Posted on 09/07/2017 8:09:47 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma had a devastating impact on islands in the Caribbean.
Hurricane and Storm surge watches were issued Thursday morning for South Florida. The Florida Keys began evacuating visitors and residents, followed by flood zones in Miami and Miami Beach. Sarasota FL declared a local state of emergency Thursday morning.
Polk County FL Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday that law enforcement authorities would check the identities of people who turn up at shelters--and take to jail anyone found to have an active arrest warrant. “If you go to a shelter for Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail... “If you have a warrant, turn yourself in to the jail — it’s a secure shelter.” Judd also posted that sex offenders and sex predators would not be admitted to the shelters. "We cannot and we will not have innocent children in a shelter with sexual offenders & predators. Period." Judd's statements unleashed a liberal firestorm via Twitter.
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What I’m seeing and hearing is west also....at least at this point...think it’s going to hard turn much from the wobbling back and forth we’re seeing thus far?
More West, definitely. Maybe Irma even turns SW toward/over Yucatan I think (also an open sea sailor).
At gunpoint? Do what?
.....And some people just find it of interest to see how things will go and how hurricanes operate....all kinds of folks are zeroed in on this unusual happening....some with family members in the line of fire or potential of...others who study and inform us.......it’s a national event that doesn’t occur often and certainly not in the way this hurricane has shown itself and as as we’ve watched this develop......which is also of interest to thousands if not millions.....
So....nobody can dictate how others should react nor see this event....and yes some will “feel” the emotion of the event more than others. Those who are stoic won’t...but we’re all in just the same.
I don’t know why this would be other than what ingtar said, but this is the first I’ve heard of this.
***BTW, wife’s brother in Tallahassee says hundreds of people are camped at the rest stop just west of Tallahassee on I-10. Out of gas or no other place to stay. Cars parked on the side of the freeway a mile or more on either side of the rest stop.***
The part of evacuating people & government officials don’t like to talk about. Oh they got millions of people out of South Florida, still in the path of the hurricane stuck in traffic in their cars.
But the evacuation was a success.
Well that’s a nice graph but it’s still moving West.
Wasn’t that the inspiration behind the movie “Key Largo”?
So what is the result of a westward shift?
They all should have been on the road two days ago...
1935 hurricane wasn’t hugging Cuba’s coast like Irma...Irma may cross *over* Cuba still heading West.
Could change again also. At any rate it’s headed for Florida entire no matter left or right...right? Meanwhile will continue to post the latest fro Noaa just the same as I did that.
Just offering it up for interest...people are getting too critical so I’ll call it a night....
Because it’s Cuba.
Posted two days ago that it is going west.
It is too early for new Cuba material. They are currently getting their axxes scraped with eye going right along the north shore.
Eye,at Ft. Myers 8pm Sat?
Or,Sun?
TWC, 930 mb, current.
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