Almost every home was flooded by storm surge up to 9 feet high during Helene
Posted on 10/08/2024 5:24:51 PM PDT by RummyChick
Bringing 155mph winds and storm surges of up to 15 feet to major cities including Tampa, Orlando, and Fort Myers, experts have warned Milton is expected to be even more destructive than Hurricane Helene.
Scientists have suggested that the damage to Florida's west coast could be permanently altering after the two storms in such short notice, as Hurricane Helene hit just weeks ago.
Helene struck some of the same areas last month and killed 230 people.
As Hurricane Milton closes in on Florida, millions of people who were placed under mandatory evacuation orders are attempting to flee, causing travel mayhem and gridlock on the roads.
It is now too dangerous to fly from Tampa International Airport, which closed indefinitely at 9am on Tuesday.
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I hope they have evacuated the animals from Busch Gardens in Tampa.
Almost every home was flooded by storm surge up to 9 feet high during Helene
Strapped Down Roof vs. 150 mph winds.
My money is on the winds.
Seriously, I want pictures after the hurricane of this setup on his house. If it works, huaaah.
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
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🚨🇺🇸 HURRICANE MILTON TO MAKE LANDFALL THURSDAY MORNING
Milton is now expected to hit between Tampa Bay and Fort Myers early Thursday, between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Sarasota is closest to the projected landfall, with storm surges of 10-15 feet possible south of the city.
I’m a geologist. I say baloney. But a lot of the sand will end up offshore once the return flow begins.
Maybe they will change the scary text, too:
“Bringing 155mph winds and storm surges of up to 15 feet to major cities including Tampa, Orlando, and Fort Myers....”
I will definitely eat my Trump hat if Orlando sees a storm surge of even five feet. It is not on the coast! If the rest of the report is just as accurate, maybe they are simply joking about all of it.
By the way, my wife’s grandmother, who rode out the 1920s Tampa hurricane, told me those barrier islands off St Petersburg and Clearwater, that are now heavily and expensively developed, were created by that hurricane. She said that the next hurricane that came up Tampa Bay would wipe them out. I guess she was a fancy, fear-mongering geologist?
There were all kinds of responses to this setup such as you have to twist the straps, etc.
it is moving south at the moment which may mean ole Nasa Engineer Wally’s set up for his garage may work.
How come no beer?
So Florida will be an island after this?
here is the Aquafence during Helene protecting the hospital. If Milton keeps going south it might work for Milton too.
https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1843774950785835458
Modelo is a Mexican beer.
I saw something yesterday indicating that it would be Category III when it hit land.That doesn’t sound like anything historic.
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The rating system is based on wind speed only and that is stupid. Rainfall should also be factored in along with the size of the storm. Also important is how fast the storm is moving.
this is a barrier that could possibly be used for small storms by home owners
https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1843774950785835458
I dont think I can link to it..you have to scroll down to see the red panels
If somebody actually said Orlando would see a storm surge, they probably misspoke, and meant to say some other location actually on the coast. Orlando will be seeing cat-1 hurricane winds with possibly low end cat-2 conditions a bit further west.
Modelo isn’t beer, although it is what passes for beer in some parts of the world and some backwaters in the US.
;-)
here is a guy trying to save his motorcycle shop with Flexseal
https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1843771018156093498
Coastlines are forever changed each time a wave strikes... day in , day out, year after year, all around the world.
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