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Posted 9/29/2022 6:01 PM (GMT 0)
My hope is that any of our brothers and sisters who live in Florida are safe. Such devastation from Mother Nature ramping up from global warming. Please stay safe and check in when you can.
Jack
Posted 9/29/2022 9:03 PM (GMT 0)
Jack64 -

Thank you very much for your concerned thoughts and the good wishes. Much appreciated.

Yes, there are a number of us here on the forum who live in Florida (I'm in Gainesville), and for those of us who are long-timers living here (almost all my life in my case), dealing with the regularly-arriving hurricanes is just part of the life cycle here.

It's almost as if Fate is saying to people: if you want to live in a state where the climate is pretty nice year round, never snows or gets super cold, and there are quality beaches almost everywhere, lots of fun attractions, and plenty of great things to do year round, fine. You can live in Florida.

But in exchange for that I'm going to exact a price for your stay in this Sunshine State.

Every once in a while in this place of sunshine and light and fun, there will be a dark time, when I will unleash the WaterMonster, who, while it's only just a short spell, will counterbalance with fear and destruction all of those good things you have the rest of the year.

I have lived through dozens of these hurricanes. I have been in 110 MPH winds. (An almost unimaginable fury of nature, can't begin to describe it). Then, almost literally the next day, things are virtually back to normal.

And sadly, there is almost always someone who is hurt when this happens. I truly feel for the people in the SW part of the state right now especially, who will be badly damaged in so many ways by this event. As I have felt in the past for all the others who have gone down that route.

But people are strong, they survive, and they rebuild.

My Floridian comrades here on the forum and I will get through this and go on, as we always do.

But thanks again for your concern. Again, much appreciated.
Posted 9/29/2022 9:44 PM (GMT 0)
Now when people ask, I tell them I live in the "Cone of Uncertainty."

Watching the predictions and seeing the path ear marked to go directly overhead is a good bit less than fun. 48 hours ago I was packed and ready to load my car and relocate from my Mobile Home to my brothers house three miles away. We both live in Largo, Fl.... that is 20 miles SW of Tampa.

When the storm changed course and we were predicted to Only get 70 mph gusts of wind I stayed home. We get large wind gusts on a rainy weekend...

This is halfway through my Second season in Florida.... and Jury is still out if I'll ever be as optimistic as 81GyGuy is.

The one big lesson I learned this week -> If "Jim Cantore" is in town - RUN!
Posted 9/30/2022 3:17 AM (GMT 0)
I don't know any part of the country that's immune from natural disasters of one sort or another. Some we can run from. Some we can't. Florida today. Coming soon to a theater near us tomorrow. Be prepared. Preparation helps keep us safe. Water, blankets and non-perishable food to last at least a week. Beer is optional. Nothing's guaranteed. But sometimes we can lean the odds a little more in our favor.
Posted 9/30/2022 4:29 PM (GMT 0)

Steve n Dallas said...
48 hours ago I was packed and ready to load my car and relocate from my Mobile Home to my brothers house three miles away. We both live in Largo, Fl.... that is 20 miles SW of Tampa.

The one big lesson I learned this week -> If "Jim Cantore" is in town - RUN!

I'm just up the road in Safety Harbor, and went to bed Tuesday night expecting the storm to hit us head on the next day, with 10' storm surge and flooding. Instead we woke up Wednesday - the day of the storm, to learn that it had changed course and would make landfall about an hour south of Tampa Bay.

I feel sorry not only for those who live in its path, but also for the thousands of locals who heeded the warnings and evacuated inland to the northeast to Orlando, which was then hit with historic and totally unexpected fresh water flooding from getting 18" of rain in six hours.

Our power was out just fourteen hours, much better than the three day outage we had during Irma, which was when I was halfway thru my eight weeks of adjuvant EBRT. Also the post storm weather has been pleasant this time, unlike the 90's we experienced with Irma.

I remember hearing our favorite weatherman, "the suspenders guy". saying "it's always good news when you hear that Jim Cantore has left town".
Posted 9/30/2022 4:39 PM (GMT 0)
Glad to hear you guys are all safe.
I'm in NY until end November, my Florida home is fine. Being on the East Coast, we dodged a bullet, it was mostly a rain event (tons of it).
Best wishes to all on the West Coast
Posted 9/30/2022 7:13 PM (GMT 0)
Mother nature was rough. Family has a 2nd home.. not the primary residence thankfully, in North Naples. We are not permitted to enter for a month was the message today. The entire first floor was wiped out - everything is gone in the condo building. It looks like a war zone. Thankful for insurance in many ways. It's just stuff - that's how I fell asleep last night. It can all be replaced, unlike my perfect husband. God Bless.
Posted 10/1/2022 10:14 AM (GMT 0)

RobLee said...

I remember hearing our favorite weatherman, "the suspenders guy". saying "it's always good news when you hear that Jim Cantore has left town".

I became familiar with Denis Phillips "the suspenders guy" this week as I was switching channels. Denis is famous for his Rule #7 “Don’t Freak Out, Until I Tell You To Freak Out”.

I had to google Safety Harbor... I happen to have a Doc on Mcmullen Booth and Enterprise Road.

Glad you're safe...

Post Edited (Steve n Dallas) : 10/3/2022 2:52:32 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 10/1/2022 3:26 PM (GMT 0)

Steve n Dallas said...
I had to google Safety Harbor... I happen to have a Doc on Mcmullen Booth and Enterprise Road.

Glad you're safe...

Glad you're safe and didn't have to evacuate.

I'm familiar with the office complex behind the shopping center at that corner, guessing that's where your doc is located. I had one there also. I would have said I live in Countryside, but it's not actually a city... figured Safety Harbor might be better known. Dunedin is down the road in the other direction.

Our storage locker is on Starkey. It's the extra 100 sq ft we needed for stuff we might need someday, but probably never will.
Posted 10/2/2022 2:01 PM (GMT 0)
OK...reporting in from SW Florida now that I have power back. We were lucky in North Naples. We live about 1 1/2 miles from the beach and had no damage, just fallen debris and 3 nights w/o power. Irma was much worse for us as that time we had roof damage, pool cage damage, fence damage and the requisite power outages.

However the folks near the beach and north of us in Ft. Myers, Sanibel, Captiva, North Port, etc. got hammered. You've probably all seen the pictures on the news and they don't exaggerate. Boats tossed around and landing miles away. Houses flooded and many destroyed. Bridges destroyed to the barrier island. 70+ people lost their lives and the death toll will surely rise. The power grid in some areas north will have to be rebuilt and may take many weeks before some folks have power. So I feel very lucky to have only suffered w/o power and internet!

Mother nature can be cruel sometimes. Much of the destruction was in "mandatory evacuation zones". Next time we will all know to take that term seriously.

Jim
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