Drove up to Tallahassee, bit chilly up here. And very quiet. If that damn storm follows me I'm blaming Maguire.
The Hurricane Thread | Hurricane Rafael
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JFK would’ve loved this.
What a shift, Euro pretty much nailed this for a week. Good for Tampa but Punta Gorda is going to get hammered.
Models now showing it’ll slam through Florida, go back out to the Atlantic, then come back and hit somewhere between Savannah and Charleston…
damn
damn
Oh oh too close for comfort.
My sister and parents live in Orlando. It's not looking good. Let's hope by some miracle it shifts by tomorrow morning.
Oh lawd. Yeah they’re right in the path of it if they don’t evacuate.
One of my wife’s best friends is in the same boat as your family in Orlando.
“We are going to see a CAT 3 push inland close to Arcadia. These effects are going to be bad... with Hurricane winds reaching Orlando. Coastal landfall will be a CAT 4.”www.spaghettimodels.com
Did her friend evacuate? My family didn't evacuate. I also have my uncle there that's visiting from England. I was supposed to be there this week but because of work, I had to go next week instead.
I’ll have to double check tomorrow, but I don’t believe so.
At least you avoided getting stuck in it yourself!
Shouldn’t be too bad for us, just a tropical storm by the time it gets here. Weather Underground has the eye going right over downtown Savannah, so that might be cool.
“Ian is an extremely dangerous 140mph CAT 4 this AM and not expected to weaken. Latest track here. Inland conditions will go deep into the state with an exit towards GA/SC after.” www.spaghettimodels.com #Ian #flwx #hurricane
Doesn't get much worse. Ian is rapidly intensifying towards landfall. Now 155mph winds with 937mb. www.spaghettimodels.com #Ian #flwx #hurricane
Only a couple more mph to CAT 5.
Why is the CNN guy just there in the rain, completely drenched? Why doesn't he have an umbrella?
Fox once again blurring the line between weather reporting and parody
Apparently hurricane hunter detected 158.
This has to be slated to be worse than Michael.
I did a lot of my instrument rating down around Punta Gorda, and Arcadia is a lovely little airport that does a taco tuesday fly in. I'm really worried for them down there.
fecker is tracking on a Charley / Irma path. I was managing a fine dining restaurant in Sarasota in 2017 & it was a hellscape there for quite a while. So many downed limbs took out so many power lines, the wire men were basically restoring power block by block as it was so incredibly labor intensive & the outages were that widespread.
Never lost power in St. Pete, shows how much a slight jog to the east let Tampa Bay off the hook.
Never lost power in St. Pete, shows how much a slight jog to the east let Tampa Bay off the hook.
Livestream from the Port Charlotte to Punta Gorda area. Conditions are deteriorating rapidly
Also a webcam from Fort Myers beach... (don't let the stock image fool you)
It's trending more north than east right now, and HNC has put Tampa right back in the path. For the moment.
WTF... on the Fort Myers webcam a dude just jumped the fence on the pier and ran down to the end of it
Two blokes stood there now, don't seem too bothered about getting out of there 
edit: just left
edit: just left
Yeah - they came up with the guy that jumped the fence.Two blokes stood there now, don't seem too bothered about getting out of there
edit: just left
I've not seen him come back yet!
here he comes back
edit: other 2 dudes just ran into the damn surf
edit: other 2 dudes just ran into the damn surf
he's a madman. some morons are in the water now!
Darwin Award nominees in the making
That was wierd, cat 3 over Tampa and back east again.
Holy fecking shit. A meteorologist on MSNBC just gave an estimate of 18 feet of storm surge to the NE/E of the eye. He said that water will get all the way to I-75. Take a peek at a map to see how many miles inland the interstate is.
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This is the gulf itself...
Damn stay safe.
I'm now in Savannah. People are freaking out here because Ian is slated to hit us as a tropical storm. It'll be like a solid summer storm albeit over about 12 hours.
Forbes is anticipating 15 to 35 billion in insurance claims from Ian.
So it could hit Nashville?
If so that's fecked up. Keep safe.
The insurance industry here is already in a terrible state, this could push it over the edge.
My elevation is 42 feet and I am one of the highest areas of the county. It at times like this you realise just how flat and vulnerable the area is.