Hurricane Ian

NHC/NOAA ^ | 23 September 2022 | NHC/NOAA

[1Old Pro]

Some idiot has their dog on the pier

[Nifty]

6 live camera views. And PPL are in the ocean. (St Pete is mismarked - its actually Ft Myers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvFd1BeMrFw

[rodguy911]

My bet would be this is already a five and the powers that be don't want to call anything a five for insurance reasons. Also it would effect building codes and const. Bump all that up yet another notch. Once the insurance companies can claim another five hit the US insurance rates will skyrocket. So powers that be keep it at 155 not the first time they have done this either.
I can hear the insurance execs now all going to big govt. for all the stock market gambling they died with insurance revenue.

[fatima]

Saw that.

[CatHerd]

Thanks. The last cam on Sanibel went down a little bit ago. Amazing this one is still up. Crazy people playing in the surf, I see.

[FLNittany]

Damn...

[rodguy911]

Yeah if it will move on out that will be great.
As we discussed early on in this storm it appeared that there was not much in the atmosphere to keep this from going to a five which it likely is now.
They can’t get away with calling all these fours @155 over and over when they know a five is 157,does not pass the smell test.

[cll]

Jesus help them.

[Theoria]

Hardly any private insurance left in the state. Most of this tab will be the state, paying for people to live on the beach.

[combat_boots]

Amen

[shield]

I saw this on storm2k.org:

A recent dropsonde into the western semi-circle of #Ian’s eyewall has generally confirmed these 166 kt (190 mph) winds measured by the TDR earlier this morningWow. https://t.co/daMWZWRXDn pic.twitter.com/rMCCIehCvf
— Eric Webb 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 (@webberweather) September 28, 2022

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

Condominium is a great book and it was only a matter of time before the fiction became reality.

[TexasGator]

“Hardly any private insurance left in the state. Most of this tab will be the state, paying for people to live on the beach.”

Wrong. Where do you live? I have relatives in Panama City and I live in Tampa Bay Area.

Everyone I know has an insurance carrier from a company.

[Vaden]

I LOVED my meteorology class. It was an elective, and my degree wasn’t meteorology, but I was fascinated.

Andrew in 1992 baffled the experts. The worst damage wasn’t in the right front quadrant, but rather in the southwest of the storm! They STILL haven’t figured it out. They think downdrafts and/or intense mesovortices caused the extreme total destruction at Naranja. Also, mesovortices have been seen crossing the eye, meaning the eye may not always be calm.

So much left to learn about these mysterious forces of nature.

[abb]

Earlier this morning

https://twitter.com/LarissaScott/status/1575104392285458433

Larissa Scott
@LarissaScott
We’re on Bayshore Blvd in Tampa & #HurricaneIan has sucked some water out of the bay @abcactionnews

[FamiliarFace]

I hope she evacuated. Let us know how it goes.

[FamiliarFace]

Wow, and it’s going to get worse very soon.

[FLNittany]

A lot of homeowners in HOA’s down here self insure - meaning the HOA rebuilds the home (or condo, townhome) and you are responsible for the inside (drywall, appliances, flooring, etc.).

To insure the insides (if you’re between the ocean and intracoastal like me), you have to go through the state.

The problem is that isn’t a good value. When I stopped paying up, it was nearly $3,500/year.

Also, billionaires on Palm Beach and Jupiter Island (like the late, great Rush) don’t buy insurance. It’s cheaper over time to self-insure.

[FamiliarFace]

That’s another handy link. Thank you.

[FamiliarFace]

Thank you.