Hurricane Irma

[TexasFreedom]

Wow, what a year. Even slugs with their heads under a rock can't miss the Irma storm coming.

Anyone living in Florida, EVACUATE NOW. Tomorrow (Wednesday) should be when you are driving with anything you want to see again north out of the state. Do not wait, do not try to pack everything. Take a video with your phone of everything on your property and in your home. Take key mementos and supplies and go. If this is like anything they are predicting, it is going to devastate Florida. It's far better to return healthy than get rescued or even die trying to survive it.

Note it's a category 5 and GROWING. Imagine the damage that a tornado does. Now make that tornado 100 miles wide and moving at 10 mph. Wide enough to go gulf-to-Atlantic right over the top of all of Florida. You do NOT want to be there.

Pack tonight, leave at first light. Call the boss when on the road. If it misses your area, you can return. But you won't be able to drive starting Thursday, the roads will be a parking lot. Decide now & go with God.

 

[Danil54grl]

I would leave too. . .I wouldn't be staying for anything that massive along the coastline.

 

[jontte]

and it won't stay on the coastline

 

[TexasFreedom]

A note. Current predictions show Irma going straight west just north of islands. Then, right above Cuba & near the Florida Keys, Irma makes a right hand 90 degree turn. It then marches straight north right over Florida. The whole state is a going to get wacked.

BTW, saw this on Drudge. http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/05/v...d-to-seize-guns-ammo-ahead-of-hurricane-irma/
Short exert:
U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp signed an emergency order allowing the seizure of private guns, ammunition, explosives and property the National Guard may need to respond to Hurricane Irma.
Virgin Islands on Wednesday and bring four to eight inches or rain and 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts.

Wow, only 4-8" of rain & 60 mph winds (tropical storm strength, not really even a cat 1 hurricane!), and they want to confiscate guns? For what the National Guard might need? What, NG doesn't have any guns now? What a blatant gun grab... ^&*(% liberals.

 

[jontte]

sounds bad,those guns will not be returned..

 

[Silent Earth]

Now full on cat 5 winds of 185 MPH with strong gusts up to 230 MPH and a 12 ft storm surge. They have scrapped the Toll for the freeways out of the Keys for people trying to flee. its definitely got the potential to be more damaging than H Andrew of which so much recent prepper research was based upon. Best preventative advice I can offer is if you are in FLA then FO as quick as you can. I remember reading of traffic taking 14 hours at 5 MPH to get out the area when H Andrew hit.

Oh and of course the stupid holiday brokers and airlines here in the UK are continuing to delivery tourists straight into the high risk zone and refusing to let people cancel or change their bookings

 

[Silent Earth]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/transportation/fl-hurricane-one-way-evacuations-20170518-story.html

 

[TexasFreedom]

I was in Florida for Andrew. What a mess. The toll road was a parking lot from south FL all the way to Orlando & beyond. 3 mph speeds, imagine that for 150 miles. As I said, leave TODAY, go when speeds are 60 or even 20 mph, before they drop to 2 mph and everyone runs out of gas.

 

[Silent Earth]

Fla Keys officials are expected to announce a full evacuation today.

The US Navy has already ordered the evacuation of 5,000 of its sailors, contractors and civilian workers from Naval Air Station Key West.

The Navy said about 50 people will stay on to keep the base functioning at a basic level.

Planes, helicopters and submarines are being moved away the storm, CNN has reported.

Florida Governor Rick Scott, who plans to fly to the Keys today, said a hospital in the island chain would have its patients evacuated by air.

Hurricane Irma is now so powerful it is registering on devices designed to detect earthquakes.

Scientists started picking up background noise from the storm on their earthquake-detecting seismometers as Irma strengthened into a Category 5 storm yesterday.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...stering-earthquake-devices.html#ixzz4rtZevbeo
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[jontte]

this is one big reason I asked if anything had been heard of Gaz?
that starts to be so enormous,that you can't comprehend it...

 

[jimLE]

Miami-Dade, Florida Keys To Residents: Get Out
The news looks grim for Floridians as Hurricane Irma makes its way across the Caribbean. Forecasters now predict that Irma, possibly the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic, will take a sharp turn shortly right into Florida in the next few days. The news is especially bad for the Keys, which could wind up under water for the storm’s duration:

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09...urce=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

 

[Silent Earth]

I hear Kansas is pleasant in September and should be far enough away from FLA / GA, Discretion is the better part of valour they say.

 

[Silent Earth]

Irma is now bigger than France

 

[Silent Earth]

Irma FLA gas stations, HUGE queues forming as people start panic buying gas, BBC footage showed queues over 1/2 mile long outside some gas stations.

 

[Silent Earth]

Irma update
ISLANDS
95% damage to all properties on Antigua and Barbuda
Airport wiped out
All communications anntennas and arrays wiped out
8 dead
St Barts only reports apocalyptic levels of destruction

FLA
UN now reporting up to 49 million Americans at risk and Miami is at great risk.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-Puerto-Rico-damaging-Barbuda-St-Martin.html

 

[Silent Earth]

Two FLA nuclear power plants at risk from Irma
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/0...kely-to-shut-down-if-irma-continues-path.html

 

[jontte]

whatever you do,stay or go,decide it quickly!! something big as France coming,and that killer lady don't bring baguettes,wine and cheese..

yup,my weather might be shitty 80% of the year,but we don't have that to cope with.

 

[jimLE]

NOAA plane flies through eye of powerful Hurricane Irma, dramatic videos show

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/0...rful-hurricane-irma-dramatic-videos-show.html

 

[jontte]

tell me,how are they gonna evac Miami??

 

[Proud Prepper]

These people dont really know where storm is going. I bet it doesnt go where they think. Look at the original projected path compared to its current path. A week ago it wasnt even exspected to hit florida at all. I would not even rule out it hitting Louisiana .