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My parents are in Venice, they still had cell service at 3:30. A neighbor's lanai blew down around 3.
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Any word on Cape Coral? What I'm hearing is it's bad, I have friend sitting it out there and no one can reach him.
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It appears that the local NBC station in Ft. Myers has been off the air for over an hour. Curious what all sources of information or news have gone black due to power, flooding or loss of comms capability?
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Quoted: @ThornBooger - Yes, our primary house is on Sanibel. We're starting to establish a presence on the ARFCOM island which is inland a bit, but still in the hurricane strength windfield. The island is covered with old 100' tall oak trees, which are beautiful until a storm like this rolls in. Everyone has been evacuated from both. I honestly don't know if either will survive intact and be habitable. I don't know how else to say it but I'm in a position to replace property and recover without insurance - whereas most of the fixed income retirees are not. I had a safe place to flee and be comfortable. Most did not. I have heavy equipment staged for cleanup. Most people would think it's strange to sit here feeling great while my properties are likely being destroyed, but I consider myself very fortunate. I'm good. I worry about everyone else.... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: @BlackFox I thought I recall from one of your earlier threads about your yacht and morning situation that you lived right over where this thing is making landfall, am I mistaken? Glad you're not in the danger zone now but hope your property isn't about to get smacked. @ThornBooger - Yes, our primary house is on Sanibel. We're starting to establish a presence on the ARFCOM island which is inland a bit, but still in the hurricane strength windfield. The island is covered with old 100' tall oak trees, which are beautiful until a storm like this rolls in. Everyone has been evacuated from both. I honestly don't know if either will survive intact and be habitable. I don't know how else to say it but I'm in a position to replace property and recover without insurance - whereas most of the fixed income retirees are not. I had a safe place to flee and be comfortable. Most did not. I have heavy equipment staged for cleanup. Most people would think it's strange to sit here feeling great while my properties are likely being destroyed, but I consider myself very fortunate. I'm good. I worry about everyone else.... |
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Quoted: Any word on Cape Coral? What I'm hearing is it's bad, I have friend sitting it out there and no one can reach him. View Quote Had a buddy there but he evacuated as it was coming in. Said it was insane (bad insane). Looking at some of the pics it looks like CC got smacked in the face. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: [tweet]https://twitter.com/house_drift/status/1575150959092604928?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet[/tweet] https://twitter.com/house_drift/status/1575150959092604928?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet you have to clip off the ? mark and everything to the right of it.
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Quoted: Quoted: Tell the ones you Love and won't leave for their safety to please write there SS# on there forearm so when they are found they will be able to identify who they are and you won't have to wonder what ever happened to them. A time will come during the storm when help will not be able to get to them. You can't get out through the roof with just you fingernails. After Katrina for weeks fisherman would find houses floating out in the Gulf. JFC Yes, and the one that flooded texas so badly in the recent years also complete re-organized the ocean floor. |
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@BlackFox
Reading some of your posts. You are a good man. Stay safe. From your comments you should be set, but any assistance in cleanup needed I'm a pm away. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/276315/9D78805C-0775-456A-9C85-B97E6FC366E0_jpe-2542743.JPG When there's no plywood to be found .one must adapt. View Quote |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/276315/9D78805C-0775-456A-9C85-B97E6FC366E0_jpe-2542743.JPG When there’s no plywood to be found….one must adapt. View Quote Nailed it! No, really... |
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Fighting back against Ian... Attached File
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Quoted: Any word on Cape Coral? What I'm hearing is it's bad, I have friend sitting it out there and no one can reach him. View Quote My grandma is there and was responding until about 45 minutes ago. I'm guessing they lost service. She said they were getting heavy winds but made no mention of flooding. |
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Quoted: Yup. People ALWAYS get electrocuted after these storms doing just that. View Quote Yep here is a down powerline in Naples
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Years ago, we had a citrus tree blight down here and the Fl dept of agriculture was going into old folks yards to cut down "infected" trees to "save the citrus industry" even if the trees were producing healthy fruit. The fear was that infected leaves would get blown a few hundred feet and infect other trees.
After a few years and 100s of millions they finally came to the conclusion that those leaves could travel more than a few hundred feet with something like this and no one was going to cut down every citrus tree to stop it. During the height of the insanity, they were cutting down healthy trees if they were within a few hundred feet of an infected one to "flatten the curve" of infection. Sounds familiar somehow. |
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Quoted: 2:31pm is the last text I got from Englewood, which is getting hit on north wall. "Yea it's bad" was the text. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Anyone heard/seen anything out of Venice? My mom texted to say the power went out an hour ago. Haven't heard back from her since. I'm assuming cell towers are going down. 2:31pm is the last text I got from Englewood, which is getting hit on north wall. "Yea it's bad" was the text. Yeah, the radar looks like they've been in it for awhile now. Nothing but red. |
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Quoted: Years ago, we had a citrus tree blight down here and the Fl dept of agriculture was going into old folks yards to cut down "infected" trees to "save the citrus industry" even if the trees were producing healthy fruit. The fear was that infected leaves would get blown a few hundred feet and infect other trees. After a few years and 100s of millions they finally came to the conclusion that those leaves could travel more than a few hundred feet with something like this and no one was going to cut down every citrus tree to stop it. During the height of the insanity, they were cutting down healthy trees if they were within a few hundred feet of an infected one to "flatten the curve" of infection. Sounds familiar somehow. View Quote I remember that stupidity. |
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium View Quote Good way to get out from a payment ???? |
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Roofs starting to peel off live on the weather channel.
Why the hell are people out driving around in this shit? |
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Quoted: Cantore gets hit by tree branch
View Quote It is not that the wind blows. It is what the wind blows. Try bench pressing 200 pounds with a yield sign through your spleen Scooter! |
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium View Quote Just because you have money doesn't mean you have any sense, that or it's an insurance fraud scheme. |
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Quoted: Yeah, the radar looks like they've been in it for awhile now. Nothing but red. View Quote My texts 20 minutes ago are marked as undelivered to englewood. sms were still coming from northport to my buddy, but probably not for much longer. He has an inreach garmin to sat text out, no word yet probably until its over. |
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium View Quote Is that the new Submarini model? |
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium View Quote What a damn fool Attached File |
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Some people I know pretty dang close to Ft Myers Beach have a good 3' of water in their yard. They live on a canal and fortunately their house is on stilts
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I remember something similar a couple of years ago where a guy saved his BMW with a floor jack. If you have a 500k car though you'd probably never touch one of those.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium View Quote Smells like insurance claim. |
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Quoted: Yikes!! thoughts to those in it.. How long does it take to pass through the eye to the back eye edge? is it like minutes? View Quote Eye is about 20 miles across and storm is moving at around 10-12 mph… but then it depends on if you get hit dead center of eye or a more grazing blow. |
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Quoted: Yeah, the radar looks like they've been in it for awhile now. Nothing but red. View Quote Im afraid it will be like Michael. A big loss of all communications. Phones, cell, radio and cell towers, tv and radio stations all off line. It will be an information black out and we will be basing a lot of what we think we know based on stuff that can get put from the places thatvstill have services but are not in the impact area. I will almost guarantee that what is happening is worse than the videos we are getting. |
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Quoted: We drove through NC after ... hugo? went through. The trees weren't snapped above ground level or stripped, they were all pushed over at just above ground level and laid flat, for miles and miles. Not a bit of green leaves anywhere, all gone. View Quote I survived Hugo. I remember well exactly what you're talking about. It looked like someone was clearing an alley through certain wooded areas. |
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Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
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Quoted: Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
View Quote Holy fuck, just when I though I've seen it all. |
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Quoted: Iill never forget my neighbors car after andrew with a stop sign inside of it came in via the rear window. View Quote I'm far enough inland that I don't get the really bad hurricane effects here in SC, but I've seen enough to know that I should stay inside when things start getting sporty. That Ron White bit was funny, but it's also 100% truth. ETA: Hugo came straight up US 521 and the winds knocked my old 50K sq ft shop building about 4" off square. I'm over 100 miles from the coast. *That happened long before I was a SC resident, but I've seen the pics, heard the stories, and had to struggle with opening the damn roller doors on that building that the county never fixed. |
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This guy is parked on US41 right at the north end of the Peace River bridge.
His feed was still working at 1600... ?? LIVE #IRL - Hurricane IAN Intercept, now in Punta Gorda Florida - 9/28/2022 He said there was an overturned semi with a guy in on the I75 bridge across the river. He called 911 and they said they would get there when the storm passed. Yikes. Sometimes you just gotta run... BTW...it looks really ugly. |
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Quoted: Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
View Quote WTF? Maybe he was holed up somewhere and broke loose and that was his last resort? |
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Quoted: Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
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Quoted: Powerline crew trucks and tree crew trucks everywhere for a month, working like beavers on meth and cocaine. That is how it happens. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I wonder what it will be like restoring power with the supply chain the way it is. Powerline crew trucks and tree crew trucks everywhere for a month, working like beavers on meth and cocaine. That is how it happens. but will they have the parts? insulators, wire, poles, transformers is probably the big one, etc |
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