Posted on 08/13/2004 10:08:09 AM PDT by Jeff400000
Thanks.
Any news on roads for evacuations? Are there any
traffic problems that people need to be aware of?
Is it too late for people to try to leave the East
Coast of Florida (Atlantic side)?
The "orlando bird bath web camera" now shows the both bird baths sitting up right, but on the ground.
Wonder if they fell over?
Nah, I am listening to some feed. IRLP.
The Net Controller is in Texas! I should have brought my Grundig 800 in today and wowed people by picking this all up in CA
And thank God for it. This certainly isn't some sort of competition. But I'm wondering about our folks here on the Outer Banks. If this storm still has steam when it hits the Atlantic, the Outer Banks will get hit by their third hurricane in less than a year.
Thanks Karl. Should have said I used to live there. Live up north now.
I have a cousin in Lehigh Acres, near Ft. Myers.
Any news yet from that area?
LOL - I live on a lake and there are girls out in the middle swimming right now. Eye is about 90 minutes away.
Here are all the counties for Florida....
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/fl.html#FLC095.MLBTORMLB.225000
Where are you in PA. What did Snyder say?
Get on I-95 and head south?
If elsewhere, they should stay put- because you can't out-guess nor outrun, a tornado.
I dunno, I'm in NC, but I'm listening to the live feed for some Orlando news station (look further up the thread, some kind FReeper provided a link). They showed some footage from Ft. Myers; it was blowing pretty darn hard. They also said an evacuation center full of 1,400 people, the roof came off. And a post office lost a roof.
I don't think Charlie will be much to worry about by the time it gets to NC. However, the TD in the atlantic could be real cause for concern next week.
Kissimmee has some prior bad experience with multiple tornadoes. Sort of a Les Nessman moment but for real.
Hopefully, by the time it gets up here it won't be any more than a "mullet blow", as my dad's people in Carteret Co. would call it.
Charley, which moved out of Southwest Florida around 6 p.m., is still a strong category 4 storm. The storm packed winds of 145-plus mph when it struck Sanibel and Captiva islands around 3:30 p.m., after which it tore through Pine Island, North Fort Myers and Cape Coral.
One woman said Cape Coral "looks like a war zone." Four thousand refugees are standing shoulder-to-shoulder inside Cape High.
Hurricane-force winds stretched from south Collier county northward at least to Charlotte Harbor, where the eye of the storm is now.
Damage is widespread across Southwest Florida. In downtown Fort Myers, the roofs of both The News-Press and the post office sustained damage.
The storm forcing water into the first floors of hundreds of coastal buildings.
Still??
Is it me, or does that thing look like it's still rotating just like a real hurricane?
Its the Day After Tomorrow...The Coming Global Superstorm...the big cheese, the top dog, the numero uno.
The one I remember in 95 was named Erin and the page said the top winds were 43 mph, but they seemed stronger than that.
Orlando: 150 years of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
Stay safe.
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