Hurricane Irma

[larryz]

And in a state with a high water table, I'd imagine it's more difficult to bury stuff. I may be wrong but just a thought.

/edit It is a high water table in Florida, right?

It's more of a lower elevation in relation to sea level, but the effect is the same.

 

[21stamps]

We were actually lucky. We had friends that were out for almost 3 months after that storm. People were looking crazy by the end of that. Fortunately we missed Typhoon Omar which hit before we arrived. That one was even worse.

O. M. G. I would have a complete breakdown.

 

[21stamps]

Showing horrifying damage to lower keys right now on CNN. So aweful!

Is it still drones or are people filming from the ground? Have they talked about Cudjoe, Summerland, or the Key Haven area yet?
One more question, have they said an estimation on when people can return?

 

[nor'easter]

I was in WDW the first week of September, which is supposed to be one of the slowest weeks of the year and Pandora was always crowded and FoP always had a 2+ hour wait. During one mid-morning, they started to extend the queue into the land with roped-off switchbacks. That's a queue that someone said was designed to hold 4 hours worth of queuing (it's more like 3 unless you cram people in).

Occasionally, NRJ would be slightly less than an hour.

And the rest of the parks weren't 'empty'. Lots of people all the time.

Was also there late August, early Sept. and relied on those web sites giving park attendance crowd estimates. Let's just say I won't be relying on them again.

 

[disneygeek90]

Really? 3.5 hour wait for FoP? Did AK open early?

It's now 35 mins. If we have any positive from Irma, this is it.

 

[PrincessNelly_NJ]

Just saw this on twitter, not sure if its from yesterday or today.

 

[JohnD]

Quoting Monty Python and saying to Jose..

It appears to be going out to sea, perhaps moving at the speed of an unladen swallow.

 

[MinnieWaffles]

Is Jose still a hurricane too or it is a tropical storm?

 

[JohnD]

Just saw this on twitter, not sure if its from yesterday or today.

An improvement!

 

[JohnD]

Is Jose still a hurricane too or it is a tropical storm?

A hurricane projected to go out to sea.

 

[King Panda 77]

It appears to be going out to sea, perhaps moving at the speed of an unladen swallow.

African or European swallow ?

 

[JohnD]

African or European swallow ?

 

[Otterhead]

believe what you want either side and argue somewhere else..

Science has nothing to do with belief.
As has been said, "The great thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

 

[5thGenTexan]

This probably is a really dumb question, but is the reason they don't bury all the power lines in storm prone areas because it it is harder to work on them, or is it primarily due to the installation cost? I would assume they have less issues when buried, but it is harder to get to them...but I really have no idea what I'm talking about. We have buried lines in our subdivision but right outside there are wires on poles. I assume the developer opted to bury the lines inside the subdivision and paid for it. Anyway, thanks in advance.

When we brought property in a rural area north of Dallas the only thing already here was a water meter. BTW, that's will run you $2,000 if its not in place. Anyway, the local electric co-op came out and we had the choice of running power to the house overhead or underground. All of the transmission lines out here are overhead, but we decided to run ours under ground from the road to the house. We decided it looked nicer and I didn't want to deal with our portion of the lines getting blown around in storms. We did not have to pay for the entire cost of running new electric service, but our portion alone was $4,800 to go less than 300 feet. It was much less to go overhead, but uglier.

Anyway.... somewhere north of $5,000 for a short 300 foot run. There you go.

 

[mousehockey37]

I don't know; Mike Bettes looked like he was getting his a*% kicked in Naples. Was out there in way harsher winds than Cantore. I kept asking my husband why weren't they letting this poor man get out of the sustained 90mph winds. It was dangerous & stupid.

He ultimately had the call on when it was too dangerous. Apparently at some point, at least Cantore went in a wind tunnel and found how high of winds he could take. He was shooting for 100, got to 90 and was blown away. So these guys do know their thresholds. If they didn't think they'd be okay, they wouldn't be out there.

 

[21stamps]

When we brought property in a rural area north of Dallas the only thing already here was a water meter. BTW, that's will run you $2,000 if its not in place. Anyway, the local electric co-op came out and we had the choice of running power to the house overhead or underground. All of the transmission lines out here are overhead, but we decided to run ours under ground from the road to the house. We decided it looked nicer and I didn't want to deal with our portion of the lines getting blown around in storms. We did not have to pay for the entire cost of running new electric service, but our portion alone was $4,800 to go less than 300 feet. It was much less to go overhead, but uglier.

Anyway.... somewhere north of $5,000 for a short 300 foot run. There you go.

Yep. Cities can also vote on it, aesthetics is a big (although less than an outage) factor as well. Example- Boca Raton who has laws on things such as how high a McDonalds M is allowed to be, does not have too many residents who want to look at power lines.
Millions of dollars, but the customers can pay that over time.. the big debate has always been who exactly will pay what portion.

Individual home owners in most areas of SoFla do not have the power to make decisions of that nature.. if they could they would.lol

 

[bclane]

Is it still drones or are people filming from the ground? Have they talked about Cudjoe, Summerland, or the Key Haven area yet?
One more question, have they said an estimation on when people can return?

They were boots on the ground so they are apparently getting further and further down into the lower keys. They didn't mention those areas when I was watching but what they showed looked really really bad. I unfortunately had to leave and just got back a few minutes ago but there appeared to be progress at least as far as getting help down there. Praying for everyone in the keys....

 

[bclane]

When we brought property in a rural area north of Dallas the only thing already here was a water meter. BTW, that's will run you $2,000 if its not in place. Anyway, the local electric co-op came out and we had the choice of running power to the house overhead or underground. All of the transmission lines out here are overhead, but we decided to run ours under ground from the road to the house. We decided it looked nicer and I didn't want to deal with our portion of the lines getting blown around in storms. We did not have to pay for the entire cost of running new electric service, but our portion alone was $4,800 to go less than 300 feet. It was much less to go overhead, but uglier.

Anyway.... somewhere north of $5,000 for a short 300 foot run. There you go.

Thanks! Not that $4800 is chump change or anything (I wouldn't enjoy paying for it that's for sure) but that's actually lower than I would have expected. Do you know how much it would have cost to go overhead (for comparison sake)?

 

[Dubman]

It appears to be going out to sea, perhaps moving at the speed of an unladen swallow.

African or European???


Edit... You guys beat me too it!! hahahaha

 

[PrincessNelly_NJ]

damage to best friends pet care. Photo from @laughing_place on Twitter