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, well 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 its 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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NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Morehead City, FL
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How informative; ) Low bid on loudspeakers?
Here’s hoping for shear.
HaHaHa!
Re Zello — do you know if it uses data from you plan, or is it similar to regular talk/text features?
Heard from a friend that mandatory evacuation of Hutchinson Island (barrier island in Martin Co and St. Lucie Co) has been rescinded due to the predicted path moving further and further west.
Can anyone confirm?
24 This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
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My glass is always filled.
...thank you for spreading joy...amen and amen.
Nothing on Twitter about the status changing.
Gov. Scott on FNC stating that they need more nurses for special needs folks at shelters, asking for additional volunteer nurses...
“Still do not understand why they did not make all lanes northbound.”
Yesterday, someone (maybe Gov. Scott) said they need the southbound lanes open going south to let in the rescue people, nurses, electrical crews from other states, etc.
Thanks.
Yesterday I heard that Indiana and Florida have some kind of reciprocity agreement to assist each other. Apparently, Indiana was invaluable after other disasters in Florida, and they have a good working relationship.
It was also the fuel issue. Contraflow was delayed so they could keep getting gasoline to areas that needed it.
God Bless Indiana! :-)
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Yes; fuel, too. Someone had mentioned that fuel trucks were using southbound lanes to provide gas to cars that had run out going north. I don’t if that’s true or not, but it does make sense.
Are the TV mets hyping this? Of course. Does that mean the underlying danger is not real? Of course not.
Can’t seem to get it to work for me, even with ad blocker turned off. Is it subscription only?
1935 went from a Cat 1 to a Cat 5 in about 24 hours in the same waters where Irma is now.
The Florida NG has been called up. All of them.
Check your Adobe Flash version. You need 10.1 or higher.
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