Posted on 09/25/2024 2:03:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz
This is the live thread dedicated to Hurricane Helene and the people in the path of it. I am one such person, though I am far inland in North Georgia.
News reports state that this is likely to be one of the most explosive hurricanes in hurricane history.
If I cannot participate at some point, that is because my power went out.
I wish everyone good luck, and please stay safe!
I just went to Google Maps for directions from Knoxville to Orlando and get this: “Route closed. No other routes available. Check conditions before you go.” That would be I-75. I wonder if that has to do with the hurricane ...?
“Jim Cantore is just south of us. You know what that means”
As a resident of Florida for over a half a century I know exactly what it means......a shit load of completely UNNECESSARY DRAMA
Hernando County checking in.
Unsure how to add this thread to Front Page News. Tried several options. Can you?
North Georgia myself..I expect a lot of rain but wind wise I’m guessing I’ll hear it over mountain above me but we’re pretty sheltered on the NW side. I expect power outages simply because we get those on a good day and fairly common.
Got plenty of food, water and beer and a whole home generator, chainsaw, fuel, comealongs side by side and winches.
I guess the drought is over for us
We North GA freepers oughta have a get together.
I saw that here in NE Georgia we have a moderate chance of regional power outages. And lots and lots of rain. Then of course there is the wind.
I guess hubby and I are hunkering down here in the forest and hoping for the best.
That area has taken a drubbing over the past few years from storms. Smart to get out as storm is cranking up.
There used to be a winery on 98 I think outside Cedar Key. Guy who ran it was a patriot, gave the Commander Bucher eulogy in San Diego. (we should have vaporized N. Korea over the Pueblo incident)
Yea. This ain’t my first rodeo. I stayed through the last one with gusts to 75-80 mph.I was rockin a little but this one isn’t gonna be a cat 1.
My 5 unprepared neighbors which I can’t see thankfully and all but 1 are liberal floridiots, I’m sure they’ll be calling if they’re having problems. I usually clean up the single lane county road and downed trees going down the mountain. Instead of helping I get a thanks.
This beast might just be bowling a perfect 300 on us. I move left, it moves left. I move right, it moves right.
Safety BUMP
Thanks, Laz
I’m on the MS Gulf Coast and have been watching it - so far it’s following the predicted path towards the center of the FL panhandle. Will be selfish and hope it stays the course, and doesn’t drift our way, but will also be praying for those in the path.
My latest data has it hitting around 5-6 PM tomorrow as a CAT2 or 3 - gonna ruin a lot of folks weeks - and maybe months...
“we still have roads under water from hurricane debbie”
How do people in those damage-prone areas justify living there? I might move there and have my own idea on how I’d justify it, but I’m wondering about those already there.
Bkmk
You just committed a mortal sin. You violated the sanctity of the Church of The Most Holy Ratchett. And you will hear from the mob of Ratchett’s acolytes. There will be HELL to pay. You risk excommunication. I will pray for the repose of your soul. And You’re not even in Florida. I had to recite five hundred Hail Mary’s last time I tried to open a thread on a hurricane that was bearing down on the Gulf. And I live in Tampa and have for forty years.
Update from Hillsborough County—Once again the anchor-baby “wittle darlings” and their hundred-thousand -dollar-a-year watchers have been granted a two-day paid holiday on the backs of the property-tax-payers (yay!!!) under the guise that every school room in the county is going to be needed to house everyone who is going to lose their house and apartment shelter from thirty seven feet of storm-surge and thousand-mile an hour winds. I exaggerate only a little.
This is more bullshit than I care to have to watch. Each year the media coverage gets more and more apocalyptic. Especially with an election six weeks away. I’m not even going to bother going to Walmart or Publix today. Panic buying by a bunch of useful idiots driving hundred thousand dollar SUV’s creating empty shelves. Last year’s storm was three hours of twelve-mile-an-hour wind. It was delightful, even tho they all said it was going to literally wipe Tampa off the map.
Tallahassee here.
We are the land of trees.
Port Charlotte, Florida here. I guess the storm took a day off. Jim Cantore can hang out at the tiki bar for an extra day waiting. Mike’s Weather Page can sleep in and replay yesterday’s Morning Brew on YouTube. We get an extra day to hope it doesn’t turn east and those in the cone have more time to prepare. I guess that’s a good thing.
This one will miss me thankfully (near Montgomery,Al), but looks headed right towards daughter’s home (High Springs, Fl)...sigh I lived in Gainesville, GA for a short time years ago. Beautiful area! Praying for all in harms way!
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