Hurricane Irma

Cowboy said:
Just think Miami gets one shot every 10-15 years to move their homeless population and get paid to do it.
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Hey, it worked (mostly) for New Orleans...

And maybe Houston. Wonder if any of the displaced N' Orleanians went back.
 
The Green Heron said:
@Friday can you shed some light on this?
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Folks don't think it can happen to them.
And people in the Keys are somewhat benign to the threat of hurricanes. We got them all the time. Gov.co would insist that we all leave and it would turn out things didn't get that bad, so we all had the boy-cry's-wolf burn out. If it was a Cat 2 or less that meant hurricane party.

I never left for any of them. The only time I second-guessed my decision was when Andrew was approaching. I remember watching the tv and seeing it head straight for us, and I thought this is not good. And then...poof. The power went out and none of us knew where the damn storm was going then. Just by the Grace of God and sheer luck, it turned north at the last second and slammed Homestead. And did it slam. If we bombed Isis like Andrew did Homestead, they'd surrender tomorrow.

I prepared to get hit. The house...forget it, but it was right next to the boat ramp. So I got my 2 triple-tanks(scuba) and planned to wear one and haul the other and swim out to the bridge in about 40' of water, tie a rope to the bridge piling and stay underwater for the 3 hours the tanks would last. It kinda sounds dumb, but underwater is the safest place to be in a storm.

The only comfort I had was the wife was visiting her friend in Ft. Lauderdale. My last phone call to her..she asked if she should come home. I said NO absolutely not!
We said our goodbyes. She was crying. It still touches me.
 
I 'm sure a lot of the Gulf Coasters do not know what will happen in the storm surge. I used to live a few years in Punta Gorda (north of Ft. Myers), and the Gulf Coast side usually seems more like a lake compared to the East Coast. Smaller waves and there are really few sea walls around the bigger cities up the coast. Lots of senior citizens in Tampa. I guess the last one to hit the lower Gulf Coast was Charley about 15 years ago.
 
I just read where Seth Rogan is riding out the storm in Orlando, throwing a Hurricane party....That's right Seth don't take no sheot from that "Mickey Mouse" storm.

Show the rest of Hollywood that you've got balls.....Just tell Jonah Hill to spit them out so we can all see them...HAHAHAHAHA!
 
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Hurricane party fun from the halcyon 60's:

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The Camille hurricane party has supposedly been deconstructed to a myth. I was there, but we'd been evacuated to Keesler AFB.
 
Friday said:
Folks don't think it can happen to them.
And people in the Keys are somewhat benign to the threat of hurricanes. We got them all the time. Gov.co would insist that we all leave and it would turn out things didn't get that bad, so we all had the boy-cry's-wolf burn out. If it was a Cat 2 or less that meant hurricane party.

I never left for any of them. The only time I second-guessed my decision was when Andrew was approaching. I remember watching the tv and seeing it head straight for us, and I thought this is not good. And then...poof. The power went out and none of us knew where the damn storm was going then. Just by the Grace of God and sheer luck, it turned north at the last second and slammed Homestead. And did it slam. If we bombed Isis like Andrew did Homestead, they'd surrender tomorrow.

I prepared to get hit. The house...forget it, but it was right next to the boat ramp. So I got my 2 triple-tanks(scuba) and planned to wear one and haul the other and swim out to the bridge in about 40' of water, tie a rope to the bridge piling and stay underwater for the 3 hours the tanks would last. It kinda sounds dumb, but underwater is the safest place to be in a storm.

The only comfort I had was the wife was visiting her friend in Ft. Lauderdale. My last phone call to her..she asked if she should come home. I said NO absolutely not!
We said our goodbyes. She was crying. It still touches me.
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Well? Did you live? :D
Cowboy said:
We have several katrina refugees that work in our jail they said they would never go back.
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I've met some refugees from there as well. One couple split up with her going to the Superdome, thinking it would be safer for her while the husband stayed to guard the neighborhood. She said it was the worst decision of her life. She should have stayed with him. She has since passed.
 
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Tornado on the ground going up 95 from Ft. Lauderdale airport, moving at 70 mph, per Broward EOC on scanner.
 
Surge of at least 10' recorded with the bottom half of houses on stilts washed away in some locations where and just east of where the eye passed in the Keys.
 
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My cousin is a cop in St Petersburg. He said they were all pulled a few hours ago when wind speed hit 45mph. No police or emergency personnel active until the wind drops back below that threshold. Might be late tomorrow...

South St Petersburg is gonna be a looters paradise until then...
 
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bigfelipe said:
My cousin is a cop in St Petersburg. He said they were all pulled a few hours ago when wind speed hit 45mph. No police or emergency personnel active until the wind drops back below that threshold. Might be late tomorrow...

South St Petersburg is gonna be a looters paradise until then...
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New song for Coolio..."Looter's Paradise"...Instead of gangster's paradise..Lol


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What's the windage hold for 5.56 in a 45mph crosswind? I guess heavier gr. would be better. Now that think about it, .308. ;)
 
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