It was strange driving through riviera beach after securing the house and seeing zero hurricane preparations having been performed.
The hurricane winds were blowing hard and it looked like looters were prepositioning themselves……by walking aimlessly around the streets.
It looked like the aftermath of a hurricane that hadn’t yet done it’s damage.
Some of us are not too worried about the news over hyping a hurricane that is hitting some 300 miles away to be fair. All its going to do to the east coast is dump a bunch of rain.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on September 25, 2024, 11:23:54 AM
Sand bags! Cars lined up for blocks..
Shouldn't that be like a sign you should move?
Yep media likes to exaggerate just alittle..think it's become a balancing act between over and under hype cya reporting..
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: AKIron on September 25, 2024, 11:53:24 AM
Winds get all the hype but the real damage is done by the flooding. Better to be prepared for the worst.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: AKIron on September 25, 2024, 11:55:57 AM
The 1900 Galveston Tx hurricane killed a lot of people. I bet they would have liked to have been warned.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: RotBaron on September 25, 2024, 01:30:46 PM
Every time I see the proverbial “we’ll be fine…” I think of this story 👇. I’m not sure why it comes to mind, I’ve spent plenty of time tuna fishing and I guess it’s because I’ve seen a lot of close calls that could have gone the other way.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: RotBaron on September 25, 2024, 01:35:20 PM
The post wasn’t meant to be anything other than play it safe… you want excitement then maybe go skydiving, idk. “It’s not that the wind is blowing, it is what the wind is blowing…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQD7Fzid1xI
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Mayhem on September 25, 2024, 02:02:16 PM
Prayers Out :pray
Folks Stay Safe out there Please!
:salute
Party at Shuffler's place when it's over! :cheers:
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on September 25, 2024, 04:31:45 PM
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Devil 505 on September 26, 2024, 10:24:38 PM
Stay safe, this looks like it will be a tough one.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Molsman on September 26, 2024, 10:46:24 PM
Stay safe I have family and friends down there that will be busy for the next few hours days since they all Work Fire/Ems In Florida and Buddy in Fripp Island SC that works for Fire Ems down there and earlier he posted just high winds and light rain for now but they expect to get hit with the aftermath as the storm travels
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: oTRALFZo on September 27, 2024, 06:58:26 AM
It gets real once the nearest Waffle House closes :lol
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Chris79 on September 27, 2024, 07:53:48 AM
That’s only happened to me once, with hurricane Ian.
Ian tore up our home in the Cape and we just completed repairing recently. It was crazy that I knew a few people that had their flood policies canceled just before the storm
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on September 27, 2024, 09:07:34 AM
Aok here and the 5th wheel up north fl
Feel bad for the flood damaged folks
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on September 27, 2024, 03:56:43 PM
From around where it came ashore
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: RUSH1 on September 27, 2024, 07:41:27 PM
EV's and saltwater. Another reality check for the pushers.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: scott66 on September 28, 2024, 12:49:04 AM
EV's and saltwater. Another reality check for the pushers.
wow :uhoh
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: icepac on September 28, 2024, 03:00:25 AM
Electric bicycles have caused about 10 times as many building fires as cars.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: maxy on September 29, 2024, 09:02:20 PM
Just left my home in Weaverville NC luckily no severe damage just a lot of fallen trees, the rivers in western NC and eastern TN have totally wiped out houses and businesses, some of the small river towns are completely gone, my wife stayed at our home in Florida (gulf coast) while i was winterizing NC home and she was more worried for me, Asheville river arts district, Biltmore village, Swannanoa, Marshall and Chimney Rock is all toast...its gonna be a long recovery, it will take years.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Banshee7 on September 29, 2024, 09:44:25 PM
Just left my home in Weaverville NC luckily no severe damage just a lot of fallen trees, the rivers in western NC and eastern TN have totally wiped out houses and businesses, some of the small river towns are completely gone, my wife stayed at our home in Florida (gulf coast) while i was winterizing NC home and she was more worried for me, Asheville river arts district, Biltmore village, Swannanoa, Marshall and Chimney Rock is all toast...its gonna be a long recovery, it will take years.
Has anyone spoken to higheye? I know he’s from East TN, but I’m not sure where.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: icepac on September 30, 2024, 03:37:04 AM
I’ll bet the Nantahala is insane about now.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: RotBaron on September 30, 2024, 09:51:29 AM
“XVIII Airborne Corps rapidly deploys ready Army forces anywhere in the world by air, land or sea, entering forcibly if necessary, to shape, deter, fight and win.”
Seems they must be busy doing something else. :headscratch:
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Chris79 on September 30, 2024, 10:39:20 AM
Has anyone spoken to higheye? I know he’s from East TN, but I’m not sure where.
He lives in West Virginia now I think.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: The Fugitive on September 30, 2024, 01:24:33 PM
"Twinboom" got hit pretty hard. He's getting a lot of help from friends and neighbors, but his daughter has started a GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-apollo-beach-family-restore-home-and-cars-after-helene?attribution_id=sl:e3e0861f-642e-4794-82a7-2f6609d8f97c&member=37505561&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp8_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link) page for those who would like to help out.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: scott66 on September 30, 2024, 09:16:06 PM
"Twinboom" got hit pretty hard. He's getting a lot of help from friends and neighbors, but his daughter has started a GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-apollo-beach-family-restore-home-and-cars-after-helene?attribution_id=sl:e3e0861f-642e-4794-82a7-2f6609d8f97c&member=37505561&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp8_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link) page for those who would like to help out.
done! Thanks for sharing the link fugi!
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: toddbobe on October 07, 2024, 12:30:37 AM
My home took 3 feet of water in Helene and now is in the danger zone of Milton, I hope I will be back soon. My drone video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqC_nx5SU08
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on October 07, 2024, 02:27:21 AM
Tour video is marked private. Stay safe!
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on October 07, 2024, 05:55:41 AM
Be safe and good luck Todd!
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Chris79 on October 07, 2024, 08:58:15 AM
"Twinboom" got hit pretty hard. He's getting a lot of help from friends and neighbors, but his daughter has started a GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-apollo-beach-family-restore-home-and-cars-after-helene?attribution_id=sl:e3e0861f-642e-4794-82a7-2f6609d8f97c&member=37505561&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp8_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link) page for those who would like to help out.
Maybe this should be a sticky at the top of the boards.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: DFATITAN on October 07, 2024, 08:32:29 PM
Ian tore up our home in the Cape and we just completed repairing recently. It was crazy that I knew a few people that had their flood policies canceled just before the storm
TRALFZ - My girlfriend lives in Cape Coral and I was down there helping her after Ian. She just finished with the last bit of the repairs as well. She's out of the flood zone and is just gonna hunker down. I'd be down there but I had to move to Nashville to take care of the Mom-unit.
Hoping the best for you all... been a tough couple years for the west coast.
>S< TITAN (Ken).
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Molsman on October 07, 2024, 08:45:34 PM
Stay Safe everyone!!!!! Maybe you can get lucky and make a drastic turn to Hit Cuba , since Helene hit ya a few weeks ago.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: icepac on October 08, 2024, 07:51:28 AM
Anyone trying to evacuate should remember to use the smaller roads that run parallel to I95.
Just remember that going through most towns has you making a turn at the main traffic light to continue through town. Not all are straight through.
I drove on I-95 from West Palm Beach and the parking lot started at Jupiter inlet. So......I went to Jupiter Donuts to contemplate and top up the car. There, a "scrappy johnson" looking guy directing traffic in his gas station told me "Those morons on I-95 don't know jack..............US1 is wide open" Both US1 and A1A were wide open with US1 having stretches of 65mph speed limits between towns. I watched the parking lot on I-95 as I sailed past at 45mph average speed (including traffic lights).
I did the same thing with I-10 until I had to turn onto 85 north and then going 100mph on georgia 400 and getting passed because they just drive that fast.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: oTRALFZo on October 08, 2024, 01:06:19 PM
So what are the insurance rates now days in FL for the average 3bd 2 bath home, I am in Houston and just wondering for comparison sake.
:salute
Wind/fire (homeowners) premium is about 6k a year Flood runs around 4k for us. However we are in a flood zone. I have a higher elevated home but being a rental, we pay the highest premium.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on October 08, 2024, 01:57:23 PM
Hurricane has a deductible..
Sink hole coverage is not covered unless you pay more $$$
Looks like landfall might be south of the mouth of Tampa Bay, that is the major concern as it could easily shut down that major port
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on October 09, 2024, 09:56:49 AM
Wind/fire (homeowners) premium is about 6k a year Flood runs around 4k for us. However we are in a flood zone. I have a higher elevated home but being a rental, we pay the highest premium.
My broker shopped my flood insurance awhile back. While he was shopping it, we were hit by Harvey. Local official gage broke at 51.88 inches. We had a good bit more. Not far down the road they had just over 62 inches. My home is not in a flood zone but had a couple of inches in it. Insurance stood good and we came out fine.
I figured we would not be able to find a better deal after that but my broker said he was still shopping. He said it was not a problem. He actually found better coverage for less with a reputable insurance. You just never know.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Chris79 on October 09, 2024, 10:34:40 AM
1133 in Sarasota, not to bad atm, rain, winds maybe 20-30.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Chris79 on October 09, 2024, 11:05:37 AM
1205 40pmh gust to 50 heavy rain.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: JimmyD3 on October 09, 2024, 11:10:08 AM
You guys stay safe, got you on the prayer list. :pray
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on October 09, 2024, 01:03:33 PM
We got lit the heck up on the back side of the eye. Luckily, I live maybe 1/2 mile from the substation with straight UG power, so no outage. Unfortunately my pool cage got gutted, and I lost two nice trees.i will head in the roof a bit later and inspect that, from the ground it looks alright.FYI, the eye is interesting, can’t say I’ve seen anything quite like it.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on October 10, 2024, 07:54:20 AM
Yes backside of eye wall was intense
Several trees split/down..saw a chimney laying across their roof
Power still out, glad the cooler air was dragged down
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: DmonSlyr on October 10, 2024, 08:45:02 AM
Not bad at my place in north Orlando. Trees and stuff down from what I hear. But my power never went out, couple of big branches fell and you can see the strain on the trees, but that's about it fortunately. Why these things always gotta hit at 3am...
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on October 10, 2024, 10:10:05 AM
We were talking about the last few all be night time strikes. Never a good time but nights are the worst. Glad to hear yall are ok. Hope every checks in OK. Homes and fences can be repaired.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: icepac on October 10, 2024, 10:55:01 AM
Good thing…. It seems Charlie hit harder but it was quick.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: DmonSlyr on October 10, 2024, 11:46:08 AM
This was down my parents street in Pinellas County about 11pm or so.
https://streamable.com/rrmi9o
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on October 10, 2024, 03:16:50 PM
Check out the Ray's field - Tropicana..
St Pete took damage
I am way inland and that was the worst hurricane since we moved here in 83
Power still out and our power never goes out..generators are noisy
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on October 10, 2024, 04:25:36 PM
I am way inland and that was the worst hurricane since we moved here in 83
Power still out and our power never goes out..generators are noisy
Eagler
My Generac is not too noisy. Since I put it in, power has been out about 10 minutes. LOL That seems to be the way it works. Get coverage and the power never goes out.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Lazerr on October 10, 2024, 07:14:51 PM
My Generac is not too noisy. Since I put it in, power has been out about 10 minutes. LOL That seems to be the way it works. Get coverage and the power never goes out.
Well they run on fuel shuff.. the power CAN go out
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: xanax on October 10, 2024, 07:34:42 PM
Well they run on fuel shuff.. the power CAN go out
Little known fact: margaritas defy the first law of thermodynamics and actually produce more energy than they consume. Therefore, Shuffler only needs to to fire up the marg machine once to get the ball rolling. After one or two of them, things just tend to light up on their own.
Gotta love science!
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: oTRALFZo on October 11, 2024, 09:16:49 AM
Thankfully our home is no different than how we left The surge never came to the home level. I didnt even have to clear debris in the yard.
What is concerning is the state issued a mandatory evac for everyone in our community and some that left are upset they left for "no reason" claiming they over hyped it. I really hope this does not set the tone for the next one and folks dont heed the warnings. This one was very scary and there is still a month left in the season
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on October 11, 2024, 10:17:35 AM
Thankfully our home is no different than how we left The surge never came to the home level. I didnt even have to clear debris in the yard.
What is concerning is the state issued a mandatory evac for everyone in our community and some that left are upset they left for "no reason" claiming they over hyped it. I really hope this does not set the tone for the next one and folks dont heed the warnings. This one was very scary and there is still a month left in the season
Happens all the time..
If it wasn't for Helene so close to milton they wouldn't have gotten the evac response they did imo
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on October 11, 2024, 11:12:48 AM
Well they run on fuel shuff.. the power CAN go out
Mine runs on propane. I have the numbers of 4 suppliers just in case. When I had the gen installed, I also had a 500 gallon tank installed. It supplies the gen and my pits on the back patio.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Lazerr on October 11, 2024, 06:14:31 PM
Mine runs on propane. I have the numbers of 4 suppliers just in case. When I had the gen installed, I also had a 500 gallon tank installed. It supplies the gen and my pits on the back patio.
Might want to consider a solar backup.. 500 gallons of lp won't last long.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Shuffler on October 12, 2024, 05:10:52 AM
Might want to consider a solar backup.. 500 gallons of lp won't last long.
10 days or so. In that time I can generally get a fill from one of my suppliers. I have several neighbors with solar. In almost every case, they have failed to meet expectations.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Eagler on October 12, 2024, 07:41:24 AM
Power coming back on late yesterday felt like we won the lottery!
Still hear generators running in adjacent neighborhoods..
Eagler
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: maxy on October 13, 2024, 06:30:28 PM
power was out a total of 19hrs, only used 3 gallons of fuel in my generator luckily the river didn't rise as much as it did during Ian, about a foot and half less, so zero water in the house this go around
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: xbrit on October 16, 2024, 06:43:36 PM
We were away in England on vacation when Milton came through, arrived home on Sunday night to no power and no water. Compared to others around us we got lucky we lost our carport and gutters, a lot of people around us(we live in a retirement community) lost their homes. We got power and water back on Tuesday morning and are slowly getting things squared away.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: DmonSlyr on October 18, 2024, 08:59:45 AM
We were away in England on vacation when Milton came through, arrived home on Sunday night to no power and no water. Compared to others around us we got lucky we lost our carport and gutters, a lot of people around us(we live in a retirement community) lost their homes. We got power and water back on Tuesday morning and are slowly getting things squared away.
Glad to hear it wasnt too bad for ya Xbrit. Still sucks about carport and gutters, but glad it wasn't worse.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: Chris79 on October 18, 2024, 02:49:44 PM
We were away in England on vacation when Milton came through, arrived home on Sunday night to no power and no water. Compared to others around us we got lucky we lost our carport and gutters, a lot of people around us(we live in a retirement community) lost their homes. We got power and water back on Tuesday morning and are slowly getting things squared away.
Never lost power myself, I guess it pays to live 1/2 mile from a substation.
Title: Re: Florida players
Post by: xbrit on October 19, 2024, 11:24:34 AM