good idea, of course they are probably all out of power. I think it might be later classified as "the worst" storm ever.

How would one know where to start to fix the mess, how to find out if one has insurance, how to rebuild and if one is permitted to, would one have to purchase other land that would be less affected by storm surges, and where to move when rebuilding, I don't know if any hotels are still open, would be expensive. Where could one live in the meantime? One might lose all of one's former neighbors because they won't all rebuild in the same place. Imagine 7 boats being piled on top of one another--would one have to have permission from all to move them to get to the bottom ones. What a big mess!
 
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Fiona hit 300 km north of us as a Cat 2 Hurricane on Saturday and many many people still don’t have power in multiple provinces with much damage done.

Even here there are still roads blocked by trees.

I can’t even imagine a Cat 5.

My heart goes out to them. :(
 
We lived in Sanibel for 8 years and moved to Vero Beach a few weeks ago. The devastation in Sanibel is just coming to light because it was evacuated and the causeway bridge (the only way to drive to and from the island) was partially destroyed. Boats have been rescuing some residents who elected not to leave. Hearing many houses are under water due to the high surges and there is no power, food or water. It is truly heartbreaking. Ian headed across the state just above Vero and while there are many power outages, our neighborhood was just south enough to escape damages. Very grateful. It is going to be a long hard recovery process on the Gulf Coast.
 
I would imagine, @dancefan17, that it is going to take a very long time to rebuild the Sanibel causeway bridge, and from overhead views it seemed as though a lot of the houses on Sanibel there were damaged if not destroyed. Tragic.

What strikes me about this storm is that it destroyed, do I say several or many, different towns. And someone tell me if it is normal for hurricanes to hit both coasts of Florida? To me, that was amazing.
 
Lacey said:
I would imagine, @dancefan17, that it is going to take a very long time to rebuild the Sanibel causeway bridge, and from overhead views it seemed as though a lot of the houses on Sanibel there were damaged if not destroyed. Tragic.

What strikes me about this storm is that it destroyed, do I say several or many, different towns. And someone tell me if it is normal for hurricanes to hit both coasts of Florida? To me, that was amazing.
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I was glad to see that World Central Kitchen has already flown in with staff and meals for the islanders. That operation is so impressive!
 
The images seen today were insane - and that's just the beginning :(

They had a private video earlier of who I assumed was the father with two of his (pre)teen kids wading through hip-deep water for fun. (It seemed to be their street and the kids were laughing, so it was deliberate, not because they were stuck). The irresponsibility and recklessness made me absolutely furious. I'm certainly not a fan of DeSantis but he couldn't have been clearer when he warned to not wade into standing water after the hurricane. And if something happened to any one of them, rescue teams who have their hands full with people who did not deliberately wade into danger would have to help them. Why is it so hard to listen to officials and heed their warnings? :mad:
 
Lacey said:
I am really surprised at the lack of coverage of Ian herein. I guess not many on this site live down south. Florida is a HUGE mess--the storm hit BOTH sides of the state--and SC will soon be bad also.

My oldest grandson, 20, is a junior at University of South Carolina. After Orlando, the storm went out into the Atlantic as a Tropical Storm, but is now reemerging as a hurricane aimed directly at his university in SC, but fortunately they are in the interior of the state.

I, merely the grandmother, told my oldest child, his mother, he should have driven home tonight to them in NC, but there's a football game tonight and he needs to get off his resumes in order to apply for summer internships, due tomorrow, hopefully before power goes out--so what do I know. He went to market and bought water & peanut butter...
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He should be fine, we're far enough inland in Columbia that the storm won't be very strong. Flooding is the biggest risk as Five Points and some areas downtown do flood in heavy rains. If he's got a car he'll want to make sure that it's high and dry. So far it's been pretty underwhelming. The schools have e-learning today and it's just been mildly windy, no real rain or storms at this point. Looks like the projected path has shifted to making it better for the midlands and hopefully we won't have a super rainy tailgate/football game up in Clemson tomorrow!
 
ilovepaydays said:
Update from the National Hurricane Center for Hurricane Ian - September 30, 11:00am EST.

Still a Category 1. Ian’s about to hit South Carolina. Storm surge is expected to be 3 feet in Georgia and 6-7 feet in South and North Carolina. Major flooding is expected in SC, NC, and VA.

The White House has approved South Carolina’s Disaster Declaration.

I live in Virginia - I know Gov. Youngkin submitted a disaster declaration for (probably) flooding. North Carolina probably did as well.
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Both my very small hometown in Western Tidewater VA and a substantial part of downtown Richmond have had major flood events within the last 25 years, after hurricanes or remains of them (Floyd following Dennis, and Gaston, respectively) have passed through.
 
We got hit by Fiona in PR and it was devastating. You wouldn't think so based on the wind speed, but we had areas with 32 inches of rain. Our south and southwest were beyond flooded. It has been awful. Talk about PTSD from hurricane Maria.

And now all my family in Florida went through Ian.

It's just unbelievable.
 
Can attest that a Cat 2 cyclone is no joke - we had one come through my city five years ago. I live in Northern Australia so cyclones are a semi-frequent occurrence.

My entire city was basically destroyed in 1974 by a Cat 4 (potentially 5, they’ll never know since it broke the measurement tools) on Christmas when people weren’t prepared. It destroyed 80% of houses here. We learn about it in school, it’s one of the main things at the local museum.

Now all the building laws require everything to be able to withstand a Cat 5, I imagine this will be the case for all the houses they’ll have to rebuild in the US. So many more natural disasters today it’s likely to happen again. It’s horrible to see the damage, I hope all the FSU posters affected are keeping safe.
 
PRlady said:
Florida deserves what it got: Cape Coral as the microcosm for the last days of the empire.

www.theatlantic.com

Why the Florida Fantasy Withstands Reality

Cape Coral is a microcosm of Florida’s worst impulse: selling dream homes in a hurricane-prone flood zone. But people still want them.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Thanks for sharing this. I did like the bit of good news about Babcock Ranch. I’m glad someone there is doing something responsibly.
 
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