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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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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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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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 rotten 80% of the year,but we don't have that to cope with.
 
This is looking VERY VERY BAD for the entire Florida peninsula:

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I don't have to bet exactly where it hits & be right. I just need to get out of the way of anywhere it could hit. I don't mind wasting some effort moving if it saves my life.

How to evacuate Miami? Easy, but it takes time. You've got at least 6 lanes of highways going north or west-then-north. Miami is maybe 2 million people. Let's say 4 people per car, so 500k cars. Let's say 1 car every second going 60 mph. So in 1 minute, you have 60 cars per lane, with 6 lanes that's 360 cars with 4 people, or almost 1500 people. In 1 hour you have 86k people, in 24 hours you get 2 million people out.

Yup, that is optimal traffic. But that also assumes every car goes on these 6 lanes. You have dozens of smaller roads. So it is not a reasonable exit rate. And some people will go by bus (50 people in each?). Use school buses, at least they won't flood. Others leave by plane or boat. But reality is that maybe 1/4th of people won't leave. It is not an unreasonable evacuation. And spread it over 3-5 days and it's actually easy.
 
Doc,that looks extremly bad.
what I heard on the news here,building codes are not that good for Fla,buildings are not planned for anything that strong and violent,so it's going to be nasty.
 
As I said earlier I fear a repeat of the total Snafu evac that happened during Andrew, only goona take a few vehicles to break down, run out of fuel or collide and Bohica.
 
I would think the newer construction would be well built, but the older the building lesser codes.. When Ike hit Galveston county in 08, their building codes were very strict to rebuild. . . Most everyone lost their cabins at Rollover since they got a direct hit. . Can only assume FL would be the same since they continuously get hit.
 
Silent Earth said:
As I said earlier I fear a repeat of the total Snafu evac that happened during Andrew, only goona take a few vehicles to break down, run out of fuel or collide and Bohica.
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Current traffic conditions on Google Maps.

Orange is slow and go. Red is stop and go. You're looking at a 250 mile long traffic jam to get out of South Florida and away from the East Coast. Hotels are booked solid all the way to Birmingham, Alabama.
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DrHenley said:
Current traffic conditions on Google Maps.

Orange is slow and go. Red is stop and go. You're looking at a 250 mile long traffic jam to get out of South Florida and away from the East Coast. Hotels are booked solid all the way to Birmingham, Alabama.
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One of the things about Andrew I remember is hundreds of Floridians out of fuel food and water in Nowheresville Georgia and the locals have having any fuel they could sell.
 
Oh Sh1T apparently lots of brit tourists are stuck in FLA and no one appears to be to sure what to do with them??
 
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