craigb Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mesh said: Look up Lithium Mine, Kings Mountain....North Carolina. That's definitely one part of it! Lots of evidence for weather control (radar video showing lasers targeting the exact location Helene hit landfall) and some of the same fatal "help" from certain governmental agencies like they did in Lahaina too (not looking for people or doing anything really, confiscating donations and arresting people trying to help!)... Sickening. 🤬 And now Milton has just been upgraded to a Cat. 4! My Deland friend just texted me an hour ago that he and his wife were leaving their boarded up house and heading to the airport. That was at 7:15 am my time. Their plane is scheduled to arrive at PDX at 10:20 pm my time tonight... Hope they don't run into any delays! Edited October 7 by craigb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mesh Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 3 hours ago, craigb said: That's definitely one part of it! Lots of evidence for weather control (radar video showing lasers targeting the exact location Helene hit landfall) and some of the same fatal "help" from certain governmental agencies like they did in Lahaina too (not looking for people or doing anything really, confiscating donations and arresting people trying to help!)... Sickening. 🤬 And now Milton has just been upgraded to a Cat. 4! My Deland friend just texted me an hour ago that he and his wife were leaving their boarded up house and heading to the airport. That was at 7:15 am my time. Their plane is scheduled to arrive at PDX at 10:20 pm my time tonight... Hope they don't run into any delays! We're also boarding up and getting ready....it's a Cat 5 now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 Stay safe Mesh! (And everyone else in the path!!!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted October 7 Author Share Posted October 7 Milton's storm surge is predicted to be 4' higher than Helene's, 8 to 12 feet. People don't survive that. Buildings don't survive that. No point boarding up the windows if the whole house is going to float away. To make matters worse, all the trash from Helene is still lying about and will become deadly projectiles now. Imagine surviving the first storm only to be smushed by a flying refrigerator two weeks later. What mystifies me is all the people who move there from New York. The most oft-cited reason: for the weather. I can't imagine hating snow that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Boog Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Prayers for Florida 🙏 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Milton was 180mph before it grazed the Yucatán in Mexico. There is a chance it'll grow again as it hits the hot, gulf water. But there is some wind shear that might counteract that. Right now that path is entering near Tampa and exiting near Cape Caneveral. That puts me close to 100 miles south of the worst part of the storm. But I've lived in Florida long enough to know the storm can defy the best predictions, and can change course in a hurry. So I'll keep checking the updates. We're getting a lot of rain, and will get more. Growing up in S.E. Florida, I know the only good place to buy a home around here is on the Eastern Sand Ridge, and neither on a barrier island nor reclaimed wetlands. That minimizes my chances of a catastrophe. I've done preliminary preparations, and will drop the storm awnings at the last minute, to keep light and air in the house. I've got gas for the generator, a garbage can of water for flushing the toilet and tap water in a dozen empty wine jugs in case the power goes out. The rest is just luck. Good luck to all in the path, stay safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 180 mph (and 897 mbar) is very hard to imagine! Here's hoping everyone survives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 4 hours ago, craigb said: 180 mph (and 897 mbar) is very hard to imagine! Here's hoping everyone survives! It's extreme. And now that it's passing the Yucatan, it's starting to build. They just issued hurricane warnings for my area. I don't think we'll get the worst of it, but I just dropped down all but two of the storm awnings. I'll get them in the morning, the skeeters are-a swarming right now. There is a good chance I'll lose electricity and phone. I have gas for the generator but if both the landline and cell goes out, I'll be out of communication. I've been through this drill before, and hope this one works out as well as all the others for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Stay safe Bob!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 Awnings down, storm panels up, ice made in the freezer, water for flushing, gas for the generator, gutters cleaned, loose outdoor objects stowed, it's raining, and the wind is blowing - big time. So far, so good. We haven't lost power or Internet yet, but it won't peak until about dawn. We're hoping our luck holds out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 Check back in when you can! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 The city of my birth got slammed. Tampa, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 We got lucky. Tree limbs, branches, and palm fronds down. Landline and Interned down, cell phone practically worthless. Lost this week's gigs. A lot of people lost a lot more. We got lucky. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 6 1/2 days without electricity and a completely blocked and flooded driveway... Fun! This is the last half of the driveway on Saturday... had to hack through heavy debris to get to this point. The water line on the fence is how deep the water was Thursday morning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Elliott Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 Hope all the important stuff stayed dry, or is recoverable. This weekend we're likely to get some of the leftovers, but having travelled all the way across the country to get here, it's unlikely to be more than a sprinkle (even though it says up to half an inch or more, which is a lot at a time even for Phoenix). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 Nah, no water in the house. It's about 4 feet higher than the driveway and the floor is 30 inches above the ground. If it floods, it's the apocalypse and I'll be dead anyway 😬 What you can't see behind me in the picture is the dozen or so of my neighbors fence panels that fell across my driveway... mostly broken and full of nails poking out. Except two side by side that survived because they were shielded from the wind by half of a large oak tree that broke off. They're still there, but I can get out through his driveway now after we cleared a path. He lost some big trees. Luckily, my weakling trees were knocked over or broken in half by Ian a couple years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Elliott Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 The only two times I lived in a house that was flooded was as a kid in rural Texas during some bad storms that kept coming (probably hurricane leftovers, but I paid nearly zero attention to the rest of the world back then), back in the early 80s (look up the story about Gerry the Elephant washed into and stuck in a tree; the water was so high she had to use her trunk like a snorkel; that was the Gainesville Zoo a few miles up the road from us), and in the mid-late 80s here in Phoenix during the flooding rains back then (I almost got washed away walking home from school that day). The texas house had wood floors that were already damaged and after that there were spots that collapsed under our weight stepping on them, down into the crawlspace. The phoenix house was all brick and concrete but the carpets were ruined, as was a lot of our furniture; we had to rip it out ourselves because of the smell. Neither landlord was really the type to fix anything, so.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 Sorry to see that much damage Variorum. What area are you in? I hope your recovery goes well. The longest we were out of power was during Frances, Jeanne, and Ivan, in 2004. 10 days each. But we are on high ground so flooding concerns are low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Variorum Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 33 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said: Sorry to see that much damage Variorum I'm about 6 miles east of the bay, just south of Tampa. No significant damage (except a bunch of shingle tabs), just a huge mess. I have more time than money so I don't mind the the endless chopping and sawing and trudging through water with dead bloated frogs in it. The lack of power sucked the most. The cold showers every day were, uh, special. The 8 inches of rain didn't bother me but the 6 hours of nightmare inducing wind... this is a concrete block house and it would vibrate. It's the first time I thought the roof might not survive. I heard I crunching, ripping sound a little before midnight. I thought a bunch of shingles had torn off, so I ran around shining a flashlight out of the windows. When I looked out at the front window, I saw that all three wrought iron supports that hold up the front porch had fallen. When the wind started coming from the north-east, it apparently raised the porch roof just enough to blow out the supports They aren't attached at the top or bottom, never thought they had to be... the porch roof is a gable off the main roof and weighs a few tons. Somehow the thing didn't collapse, but it would oscillate up and down just a little bit when the gusts hit. So, I spent an hour in the wind and rain trying to force them back into place. I'd shove and kick on the bottoms until they'd stay in place. When I worked on the next post, a huge gust would lift the roof just enough to cause the previous post to fall again. I eventually got all three to stick (all wonky and crooked), but I haven't been that scared in a long time... thought the porch roof could eventually break and squash me. That'll be fixed before the next storm... new posts with an internal steel cable to tie the roof to the porch floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Elliott Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 Maybe sink some deep deep posts around the house with cables from them up over the roof as a "net" to keep it on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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