Anyone doing any preparations?
I’m in the Keys and we dusted off the hurricane instructions on my job. Alas, it looks to be far north of us as this point. I hope it dissipates but not likely.
It is a hurricane now.
I’m near Gainesville.
We’ve got a generator and fuel. That’ll probably see us through.
We’ve got the pole barn mostly sheathed with plywood, to protect the animals (chickens, goats, donkey, tiny horse). Food for all.
However, the real worry is that trees will come down. There’s one right over the barn that we’ve been talking to different tree companies about, and I sure hope this isn’t the storm that ends it.
We also have a lot of issues with flooding washing out our neighborhood access roads, plus a bunch of gators living in the already submerged cow pasture next door.
So yeah, things are looking distinctly unshiny at this point. We’ll just have to hope for the best.
I think we’re going to get gas and some cash after work, but that’s the extent of it.
You can tell it’s coming because it’s all anyone can talk about and it’s really annoying. Stupid thing isn’t even supposed to hit for another 4 or 5 days and everyone is talking like it’s going to hit tomorrow. Not to mention it’s not even a guarantee that Central Florida is even going to get hit.
All I need is for it to hit on Sunday because that’ll mean the mall will be dead (or closed) during my shift and it’ll be gone by the time we have Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party on Monday night. Last I heard it was slowing down and might not hit until Monday, which would suuuuuuuccccckkkkkk
Alligators and a hurricane you say?
:eek: I’ll laugh when this is over.
I used to like storms when I was a kid…or at least until I started being responsible for the damage.
I’m down in Ft Myers which is at the outer edge of the cone at the moment. I will be gassing up after work and getting some cash tomorrow. Gonna be a wet weekend after a month of heavy-ish rain. So (minor) flooding in the streets.
Per the European Meteorological Office’s models, which I’ve found to be the most accurate of the GPS-HWRF-UKMET group, Palm Beach gets hit with a minor hurricane, but the real festivities don’t happen until the storm hits the Gulf, and smacks Tallahassee as a very powerful storm. See for yourself: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/charts/catalogue/medium-mslp-wind850?facets=Range,Medium%20(15%20days)&time=2019082812,0,2019082812&projection=classical_north_america
Fast forward to Wednesday or so.
EDIT: The Gulf is a bathtub. There haven’t been any storms to pull off its heat energy. Global Sea Temperatures
Any organized tropical storm that gets there, that doesn’t have shear or dry air to deal with, probably will intensify very rapidly. Like 3 or 4 categories in 24 hours rapidly, depending on eyewall replacement cycles and the like. Be careful.
There’s a picture on the Weather Channel that still shows it as a tropical depression; how odd.
They should call it* Gatornado*
My inlaws live in Ocala, and with luck, the worst they’ll get is a lot of rain. I’m glad my daughter no longer lives in Orlando - it’s too nerve-wracking for me to fret about her long-distance.
In Orlando, follow the Tom Terry Index. If the Channel 9 weather guy has his jacket on, it’s all right. Don’t panic until he’s got his shirtsleeves rolled up and his tie loosened.
And the storm keeps on making that curve bringing me further into the cone. Please stop curving!
I’ve got relatives who just arrived in Dunedin. They recently bought a retirement property there. It’s on the gulf side so I guess they won’t get the brunt of the storm, but they are on/near the water. What can they likely to expect as far as storm impact? I doubt they have time to really prep because they only arrived in the past 24 hours. Should they just get back in the car and head out of the way for a while?
Mr. Fear Monger? No, thank you.
I’d rather sit in on Coffee Talks and listen to Tony Mainolfi. They tell you what’s going on without doom-and-gloom-ing
Errr, maybe. After the storm crosses Florida and gets into the Gulf, it will strengthen and we don’t know yet where it will go. If I were them, I’d go introduce myself to the neighbors and see what they have to say about it.
I’d rather it stay further south, myself, as I have folks in Palatka. (Sorry, Hypno-Toad).
The late Th AM model runs are now converging on Dorian turning once over FL or shortly after reaching the gulf and heading back NE.
It’s going to be wet in N FL/S GA.
I’m on the westcoast of the state, and the east coast of a peninsula, so lots of water on all sides. People are losing their damned minds here but I think we’re going to be fine. I allowed myself to get all freaked out over Irma a couple of years ago (last year?)and I didn’t so much as lose power (it was a gnarly storm but nothing worse than what we often get).
I’m nowhere near there but my wishes go out for the safety of everyone there. Even I’m affected in a very minimal way as I have a mail order that according to the tracking info is currently sitting in the USPS Miami distribution center. Hope it makes it out in time! I imagine at some point there will be no flights in or out of Miami for a while. It’s interesting looking at a flight tracking application during an event like this and seeing a great big empty no-flight zone in the middle of the crowded skies.
I have family in the central Florida area and they are all well-prepared. Heck, some of them have now lived in Florida longer than I did; they’re all seasoned pros by now.