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Posted on 10/22/2005 1:25:10 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Kind of a wet morning, huh?
I haven't heard from my son in Key West.
How are you doing?
Just saw 3 transformers blow at the Dade/Broward county line area. One blue explosion right after another. Sad but pretty. It's howling pretty good here.
Over on TWC.
Whoa; cool.
Praying for all of you. Hope everyone is staying safe.
I can only imagine. I've got my best friend in Tampa with her kids right now - husband is overseas (AF). So I'm praying for both of you - and EVERYONE in the path of this thing..
Keep having brownouts electricity flickering here. Hurrying to get the new thread up before losing info.
Stay safe. Hopefully, the one that gets the power to you doesn't join them.
How are things in your neck of the woods?
Yikes! All the homes will be underwater.
>>>Please don't. I really have had it with people downplaying this and claiming things that have no relation to the reality. I'm not in the mood for it.<<<
Definition of Hurricane Expert: Someone that has never left the State of Montana, lol.
I've lived on the water in hurricane path's my whole life. I've also done a lot of ocean sailing. That stated, I shut everything down and left Key Biscayne early Thursday morning, (I’m in Houston) because Wilma was too dangerous and unpredictable.
Check out posts 1843 and 1847.
The Florida grids in a sorry state right now, if transformers in Miami are causing line fluctuations in...points northwest.
I know that St. Petersburg (where my daughter is) is not in Wilma's path, but does anyone know what kind of weather fall out will be there?
Well, that's just sea level. That water will be driven by stout Cat-3 winds.
Marco Island will no longer exist by ten am, and possibly not even when the water goes back down. That there won't be more than 5 % of the man-made structures left is a given, the remaining question is whether the foundation of the island itself survives or not.
That's not good. I wonder how much of the grid we'd lose if the fluctuations get worse.
Yikes! Where'd Marco Island go. Hope that FReeper's parents got the hell out of there.
Morning,
Just up here in Sarasota (well officially up, been listening to the storm since 3)
It's a TS here, with higher gusts. I wish I had a way to know what the winds are here. It's loud out there. St. Pete - folks should be fine.
Where are you at?
Thanks loads. Take care.
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