Posted on 10/24/2005 2:18:01 AM PDT by NautiNurse
It's been a steady rain up here in Jacksonville since about 3-4 AM. Good luck down south.
LOL! Although, a whole bunch of us are amazed (and very thankful) to have power this morning.
Thanks a lot!
I've heard a hotel will go back, but I don't really know.
Wow, guess I should have trimmed my oak a bit more. It's getting ready to smack the house.
We had some friends looking at lots in North Port (for residential building.)
Seemed like the price of lots were jumping every week. We drove down with them one weekend. We were amazed at how the land had been parceled out years ago (I think by the Army Corps of Engineers, right.)
Learned a little about scrub jays too, LOL!
Back then the power plants ran on coal.
Do they still?
No kidding. I think TECO puts the system on special "Hurricane Hair Trigger" mode. Let a puff of wind shake the lines and it'll trip.
So you know things aren't too bad if we aren't running generators.
Actually, I think North Port was a General Development Corporation project. They platted it, built all these streets, then sold FL dream retirement lots to Yankees who didn't realize it was out in the sticks.
Just a few years ago, you could have as many lots as you wanted there for $5,000 apiece. Sure wish I had grabbed a bunch. They go for ten times that now. Unless, of course, there are sacred scrubjays...
This is newer, but I'm not sure how beneficial sat imagery is right now.
The overheads are not in agreement with the NHC plots. Sat and radar imagery have the eye center further east and south than the NHC plots show it.
Except for Marco, which has already happened, I'm not sure the difference will have much effect either, with the outer eyewall over 100 miles in diameter. I think it's a function of the irregularly shaped clear air eye, but I just don't know what's "real" and what can safely be ignored.
If forced to choose I will go with the NHC plots over radar or satellite. They have stayed right in the pocket, under ten miles of error, for several days now.
Be careful...
Heads up Guenie, coming your way. Hopefully you won't get whacked too hard.
5.56mm
Looks like Everglade City is smack dab in the middle of this huge eye now.
FPL is 6% coal, 18% oil, 21% nuclear, 37% gas, and 18% purchased from other sources.
Sorry, the link didn't make it in the last post.
Here it is:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/east/latest_eastwv.jpg
My husband was kidding my friends about the scrubjays. Told them to pick out their lot, and he'd bring his pellet gun and make sure there weren't any scrubjay on it.
It's amazing how a bird can change the price of adjacent lots.
When my friends started looking, I think lots were in the mid 20's, but by the time they made a few trips, it seems to me lots had hit the 40's...all in the course of a couple months.
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