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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2016 6:12:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2016 21:05:40 GMT
I hope that the Atlantic coast of Florida (and the states to the north) has taken the necessary measures for what is coming. imageshack.com/a/img924/729/JLXv4U.jpgFrankly the new track that implies that Matthew could loop back on itself and keep going is somewhat alarming. It could actually visit Florida twice! |
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Post by mossie on Oct 6, 2016 18:37:35 GMT
I trust htmb and any other Florida residents will not be too badly affected.
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Post by htmb on Oct 6, 2016 18:46:47 GMT
Thank you, Mossie. I'm currently in New York City, as I'm sure you've gathered, but half my family and my home are in North Central Florida. My children have prepared as much as possible, and have even gone to my home to bring in a few potted plants and some porch furniture for me. Now all they can do is wait. Because we live inland, we shouldn't experince as much turmoil as those along the east coast of Florida. However, weather patterns can shift, so it's hard to know what areas will be hit hardest until after the fact.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 7, 2016 15:06:05 GMT
Friend of a friend (hereafter FOAF)on Facebook in "North Central Florida" reports they have seemingly weathered the brunt of it OK after doing a lot of preparation for the worst. All livestock safe and accounted for (which was their principal concern).
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Post by htmb on Oct 7, 2016 16:10:17 GMT
My daughter just forwarded a notice from Alachua County that said peak winds would not begin until 2:00 PM, two hours from now, and were expected to last for several hours afterwards. So far, she still has power.
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Post by htmb on Oct 7, 2016 17:39:23 GMT
Here's a screen shot taken just a few minutes ago. The eye of the hurricane appears to be close to where we stayed last month on St. Augustine beach. The shoreline is sure to have been heavily impacted. There are big concerns in the city of Jacksonville as Matthew approaches.  |
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Post by htmb on Oct 10, 2016 4:00:53 GMT
Fortunately, my city did not sustain damage from Hurricane Matthew. Other than power outages, most everyone seemed to get through the storm pretty well. The city of St. Augustine in the old town section, as well as the beach area, had major flooding with some areas being under eight feet of water. There was a lot of beach erosion, too.
But Haiti. Such devastation there. At least 1000 dead. Food and water shortages. Cholera. Homes totally destroyed. How much more can those poor people endure.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2016 4:47:55 GMT
It used to seem as though Bangladesh was the unluckiest country in the world, but that crown has now been worn for several years by Haiti.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 17:20:50 GMT
Looks like Bermuda is really getting hammered by Hurricane Nicole, which nobody has been paying attention to.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 1:24:21 GMT
There's currently a couple of nasty looking tropical storms going. One in the Atlantic, already named "Bret" (what happened to the "A', I dunno).
The other system is brewing just South of us in the Gulf and appears to be a a huge rain event for us.
This will be the "true test" for us personally since the guy who purchased the house directly across the street from us put in a f'n parking lot sized driveway and paved the whole back yard with solid cement despite my appeals to him to install a permeable concrete and then contacted the Urban Conservancy , a non profit educational, "watch dog" agency who I came to find out is run by a nearby resident who already had seen the makings of this project and urged him to go with a more effective drainage alternative which he ignored.
He was cited and had to pay a fine, rather, "a slap on the wrist".
I have documented the whole project and could potentially have grounds for a civil action suit along with some other neighbors but, F Me that we have to angst and fret about our home being flooded due to total irresponsibility and respect for others.
(pardon my rant...).
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Post by Kimby on Jun 20, 2017 3:30:07 GMT
Thinking of you Casi. Al Roker said 12" rain on top of what already fell earlier. Doesn't sound good. Fingers crossed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 20, 2017 8:29:33 GMT
I looked at the weather forecasts and the New Orleans area could definitely be in for tons of rain. I hope you're not affected by your neighbor's bullheadedness, Casimira. Either that, or his idiocy causes so much street flooding that he'll be forced to remove his paving of paradise AND that will provoke a general restriction on that kind of ugliness. Tropical Storm Calvin dumped so much rain on Oaxaca that there were mudslides in the parts of the state near the coast. Friends tell me there were days of unrelenting rain in the city. Meanwhile, I am sweltering in a city known for cool summer rains.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 18:15:06 GMT
Thanks good people.
I think that we'll be alright if this system keeps moving and doesn't stall out which would be the worst case scenario.
Thus far, it's been intermittent light rain with a nice breeze.
In the meantime, we are plied with the necessary items a la bottled water, canned goods, batteries, candles and the like so...
A friend of ours who lives in very prone flood zone is coming up here to stay with us and at least I'll have somebody to play cribbage with while my husband cooks.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 20, 2017 20:02:56 GMT
I envy that scenario! Except the deluge part. ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 14:34:11 GMT
We seem to have really lucked out and dodged a bullet.
The heaviest rains thus far were around 2a.m. then, none since although reportedly more on the way.
Right now it is delightfully breezy, temperatures around 75F.
Almost all the schools are closed along with many governmental offices.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 25, 2017 19:34:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 1:48:59 GMT
All eyes here are on this storm, now a Category 4 Hurricane Harvey.
Major event with potential devastating results for the Texas Gulf Coast and major rain and flooding for SW Louisiana and a possible swing back down towards the East and stalling with flooding potential for NOLA and surrounding areas.
Not a very pretty scenario I'm afraid.
Ironically, catastrophic flooding coinciding with the 12 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Tomorrow we will be dedicating our time filling up sand bags to distribute to those homes prone including our own...
The best coverage of this event is on StormCastforums.com, formerly Gulf Coast Weather, a site that Bixa turned me onto a few years ago.
Dedicated meteorologists and wannabees, so spot on and dedicated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2017 2:24:20 GMT
Are you getting rain, Casimira?
Downpours were forecast for today all the way west to Laredo. But I talked to my sister in McAllen & she said it was sunny without a drop of rain.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 14:03:22 GMT
No Bixa, no rain here.
One would never know that a storm of that magnitude was happening a few hundred miles away.
Corpus Christi got swacked last p.m.
The projections are that it will stall out and bring double digits of rainfall.
We are by no means in the clear and remain vigilant.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2017 17:11:26 GMT
Yeah, I've been watching it. Poor Rockport got slammed really badly and there are still lots of warnings about increased rain, but it looks like it may not be as awful as predicted. Hope you all remain dry!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 26, 2017 18:39:17 GMT
We are all thinking of you folks living in areas where the weather is so extreme. Good luck and stay safe.
Here in England this is the first Bank Holiday for a good while with nice weather, pleasantly warm with no rain forecast until Monday evening.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2017 20:05:36 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 28, 2017 8:17:15 GMT
That must have been terribly distressing for the elderly residents especially if they have some degree of dementia. I suppose that there was a certain amount of surprise that this storm was so bad. Hopefully in the clean up phase attempts will be made to provide a more efficient way of getting people to safety more quickly... although these events are quite rare aren't they? So it wouldn't be cost effective...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 14:51:56 GMT
Just awful and very disturbing.
There was an almost identical incident after Hurricane Katrina. A Nursing Home in St. Bernard left
dozens of elderly patients stranded in contaminated floodwaters.
The owners of the "home" were prosecuted severely and I'm sure many civil lawsuits were filed.
It does make one wonder however, where the family members?
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Post by lagatta on Aug 28, 2017 18:04:38 GMT
Yes, that is a terrible photo, and it did remind me of Katrina. I was working in Amsterdam then, and the Dutch couldn't understand how a wealthy country could be so unprepared. Perhaps there are no family members nearby. Many families nowadays are very far-flung. Here is an article on the subject, though as often the title is a bit simplistic. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-the-us-wasnt-prepared-for-hurricane-harvey/article36098669/Indeed federal preparedness seems inadequate and the National Hurricane Center has been without a director for months, but some states and municipalities are much better in terms of preparedness and building codes. Loss of wetlands - in a part of North America famous for them - is another factor. Sure hope people in NOLA don't get clobbered again. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 18:33:05 GMT
It rained all night and stopped briefly this a.m. I am in my third pair of dry clothes after spending the bulk of this morning cleaning out catch basins on my block. All packed with dry grass clippings from leaf blowers and plastic grocery bags.
We then went and got some sand bags to distribute to some neighbors who are not able to do themselves.
The city has distributed 40,000 sand bags thus far.
I'm exhausted.
The bulk of the rain is forecasted to come tomorrow and last on into the week.
Ironically, today is the 12 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Post by mossie on Aug 28, 2017 20:55:58 GMT
That nursing home video we saw on the TV was extremely shocking. How come the Word's major country can be so unprepared, and so slow to react to such an emergency?
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Post by Kimby on Aug 28, 2017 21:51:34 GMT
The nursing home ladies (were there any men?) were rescued in DUMP TRUCKS!
Apparently they are heavy enough and tall enough to be able to negotiate flooded roadways.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 28, 2017 22:35:30 GMT
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