Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Deaths reported in powerful Florida storms
CNN ^ | February 2, 2007

Posted on 02/02/2007 4:52:07 AM PST by Strategerist

LADY LAKE, Florida (CNN) -- Deadly storms swept across central Florida on Friday morning, damaging homes, toppling trees and sending trucks careening off Interstate 4, police said.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office said there were "several" fatalities in Lady Lake, where at least two mobile home parks were hit. Authorities could not say how many deaths there were.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: breaking; florida; itsnottheheat; tornadoes
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 421-423 next last
To: Libertarian444
Thanks. It's on all over the local channels. Unbelievable that more lives weren't lost.
81 posted on 02/02/2007 5:51:58 AM PST by poobear (Carter & Clinton - 'The Latter Day Church Of Jew Haters & Horndogs')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Strategerist

A tornado siren sounds like the same siren you would hear in a nuclear attack or the same as were sounded in Baghdad during the initial bombing at the beginning of the war.


82 posted on 02/02/2007 5:52:15 AM PST by Husker24
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]

To: CFC__VRWC

It is very nice - I have an aunt and uncle who retired there from Maryland back in September. They were out of town when the storms hit, but they've talked to neighbors and their house is okay.

***

Thank God!


83 posted on 02/02/2007 5:53:10 AM PST by fatnotlazy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Guenevere

Wierd looking sky this AM. A few rumbles of thunder now in South Brevard. Rain on and off. Most of the bad stuff seems to be to the north of us, the familiar pattern of the I-4 track.


84 posted on 02/02/2007 5:55:49 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: fatnotlazy

"The Village" TV commercial has gotten heavy airplay in California. Seems to me Arny Palmer and Nancy Lopez were pitching the community.


85 posted on 02/02/2007 5:56:34 AM PST by DAC22
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: All
Several killed in suspected Florida tornadoes

CNN story here has a few video links showing the aerial damage.

86 posted on 02/02/2007 5:57:56 AM PST by cgk (Republicanism didn't make Conservatives a majority. Conservatism made Republicans a majority. [NEWT])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: Strategerist
Florida should begin to phase out trailer (mobile home) parks.

The number of fatalities over the decades from hurricanes and tornados in these parks is appalling.

The subject of dealing with the carnage by the legislature or local county commissions comes up every once in a while, but it's so economically, politically and emotionally charged that proposed legislation goes nowhere.

The seasoned citizen lobby alone keeps the kibosh on trailer park phase-outs. Yet years ago in the famous "no-name storm" in an area just a few miles north of me, several seniors perished from a flash flood in their mobile home park. Others saved themselves by climbing to their roofs and clinging there till rescue came.

I grew up in a "tornado alley" area in a northern Illinois county which never has or will allow mobile home parks. Therefore, there's no fatalities from tornadoes striking retirees and the less well-off. And as a bonus local law enforcement is spared a lot of criminal behavior often carried out in many such trailer residential enclaves.

Leni

87 posted on 02/02/2007 5:58:07 AM PST by MinuteGal (The Left takes power only through deception.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cgk

It's a lousy way to be reminded what the mobile part of mobile home means.


88 posted on 02/02/2007 5:58:30 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: All

Fox News now saying 7 dead in Deland, 2 in Lady Lake -- but coroner is saying "Many many more" not reported yet.


89 posted on 02/02/2007 5:58:58 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: MinuteGal

Any stick-built house actually built to code and not in a storm surge area and that doesn't have a tree fall on it will nicely survive all but the strongest 1% or so of hurricanes....

Probably will take another 2-3 hurricanes before they seriously look at doing anything about trailer parks in Florida.


90 posted on 02/02/2007 6:00:23 AM PST by Strategerist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 87 | View Replies]

To: cgk
Prayers up. I have a recurring nightmare and a massive fear of tornadoes, especially when storms come in the middle of the night. When I stay at my parents house, I always go through a reminder of what needs to happen for my parents, me and the kids to get to the basement quickly while not assuming someone else is doing something.

Prayers that they can find survivors quickly and may the souls lost rest in peace.

I have a SIL (and her family) in Lakeland who hasn't spoken to us in years, but hope they are OK. I have no idea where that is exactly...
91 posted on 02/02/2007 6:01:28 AM PST by WV Mountain Mama (Relax, it was probably a joke.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: GladesGuru

Good day to be in the glades!


92 posted on 02/02/2007 6:01:33 AM PST by Issaquahking (Pardon Compean and Ramos Now!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NonValueAdded

Agreed; one of the earlier news reports was describing one mobile home park which only had sandy foundations remaining.

And I was just looking at the Villages websites to see if they did have mobile homes also - they appear to have single family homes/villas, at least as advertised.


93 posted on 02/02/2007 6:01:59 AM PST by cgk (Republicanism didn't make Conservatives a majority. Conservatism made Republicans a majority. [NEWT])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 88 | View Replies]

To: Strategerist
I have a Tornado Siren on my property line. When it goes off in a severe storm, it can be hard to hear.

The problem is there are no basements to hide in.

These people THINK their homes are going to be condemmed because their roofs are gone. But the insurance companies will say otherwise. Count on it.

sw

94 posted on 02/02/2007 6:02:00 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]

To: MinuteGal

My aunt and uncle's mobile home in Naples has survived many a hurricane, including Andrew. It has to do with anchoring.


95 posted on 02/02/2007 6:02:34 AM PST by defconw ( Mrs. Cibco in 85 days! Woo Hoo!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 87 | View Replies]

To: DAC22
Seems to me Arny Palmer and Nancy Lopez were pitching the community.

They both have golf courses and clubhouses named after them in The Villages. I know Palmer designed his course there, and I think Lopez designed hers as well.

The whole place has so many golf courses it isn't even funny. The Villages is a huge community - typical development these days where the home pretty much takes up the entire lot, broken up into clusters of communities with their own rec centers and clubhouses, with a couple of planned shopping areas. They have townhomes that start at about $180,000, and the regular homes go for around $250,000 or so all the way up to $1 million plus.

96 posted on 02/02/2007 6:05:13 AM PST by CFC__VRWC (Go Gators! NCAA Football and Basketball Champions!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: defconw
My aunt and uncle's mobile home in Naples has survived many a hurricane, including Andrew. It has to do with anchoring.

Mostly luck. Naples was nowhere near the strongest winds of Andrew and was missed by Charley as well, and both had very small areas of highest winds.

97 posted on 02/02/2007 6:05:30 AM PST by Strategerist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 95 | View Replies]

To: commish

Prayers up. I've got a couple of friends in The Villages. I'm in Ocala and it looks like we dodged the bullet.


98 posted on 02/02/2007 6:06:04 AM PST by debg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: WV Mountain Mama

I have a tornado phobia as well, but have never lived anywhere that they occur with any frequency. I'd go back to EQ country first!

Adding my prayers to yours... the more images come out, the worse this looks, and it sounds as if the first report I heard when I woke ("FL thunderstorms kill an unknown number of people"..."significant casualties suspected") is still a possibility. :(


99 posted on 02/02/2007 6:06:35 AM PST by cgk (Republicanism didn't make Conservatives a majority. Conservatism made Republicans a majority. [NEWT])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 91 | View Replies]

To: cgk
Having been born and raised in Ohio, I have seen 2 story brick houses destroyed by tornadoes. When they hit, it's only by the grace of God that one survives. Don't matter what you live in.
100 posted on 02/02/2007 6:06:37 AM PST by defconw ( Mrs. Cibco in 85 days! Woo Hoo!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 93 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 421-423 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson