Posted on 09/07/2017 8:09:47 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma had a devastating impact on islands in the Caribbean.
Hurricane and Storm surge watches were issued Thursday morning for South Florida. The Florida Keys began evacuating visitors and residents, followed by flood zones in Miami and Miami Beach. Sarasota FL declared a local state of emergency Thursday morning.
Polk County FL Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday that law enforcement authorities would check the identities of people who turn up at shelters--and take to jail anyone found to have an active arrest warrant. “If you go to a shelter for Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail... “If you have a warrant, turn yourself in to the jail — it’s a secure shelter.” Judd also posted that sex offenders and sex predators would not be admitted to the shelters. "We cannot and we will not have innocent children in a shelter with sexual offenders & predators. Period." Judd's statements unleashed a liberal firestorm via Twitter.
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Thanks for the ping.
GFS just came in with the storm also a little West. So it is going along with the others.
Wow. Sure hope that graphic ends up bring wrong. Hurricane all the way through Florida ?
You’re further north... good they have a nice place to head to.
Might try Hattiesburg MS or the MS gulf coast.
Looks like it’s going more westerly now.
The problem as I understand it is that if Irma goes more west then it changes the outcome of Jose.
I suspect that they are all in hunker down mode. Generators, water, extra food, gas, batteries. We are native Floridians and have been through all of them in the last 50+ years. Luckily the worst suffered was roofs that were ripped away. Lots of trees and property damage but no loss of life. All sorts of hardship in the weeks after, but everyone has come through it.
I’m a bit worried about that this time, because this storm seems bigger and stronger than past hurricanes. Also my mom is in pretty bad shape. Late stage dementia/Alzheimer’s. She can’t be taken anywhere. Very very confused. Nothing makes sense to her. We may lose her any day anyway. So the family has decided to stay with her through this at the family homestead in Gainesville.
This will be bad for some people but it would be better if the west trend continues..and it gets west and stays over land of it moves up the spine of FL..
otherwise the entire east coast of FL gets CAT 3+ winds and huge surge into GA/SC
Glad you are getting out. I’ve heard that ATL hotels have been sold out, for a few days :(
Prayers for you....please keep us posted.
I don’t “trust” any of the models particularly. But I’m watchful of trends, the cone and the eye. I’ve read a lot, gotten info from various sources. I’m sadly pretty cynical so don’t accept anything at face value. Still, this one has me very uneasy. This is a wicked storm.
....”GFS has shifted westward”....
Just goes to show you can’t really tell where it’s going to go ..it’s still projection equations at best. Either or it doesn’t look good for Florida period.
Kind of wondering how Orlando is going to fare....going down there the first week in December for a vacay...hope that it doesn't get too messed up.
Thank you so much for all your welcomes!!!
NO, i am not in Florida. I live in MI.
Other friends down near Orlando, just left and are driving to Colorado.
When HUGO was on his way, we were handed, at the gates of the base, and door to door, papers detailing what was coming and what to do. We had been through hurricanes so figured we would be ok.
Grandpa left Charleston and got hotel room in Columbia. Brother stayed at Grandparents house. A huge oak came through the roof there.
Grandma stayed with us. We put mattresses on the floor in the hallway. The storm raged for hours until the eye came through. All our neighbors came out to look see. It was eerily silent. Trees were down, electric lines. Cars overturned right in the driveways, thrown out on the lawns.
Anything standing before, was on the ground.
The next morning, the base and all the surrounding areas looked like a bomb had dropped.
There was no power. We had gas and water being on the base. But the water tasted like pine. Thankfully we could cook and flush the toilet.
Clothes were washed in the tub. Everything was rationed. The schools and banks were closed for 6 weeks.
Martial law was the norm, on base and off. NG and military both walking around with guns.
The base printed a one page “Airlift Dispatch”, like a newspaper, every day and walked it door to door daily. So we had ideas of what was going on.
We hooked up a small camper tv and vcr to the car battery for 3 hours every night. We were the only ones in our area to be able to do that.
Folly Beach became an island.
Every day on the base, a flatbed trailer came through handing out whatever they had One day it was a gallon of milk. The next day ice. The next day loads of oranges construction and electrical workers had brought from Florida literally in the backs of their pick ups.
Everything everywhere was destroyed. Thats about the size of it. One thing the base personnel liked, was due to the banks being closed so long, we could write a check for anything we needed on base. We were all given a chance to apply for damage reimbursement.
I wrote a 3 page poem about the storm, my neighbour read it on the radio. The newscaster cried.
Everyone went to bed at dark, nothing to do and no electric. We got up at daybreak. The children in the area had great fun floating down the street in a wading pool.
With my later EMS/fire career, i saw the best and worst of people and loved the job 100%. I miss it.
With DMAT, I helped with drills and normal community events.
I was packed and ready to go to Katrina, but my employer wouldnt release me to go as others were going and the manpower was needed at home too.
I can tell you, if I was in the path of this storm, I would have left as soon as it became a Cat 4.
At home I am also prepped and ready, and carry a bug out bag in my vehicle.
Its pretty quiet out here unless we get a bad storm or a snowmageddon..
When I go to the big city couple hours away, I know for certain what would happen in a crisis there and I want to be as far away as possible.
They must not be very concerned in Florida if they haven’t reversed the southbound lanes to northbound to evacuate.
No it doesn’t look good for FL. My brother (Cop) and SIL (Nurse) had to stay they are emergency response, but sent their young daughter to SC with friends leaving. Their in Broward County.
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