Posted on 09/10/2017 2:02:02 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula has begun to experience Hurricane Irma following landfall at Marco Island. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Prayers for all in the storm path.
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NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Key West, FL
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Buoy Data SE US & GOM
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Hurricane Irma Live Thread I
Hurricane Irma Live Thread II
Hurricane Irma Live Thread III
Rush conversation transcript today with a meteorologist. Interested on your take in general, and especially on his explanation of wind shear.
Meteorologist: Rush Is Right on Hurricanes
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3585575/posts
And...as I was typing and feeling the misery index...the power came back on!!!! WooHoo!!!
Yes!!!! That’s awesome!!!
“the power came back on!!!!”
Hallelujah...Is your mother still with you? Is she well?
Mom’s power (Stuart) was restored Monday night. She caught a ride home with a neighbor who stayed the storm in Sarasota. Mom’s place is fine. No problems.
Oh Yiipppeeee!!! What a relief:) You’re going to have a lovely evening!!
After the two weeks without power OR water from Charley I experienced full mind/body/spirit waves of gratitude for a long, long time. Feeling it again now. Many coworkers..still without power today..the mayor, lots of docs and nurses at my hospital AND plenty of electric workers...
I just received an Emergency text on phone (like the ones during Irma) reminding people not to keep generators indoors. Several deaths from CO2 already.
Blessings keep coming ((((Hugs))))
Temperature dropping in the house—down to 84ºF
I suppose on the bright side, you now have a nice clean freezer.
I’m glad to hear things are getting back to normal for you.
Can’t recall when the freezer was so clean and shining. We have electricity, but no internet/tv. Operating off of multiple mobile hotspots in the house. Crazy.
Gonna try your approach of posting about no power and hoping. Lost power around 8:00 Sunday night. We’re fine and managing but it’s getting a little old!
A 78 year old man survived Irma, alone on Buena Vista Cay, by going into the hills and hanging, near naked (he figured clothes would act as a sail), onto a tree, during the worst of it...
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/news/76198
It’s an amazing story, almost as amazing as his outlook on it.
The water authority is asking people in our area to conserve water so as to avoid the need for a boiled water alert as they have in north/central Brevard County.
Still no cable TV. Bought a couple digital antennas, but they are not the type strong enough to pull in the Orlando stations.
Still a lot of power outages in the area and many gas stations are either still closed or out of gas and selling their convenience store items. Very few gas lines at the stations with gasoline, though.
Publix stores are open here. Beachside Winn Dixie is too, but their refrigerated section was closed tonight. The Beachside and West Melbourne Walmarts are still closed.
Fresh milk is hard to find. It took five stops before I found plenty of milk at the Palm Bay super Target.
With everyone still without power, a lot of Beachside people went to the beach last night. It seemed every beach parking lot was filled along A1A from Indialantic through the northern edge of Satellite Beach.
Tonight had a spectacular sunset that lasted forever and changed colors magnificently. A reminder of why people put up with the hurricanes, and lightening, and tornadoes, and sink holes, and fire ants, and mosquitoes, and humidity to live in Florida.
We were checking FPL status online about every other hour. FPL status updates were not working. Oh well, at least we can catch baseball on roku via hotspot tonight—with a/c. Looking forward to a day we can look back on this as a distant memory.
Four big tankers came into Port of Tampa last night. Gasoline on the way!
Great! I was thinking today if 2020 wasn’t an incumbent year people would be saying Gov. Rick Scott’s performance during the hurricane should merit him mentioning for a presidential run by the Great Mentioner. Maybe he can temper his ambitions in the Senate by knocking out Bill Nelson next year.
I went to our local Publix today (Hyde Park area of S Tampa) to get some groceries and they are STILL without power. They were running what they could and stay open all on generators that the meat dept. guy told me uses 30 gal. of diesel PER HOUR. Most everything I needed, I was able to find - there even was some bottled water. Slowly we will all recover, I know.
Wow. Glad you are able get your shopping done. It’s important in the days after the storm. Just finding milk tonight was a major accomplishment.
How wonderful for you!
They did have fresh milk. Ironically, the thing I had the MOST trouble finding before the storm AND after was cat food! Mine eat a prescription dry for urinary tract issues and our vet where I usually buy it from was out. They had everyone calling for the special diet foods. That was last Wednesday. I called again today and they were still out and had no idea when a shipment would get there. I ended up picking up a written prescription and found what I needed at PetSmart. They didn’t even ask for the prescription. Glad I was able to find it. In the nick of time, too, as I had only a half day of food left for them both today.
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