Hurricane Irma...

[Cabbage Head]

Airlines hasn't canceled the flight yet. I am thinking that they will. We will figure out someplace to go. Not back to work for a couple of weeks....

 

[Red Flag 1]

Here

 

[RackMaster]

Holt Shit! This is insane.

Hurricane Irma Has Caused a Part of the Ocean to Disappear in the Bahamas

 

[racing_kitty]

Same thing happened in Mobile Bay in 1979. Frederic was a solid cat. 4 storm, and he pulled enough water out that someone could walk from shore clear to the shipping channel (if it weren't for the 130mph winds).

 

[ThunderHorse]

Holt Shit! This is insane.

Hurricane Irma Has Caused a Part of the Ocean to Disappear in the Bahamas

Get to the high ground.

 

[Muppet]

Holt Shit! This is insane.

Hurricane Irma Has Caused a Part of the Ocean to Disappear in the Bahamas

Not to sound all bible thumper, conspiracy theory wack job but who here is waiting for Johnny Cash, the 4 horsemen and trumpets blaring, besides me?

M.

 

[policemedic]

Not to sound all bible thumper, conspiracy theory wack job but who here is waiting for Johnny Cash, the 4 horsemen and trumpets blaring, besides me?

M.

You just want to see the world burn, minus a portion in Montana for your cat ranch.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

I use to run on this side walk everyday......the water will come back in about 6-8 hrs when Irma hits Tampa as a CAT 1 storm.

Edit.....NSFW due to languages......:-"

 

[Florida173]

I use to run on this side walk everyday......the water will come back in about 6-8 hrs when Irma hits Tampa as a CAT 1 storm.

Edit.....NSFW due to languages......:-"

I've been seeing this a lot. Funny that this video is actually right in front of my old condo.

 

[AWP]

NOAA's already dropped it to a Cat 2. It may be a Cat 1 by the time it hits us in Orlando. As of an hour ago my wife still had power, but Seminole County's tornado sirens have gone off three times today. This exchange at 7:30 PM:

"It is calm here right now. We had a lot of wind and rain earlier."
"Go take a look at the roof."
"Go fuck yourself. I'm not going out in that."
"You said it is calm."
"Relatively calm, ass."
"That's not what you said."
"You can still go fuck yourself. I'm not going outside."

 

[AWP]

My wife just sent an email. She just lost power. Seminole County (NE of Orlando).

 

[AWP]

I just spoke to Mrs. AWP. Power's still out and while she hasn't ventured outside on the surface everything seems to be okay. We'll know more later.

How are our other FL members and their families doing?

 

[amlove21]

We are getting word from 3 or 4 of our teams staged and responding now- some areas worse than others.

I'll echo @AWP 's request- if able throw a shout on the board and let us know if we can help.

 

[Raksasa Kotor]

All good in the panhandle.

 

[Kraut783]

sister in law in Venice came through with just minor issues....large tree went down, but did not hit anything of value. This is her first Hurricane, luckily it all worked out.

 

[Gunz]

Wow, what a ride. I was stuck in the hospital--still am TFN--Mrs Ocoka pulled a 48 hour shift in Tampa and was basically locked down. Two of my sons were at the house 50 miles away and lost power before the storm even reached them. The Mrs just got home and send a BDA, Lots of trees and power lines down, fences smashed but aside from some roof flashing and soffit tore off, the house did all right.

The boys were fine in spite of the instant weening from electronic devices, brought out their old board games--like Battleship--and reportedly adapted to the new reality.

Power will probably be out for s few more days. The pups are fine, they slept in kitchen and the horses turned their backs to the wind and rode it out like tough guys.

We have so much to be thankful for.

Ps. TR weathered his first hurricane like a little furry Belgian SOF Commando...in other words he slept through it on his back with his feet in the air.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

My boss has property down there on one of the islands. It's fucked. Instead of focusing on the negative, she zeroed in on what's important. Tonight she leaves with a trailer and hope...feels good to work for such a company.

 

[CDG]

Glad to see all the relatively positive reports from the members here.

 

[Kraut783]

Ps. TR weathered his first hurricane like a little furry Belgian SOF Commando...in other words he slept through it on his back with his feet in the air.

TR is just freaking awesome

 

[pardus]

Friday 08 SEP, "Pardus we are flying 4 Blackhawks to Florida ASAP. Get your shit together, you're going with them to help."

"No worries, what exactly do you mean by "help"?"

"Hurricane! Whargargarbleeeee...."

So I raided my medical section cage, a local hospital, and came up with this mountain of shit.



The Blackhawks left today, they took 2 flight medics and bumped me, I was due to fly down tomorrow on a Chinook or C17. I got word late this afternoon, that the entire effort has been downgraded due to the reduced damage from what was predicted. So I'm not going. Fuck!