Hurricane Irma!!!

[jfines69]

To our friends in the hurricanes path - Be careful and take care... Hope ya'll are prepared for a major blow!!!

Jim

[makecents]

I hope all stay safe and heed any evacuations given. It sounds as if this may be one of the largest on record! Cliff, I know your down in Florida. Stay safe!!

[VAB2013]

We have a bunch of people on the forum from Florida! Please let us know if/when you evacuate so we can know what's going on and that you're safe!

[makecents]

We have a bunch of people on the forum from Florida! Please let us know if/when you evacuate so we can know what's going on and that you're safe!

Kinda like the man that started the thread... Vivien, sometimes I don't pay nearly as much attention as I should! We will definitely be thinking about you all.

[VAB2013]

Jon, this one is making me nervous. Stats and predictions are not looking good! Guys if the word is you need to go, please don't hesitate to do so!

[TJ1952]

Get the body bags ready! I guess I'm a little cynical. It's shocking to me, with all today's technology, advanced notification, warnings and orders to evacuate people will not listen and die! People who are alive tonight, will be dead a week from now as a result of this coming storm!

[Petespockets55]

I hope all stay safe and heed any evacuations given. It sounds as if this may be one of the largest on record! Cliff, I know your down in Florida. Stay safe!!

Thanks Jon but I'm "planning" on it heading into the Gulf before heading north.
She is definitely not going to play nice wherever she makes landfall!

[jfines69]

Get the body bags ready! I guess I'm a little cynical. It's shocking to me, with all today's technology, advanced notification, warnings and orders to evacuate people will not listen and die! People who are alive tonight, will be dead a week from now as a result of this coming storm!

You know it... Unfortunately there are folks that have no way to leave such as the elderly (by themselves) and the homeless... Those are the ones that really need help... Then we have the people (for lack of a better term) that will stick around so they can steal whatever they can get their hands on and for them save the money and let the gators eat well!!!

[TJ1952]

You know it... Unfortunately there are folks that have no way to leave such as the elderly (by themselves) and the homeless... Those are the ones that really need help... Then we have the people (for lack of a better term) that will stick around so they can steal whatever they can get their hands on and for them save the money and let the gators eat well!!!

Roger that!

[VAB2013]

Can we get some updates from our Florida folks? We are hoping everyone who needed to leave has already reached their safe place! I saw on the news that it's not easy getting gas and traffic is bad!

[Roller]

Holding tight; put up the last of protection on the house today. It's beginning to look like the storm will travel closer to the western part of Florida but we will get plenty of wind (probably cat 3) and rain in Miami anyway. Not to mention that we would be on the "dirty" side of the storm and more likely to experience tornadoes. If it hits us head on, well.... Hey, you do the best you can and hope for the best. Right now I'm nursing my aching body form todays work with two fingers (vertical) of eggnog. Good luck to us all.

[VAB2013]

Thank you for the update Roller. Please keep us posted. Can't beat eggnog for treating many ailments, I'm sure you are worn out! Hoping things are not too bad there!

[Petespockets55]

Hey all. From all of us here thanks for the good wishes.
Slight shift to the west is better news for us on the east coast of Florida and not so good for the center and western coast. All day yesterday just trying to help as many as possible protect their homes ( customers, neighbors, relatives and friends of relatives).
Now comes the time to protect my copper in watertight bins just in case Irma wobbles again. I know... I know... "only now" you ask?
As of now East coast Florida is predicted to only be in the tolerable cat 2 range. Big apprehensive sigh of relief here but still very concerned for our friends to the west.
As devastating as this will be to some there will be positives coming from this experience we won't realize until years down the road.
For our friends up north I'm thinking of it as a liquid ice storm without the cold!!

[VAB2013]

Thank you Cliff for the update! I guess I have no business looking at a radar because I don't know enough about storms and it just freaks me out! This storm looks like it is larger than the state of Florida!

[jfines69]

Sunny and some wind here in my little neck of the woods... More nogg will make the time pass quicker or at least you won't care as much