Posted on 09/10/2017 2:02:02 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula has begun to experience Hurricane Irma following landfall at Marco Island. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Prayers for all in the storm path.
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Buoy Data SE US & GOM
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Hurricane Irma Live Thread I
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Hurricane Irma Live Thread III
Oh, yes, they can sue. But I can’t say that I’ve ever seen any such cases. It would seem a stretch to collect on that.
The NOAA pics are complete for all the keys. At first glance, it seems “permanent” structures fared relatively well. Trailers, not so much.
Take a look at Ohio Key and all the RV’s that got scattered like dominoes.
FPL reporting that about 68% of their outages are now restored.
https://www.fpl.com/storm/customer-outages.html
Not fun:
https://www.facebook.com/wxbradWCNC/posts/1676433719095744
I actually had almost the same thing happen to me, years ago, except that I had time to get slowed from 50-55 mph to about 30-ish. And, there was little wind - it was just an old tree that chose that moment to come down. I broke the trunk into 2 sections(!) - granted that it was partially decayed.
OUCH....
Another couple seconds and she would be in much worse shape than a little hurt.
That was too close a call.
Great images today of President Trump and the First Lady, VP Pence, Gov. Rick Scott (and I think his wife), Sen. Rubio and the director of FEMA in Naples and Fort Meyers. Trump, Melania and Mike Pence were serving food to Irma victims *that President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump paid for themselves*.
From the images I saw, everyone was super excited to meet the Dream Team serving them lunch! There were many thumbs up and pro-Trump T-shirts. It was heartening.
Unfortunately our friends in South Venice, FL are still without power - they've been moving from place to place, and are now in a hotel. All they know is they're supposed to have power restored by September 21st. Hope they get their power back much sooner than that...
Thanks for your nice report!
Thanks for your nice report!
Sure. You can watch Trump's visit to SW Florida on You Tube, etc. at some point. Here's one link of several:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjItgnjnvd0
Wish I knew how that mobile hot spot thingy works, but I'm happy it's working for you! :-)
Not to diminish your experience, or the woman in the video, but a few years ago we had a brief storm blow through in Columbus with strong gusts. Imagine that tree being a power line instead. It happened for real and it came right through some man’s van as he was driving, through the windshield and severed his leg or foot. It was a pretty crazy thing. His rescue was incredible. It was pouring rain, still windy, and those poles were live. (There were about 10 of them all strung together, and this one in the middle toppled and pulled all the others towards it.) Amazing courage for the first responders and the Good Samaritans who stopped to help, well, I guess they were stuck around him. At any rate, it was nothing short of a miracle that the man lived. If I’m not mistaken, I think his surgery to reattach the severed piece went well, and he is alive to tell the remarkable tale.
I was reading another person’s account in which, in probably a bit under Cat 1 conditions by her estimation, the poster had branches repeatedly blown into power lines near their house. Said branches caught fire and then blew or dropped onto their roof and back yard — so they had to go out in the storm a few (or several?) times to drag burning branches off the roof or away from the house and stomp out the fire(s). This while transformers were blowing up all around (”like the 4th of July” was the description.) At some point, they observed a small tornado ripping through the rear of their neighbor’s property and down the street.
Now they have the post-storm problems to deal with — it’s hard to imagine so many people still without power* — but fortunately for that family, they did not flood or suffer major house damage. To think this storm could have so easily been much worse...
*My family was in the 2009 mid-south ice storm, and that was bad enough. Wikipedia says over 2 million people were out of power, in that one, at the worst point. I was hearing numbers like nearly 16 million, at one time, for Irma???)
Wow!
I figured I was both very unlucky and very lucky — if I’d been travelling maybe 1 mph(?) faster, after leaving my friend’s place, the tree might have landed right on me, instead of in front of me. It was a lonely country road, late at night, too.
In the instance you cite, that man’s survival really is a miracle! I’ll bet quite a few happened in FL, these past several days...
There's a *possibility* Hurricane Jose could pay the northeast a visit (probably as a Cat 1 or Tropical Storm), as he seems to be shifting west. Time will tell.
Hooray! Glad you are back, and chilling under the a/c vents.
Me too! Now if all the tropical waves the rest of the year will just head to the East of Newfoundland...
Just talked to my sister in Plant City and their power went back OUT again sometime today after being on yesterday. BUMMER! No one at TECO is answering the phone and talk is it will be Sunday before they get electrical service back online. My Mom’s apartment in Mango/Seffner got and kept electric since Wednesday. I’m getting that “survivor’s guilt” feeling again.
I've had concerns that the same thing may happen here. We still have ~100,000 without power locally.
Meanwhile, still no internet/landline phone/tv--Frontier FIOS. Wireless companies waiving data overage charges through 9/15, I think. Gonna cost a bundle to stay connected after Friday with cellular wifi hotspots.
Great link.
On Big Pine Key Between 6 to 10 streets towards the bottom of the map from the Big Pine Key Park the area got obliterated.
Lots of single wide mobile homes where all that is left is the steel under-carriage.
That's got to be awful, after enjoying A/C, stocking up the fridge again, etc. I sincerely hope she gets her power back very soon.
Friends of ours in South Venice, FL still have no power. They rode out the hurricane in inland Sarasota, and have moved around a few times. They're now in a hotel.
Meanwhile, here in the Connecticut woods, our power went out for a few minutes earlier tonight for absolutely no reason, as it frequently does. Oh hey - it's Thursday! That must be the reason... :-/
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