Hurricane Irma

@PRlady, I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm keeping your friends in my thoughts and prayers, and wishing them the best. <3
 
In some areas they are going door to door urging people to leave and going up and down the streets with loudspeakers. There is transportation to shelters available for those who can't get there themselves. Really, anyone who doesn't leave has no excuse. Risk your own life if you want, but how can anyone with children justify remaining? Idiots.
 
And, @PRlady, isn't it a bridge in and out to Key West, I would worry about that.

Think of the wildlife in danger in the Everglades.
 
On our local news, they don't interview people who are staying but just mention there are people who won't leave. And I've never seen the media glorify those who stay. They usually report on them with an air of "crazy bastards".
 
Ugh. Even if Irma ends up being less devastating, there are many good reasons why you want as many people as possible gone both when the hurricane hits and during the initial response/recovery phase.

I lived in Virginia Beach, VA during Hurricane Irene in 2011, and I don't regret leaving even though it ended up not being as bad and I had minor damage (lost a chunk of my bad fence).

I don't get why people get upset when the alarms end up being not as bad. You stayed alive, didn't you?
 
It's an eerily beautiful day in Tallahassee today. Sun, not too hot, occasional breeze. On the drive to the office to unplug all the electronics, the only hint of chaos to come is that the radio stations keep being interrupted by emergency warnings. It's bizarre to hear some sort of Hawking robo-voice saying things like "catastrophic" and "devastating" and "immense human suffering."

I'm not in a flood area and I'm pretty well stocked up for the power outage (I'm guessing a week), so the only question is, will my house and the trees around it withstand the wind.
 
The loons who scream and yell after a storm that they had to evacuate but the storm wasn't bad are the same crazies who when a storm was much worse than anticipated scream and yell why didn't they warn us.... *sigh*

My response to them is talk to the hand.....
 
I saw the FEMA director saying, if you stay, you are on your own. It will take several days to get back to the evacuated areas to check on the holdouts.
So, when are the media people getting out of Miami?
 
quartz said:
I saw the FEMA director saying, if you stay, you are on your own. It will take several days to get back to the evacuated areas to check on the holdouts.
So, when are the media people getting out of Miami?
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Media are covering both coasts of Florida including Miami. They have weather experts advising them and coordinate with local emergency responders as to location depending upon conditions.
 
Pretty concerned for the Tampa area now. :( I still remember a direct hurricane hit on the city being one of the doomsday scenarios in a Weather Channel series in the mid 2000's (others included a hurricane hitting NYC and a tornado going through Chicago). Miami might be spared the very worse with Irma going west, but if Tampa gets directly hit instead... :scream:

My cousins are in Orlando, I hope the projections there don't deteriorate further.
 
Any idea what's expected for Orlando? I have an aunt and uncle that are at Disneyworld right now. They tried to leave but couldn't get flights.
 
WildRose said:
In some areas they are going door to door urging people to leave and going up and down the streets with loudspeakers. There is transportation to shelters available for those who can't get there themselves. Really, anyone who doesn't leave has no excuse. Risk your own life if you want, but how can anyone with children justify remaining? Idiots.
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I just got back from the store (for the second time today because I forgot cottage cheese) and turned on the t.v. On MSNBC, he was riding along with a fire truck in a neighborhood in Cape Coral. It kept running the siren and making an announcement to evacuate. They stopped and talked to a couple of people who were not going.

Coincidentally, that is one of the places my friend Jill who now lives in Australia used to live. She is in Spokane now because her mother died last week, while they were already visiting. Her daughter still lives in Naples. I don't know if she is in Spokane right now though. And I'm not going to bother them to ask! I'm sure I'll hear later. Just rambling, but it all connected to each other as I was typing.

Rats............ something else - they showed the flamingos being moved yesterday. They had a golf cart and after each one was caught, a person got in the cart with the flamingo on their lap to take them to a concrete building. Cool job! They showed the picture of a bunch of them all standing in the men's bathroom from an earlier hurricane!!!
 
made_in_canada said:
Any idea what's expected for Orlando? I have an aunt and uncle that are at Disneyworld right now. They tried to leave but couldn't get flights.
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I'd follow along on the Orlando Sentinel's website as it seems like it will be on the "bad" side of the storm, ie the east side and will be getting some serious weather.
 
I have a special love for Anna Maria Island in Bradenton Beach, so concerned for them (and for everyone all over, of course). Friends in the Spring Hill area are hunkered down.
 
Here are some estimate of wind speeds/gusts for selected cities. The assumption is that Irma comes ashore with winds of 130 mph. If they are higher, these numbers will go higher as well.
Tampa 100/120, Sarasota 100/125, Naples 105/130, Miami 75/90, Orlando 60/75, the Keys 125/155.
 
Did they evacuate Tampa and Sarasota? All week, they've been talking about Miami, Ft. L and the east coast - now that Irma is going west, are the people there prepared/gone?
 
An old high school friend lives just north of Ft Myers (south of Tampa). These are not poor people. She's been posting on Facebook about boarding up and don't judge and we'll ride it out. A bit ago she posted a picture of a hurricane party with several people (all adults) in her glass enclosed swimming pool.

She wonders why people :rolleyes: at the idiots voluntarily who stay.
 
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I'm fairly certain they gave evacuation warnings for the west side cities. I know someone that left Sarasota yesterday. Luckily my friend in Tampa left earlier in the week. I also have a friend that left Ft. Lauderdale and went to family in Orlando and now they left to go to Jacksonville. I told him to keep going as far as they could since I think Jacksonville will have some severe flooding too.
 
purple skates said:
An old high school friend lives just north of Ft Myers (south of Tampa). These are not poor people. She's been posting on Facebook about boarding up and don't judge and we'll ride it out. A bit ago she posted a picture of a hurricane party with several people (all adults) in her glass enclosed swimming pool.

She wonders why people :rolleyes: at the idiots who stay.
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:eek: Ft. Myers is looking to take the hit as Irma gets closer. What does ride it out even mean?? After the storm is over, you have to deal with no electricity and water for who knows how long.
 
Sorry, I am just plain mad--and I don't totally blame the left behinds on the reporters. But if the tv commentators are everyone's magnet and could/could have lead the way in people's decision making process/es, then every sentence out of news reporters mouths, since last week, should have been prefaced by EVERYONE GET OUT NOW IN ALL PARTS OF FLORIDA, DOESN'T MATTER IN THIS CASE WHAT SIDE--EAST SIDE/WEST SIDE, NORTH OR SOUTH, JUST PLAIN GET OUT, and now here's our story...

I will be watching tonight, tomorrow and Monday, but at this point, all we can do is hope.
 
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I'm still here! An occasional wind gust rattles the shutters and as I peer outside, I sometimes see sudden sheets of rain blowing in different directions but nothing to make me wince. Biscayne Bay near my building is showing a lot of chop but it is not breaching anything. I'm relieved that here in Miami, I have lasted this long uninterrupted. A lot of neighbors fled up north. One went to Tampa where she thought she would be safe. Another fled to points west of Jacksonville. Both are more in the hurricane's path than if they would've stayed put.

Watching the updates hour by hour, it is still a Category 3 as of 5pm. Monitoring the turn of the storm. It looks like it will strengthen to a Category 4 and will zero in on Key West, then will brush past Naples.
 
My favourite little resort in Siesta Key reported yesterday that they were all being evacuated
 
Debbie S said:
Did they evacuate Tampa and Sarasota? All week, they've been talking about Miami, Ft. L and the east coast - now that Irma is going west, are the people there prepared/gone?
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I found a stream for The Weather Channel on YouTube, and they just had a reporter in Naples who said most people at highest risk had fortunately left. Hopefully it's like that along the whole southwest coast.
 
purple skates said:
An old high school friend lives just north of Ft Myers (south of Tampa). These are not poor people. She's been posting on Facebook about boarding up and don't judge and we'll ride it out. A bit ago she posted a picture of a hurricane party with several people (all adults) in her glass enclosed swimming pool.

She wonders why people :rolleyes: at the idiots who stay.
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Irma can be considered Darwin at work. :p:p:p
 
Glad you are doing OK, @olympic. Last night on the news, they interviewed a couple in a Miami condo building that was staying put, showed them closing the hurricane shutters. I thought of you. Stay safe!
 
FGRSK8 said:
Irma can be considered Darwin at work. :p:p:p
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She was just on Facebook live. TBH, she looks a bit scared. She was photobombed by a drunk woman (friend?) in the video. Two men were on the roof doing something. Windows not boarded up or anything.
 
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