Irma and other hurricane specials

[Trinity]

* WIND: Prepare for life-threatening wind having possible extensive impacts across east central Florida. Potential impacts include: - Considerable roof damage to sturdy buildings, with some having window, door, and garage door failures leading to structural damage. Mobile homes severely damaged, with some destroyed. Damage accentuated by airborne projectiles. Locations may be uninhabitable for weeks. - Many large trees snapped or uprooted along with fences and roadway signs blown over. - Some roads impassable from large debris, and more within urban or heavily wooded places. Several bridges, causeways, and access routes impassable. - Large areas with power and communications outages. * FLOODING RAIN: Prepare for life-threatening rainfall flooding having possible extensive impacts across east central Florida. Potential impacts include: - Major rainfall flooding may prompt many evacuations and rescues. - Rivers and tributaries may rapidly overflow their banks in multiple places. Small streams, creeks, canals, and ditches may become dangerous rivers. Flood control systems and barriers may become stressed. - Flood waters can enter many structures within multiple communities, some structures becoming uninhabitable or washed away. Many places where flood waters may cover escape routes. Streets and parking lots become rivers of moving water with underpasses submerged. Driving conditions become dangerous. Many road and bridge closures with some weakened or washed out. * TORNADOES: Prepare for a dangerous tornado event having possible significant impacts across east central Florida. Potential impacts include: - The occurrence of scattered tornadoes can hinder the execution of emergency plans during tropical events. - Several places may experience tornado damage with a few locations seeing considerable damage, power loss, and communications failures. - Locations could realize roofs torn off frame houses, mobile homes demolished, boxcars overturned, large trees snapped or uprooted, vehicles tumbled, and small boats tossed about. Dangerous projectiles can add to the toll.

From the national weather service, for eastern central Florida.  And we are a little west of it.

[Trinity]

Hitting us dead center of the eye in a few hours. Hit Laura J dead center, nailed Patty, so far everyone is ok.

Waiting it out, won't find out how much damage there is until we get there mid to end week.

Meanwhile I am working on theater stuff. Actually productive lol.

[Yuki]

We will still be getting some strong winds.

I wouldn't even be concerned if it wasn't for the tree. Aside from that, we should be fine. I'll still be taking the animals and important stuff over to my mom's for the day to be safe.

[Jennifer (Tink)]

We are under coastal flood watch. And considering we are less than three miles from the sea I am concerned. Small rain storms flood parts of 17 as is and I have to go to Wilmington at the height of the rain.

[Trinity]

Loved ones are safe. We took a direct cat 2 hit.

Not sure how much damage yet.

Fuzzy's windows blew out. Our own home was more vulnerable so I imagine its pretty bad.

We are going to lose our shirts.

Itll be a few days before i can get back and findvoutchow hard we got hit but i know its bad.

[Jennifer (Tink)]

Sept 11, 2017 19:35:16 GMT 8 Trinity said:

Loved ones are safe. We took a direct cat 2 hit.

Not sure how much damage yet.

Fuzzy's windows blew out. Our own home was more vulnerable so I imagine its pretty bad.

We are going to lose our shirts.

Itll be a few days before i can get back and findvoutchow hard we got hit but i know its bad.

Praying that it isn't as bad as you think

:cuddly hugs:

-- Jenn

[Yuki]

Hiding out from the winds. They sound scary honestly, but not strong enough to do any damage here I don't think.

Odin's nervous farts are, though.

We're in my mom's, with the cats in a big dog crate. We'll find out in the morning if the camper survived.

[Trinity]

Sept 11, 2017 20:12:53 GMT 8 Jennifer (Tink) said:

Sept 11, 2017 19:35:16 GMT 8 Trinity said:

Loved ones are safe. We took a direct cat 2 hit.

Not sure how much damage yet.

Fuzzy's windows blew out. Our own home was more vulnerable so I imagine its pretty bad.

We are going to lose our shirts.

Itll be a few days before i can get back and findvoutchow hard we got hit but i know its bad.

Praying that it isn't as bad as you think

:cuddly hugs:

-- Jenn

Could be worse for sure.  Tree limbs down in the yards.  Still don't know about our place.  No power... 

The windows kinda blew out but not totally.  The windows are intact.  They got sucked out of the walls, in the window frames, the whole things.

Direct hit by the eye, 100 to 120 mph sustained winds, amazing things held together.

I'll know more in a week, flying my wife out Friday morning, then I start driving down the coast.

PM me if you are on the east coast....

Love to all.

[Deleted]

Insurance helps but the deductible sux. FEMA will help. I remember Andrew because I was in Ft. Polk at the time and we got sent toward Morgan City and staged in Baton Rouge. I think it hit as a cat 3. Not as bad as Florida. I was also in Katrina on the good side. If you could call it that. Also Gustav and whatever the little cat one was that hit last. The little Cat one did more to my home than Gustav or Katrina did. If the hurricane keep moving there is a lot less damage. There will be damage though but the little cat one nearly stopped and the eyewall kept on and on and on until it slowed down. That one blew my roof off, and we were about 3 or four hours in 70 plus mile per hour winds. Katrina we had gusts to 90 MPH sustained with 110 MPH gusts. But it kept moving.

Harvey was a cat 3. Irma was a cat five and hit at I believe a Cat 4. We have Maria which was a Cat 5  then downgraded after Puerto Rico. Not to sound Crazy but the western Hemisphere particularly the US did witness a total Eclipse that lasted from the west coast to the East Coast. So maybe in older cultures that did view day turning into night as a harbinger of destruction really did understand something about the significance. Just a theory. But maybe there is something to it. I hope everyone is all OK. It sux having property damage but that is nothing compared to loss of life.

LOL I have lived in Louisiana and I have suffered more property damage in 15 years than I ever did tornado damage in Arkansas. In Arkansas you can build a storm shelter and in 15 or less minutes it will be over. Build a storm shelter on the coast then you may drown instead of ending up in OZ. Even for thunderstorms with Tornadoes. File an insurance claim and then use FEMA. The deductible may be high so buy cheap on the coasts that get hit by hurricanes. Insurance also pays for food lost in your fridge.

 I bought cheap down here. My deductible is ten percent. A mobile home worth 40 grand is only 4 thousand dollars. I can swing that if they pay the other 36 thousand to totally replace it. Some friends of mine have a 200 thousand dollar home had to have a total roof repair with a 10 percent deductible. The repair cost 19 thousand dollars. That is why I bought cheap down here.

Thank God Maria is looking like off shore. If not three major US mainland hurricanes falling within weeks apart? I feel really sorry for the people in Puerto Rico and the other islands that have been hit twice with two Cat 5s though. Puerto Rico is talking about 4 to 6 months without electricity. I can't even imagine that.

[Jennifer (Tink)]

Sept 22, 2017 6:54:05 GMT 8 @jamie said:

Insurance helps but the deductible sux. FEMA will help. I remember Andrew because I was in Ft. Polk at the time and we got sent toward Morgan City and staged in Baton Rouge. I think it hit as a cat 3. Not as bad as Florida. I was also in Katrina on the good side. If you could call it that. Also Gustav and whatever the little cat one was that hit last. The little Cat one did more to my home than Gustav or Katrina did. If the hurricane keep moving there is a lot less damage. There will be damage though but the little cat one nearly stopped and the eyewall kept on and on and on until it slowed down. That one blew my roof off, and we were about 3 or four hours in 70 plus mile per hour winds. Katrina we had gusts to 90 MPH sustained with 110 MPH gusts. But it kept moving.

Harvey was a cat 3. Irma was a cat five and hit at I believe a Cat 4. We have Maria which was a Cat 5  then downgraded after Puerto Rico. Not to sound Crazy but the western Hemisphere particularly the US did witness a total Eclipse that lasted from the west coast to the East Coast. So maybe in older cultures that did view day turning into night as a harbinger of destruction really did understand something about the significance. Just a theory. But maybe there is something to it. I hope everyone is all OK. It sux having property damage but that is nothing compared to loss of life.

LOL I have lived in Louisiana and I have suffered more property damage in 15 years than I ever did tornado damage in Arkansas. In Arkansas you can build a storm shelter and in 15 or less minutes it will be over. Build a storm shelter on the coast then you may drown instead of ending up in OZ. Even for thunderstorms with Tornadoes. File an insurance claim and then use FEMA. The deductible may be high so buy cheap on the coasts that get hit by hurricanes. Insurance also pays for food lost in your fridge.

 I bought cheap down here. My deductible is ten percent. A mobile home worth 40 grand is only 4 thousand dollars. I can swing that if they pay the other 36 thousand to totally replace it. Some friends of mine have a 200 thousand dollar home had to have a total roof repair with a 10 percent deductible. The repair cost 19 thousand dollars. That is why I bought cheap down here.

Thank God Maria is looking like off shore. If not three major US mainland hurricanes falling within weeks apart? I feel really sorry for the people in Puerto Rico and the other islands that have been hit twice with two Cat 5s though. Puerto Rico is talking about 4 to 6 months without electricity. I can't even imagine that.

I have a lot of family down in PR. We lost all communication with them and have no idea if they are ok.

They live in the suburbs of San Juan which I heard was hit pretty hard.

It sucks not knowing anything.

[Deleted]

Oh yeah. My friends and family up in Arkansas during Katrina felt the same way. The electricity came on before the phones did.

Just pray for them and wish them OK. They probably are but still.

Suburbs are pretty OK. Houses are a little stronger and then there are shelters if not. Katrina was bad but in NOLA the levy broke. That is what made it so bad. The non chalantness and a late call for evacuation made it bad too. The Governor? of PR did the right thing and probably scared a lot if not most of the people to the seriousness of the situation. Before Katrina our governor and the mayor of NOLA did not do that. They waited until the last minute. NOLA sits about 20 feet below seal level and when a Levy breaks it is a big deal. I took my boat but the second time I was shot at by looters I left. I had my FS92 and brought that for dogs and gators and or other wild animals like even feral hogs. When I asked someone from the NOPD after and was told while camped on a levy that I could get charged, the next morning it was C' ya.

Sounds messed up but I don't want to spend years in jail just defending my own life.

Katrina was the mayor's and the governor's fault. The Governor of PR did a really good job of communicating the seriousness of the threat though. That thing on facebook ain't working either?

[Trinity]

Sorry to hear this Jenn.

We are in trouble down here. Still in shock, dont know how to recover.

Not feeling like talking much. Everyone is ok but i need to call insurance and see what they will cover.

[Jennifer (Tink)]

Sept 22, 2017 9:20:09 GMT 8 Trinity said:

Sorry to hear this Jenn.

We are in trouble down here. Still in shock, dont know how to recover.

Not feeling like talking much. Everyone is ok but i need to call insurance and see what they will cover.

Be safe hon

Thinking about you.

:hugs:

— Jenn

[Trinity]

Sept 22, 2017 9:23:54 GMT 8 Jennifer (Tink) said:

Sept 22, 2017 9:20:09 GMT 8 Trinity said:

Sorry to hear this Jenn.

We are in trouble down here. Still in shock, dont know how to recover.

Not feeling like talking much. Everyone is ok but i need to call insurance and see what they will cover.

Be safe hon

Thinking about you.

:hugs:

— Jenn

We're fine.
Its only money.  Went all in and losy a big hand is all.

Just gunna take time.

[Jennifer (Tink)]

Got some pictures from the area where my family lives. It's utter destruction. Still haven't heard from any family members.

For anyone who does have family in PR and can't get in contact, take a look at this link:

Can’t contact your family in Puerto Rico? Here’s what to do


:hugs:

-- Jenn