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Post by onlyMark on Oct 9, 2024 19:00:59 GMT
I have a friend house and dog sitting in Miami. She's hoping it will slip past her.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2024 20:46:06 GMT
Miami is not in trouble this time
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 10, 2024 1:18:23 GMT
Kimby , I know you're safe up there in Montana, but it must be nerve wracking to watch the progress of this storm. htmb , I'm looking at the live map & it appears the edge of the storm is just barely touching the southern part of Gainesville. Hope all is well there in your town & that there is no damage. By now we've all heard about the heretofore always calm & professional Florida weatherman who broke down on camera while reporting this hurricane. What the short clips don't show you is his warning about climate change. Yes, this man who certainly knows his field dared to use those words forbidden by gov. Ron DiShithook back in May. bjd and kerouac2, I hope the winds held off where y'all are & that the rains have abated.
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Post by htmb on Oct 10, 2024 1:48:57 GMT
Thanks, Bixa. So far, we are relatively okay here in the north. We should start experiencing stronger wind gusts later this evening, but nothing too bad, I hope. We have had constant rain throughout the day, but I have no idea if we have localized flooding. I’m guessing river areas will be under water. From central Florida south is a whole other story, I am afraid.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 10, 2024 2:27:59 GMT
We got a few (somewhat) lucky breaks.
Wind shear dropped Milton from Cat 5 to Cat 3 as it approached the Florida peninsula.
A wobble kept Milton on a track as far north as possible without causing major storm surge in Tampa - with 3 million souls, that would be a bonafide disaster - yet keeping the eye wall and most extreme winds away from Sanibel.
The storm sped up and made landfall an hour or so early, which might help us with the storm surge not coinciding with the high tide.
AND it’s not a full moon or new moon, so tides are lower than normal, and lower than with Ian.
There was a big gap on our side of the eye of the storm full of dry air, which means we are getting very little rain. And the south side of this storm is less rainy than the north side, which is projected to get hammered with 18” or more.
Though the storm threw off at least 20 tornados today, I don’t think any hit Sanibel (although there’s no one on the island to report it yet).
I’m optimistic for good news tomorrow, or at least less bad news than we’ve been fearing. Unlike with Ian when we woke to the news that the causeway was broken in 5 places.…
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 10, 2024 6:29:26 GMT
Fingers crossed Kimby.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 10, 2024 19:14:04 GMT
I know that national news is geocentric, but the news tonight in France spent much more time on the flooding in France than anything that happened in Florida. Lots of scenes of people walking in water up to their waist or even their shoulders. Easier I suppose when there are no downed power lines or water full of snakes or alligators.
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Post by htmb on Oct 10, 2024 20:36:37 GMT
Our mayor, who I have known for a very long time, posted something on Facebook today about how President Biden had called him this morning to ask how our town had fared and if we needed anything. After that call, he received four others from various government representatives. In his Facebook post, he also pointed out that, in his several years as being mayor, he has never heard from our governor after a storm (and possibly for any other reason).
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 10, 2024 21:01:58 GMT
There was a lot on the radio news in the night (the World Service) and plenty on the tv as well today. America is news, there are lots of journalists over there atm because of the build up to the election. Admittedly the reporters were casting about for Brits living over there to interview. Footage of the hurricane was quite alarming!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 11, 2024 2:25:02 GMT
the news tonight in France spent much more time on the flooding in France than anything that happened in Florida. Really, the national news everywhere owes geocentric coverage to its readers. In today's world, any of us can jump online to get minute-by-minute coverage of a distant event, but news from channels and broadcasters we know seems like what we have to know. President Biden had called him this morning to ask how our town had fared and if we needed anything. And this is the poor old guy we kicked to the curb! Yes, yes -- I know all the reasons why, but he did so much practical stuff for ordinary citizens & was on track to do more. America is news, there are lots of journalists over there atm because of the build up to the election. Admittedly the reporters were casting about for Brits living over there to interview. Footage of the hurricane was quite alarming! The sheer strength of that storm makes for compelling viewing, but more important, those two back-to-back bigger & stronger than ever hurricanes are newsworthy because of the giant warning they represent. |
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Post by Kimby on Oct 13, 2024 15:41:50 GMT
It worked, Mick! Your crossed fingers kept the wind away and held the storm surge down to a manageable level, and much less silt! Thank you! |
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 13, 2024 15:49:44 GMT
I even saw a number of news reports from Sanibel.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 13, 2024 16:08:49 GMT
A fair number of Europeans - and Canadians - vacation or winter on Sanibel. The tendency of some European women to go topless or European men to wear tiny “banana hammocks” on our beaches raises lots of eyebrows.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 13, 2024 16:46:11 GMT
The British call those "budgie smugglers."
Of course the main attraction of reporting from Sanibel was that it was immediately accessible, unlike some other instances.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 13, 2024 17:05:29 GMT
It worked, Mick! Your crossed fingers kept the wind away and held the storm surge down to a manageable level, and much less silt! Thank you! My pleasure Kimby. Any time. |
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Post by Kimby on Oct 13, 2024 17:15:40 GMT
The main attraction of reporting from Sanibel was that it was immediately accessible, unlike some other instances. But it wasn’t really. Except by aerial or drone photography. The causeway wasn’t reopened immediately, even for homeowners. |
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Post by fumobici on Oct 13, 2024 17:51:30 GMT
I wondered how your Sanibel place fared.
The first couple of times I went to Europe, the topless ladies and banana hammock-wearing men could at least be young and attractive. Nowadays, it's only old people who do either (probably the same ones I saw doing it 30 years ago) and it's not a pretty sight. I'm told that naturist/nudist resorts are the same— mostly populated by geriatrics.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 13, 2024 18:23:03 GMT
In Parisian swimming ppols, only "speedo" type swimsuits are authorised for men, nothing long or baggy. It is always so funny to see how North Americans are disturbed by this. Also a few muslims.
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Post by htmb on Oct 13, 2024 18:28:15 GMT
I went to the grocery store today to do some weekly shopping, and found yet another reminder of how lucky our community is to have survived the storms with minimal damage in comparison to our neighbors on the West Coast of Florida. Many of the store shelves were empty, especially those in the refrigerated sections. I ended up buying about 1/2 of what I’d planned.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 14, 2024 19:05:44 GMT
Former hurricane Leslie is supposed to bring rainy remnants to France starting tomorrow.
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