Posted on 09/07/2017 8:09:47 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma had a devastating impact on islands in the Caribbean.
Hurricane and Storm surge watches were issued Thursday morning for South Florida. The Florida Keys began evacuating visitors and residents, followed by flood zones in Miami and Miami Beach. Sarasota FL declared a local state of emergency Thursday morning.
Polk County FL Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday that law enforcement authorities would check the identities of people who turn up at shelters--and take to jail anyone found to have an active arrest warrant. “If you go to a shelter for Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail... “If you have a warrant, turn yourself in to the jail — it’s a secure shelter.” Judd also posted that sex offenders and sex predators would not be admitted to the shelters. "We cannot and we will not have innocent children in a shelter with sexual offenders & predators. Period." Judd's statements unleashed a liberal firestorm via Twitter.
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I know lots of people that have not left. They really should have but didn’t, don’t know what to say.
Normalcy bias can be very strong.
Yes there will be massive surge in most of the Keys.
On the Storm2K forum a poster from Homestead (near the military base) said winds ramped up to 62 mph and trees started coming down — this thing is still on the Cuban coast and it is breaking off trees south of Miami.
Why has the data buoy been out?
The sun is out in Key West (for the moment): https://www.southernmostbeachresort.com/gallery/webcam/
I agree. She's in a safer place now.
Full moon has already passed. It is waning
Has anyone seen anything from Joe Bastardi’s Weatherbell yet today? It’s after 1 PM and he’s been unusually quiet.
Here’s what I know so far.Many Utilies Trucks are staging at Lake City Fl.National Ass.of Journeymen Linemen expect up to 3,000,000 People to be without power.They are asking everyone to be patient thru the next 2 months.Son-in-Law is there.I know many of his crew.They told him to expect to be away 40 days.
Wind, rain and whitecaps here....Live video feed high above Marathon FL ‘in the middle Florida Keys’. .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaErEed7UPI&index=6&list=PL9LPhV57df3yfcRFlGAqIhjCJd4zPiwpB
It’s been fascinating, I listened until 4 this morning.
Yup. Those butterflies still cause a lot of problems.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. [2]
Key West Front Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGD1byu7gJc
Irma with the land assist bump, likely follows w/another wobble left, then later this evening it'll start to go. 6pm earliest, prob around 8 pic.twitter.com/zcRBy2crkK— crankyweatherguy (@crankywxguy) September 9, 2017
The Army Combat Diver School at Fleming Key (sticks up north from Key West) is also part of the shut down.
But I’ll bet they have a few Dive Medical Technicians and Dive Supervisors on hand.
They have one of the few recompression chambers in the greater area.
And since most of the structures are less than 20 years old I’m sure they were built pretty stout.
Hey Rod...take a look see here....3 hours ago these waves in Middle Key West were flat....Wind, rain and whitecaps here as things are picking up........look at shoreline waves coming in now.....
....Live video feed high above Marathon FL ‘in the middle Florida Keys’. .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaErEed7UPI&index=6&list=PL9LPhV57df3yfcRFlGAqIhjCJd4zPiwpB
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