Hurricane (The Cyclone) Season 2016

[BleedBlueGold]

Getting hit now. Not terrible but some big big gust. Lost a lemon tree in the back so far, some neighbors are losing shingles....still more to come.

Stay safe. Hopefully the eye wall misses the coast.

Why didn't you evacuate?

 

[FLDomer]

Stay safe. Hopefully the eye wall misses the coast.

Why didn't you evacuate?

I'm not in an Evacuation Zone (I'm 8miles from the coast) and luckily also not in a flood zone. I live in a block and brick home with our storm shutters up. Just gonna ride it out and hep the clean up when it passes. I'm fortunate to live in a tight knit neighborhood. Hell my kids were board and a both taking naps during these wind gust. Holding my rosary, wife and kids. We are all good here.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

My inlaws own a house in Daytona, a block off of the ocean. Thankfully they got out yesterday morning.

 

[FLDomer]

Worst is passing over Daytona now....it's incredible how strong these Georgia Pines and all these Palm trees are. Some of these gust are wild!

 

[BleedBlueGold]

I'm not in an Evacuation Zone (I'm 8miles from the coast) and luckily also not in a flood zone. I live in a block and brick home with our storm shutters up. Just gonna ride it out and hep the clean up when it passes. I'm fortunate to live in a tight knit neighborhood. Hell my kids were board and a both taking naps during these wind gust. Holding my rosary, wife and kids. We are all good here.

Gotcha. Good to know. Stay safe.

 

[wizards8507]

So was Drudge right? The fear mongering seems like bullshit once again. I haven't seen surface winds above 88 GUSTS even though they were promising SUSTAINED 130+.

 

[BleedBlueGold]

So was Drudge right? The fear mongering seems like bullshit once again. I haven't seen surface winds above 88 GUSTS even though they were promising SUSTAINED 130+.

Just out of curiosity, who would you blame if they didn't hype a hurricane and didn't call for massive evacuations and thousands of people were killed as a result?

The weather is unpredictable. The same storm has killed almost 500 people in Haiti. I'd much rather them hype a storm that doesn't follow through with predictions if it means savings lives.

 

[wizards8507]

Just out of curiosity, who would you begrudge if they didn't hype a hurricane and didn't call for massive evacuations and thousands of people were killed as a result?

The weather is unpredictable. The same storm has killed almost 500 people in Haiti. I'd much rather them hype a storm that doesn't follow through with predictions if it means savings lives.

The problem is that every time they hype something that turns into a big old nothingburger, it endangers the lives of people who aren't going to believe them when there's a real one and they promise "no no... it's for real THIS time."

 

[BleedBlueGold]

The problem is that every time they hype something that turns into a big old nothingburger, it endangers the lives of people who aren't going to believe them when there's a real one and they promise "no no... it's for real THIS time."

I hear you. I said the same thing yesterday. Nothing you can do about that though. The weather is way too unpredictable to know with 100% certainty of what will or will not happen. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.

 

[wizards8507]

Also, using Haiti as a proxy for Florida is a bit disingenuous. Homes in Florida are made of stucco and concrete blocks, not plywood and cardboard. Obviously if you live in a camper you should GTFO.

 

[wizards8507]

Also, LMAO @ the news networks. "THIS STORM WILL KILL YOU! For more, let's go live to our correspondent who's standing literally ten feet from the beach in the middle of this storm that will LITERALLY KILL YOU!"

 

[BleedBlueGold]

Also, LMAO @ the news networks. "THIS STORM WILL KILL YOU! For more, let's go live to our correspondent who's standing literally ten feet from the beach in the middle of this storm that will LITERALLY KILL YOU!"

I saw a loop video of an anchor getting blasted by a stop sign. Idk if it was even real, but I laughed hysterically. Giant pet peeve of mine when news anchors do that shit.

Edit: Maybe it's from a different storm. But still...funny to me.

 

[wizards8507]

I saw a loop video of an anchor getting blasted by a stop sign. Idk if it was even real, but I laughed hysterically. Giant pet peeve of mine when news anchors do that shit.

 

[Cackalacky]

Must be nice sitting somewhere far away from the storm cracking on people dealing with this

 

[BleedBlueGold]

Must be nice sitting somewhere far away from the storm cracking on people dealing with this

Not the case here, Cack. Just picking on the irony of news anchors telling people to evacuate and then they, themselves go right out in the middle of it. Lunacy.

Hoping for everyone's safety for sure.

 

[wizards8507]

Must be nice sitting somewhere far away from the storm cracking on people dealing with this

Give me a break. I haven't said a single negative word about the people dealing with the storm. My beef is with the media that's lying to you. And I'll be saying the same shit in three months when I'm dealing with the next bullshit BLIZZARD OF THE CENTURY and you're nice and warm.

 

[FLDomer]

I'm with Cack! Must be nice.

There was some major concern of a lot of distraction with Mathew as it is extremely, extremely rare for a hurricane to hit the east coast of Florida this far north. The counties this far north do not have the same strict building codes as Broward or Dade Counties in the south (strict codes brought on there because of Andrew, probably before many of those making the wise cracks could wipe there own asses). In my county of Volusia, where the eye of the storm was intitially thought to be making land fall, there are many houses, old and new construction that at stick (wood stud frame), with plywood and stucco over, and a land fall of a Cat 4 hurricane would have cause MASSIVE damage as well as probably caused multiple deaths. By the grace of God the eye stayed just off the coast and also weaken to a lower Cat 3. This storm will and would have killed if proper precautions weren't taken. There is plenty of clean-up that will be going on in my neighborhood shorty, need to oil the bar on the chainsaw!

Be safe all those effected!

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew is 339. That's what environmental racism looks like. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash">#BlackLivesMatter</a></p>— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) <a href="https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/784257358234996736">October 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[wizards8507]

I'm with Cack! Must be nice.

There was some major concern of a lot of distraction with Mathew as it is extremely, extremely rare for a hurricane to hit the east coast of Florida this far north. The counties this far north do not have the same strict building codes as Broward or Dade Counties in the south (strict codes brought on there because of Andrew, probably before many of those making the wise cracks could wipe there own asses). In my county of Volusia, where the eye of the storm was intitially thought to be making land fall, there are many houses, old and new construction that at stick (wood stud frame), with plywood and stucco over, and a land fall of a Cat 4 hurricane would have cause MASSIVE damage as well as probably caused multiple deaths. By the grace of God the eye stayed just off the coast and also weaken to a lower Cat 3. This storm will and would have killed if proper precautions weren't taken. There is plenty of clean-up that will be going on in my neighborhood shorty, need to oil the bar on the chainsaw!

Be safe all those effected!

That's very surprising to me. I lived right around the intersection of Polk, Osceola, Lake, and Orange counties which is about as inland and insulated as you can get in Florida. Even we had very strict building codes... block was mandatory on the first floor at a minimum.

 

[connor_in]

That's very surprising to me. I lived right around the intersection of Polk, Osceola, Lake, and Orange counties which is about as inland and insulated as you can get in Florida. Even we had very strict building codes... block was mandatory on the first floor at a minimum.

Silly boy...Osceola is in Indiana about 20 minutes away from ND...1 stoplight town...a second if you count the one on the intersection at the county line

 

[FLDomer]

That's very surprising to me. I lived right around the intersection of Polk, Osceola, Lake, and Orange counties which is about as inland and insulated as you can get in Florida. Even we had very strict building codes... block was mandatory on the first floor at a minimum.

In all honesty I was under that impression too but the neighborhood next to mine are all DR Horton homes and many of the one stories are stick,plywood, wrapped with tyvek and than hardy board and stucco. My home is two stories and bottom is block, and brick while the top is stick....we all slept down stairs last night.

 

[Irish#1]

Give me a break. I haven't said a single negative word about the people dealing with the storm. My beef is with the media that's lying to you. And I'll be saying the same shit in three months when I'm dealing with the next bullshit BLIZZARD OF THE CENTURY and you're nice and warm.

This isn't like annual snow fall or a summer storm where they like to hype it and we just roll our eyes. When the government officials are telling you to leave and they have already seen the destruction it brings, I won't ding the weather folks when the predicted wind gusts are 90mph instead of 120mph.

 

[Ndaccountant]

Give me a break. I haven't said a single negative word about the people dealing with the storm. My beef is with the media that's lying to you. And I'll be saying the same shit in three months when I'm dealing with the next bullshit BLIZZARD OF THE CENTURY and you're nice and warm.

While you have not directed any comments that way, you did say this:

The problem is that every time they hype something that turns into a big old nothingburger, it endangers the lives of people who aren't going to believe them when there's a real one and they promise "no no... it's for real THIS time."

If I were someone that is living through the storm or just got through it, it would piss me off too. There will be thousands that will return home and find uprooted trees than hit their home, flood damage or roofs missing. Sure, it may have not have been a Cat 5 or strong Cat 4, but mentioning the word "nothingburger" right now is callous at best.

 

[mango4]

While you have not directed any comments that way, you did say this:



If I were someone that is living through the storm or just got through it, it would piss me off too. There will be thousands that will return home and find uprooted trees than hit their home, flood damage or roofs missing. Sure, it may have not have been a Cat 5 or strong Cat 4, but mentioning the word "nothingburger" right now is callous at best.

Exactly, the storm hasn't even completely passed yet and people are acting like everything is fine. Let's wait and assess the damage after everything is done with before saying it's fear mongering.

 

[BGIF]

So was Drudge right? The fear mongering seems like bullshit once again. I haven't seen surface winds above 88 GUSTS even though they were promising SUSTAINED 130+.

Look again.

Daytona 91

Cape Canaveral 107

and a tad lower

St Augustine 85

Ponte Vedra 84


The max winds are at the eye wall which fortunately has stayed off shore some 10 to 20 miles. Shame on those forecasters for not guaranteeing the storm would miss the landfall by 10 miles.

 

[Cackalacky]

The problem is that every time they hype something that turns into a big old nothingburger, it endangers the lives of people who aren't going to believe them when there's a real one and they promise "no no... it's for real THIS time."

Even after all the time you have posted here, I still to this day just don't know if you are completely unaware of how uniformed or unempathetic you are or you just really think you actually have a single clue about the reality of the situation. Your posts are so ridiculous That I find literally zero credibility to them and I feel sorry for people who take you seriously on this site.

This will be a bad storm. It will affect multiple countries and states and the death toll is already approaching 1000. Regardless of the building codes that you might think you know, over 75% of pre-existing structures in my state are not designed to sustain hurricane force winds and or flooding.

Flooding will not just come from the surge but the inland rain traveling to the coast and having no where to go. So even in a cat 1-2 winds less than 100 mph can still gust well over that and cause significant damage. So the extent of this storm damage isVERY serious and it should be taken with EXTREME VIGILENCE AND RESPECT.

 

[Cackalacky]

115 mph sustained winds in Daytona

 

[Henges24]

I can't even image 80 mph winds yet alone 100 mph. Every once in a while Michigan will get 40 mph and there are branches down. I agree with you Cack, Wiz is a nut.

 

[ulukinatme]

Several years ago the remnants of a hurricane hit southern Ohio. There were 70-80 mph winds that damaged trees, tore off shingles, carried away chairs and tables. I saw a very large trampoline get picked up and thrown 30 yards against a fence. Power was knocked out in most areas for a number of days, our family went halfway across Ohio to buy a generator because every place in the vicinity was sold out...and this was all caused by the waning efforts of the hurricane! Mother Nature is an angry bitch sometimes.\

Stay safe, Florida.

[EDIT] It was Ike back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Ike_in_inland_North_America#Ohio_and_Michigan
You should see what 75 mph sustained winds can do here, Wizards, let alone the 88+ mph (Great Scott!) winds that Florida is currently seeing.

 

[Cackalacky]

1st landfall is currently projected to be at or near the East Cooper/Sullivan's Island/ Isle of palms area of Charleston. Great.