Posted on 10/09/2018 4:49:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Major Hurricane Michael is churning toward the northeastern Gulf of Mexico coast. Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency Monday for 35 counties with mandatory coastal evacuations in the FL Panhandle. 1,250 National Guard troops are aiding the process and more than 4,000 more placed on standby.
FEMA is already on the ground in Florida; other federal agencies are also preparing to assist people in the storm's path.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday declared a state of emergency for the entire state. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal issued a state of emergency for 92 counties ahead of Hurricane Michael landfall.
Meanwhile, Tallahassee city government (Andrew Gillum, Mayor & D'Rat FL Gubernatorial candidate) offices are "closed until further notice." Tallahassee International Airport is suspending commercial flight activity as 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday but expects to resume activity on Thursday.
The U.S. military moved its aircraft from the Panhandle on Monday. Roughly 50 F-22 stealth fighter jets — valued around $150 million each — have been relocated from the Tyndall Air Force Base, while the U.S. Navy said it is moving all its training aircraft from Pensacola.
Energy Production The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) on Tuesday estimated that around 726 MMcf/d (28.4%) of natural gas production and 670,831 b/d (39.5%) of oil production in the GOM had been shut in ahead of the storm.
As of midday Tuesday, 75 platforms and three rigs had been evacuated, while eight dynamically positioned rigs had been moved out of the storm’s path as a precaution, according to BSEE.
Gulf of Mexico Satellite Channels
Public Advisories
NHC Discussions
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Key West FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar New Orleans, LA
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Mobile AL/Pensacola FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Panama City, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Tallahassee, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Tampa Bay, FL
Yeah, that is what is left of her house and she was in it for the hurricane.
Here’s more stuff from Live Storms Media
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nJElGcVcTpeZJVyxEbzJw
Pretty devastating but can see that after clean up, the town is still in good enough shape to function. Hopefully electricity was shut off prior to storm! Lots of powerlines in streets and on buildings. Very sobering.
Have you seen anything from Cape San Blas? I’m expecting it’s just leveled.
That must have been the speediest hurricane in my memory? It's already, one day later, up in VA?? So that combination of warm gulf water along with speed and that 920 number made it ultra dangerous? Is that right? As well as that perfect cat's eye? I didn't want to ask during the storm but what was that blackness around the eye in the radar shots?
Mexico, Fl. Devastation. It boggles the mind how one house would have been safe to ride it out in and next door one would be dead? Is there a rhyme or reason to nature’s powerful forces? Same out west with fires and earthquakes. The randomness is unfathomable.
Awaiting news of your loved ones. Hope all turns out well.
A lot probably has to do with the newer structures having been built under much more stringent building codes.
They were just outside the eastern eyewall from what I can tell. I saw some pics posted in the Cone Heads restaurant website. A lot of surge, some wind damage such as parts of roofs blown off, a church steeple toppled.
One of the videos has homes, several with brightly colored roofs intact. Those are metal roofs. Re-roofed my home 14 years ago with metal roof. Much more durable (~40 years) than other roofing materials, and better for storm protection too. Pays for itself through extended lifespan, insurance premium reduction, and I chose reflective white metal for its ability to keep the house cooler with lower electric bill. Looks good too. All round winner.
RE: Cape San Blas:
All I have seen is the link at post # 816
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3695142/posts?page=816#816
The freeper who lives there is an evacuee in Tallahassee at the moment.
He might as well look for a washboard too. Electricity will be out for quite a while.
Mexico beach may never recover to be honest. The entire town is basically gone.
Such a shame that people listened to the hype and got out before the storm. Now they won’t be able to get back in for days. If they’d stayed they could already be cleaning up and putting their lives back in order.
Fake photo. Winds never peaked above 40MPH.
It will recover, and soon. Florida Panhandle beachfront real estate is some of the most expensive dirt there is. The value of the house is much less than the value of the lot itself.
He’ll need some water first.
Some are gone. Some are not.
Not too long ago i visited the Missippi coast to make my personal assesment of the way things are. Dutring Katrina, one of my ex scouts had severe water damage to his Missippi home.
As I drove down the beach front, I saw some very old (and very large) houses and some vacant properties where houses were gone and some very new elevated houses. As you drove inland, the elevation rose and the apparent damage disappeared. Of course a few years after the event, down trees and absent or damaged roofs were repaired.
The same was observed in the arial videos of the Florida Keys last year. Yes there was damage, wind damage, but the TV crews focused on gas station canopies and trailer parks. In the trailer parks it was obvious that those properly tied down were ok. A wrecked gas station was next door to a large apparently well constructed single story motel that showed no damage at all.
So, yes there was damage. The damage was the result of humam error or greed or realy stinginess. Like people that build houses in a flood plane or on the ocean side of Staten Island, destruction is just a matter of time. Build shabbily and what you built will be gone.
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