Hurricane Matthew Continues Its March Up Florida Coast, Hundreds of Thousands Without Power

WeatherChannel ^ | Oct, 7, 2016 05:15 AM EDT

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As Hurricane Matthew continued its march along the Florida coast, hundreds of thousands in Florida were without power.

According to the Florida Power and Light, more than 307,250 customers were without power early Friday morning.

In total, 451,930 FPL customers in Florida have lost power at some point Thursday into Friday.

[Antoninus II]

I live in Spring, North of Houston. I supplied power to the neighbors too after Ike blew thru. Also loaned them kerosene lamps since they were using tea candles. We were without power for about a week. Luckily the weather turned cool after it passed!!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“It’s the media that’s the problem”

I am convinced, the media is worse for civilization than 1000 nuclear bombs going off. If mankind ever does bring about the end of the world, the media will be primarily responsible.

[LouieFisk]

"I cold easily fly my rc planes in this."
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[LouieFisk]

“I live in Spring, North of Houston. I supplied power to the neighbors too after Ike blew thru. Also loaned them kerosene lamps since they were using tea candles. We were without power for about a week. Luckily the weather turned cool after it passed!!”
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I’m landlocked, but some straightline, tornado-ish speed winds blew threw, took out the windows and knocked out the power for 3 days awhile back. Trees brought down the lines. Read books by candlelight at nite. listened to the pocket radio and went to sleep a bit earlier than is my usual wont. Life goes on.

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Actually, it was downgraded to Cat 3 at about 1am

[Paradox]

I was attacked on this site for typing that the media and government agencies were lying ,

Perhaps you should have been, because all that could have easily come true. I know people who worked in the Hurricane Center, and they dont lie. Yes, the government gets hysterical, but they have to look at the worst possible case. The media does too because it makes for RATINGS. But to say they flat out lie is .. a LIE! See? I can do it too.

Trust me, one wrong turn of these storms, and they shall rain hell upon you. Been there, done that, not fun at all.

[sportutegrl]

how many storms does it take till they start burying lines underground?

But then Gulf States Utilities wouldn't get to mutilate 200+ year old historical live oak trees in places like Baton Rouge for their overhead power lines.

[Grampa Dave]

An word on St Augustine?

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I think they’re just starting to feel it. Not bad yet

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks.

We have good friends there, and we don’t want to bother them during this event.

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“Reminded me of Rita when the weather report zoomed in on a can rolling on the pavement as an example of “gale force winds”.”

Hahaha. Almost as funny as this NBC reporter in her canoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slEPV9LyS0

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If they’re near the coast, or maybe a river, then flooding will probably be their worst problem

[CodeToad]

“how many storms does it take till they start burying lines underground? “

You mean the sandy pool that is Florida? Two feet underground is the water table. They sink wells by merely hooking a hose to PVC pipe and pushing it into the ground.

So, how long before the bury their cables? How long before you show them how?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Or ‘Winstorm ‘97’ from MAD TV.

[stonehouse01]

“...St. Augustine?...”

Same here - we have family there and don’t want to bother them.

[Trumplican]

Thankfully the storm stayed East. A slight shift West would have been bad. People needed to take precautions. Hopefully it doesn’t come back around and get us. It looks like it will miss right now.

[Trumplican]

We have everything underground in our neighborhood built in 2004. We have a generator so it’s nice to not worry about power.

[Grampa Dave]

The good freepers will keep us posted re Matthew and St Augustine.

[Bob Ireland]

***The dangerous thing is that the next time there's similar weather, the public won't believe a crying-wolf enemedia even if there IS a horrible danger approaching***

Ha! Just wait until Al Bore, diCaprio and Clooney get going on it - we will all surely die if we don't make them billioaires! :^D

Actually - regarding Hurr. Matthew - I think many prayers, including mine, were answered o'nite. For us inland we were blessed by a slight jog of the storm eastward and a slight loss of strength... we went from potential 80mph winds down to about 40. Still rough for those on the coast, tho!

We are giving Matthew another chance tho: It is predicted it will make a big Atlantic loop and return to us next week. That has to be a Democrap thing: give 'em 'nother chance! ;^)

[fireman15]

Ice storm in Montreal, Canada about 15 years ago.
Many went without power till Spring.

We are in an outlying area. Our power has been out for weeks after ice storms and wind storms. There is no one in our neighborhood who doesn't have at least one generator. Many of them are hooked up to come on automatically.

We have a backup for our primary generator that we have never used. Fortunately we have natural gas that is hardly ever interrupted so the generators are not as much of an inconvenience as one might think. We just have to check the oil at least once a day. We have a little 2 stroke generator if all else fails and also some big power inverters we can hook up to the vehicles as a last resort.