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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:44:35 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:44:38 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:45:29 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:45:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @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.... Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:45:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL Of course she is. Its not like she is in a wooden stick structure of the 1920s I’ve remodeled wooden stick structures from the 40’s on the Destin harbor that have survived countless storms |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:45:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:45:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:46:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: JFC Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:46:51 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:46:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. 
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:47:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. Nailed it! No, really... |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:47:54 PM EDT
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Fighting back against Ian...
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:48:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:48:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WTF just saw a live shot of the Skyway bridge and there was a car on it. Probably Max Olson chasing he just drove over a long bridge going to Punta Gorda. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:48:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yup. People ALWAYS get electrocuted after these storms doing just that. Yep here is a down powerline in Naples
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:49:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:49:36 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:50:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 2:31pm is the last text I got from Englewood, which is getting hit on north wall. "Yea it's bad" was the text. Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:51:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. I remember that stupidity. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:52:17 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:54:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:55:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium Good way to get out from a payment ????   |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:55:40 PM EDT
[#24]
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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:56:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cantore gets hit by tree branch
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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:56:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My parents are in Venice, they still had cell service at 3:30. A neighbor's lanai blew down around 3. Some sites in Venice, Naples, Fort Myers, and some other areas went down not long ago. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:56:44 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium Just because you have money doesn't mean you have any sense, that or it's an insurance fraud scheme. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:57:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, the radar looks like they've been in it for awhile now. Nothing but red. 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:57:50 PM EDT
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium Is that the new Submarini model? |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:57:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:58:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Roofs starting to peel off live on the weather channel. Why the hell are people out driving around in this shit? Every idiot with a cell phone is now an "influencer/storm chaser/self-important douche". |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:58:48 PM EDT
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium What a damn fool  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 3:59:25 PM EDT
[#33]
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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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:00:30 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:00:34 PM EDT
[#35]
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdxFdoPXoAEQsNE?format=jpg&name=medium Smells like insurance claim. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:00:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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! Iill never forget my neighbors car after andrew with a stop sign inside of it came in via the rear window. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:01:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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? 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:01:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, the radar looks like they've been in it for awhile now. Nothing but red. 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:01:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:01:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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 There are photo's out there with water up to their eve's and people calling in trapped in attics in that area. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:01:51 PM EDT
[#41]
Is this bitch says as the crow flys one more time
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:02:18 PM EDT
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Any goo scanner feeds?
Tried a couple but heard nothing :\ |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:02:29 PM EDT
[#43]
Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:03:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There are photo's out there with water up to their eve's and people calling in trapped in attics in that area. I've seen some of those. I grew up there...doesn't take much for the area to flood. |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:04:24 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
Holy fuck, just when I though I've seen it all.
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:04:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Iill never forget my neighbors car after andrew with a stop sign inside of it came in via the rear window. 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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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:04:42 PM EDT
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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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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:04:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
WTF? Maybe he was holed up somewhere and broke loose and that was his last resort? |
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:05:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Big yacht cruising around in Fort Myers. Who does this?
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Posted: 9/28/2022 4:05:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Powerline crew trucks and tree crew trucks everywhere for a month, working like beavers on meth and cocaine. That is how it happens. Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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