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Bonnie Hits; Florida Braces for Charley (380,000 ordered evacuated)
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| 8/12/04
Posted on 08/12/2004 10:14:32 AM PDT by PinnedAndRecessed
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To: PinnedAndRecessed; Howlin
Yikes, where do 380,000 people go?
Hurricane ping.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:16:38 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Kerry doesn't have the courage to come forward and tell the truth.)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Self education here.
Under what authority can the state order a person off their property? How can such and order be enforced without a warrant for arrest?
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:17:01 AM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
To: Petronski
Yikes, where do 380,000 people go? To Orlando/Kissimmee hotels/motels. When Andrew hit in 92 every room was booked. Seemed that half of Miami was there.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:20:31 AM PDT
by
Dane
(Trial lawyers are the tapeworms to wealth creating society)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Charley may be a Category 3 hurricane when it hits Florida. This is what it looks like now:
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:20:49 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: Petronski
This storm has SW Fla in a tizzy. You'd think bottled water was hard currency.
What did folks do before the days of bottled water? Maybe just found a way to survive......? Somehow......?
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:21:18 AM PDT
by
Sam's Army
(Reject Materialism)
To: taxcontrol
I believe the deal is: evacuate the area by time X. After time X, no search and rescue will be attempted, citizen: you are on your own.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:21:19 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Kerry doesn't have the courage to come forward and tell the truth.)
To: Dane
Orlando's still wishing half of Miami would leave.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:22:15 AM PDT
by
Sam's Army
(Reject Materialism)
To: Petronski
To: Petronski
But they used the phrase MANDATORY evacuation!!!
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:23:03 AM PDT
by
Renegade
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Yikes...glad I no longer live in St. Pete anymore(although I just got back from there this week) My parents still live around there, they just called and said they have to evacuate...they are going to stay with me, here in Orlando, that is, if the other 380,000 people don't have the same idea and clog up I-4!
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:23:05 AM PDT
by
Loopy Picklefink
("Forrest Gump was shot in the butt, too. He got to meet the prez-a-dent."-DUmmy at DU)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
When Floyd passed by Georgia 1,000,000 were ordered evacuated, and it was chaos. If the storm had veered inland, many stuck in their cars- in traffic jams- would have drowned.
We refused, and stayed in our 38-foot tall old house which has weathered every storm since 1887- call it a calculated risk.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:24:02 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
My son just called me near Clearwater Beach where he's been staying this week and told me that everybody must clear out.
If Charlie comes near Tampa the storm surge will be over 10 ft and will go clear across every island west of Tampa/St. Pete.
To: Renegade
I experienced a mandatory evacuation on Marco Island. The main water line was shut down, offices and services closed, inland shelters opened, etc. Emergency workers were relocated to shelters, etc.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:26:31 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: Sam's Army
You can bet that every hotel/motel is going to be charging the rack rate(the maximum rate seen on the back of hotel/motel doors). Every disaster has its winners and losers.
When Andrew hit it was the only time I saw the dingy motels along 192 in Kissimmee with their no vacancy signs blinking.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:27:10 AM PDT
by
Dane
(Trial lawyers are the tapeworms to wealth creating society)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Hope this doesn't hit cape coral
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:29:19 AM PDT
by
longfellow
(You're either with US or from Hollywood! Ultimateamerican.com)
To: Pyro7480
Looks like Cuba and Havana will be hit and it looks like a thin strip of land so it looks like Charley won't break up much.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:30:03 AM PDT
by
Dane
(Trial lawyers are the tapeworms to wealth creating society)
To: taxcontrol
The Pinellas EOC clarified that while there is a law that requires evactuation, they don't have the manpower to enforce it, so just next-of-kin info will be taken.
To: Dane
Yeah, I lived in Orlando at the time. I'll never forget how the Orlando media tried to play it up like they were next line to get blown away like Homestead got it.
I hate local TV weatherpeople.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:31:33 AM PDT
by
Sam's Army
(Reject Materialism)
To: Sam's Army
What did folks do before the days of bottled water? Maybe just found a way to survive......? Somehow......? Wells, for one thing. Also quite a few places in SW and central Florida with artesian wells (whatever theyre called) just a 2.5 or 3 inch diameter pipe stuck in the ground with water bubbling up out of it. Know of one thats been used since at least the 1910s.
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posted on
08/12/2004 10:31:47 AM PDT
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Who dat?
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