You are most welcome! Glad you were able to get the info you needed.
Have fun at WDW! Once the storm clears, the weather should be clear and a little cooler. You know, the calm after the storm.
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Hurricane Matthew
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You are most welcome! Glad you were able to get the info you needed.
Have fun at WDW! Once the storm clears, the weather should be clear and a little cooler. You know, the calm after the storm.
lazyboy97o
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Orange County has no yet adjusted/lifted the curfew that lasts until tomorrow morning.
PhilharMagician
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Yeah the people would be moved into resort rooms, but the camper is light and could easily be destroyed or worse yet become a flying object if winds reach the earlier predicted 105 MPH. Thankfully these winds will probably not happen.
21stamps
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I understand that. For South Floridians (Especially east of 95) though, ones who have lived through Andrew and beyond, when you evacuated west you STILL didn't have power, or water, and with the gas lines and restrictions some were not even able to get home. Call it jaded, but if you have the choice of being in your own home without those amenities, or in a cheap motel out west, bc it was the only room available, also without those amenities, then it really does become a weighing of "which is worse".
OR- you can evacuate to your friend or family's house a little north, and then the storm changes path and misses your home but hits where you evacuated to.. Now you are worse off.
Cough, cough, the evacuees at my house during Wilma.
Again, I think the new laws, new structural changes, new lines and readiness from FPL, all of that will prevent such a large scale of madness in the future.
. I don't think we will ever see a county with over 90% power outages, for weeks on end, again.Bottom line- Hurricanes are annoying.lol
21stamps
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For those who may be interested, here is a wikipedia excerpt for the last "major" disaster in Florida. Which is one of the reasons I was worried yesterday, Matthew was supposed to be Sooo much worse than Wilma, and I couldn't wrap my brain around it.
Here's the success story- Florida LEARNED what to do after this, the same as they learned after Andrew.. And at this point they are more prepared than ever before. I think that was proven over the last few days, and I think they deserve a lot of credit for it.
Here's the success story- Florida LEARNED what to do after this, the same as they learned after Andrew.. And at this point they are more prepared than ever before. I think that was proven over the last few days, and I think they deserve a lot of credit for it.
PhilharMagician
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Anyone hear from @Master Yoda? He is battling this storm up in Jacksonville.
I understand that. For South Floridians (Especially east of 95) though, ones who have lived through Andrew and beyond, when you evacuated west you STILL didn't have power, or water, and with the gas lines and restrictions some were not even able to get home. Call it jaded, but if you have the choice of being in your own home without those amenities, or in a cheap motel out west, bc it was the only room available, also without those amenities, then it really does become a weighing of "which is worse".
OR- you can evacuate to your friend or family's house a little north, and then the storm changes path and misses your home but hits where you evacuated to.. Now you are worse off.
Cough, cough, the evacuees at my house during Wilma.
Again, I think the new laws, new structural changes, new lines and readiness from FPL, all of that will prevent such a large scale of madness in the future.
Bottom line- Hurricanes are annoying.lol
Just 80% like Leon last month. But I must still caution, hurricanes can be and are more than annoying....
wannabeBelle
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I spoke with him briefly last night, but nothing since. Marie
21stamps
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Really? It was that kind of aftermath?
I am in agreement that they are more than annoying.. I do strongly believe that the State is ready now. I just can't see a repeat of the after effects of Wilma ever repeating themselves.
Too much has changed since then, because they really did learn how to better prepare for the next one.
I hope he's okay. My niece now lives in Jax and I'm a little concerned, okay, very concerned. But her fiancé's a calm, sensible man.
plutofan15
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Just a little bit of history. Letters left in our room in 1999 when Hurricane Floyd caused the parks to close for the first time ever. Also a photo of us stocking up on "necessities" in the resort store.Of course, this was before kids so things were a bit more relaxed then.
Yes, 80% of Leon County lost power. It's our lovely trees...and lack of buried utilities. And the fact that the NW portion of the eyewall stalled over Tallahassee for 1.5 hours. The last time I checked, the tree debris from the storm at the landfill totalled 22,000 TONS (yes, tons) . And was several stories high. And based upon my part of town, they've probably cleaned up only 60% of the debris. All from a weak category 1 storm that wind gusts measured at the NWS Center on FSU's campus were a little over 60 mph.
Doing fine. Power is still on and the hose is still intact.
The worst is still on its way, but I am about 12 miles from the beach and not in a flood zone so my only worry is a tree coming down. Given that we have had about 8" of rain in the last week, that is a real possibility.
Just a little bit of history. Letters left in our room in 1999 when Hurricane Floyd caused the parks to close for the first time ever. Also a photo of us stocking up on "necessities" in the resort store.Of course, this was before kids so things were a bit more relaxed then.
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The important necessities of life...beer and Doo Dads.
mikeymouse
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toolsnspools
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BREAKING NEWS: Price gouging at Disney resorts. Cast Members were recorded selling refillable mugs for over $16.
In all seriousness, looks like a few more stormy hours and Disney should be in the clear. Glad this stayed a little further offshore. Keeping those along the northern coast of FL and GA, SC, NC in prayers. Hopefully this will be called a close-call by tomorrow.
Can't emphasize enough that people need to be wise to what's going on and not just listen to the "news" stations. They make a lot of money by hyping these storms. Use the resources at hand to be smart about what's coming at you, but don't over-react based on information they're flooding you with. It will always be the worst case scenario message.
Daytona Beach expected to see a peak of 55 MPH winds around 11am.
In all seriousness, looks like a few more stormy hours and Disney should be in the clear. Glad this stayed a little further offshore. Keeping those along the northern coast of FL and GA, SC, NC in prayers. Hopefully this will be called a close-call by tomorrow.
Can't emphasize enough that people need to be wise to what's going on and not just listen to the "news" stations. They make a lot of money by hyping these storms. Use the resources at hand to be smart about what's coming at you, but don't over-react based on information they're flooding you with. It will always be the worst case scenario message.
Daytona Beach expected to see a peak of 55 MPH winds around 11am.
21stamps
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Yeah, that's why I was afraid of Matthew.. Wilma was nowhere near the strength as Matthew was predicted.
I don't mean to say that there won't be power outages, that's unavoidable. What there won't be is- 3 weeks without power. Stop lights and gas stations without power for several weeks (new laws have made that impossible) Losing water for 7 days. I think I went without cable and internet for almost 9 weeks- that also won't happen again.
I don't want to downplay what could potentially happen if a major storm hits..but again, there just won't be a repeat of 2005.
I think we should be proud of how proactive the state has become.
disney4life2008
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Maybe it's just me but governor Scott talks like a 8th grader.
mikeymouse
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That Shell station on Vineland Ave is always $5.99. Insane!