JoeCamel
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Basically full but moving all the way to Georgia.... so far...
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Hurricane Irma
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Buy not everyone, sadly. I'm sure we'll see the threads next week.
mousehockey37
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They were saying on the news that it's "normal" to have to evacuate one coast or the other, but due to the sheer size of this storm, it's going to have catastrophic results on the whole peninsula. So to have to evacuate pretty much the lower half of the state has got to be something out of a doomsday book in the dark recesses of Florida's gov't building.
Somehow I think that game will be rescheduled. I always said it would be November when you get back from your cruise.
mousehockey37
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Exactly. This is something unprecedented that's never been seen. Both coasts being told to get out of harms way.
Like I said earlier though... Jim Cantore is setting up shop somewhere... You see him... You KNOW you need to go.
Duck, you talking to Irma? 'Cause I'm in 100% agreement of you are....
God, the basement of the Capital building? I hope not....
invader
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If Irma stays home, tourists can come. If Irma comes, tourists can stay home.
Looks like tourists should probably stay home.
John park hopper
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You are absolutely correct I know, post Hugo we had a house that was unliveable, we had no power for a over a month, we were forced to rent until our house was fixed which took 6 months because so many others were in the same boat. What apartments and house availablle to rent were far and few. On the scale of Irma its going to be worse, this storm is going from the bottom of Florida right to the GA line.There will be thousands without livable homes looking to rent --Anything What a nightmare for all these people coming home to a destroyed house you feel numb and its not something you get over quickly.
sudokujesus
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lol.
it's not the size of the storm; it's the angle of approach. if this same size storm was moving due west and headed straight for miami, you'd evacuate the endangered areas of monroe, dade, broward, palm beach counties.... maybe collier, martin, and st. lucie counties.
the issue is that given the uncertainty of the track and the logistics of moving so many people, you have to evacuate before that track is nailed down. this thing could still hit the keys, the southwest florida coast, or just about anywhere along the east coast of florida (and places north).
it's about the number of people in the cone of uncertainty moreso than the size of the storm.
mousehockey37
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Does Irma have her MDE set up? She's pushing for that "unlimited FP"... lol
The fault runs off the corner of my parents property. Fotunately they're on granite so the '89 quake didn't do much damage.
mousehockey37
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The fact that it's not supposed to downgrade to anything less than a Cat 4 before getting up to Georgia too.
21stamps
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South East and South West coast Zone A's do get evacuated simultaneously more than once.
It's just never been this amount of people from more than one Zone and in so many counties at once.
21stamps
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I can't even imagine. So sorry that happened to you.
We can hope this one still moves!
Speaking of canceling the Miami game. I wonder what will become of the FSU-Miami game on 9/16. News media says a possible solution is to move it to open date of 10/4. With evacuees in Tally, that would be a good decision. We'll see.
Chicagoshannon2
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We're in Smoky Mountains at the moment. The word on the street is Gatlinburg is discounting hotel rooms 30-40% for people being displaced. I guess they're expecting a lot of people in the next couple of days. I'm glad we're heading back to IL tomorrow morning.
peter11435
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That's not accurate
If you can move yours to 9/12, I can keep my arrival of 9/16.