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Hurricane Irma

bradl said:
I will just leave this here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...f1de4b0dfaafcf84e86?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009



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There's video in the link, but bloody hell, that is scary and awesome at the same time (and I despise using the word "awesome", but there is no other way to explain it.

I have the METAR reports from the airport weather stations if anyone wants to see that, let alone the winds. it's sick.

BL.
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That's literally awesome, a fine use of the word.
 
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Yes, that. By far the the strangest natural event I've ever seen. I'm not sure how I would feel if I saw and or experienced that in person.
 
Zenithal said:
Yes, that. By far the the strangest natural event I've ever seen. I'm not sure how I would feel if I saw and or experienced that in person.
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Two words come to mind: Shock and Awe.

In shock because it happened; in Awe because this is a rare thing that Mother Nature has done.

Here's a youtube video of the Twitter video that HuffPo linked. Creepily eerie stuff when you see a seashell on the ocean floor, a winch tied to the dock, let alone walking on visible ocean floor, not knowing when the ocean was going to come back. :eek:


BL.
 
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bradl said:
Two words come to mind: Shock and Awe.

In shock because it happened; in Awe because this is a rare thing that Mother Nature has done.

Here's a youtube video of the Twitter video that HuffPo linked. Creepily eerie stuff when you see a seashell on the ocean floor, a winch tied to the dock, let alone walking on visible ocean floor, not knowing when the ocean was going to come back. :eek:


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Yeah, I saw it this morning. It looked like that conch shell was still inhabited by something. I did read about the water coming back. It's not sudden, but it's something to take into account if you walk too far out. I'd love to see some aerial photography in the region or sat photos to see just how far the 'dryness' went out.
 
My mother managed to get through this without even losing power on the edge of Jax. My brother lost power. Unfortunately, he has probably lost his store as well, as downtown St. Augustine is mostly under water. He tried to get in to check, but the police have it locked down, so he can't even wade in (like he did after Matthew).
 
AlliFlowers said:
My mother managed to get through this without even losing power on the edge of Jax. My brother lost power. Unfortunately, he has probably lost his store as well, as downtown St. Augustine is mostly under water. He tried to get in to check, but the police have it locked down, so he can't even wade in (like he did after Matthew).
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At least having been through that one, he probably had some clue about how to try to minimize damage or at least remove some stuff his experience told him was not going to fare well in a flooding situation. My heart goes out to everyone having to struggle back from this thing; what a horrendous mess "the weather" can bring us sometimes.

Weird how we talk about the weather when we can't think of anything else "safe enough" to discuss with some cantankerous soul who shows up to our Sunday dinner tables lol. And yet the weather can be such a soul-destroying wrecker of dreams and accomplishments. Hope your brother's place fares better than you expect!
 
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At some point, we are going to look back at this event with some humor. So I'm just going to post this here, and figure out if I should:
  1. facepalm,
  2. put this on blast,
  3. make this my new ringtone, or
  4. roll up in da club with this.
And yes, there's a whole 3 minute song on this.


:D :p

BL.
 
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Woo! A sunny sky :)

So we bailed on Saturday afternoon after prepping the house, hopefully storing my car above water ...

Way in advance, we booked a nice 2 room suite about 12 miles away, so we have a place to come and go with power, water, a fridge/microwave, connectivity, brought lots of supplies, copious amounts of alcohol. They haven't opened up our bridge yet, so we're just kind of idling waiting to go inspect the house today (Tue), we mostly know how things played out since a few folks stayed and kept everyone up to date. We do know there's _no_ power and it's not expected to return for about 3 days, water did come back on (believe there's currently a boil warning), but we'll just come back here. Friends are staying at a hotel next to us, so there's about 12 or so of us together which is nice.

Most importantly we're safe and together.

Our area is pretty devastated. 1) House a few blocks away on the beachside, 2) a photo from friends right in our area.

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Glad to hear you're safe. If I'm not mistaken, I saw that same photo albeit from the other side. That wouldn't be St. Augustine, would it, @D.T.? The one with the house on its side, that is. IIRC there's a beach ramp on the other side, too. I can't recall where I saw the photo. It's been around 24 hours.
 
Power was out for ~24 hours, no damage to house or property. Tampa Bay area, although I've been staying in the Cupertino area, flew out on Saturday morning to avoid the hurricane. We got pretty lucky, being on the western side of Irma and it reducing down to a Cat 1 when it got near.
 
Zenithal said:
Glad to hear you're safe. If I'm not mistaken, I saw that same photo albeit from the other side. That wouldn't be St. Augustine, would it, @D.T.? The one with the house on its side, that is. IIRC there's a beach ramp on the other side, too. I can't recall where I saw the photo. It's been around 24 hours.
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Looks like one of the houses on A1A. Not far from my brother. He got lucky, and the water didn't breach the store this time. Whew! (I won't have to invite him to come live with me.) (J/K)
 
D.T. said:
Yeah, a really major western movement, up towards Tampa. Now it's looking like we'll have an overland at the center when it reaches us, but at a significantly reduced category (TS - Cat 1)

Where are you located?
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I'm in Parrish. Wasn't too bad on us, but out into the Anna Maria areas it was rough.
 
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bradl said:
He's in SoCal.

With that said, while the LA Basin, let alone the high desert (read: Las Vegas Valley) hasn't seen a hurricane, we do get the remnants of those hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast (Texas, in particular). They generally combine with the rains we get during monsoon season, and while those rains last for a much shorter period of time, due to the lack of water retention the high desert has, can cause floods just as deadly, if not deadlier, than what Harvey and Irma have shown so far.

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Yes, well aware of them and good point to bring it up to all.

The "dry river flash floods" are super dangerous because of deceptive nature (dry river to torrent in 10 min). Not that many months ago a family was washed away in canyon when a nearby rather normal shower caused a killer flash flood.
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Apple fanboy said:
Hope you guys get back to normal soon. Glad to hear of no injuries or worse.
Hopefully insurance covers everything else.
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kazmac said:
^ THIS. Glad to hear folks are okay.
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Well, it was not.

Personally, directly, nothing serious happened, I know many friends and co-workers who where devastated.
One friend's house was swamped, and his wife died from stress.
And a dear co-worker died of heart attack at height of storm.
And my old neighborhood of Bellaire is a disaster zone.

Harvey was well beyond peoples expectation of how bad things can get.
It is just like Fukushima where they built to a 8.0 and 10 meter tsunami, and was hit with a 9.0 (10x power) and 20 meter tsunami.
 
PracticalMac said:
Yes, well aware of them and good point to bring it up to all.

The "dry river flash floods" are super dangerous because of deceptive nature (dry river to torrent in 10 min). Not that many months ago a family was washed away in canyon when a nearby rather normal shower caused a killer flash flood.
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Well, it was not.

Personally, directly, nothing serious happened, I know many friends and co-workers who where devastated.
One friend's house was swamped, and his wife died from stress.
And a dear co-worker died of heart attack at height of storm.
And my old neighborhood of Bellaire is a disaster zone.

Harvey was well beyond peoples expectation of how bad things can get.
It is just like Fukushima where they built to a 8.0 and 10 meter tsunami, and was hit with a 9.0 (10x power) and 20 meter tsunami.
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Sorry to hear that.
 
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Sorry about this, @PracticalMac.

Finally, just heard from mom's best friend in Key West. They're okay. No electricity, but they have water and food and the army is there. She said the storm hit 20 miles away from them (I think it was the next key (Cudjoe)) and she is grateful.
 
kazmac said:
Sorry about this, @PracticalMac.

Finally, just heard from mom's best friend in Key West. They're okay. No electricity, but they have water and food and the army is there. She said the storm hit 20 miles away from them (I think it was the next key (Cudjoe)) and she is grateful.
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That is good!


I used to live here.
White house is neighbor, he had about 2.5 feet in house.
Nearly every house had water here, and now the 6ft piles of ripped out house.
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We're back home, it was mostly contingent on power (and indirectly water problems related to no power ...). We spent Wed and Thu cleaning up the yard, moving the grenaded deck/fence to the curb, rinsing out the garage, so when the power came back on, we could just come home and _relax_ (we even set the AC way down before leaving last week so it was nice and cool).

Fridge restocked, equipment back up and running, couple (as in several) beverages consumed ...

Positive thoughts for those still recovering, especially in South Florida.
 
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So Maria is about to hit the same islands that Irma ran over.
 
Yeah, and Maria looks like it's going to be a Cat 3 or 4 when it hits. I feel really sorry for all the people in its path. At least it looks like it will be avoiding the US this time.
 
RootBeerMan said:
Yeah, and Maria looks like it's going to be a Cat 3 or 4 when it hits. I feel really sorry for all the people in its path. At least it looks like it will be avoiding the US this time.
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Maria's path is still uncertain once it gets near the east coast.
 
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