Posted on 10/09/2018 4:49:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Major Hurricane Michael is churning toward the northeastern Gulf of Mexico coast. Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency Monday for 35 counties with mandatory coastal evacuations in the FL Panhandle. 1,250 National Guard troops are aiding the process and more than 4,000 more placed on standby.
FEMA is already on the ground in Florida; other federal agencies are also preparing to assist people in the storm's path.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday declared a state of emergency for the entire state. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal issued a state of emergency for 92 counties ahead of Hurricane Michael landfall.
Meanwhile, Tallahassee city government (Andrew Gillum, Mayor & D'Rat FL Gubernatorial candidate) offices are "closed until further notice." Tallahassee International Airport is suspending commercial flight activity as 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday but expects to resume activity on Thursday.
The U.S. military moved its aircraft from the Panhandle on Monday. Roughly 50 F-22 stealth fighter jets — valued around $150 million each — have been relocated from the Tyndall Air Force Base, while the U.S. Navy said it is moving all its training aircraft from Pensacola.
Energy Production The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) on Tuesday estimated that around 726 MMcf/d (28.4%) of natural gas production and 670,831 b/d (39.5%) of oil production in the GOM had been shut in ahead of the storm.
As of midday Tuesday, 75 platforms and three rigs had been evacuated, while eight dynamically positioned rigs had been moved out of the storm’s path as a precaution, according to BSEE.
Gulf of Mexico Satellite Channels
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NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Key West FL
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NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Panama City, FL
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“The media is so over the top on this, hyping and fear monkeying as usual. Is there any storm that is not ‘the biggest ever’?”
What hurricane affected you?
I witnessed the aftermath of a “Category 1” storm. It was not pretty to see homes in splinters, homes washed away, homes flooded that resulted in mold and all contents destroyed.
When Hurricane Sandy hit the Jersey Shore, occupants of areas had to evacuate on October 27-28th. It hit on October 29th. Gas, electric, and water lines were destroyed in the towns. Roads were destroyed. Residents were not permitted to return to their homes for three months...until the end of January. They had to comply because the bridge leading to their homes was closed.
It was during the school year. Makeshift schools were created. People lived in shelters for three months. Clothes and food had to be donated.....
Tell us about your experience during a hurricane.
TAMPA earlier today:
https://twitter.com/clarissadane/status/1049827754936549376?s=21
I was in several growing up and since. Also other storms. I dismiss media hype and do-gooder government that want everyone afraid of their shadows. If you live in an at risk home or you are not prepared then act. If you are prepared, stay. But all the hysterics is almost comical. Everyone acts like it is the first storm ever, the largest storm ever, that everyone is totally unprepared and live in 3rd world shacks on the water. We have become a nation of helpless wimps needing government to know best and tell us what to do and the crowd then backs it up. Pathetic.
Thanks.
A buoy is reported 20 waves about an hour ago.
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42039
Reported, not “is reported”.
Please. If you know anything about hurricanes, you can look at this one and see it is not hype to say get out. If you know anything about the surge potential in the Big Bend, you know this is bad news for anyone on the coast there. I think you are just being a ranting a-hole with no concern for the reality on the ground, jack. So please. Just get off this thread. We don’t need your ignorance here.
The thing you are missing is how stupid the average citizen has become since our youth.
The masses are idiots. The police and fire have to appeal to the stupidest common denominator when making a public appeal to get out.
You keep mouthing off about the hype but you’re really not that smart to understand it.
Oh they had dumbasses during Camille. Just ask those holding a hurricane party in the Richelieu apartments. Oops you can’t. But there are always the jackasses that show up on these threads and say it’s all hype. They did that in spades during Sandy. All Sandy did was being the third-most destructive storm in US history. Yeah, over-hypes. Morons.
Treat people like idiots (which the media and government is doing), then they will act like idiots.
Looks like my cousins in the Carolinas are about to get rained out again. But the estimated tracks show it passing south of us here, thank the Lord.
OK, tell us your beef with the coverage of this storm. It’s a Cat 3, could reach Cat 4 at landfall. Tell the residents of Rockport, TX how a Cat 4 landfall is hype. Please. I want you to make your case. BTW, my parents lived in Rockport for a decade before moving inland to not have to worry about hurricanes. So tell them they were idiots to make that move.
The storm is forecast to pass quickly through the Carolinas. No stall like Florence. Still, it is a scary scenario after what our Carolina friends and family have been through.
I was reading elsewhere that in low-lying areas of Wakulla County the power company is de-energizing lines and the sewage company is shutting down water to sewage lines.
It is not just this storm. My beef is that the media overhype the weather, aided by the nanny state that is telling people what to do. And what do we then see? Media out in the same storms faking it. We see the police running roughshod over the citizenry. Treat people like idiots, they act like idiots and become dependent upon the government to tell them what to do, when, and how. Worst example is Puerto Rico where people then sat around, even now by some accounts, waiting for government. Please need to be responsible for themselves. If they live in a substandard shack, if they live on the water, if they don’t have basic supplies, sure, leave, go to a shelter. But don’t pull the holier than thou BS with the rest of the citizens where can think and act for themselves.
I rode down the gulf highway through Biloxi 3 years after Camille. Water and beach on one side and concrete slabs and swimming pools on the other where the motels used to be.
Guess what? That has nothing to do with the reality of an impending landfalling major hurricane. So please, just slink away until after the storm is gone. The truth is, people on the coast need to leave. As do you from this thread, unless you want to report actual news about the storm.
Better to be safe than sorry(dead). And I do not believe First responders need to be rescuing idiots who didn’t leave. Rescue the pets idiots left. That said be safe my friends
“Tampa earlier today.”
Oh, shoot! I have a sister and a step daughter in the Tampa-St.Petersburg area. I thought this storm was safely west of them. Please God, look after them and all the others in harms way.
As awful as it sounds, there is benefit to preemptive shutdown of electric and sewer utilities, particularly when the risk is high for raw sewage to overflow into the fresh water source. When power lines are down, electrocution risk is great in flood waters.
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