Serena
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JJBIRISH wrote:Serena wrote:HeresLucy wrote:We live 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale. Current conditions typical of a bad storm that rolls in this time of year. But we expect it to get worse in the next 24 hours. Some predictions of 4-8 inches of rain and tornado threats.
Last I heard, they think it will make landfall a little south of Naples, but as always that is subject to change. Our MH is in storage - an inside spot which we pay thru the nose for, but glad we have it especially this time year.
If we were in a MH and had no house down here, we would have been gone already. 1-2 days ago there wasn't enough info on the storm direction or strength and since it takes a good 2 days to get out of the state (from down here) you can't wait too long otherwise you are driving in the mess or heavy traffic if an evacuation is ordered.
But realistically -- if we had no house, we would not be in Florida this time of year anyway.
Lucy
Sounds like we're all having dinner with Fay, then. Supposed to get nasty for a few minutes here. It's coming in right now, and it's big and black. They said of the shelters opened, 5 whole people showed up so far. Maybe rearrange a couple things so I can haul the slide in if the wind gets that high. But after that, I'm gonna kick back and play cards.
I am not sure how to take your post... I don't know if your head is full of testosterone, you are serious, or just making light of it...
Fay may be a non event as many are, but all the same it is a serious matter with many unknown variables...
everyone especially in a RV should give some thought to having alternatives, should things change for the worse quickly...
Fay may be no more than a thunderstorm, but tornados are as unpredictable give very little warning...you can't wait for a warning to find safe shelter should the need arise...
a cavalier resident attitude won't be of much help to a non resident unfamiliar with the area...
riding out a sever storm in a RV is never the best option but sometimes may be the only one without advanced planning...
if possible at the very least check into a CG that has safe buildings for emergency shelter... ask when checking in about their emergency plans...
No testosterone, so sorry - wrong plumbing for that.
Meant exactly what I said, no more, no less. Had dinner, set up the last little bit of my usual contingency stuff, still playing cards. I've been through all this before. You never heard of a hurricane party?
OP was a good 400 miles out of it and had absolutely no reason to freak out. I offered a couple of sanity checks and some real information. Panic and running around gets more people hurt than storms do.
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Amen! Serena. We stayed here in Clermont, storm stayed south. Didn't even get any rain till late this afternoon. Our friends that ran from Ft. Laud., made it to Titusville, only to find out this morning that the storm was coming there! So they came west & are parked across from us in Clermont. We went out for a nice dinner, came home & played cards! Hope everyone's experience was as pleasant!
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I was thinking of that this morning when it turned north. And hadn't you just said you'd tried to outrun one once with pretty much the same results?
Try to ride Katrina, you come up wrong, try to run from Rita, you come up wrong. All the nailbiting in the world won't move that storm one iota from wherever it decides to go.
I was just appreciating that I could sit and watch the radar. Just think - even 15, 20 years ago, you couldn't do that. I actually lived at a radar site on the Gulf for a couple of years, and back then, if you weren't in the building or on the phone with somebody in the building all you knew was what you could see or feel on your own. One Sunday morning, tornado took the neighborhood out, and everybody who manned that radar site day in and day out got just as hit. After seeing what the power lines did? I'm just about as happy to have some rubber under me and some space for that wind to pass through. Even better, to be able to see beyond our own immediate vicinity? Whoa. That was real sci-fi stuff not so very long ago.
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WHERERURV
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Well, we did not run as stated earlier. We did not even get any rain or wind but it was projected to hit us. It shows how they do not know where its going.
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lamehawk
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When I lived in florida I stayed put I packed supplies boarded up and waited it out.
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Expected to go out to the Atlantic and then turn west toward Jax, Gainesville, and Ocala. Stay tuned to the NWS, please. zz PS-- should be a cat 1 by the time it hits land again..
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