LOTS of Non-Floridians moved here over the past few years. They are new to the Hurricane fear mongering handed out by the weather channels. Might take them a few years to become callused to the "Cone of death and destruction that no one will escape!!"
It’s the same here in tornado alley, I’ve noticed recently, If it’s a super cell thunderstorm during prime time hours on a weekday, The news will interrupt regular programming every 5 minutes with 17 different “state of the art” tracking radars, 3 on the ground storm chasers and 2 meteorologist tag teaming across the newsroom, telling us about every raindrop and wind shift for the duration of the storm. If it’s midday on the weekend, you’ll be lucky if the weather alert banner even scrolls across the screen even if its the exact same caliber storm. And many many times if it was an obvious tornado but the news didn’t warn you about it, theyll send out the “expert” to assess the damage and determine it was “not a tornado” it was just very strong down burst winds , that blew your farm apart. Ill admit though I really enjoy the sensationalism of a weekday supercell, and it’s about the only tv news I’ll make a point to watch. I think it’s just because I’ve always found weather fascinating and to to watch how sensationalized it’s become in a mere decade is absolutely fascinating to me on a psychological level.
I care for a man with multiple disabilities, he loves watching storm chaser videos, and I admit, so do I. Up in the NE, we only have blizzards to look forward to.
Watching storms is so very thrilling. I’m definitely the type to go sit on the porch so I can get a good birds eye view of our trampoline sailing away end over end. My whole extended family loves it, I thought it was normal until we all married and our husbands who explained to us that it was indeed not normal behavior. Is it not normal to know every meteorologist on every station and what nights they work? How to properly read weather radar? Tell the whole room to quiet down when we hear a weather alert siren on the screen? Text each other back and forth, giving wind speed updates, rain gage data, and rotation spotting s, like we are watching the Super Bowl? Don’t all families do that?
They pull the same crap in CA with earthquakes. "The Big One could happen any day now!!!" "Have you purchased.....everything we told you to purchase so you can make us rich??"
We've been lucky this year (tornadoes in East TX). We only had to shelter 4 times. Two of those times the sirens went off, and both had actual tornadoes spotted within 5 miles of my house. Last year we probably had sirens 5 or 6 times.
Those fancy tracking radars are pretty good if the station doesn't fear monger. One of the tornadoes that hit was only an F0 and was only on the ground for less than 1 mile. It's damage was very localized, but it was caught on film and proven. We had 3 minutes warning on that one, and more than 5 on the other warnings.
Fear is what galvanizes the public into submission.
Fear global warming, Fear climate change. Fear crime, fear natural disasters. Fear globalization. Fear conservatism. Fear QAnon. Fear spy devices. Fear the spectre of communism. Fear nazism. Fear government.
Yeah, and they're really good at ramping up the fear. As a coastal dweller I do like to keep an eye on things, but the constant bleating of how the next storm is going to be devastating is getting a bit stale here. Every Nor'Easter is going to blow your house away, every blizzard is the "storm of the Century". They've overdone it.
I live in Polk county Florida and don’t take chances that don’t need to be taken. My house is boarded up so my windows don’t get broken and then my roof sucked off. Better to be safe than sorry dealing with a storm like this. They can’t predict it well outside a day or two.
I’m having a Hurricane party if anyone wants to come ride one out……. Till the lights go out
I’m from South Louisiana and if you live on the gulf coast but have never had a hurricane party, you’re doing it wrong. 🤷🏼♀️😂 I know it’s crazy but I kinda miss the thrill of riding out a hurricane. I don’t miss the “no electricity and no water” part after the hurrican, but I do feel like everyone back home is having fun w/o us whenever they start gearing up for a hurricane. 🤷🏼♀️😬😂😂😂
Most likely. However, have faith that something good will happen to avert disaster. All of the fires set by the cabal arsonists in California just got put out all at once last week with a really weird storm that just sat on top of all of them for 12+ hours. They were trying to use the fires to push their "climate change" BS right before the midterms. Somebody dumped some water on that idea.
That kind of doesn’t make sense, remember the trump rally where he said ‘there’s a storm coming we’re gonna have to cut this short, we have a very powerful military’ is it more likely that trumps military dropped a simple storm for comms or it was actual luck that there was a storm that day?
I heard this hurricane is 500 miles wide. Sustained winds of 80mph. Possibly growing. I think hurricanes are natural occurrences. But again not making sense why wouldn’t weather controllers do something to reduce the power of a potentially deadly storm like this?
I keep getting calls from friends up North asking if Im prepped for hurricane. My answer is Im always prepped. I am never not ready for things to go to shit.
Have family down there, daughter & grandkids and sister. Not that I can physically do much of anything but wish I could help them. I'm in south bama, I was thinking for a bit there that it might swing more towards us. It's going to hit right where my family is, scary, wish they could drive up here, but they won't. My daughter will have to go to work probably right after the storm if they open and oldest granddaughter's father most likely won't let her leave the state (jackass that he is). My sis has to deal with the prepping shit all alone and has been given the evacuation orders. She has nothing for the windows because she has been super busy with work that she didn't prep.
Michael wiped Mexico Beach off the map. Cat 5. No amount of preparation would have helped one with that. I was there 4 days after it happened. Complete and total devastation. 19' storm surge.
Panhandle is the reddest place in America, IMO. That's why they hate us. I say "us" as I'm a Cracker and spent a lot of my life on that little patch of land in MB. I haven't lived in FL since the 70s.
What was wild was when the 200 mph wind hit the freshly baled cotton and blasted it into the trees across the road like blown in insulation. Damndest thing I've seen.
We're talking millions of people for this one in the Tampa Bay area. Pinellas County is the most densely populated County in the country. There is serious cause for concern.
Stay safe. There's enough illegals down there, they'll send lots of media, NGOs to traffic people etc. Raise a bunch of money to stuff in their pockets too. Yup, they'll show concern if their replacement population is involved.
Yup, and were my daughter & her family and my sis live. I know they've been through them before, as have I being I use to live down there for a good portion of my growing up years, but I'm concerned for them. My sis was just giving the evac orders and my daughter said they haven't even told them when her work will close (grocery store). I'm very concerned for them.
Well they both have large trees, just going to have to pray for the best. They've managed to get through other bad hurricanes with little damage, hoping this one will be no different.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged Floridians to take precautions and declared a state of emergency for all 67 counties ahead of the impacts of Hurricane Ian, which could reach Category 4 intensity by later Tuesday in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.
They think it could hit 140+ mph by landfall. That's a big deal.
I'd rather have a governor who declares a state of emergency beforehand and doesn't need to use it than a governor who la-dee-das through the storm and then blames the federal government for not sending enough help a week later.
Ian isn't something to be scared of, evenif Cat 4 or even 5. Yeah, I know how bad it can get, but there is no need to panic. We've been through these hurricanes before, I remember Andrew, Wilma, and that one year (05?) where there were 9 back to back to back.
I can see for how all the new peeps who moved here, yes, it would be something "they've" never seen or experienced before.
Keep calm. Prepared. Food for 2-3 weeks, plenty of water, medication (30 days) and shutters. Things will be ok.
Ty for update fren be safe just heard this
The US MILITARY COMMAND CENTER IS IN TAMPA , they must know something because it hasn’t even strengthened yet . Maybe Man made weather catastrophe …just sharing
MacDill Air Force base is HQ to US Central Command Center “Centcom” (they are responsible for the Middle East.
Some parts of Tampa already have evac orders including MacDill.
A MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER FOR LEVEL A, and VOLUNTARY EVACUATION ORDER FOR LEVEL B has been issued by Hillsborough County including all low-lying areas, mobile and manufactured homes starting at 2 p.m. on September 26, 2022 due to Hurricane Ian.
Yeah MacDill is right there literally by the water. I lived on base when I was a kid and had one of my kids there while hubby was in Dessert Storm. I can see MacDill being evacuated. My sis got the evac order also, but she doesn't live near the base.
I'm guessing you aren't a Zone A inhabitant. I've lived on the Gulf Coast all my 55 years and have seen a many a storm. In my experience if you are in Zone A - get out. I'm not that concerned for life and limb, but I am for my property. But that's the price of living in paradise I reckon.
Fear Porn... They want the people afraid so they will submit. unless this hurricane has record-setting winds and dumps the entire Atlantic on the state, there is no way the state hasn't faced one like this. oh, how I miss the voice of reason, the late Great Rush Limbaugh.
I agree with most here - they promote fear and people respond. I always thought that areas know for such know how to deal with it best they can. I would hope that the Floridians who are prepared might teach the newbies how to prepare.
I'm from PA and we do get plenty of blizzards.... get milk, eggs, bread and a shovel. I just recently moved to MD and they literally shut down when calling for snow.
I seem to remember a few years back another storm was thought to be heading straight towards Tampa. Everyone was worried about it then, but the storm veered away from the area. The cat3 that hit there 101 years ago pushed storm surge over 11 feet and flooded everything. It has a lot to do with the counter-clockwise rotation pushing water into the bay with nowhere for it to go but land. There are over 3 million people in that area now , and of course the elevation is from sea level to about 50 feet.
Weather people are worried about the rest of Florida as well, but a direct hit to the Tampa Bay metro area (Clearwater, Tampa, St Pete) could be catastrophic. Note - the last major direct hit to Tampa was the one in 1921. NOAA has said before that a direct hit of a CAT4 would flood Tampa with 20+ feet of water, and estimates from 2016 said they expect property damage to be in the hundreds of millions. That doesn't include crop damage. In 1921 over 50% of the citrus trees were destroyed - and remember that was a CAT 3.
It is extremely rare for a direct hit to Tampa, especially thanks to Cuba's mountains, and in fact the last hurricane that directly hit was in 1946 (not a major one).
I'd just watch he hell out of the weather channel to see if it will steer towards Tampa, and if it does get the hell out. That area with the bay is the perfect storm.
edited - Forgot to mention I actually did live in Florida in the Daytona area for a few years before coming back to Texas. I've been through hurricanes in FL, and even one in MD while I was growing up (which flooded my town). I stayed for those.
I know I went to the store for some milk and bread and shelves are bare here in NE FL, all fear mongering as usual from msm. Stay safe friends and God bless.
Some people here aren’t worried, some people brush this all off as hype but a lot of us are well prepared and still concerned. I’m one of those. Andrew devastated south Fl back in the day. I saw the effects of Panama City and Port Charlotte a few years ago. People were devastated. Irma was no joke. It wasn’t as bad as expected but there was a lot of damage. When you lose power, and 15 million people just in Florida did with Irma-you have people suffering from heat related problems and exacerbation of existing medical conditions. Think of all the older people living in FL. It’s a certainty that many will suffer because they have no support. So I don’t take this lightly. I hope it veers west but nobody knows till it’s closer.
There are a lot of areas in Tampa and St Pete that flood. The flood zones were evacuating today as well as all mobile home dwellers. That’s smart because storm surge and flash floods cause the most deaths in any hurricane. You have to take it seriously.
Warnings are up now. Please reach out to any friends or relatives who live down in FL and make sure they’re doing ok and make sure they’re able to leave if ordered.
I’m in Tampa and I ran to Publix for some deli stuff around noon today (immediately regretted it) and it was packed with people loading up carts. Also, so many masked people, mostly older but UGH!! The parking lot was packed, no carts available but I didn’t need one. Thankfully, Publix is always on their game and had multiple lanes open. They were testing their alarm system with that sound you hear when there is an emergency alert in your phone. It just added to the panic heavy atmosphere.
Seriously don’t understand why everyone waits till the last few days to stock up. It’s always the same story, though. No water left, no stupid bread.
I would be far more concerned about this storm if we were in Tampa/St.Pete area as that area looks to be taking darn near a direct hit. Hundreds of thousands of people All trying to pack up and head North on interstate 75 that can jam up for an hour + for a fender bender(same applies for I4 East or 95) Who knows how many will be stuck there when the worst of this storm hits Florida? We live in Volusia County and while we will get more rain and flooding than I care to deal with along with some tornadoes, it will be minimal compared to the West side of the state. We will be praying for us all. This is our 1st hurricane, but I'll gladly take this rather than another 7.0 or greater quake back in Alaska. At least with hurricanes you can see them coming days ahead as opposed to having No warning of a quake.
IMHO, I believe it is all hyped. Even the Weather Channel needs to have high ratings. My son watches this stuff and even he said it's as if they want us all in a state of panic.
Wasn't the weather channel recently complaining about low profits due to this being a mild hurricane season, and it's already over half over, or something stupid like that?
Turn off the fake news. The ONLY people in Florida scared of this hurricane are New York transplants. That's probably why the Fake News is overhyping it. Too many New Yorkers leaving for Florida. But trust me. Florida isn't scared of this very average hurricane.
Width of the storm combined with the fact its running up the entire west coastline. Most hit at one point and reduces widespread flooding. This going uo the coastline would flood nearly half the state.
LOTS of Non-Floridians moved here over the past few years. They are new to the Hurricane fear mongering handed out by the weather channels. Might take them a few years to become callused to the "Cone of death and destruction that no one will escape!!"
It’s the same here in tornado alley, I’ve noticed recently, If it’s a super cell thunderstorm during prime time hours on a weekday, The news will interrupt regular programming every 5 minutes with 17 different “state of the art” tracking radars, 3 on the ground storm chasers and 2 meteorologist tag teaming across the newsroom, telling us about every raindrop and wind shift for the duration of the storm. If it’s midday on the weekend, you’ll be lucky if the weather alert banner even scrolls across the screen even if its the exact same caliber storm. And many many times if it was an obvious tornado but the news didn’t warn you about it, theyll send out the “expert” to assess the damage and determine it was “not a tornado” it was just very strong down burst winds , that blew your farm apart. Ill admit though I really enjoy the sensationalism of a weekday supercell, and it’s about the only tv news I’ll make a point to watch. I think it’s just because I’ve always found weather fascinating and to to watch how sensationalized it’s become in a mere decade is absolutely fascinating to me on a psychological level.
Liberal playbook: take weather that's scary. Build more fear of it = proof of climate change
They should have that kind of coverage for the Chicago murders every weekend.
Divide the city up in a grid and play murder BINGO.
This is a DeSatanist false flag. Part of his playbook to surpass Trump. Guy is a complete joke. He will be the downfall of MAGA sadly
I care for a man with multiple disabilities, he loves watching storm chaser videos, and I admit, so do I. Up in the NE, we only have blizzards to look forward to.
Watching storms is so very thrilling. I’m definitely the type to go sit on the porch so I can get a good birds eye view of our trampoline sailing away end over end. My whole extended family loves it, I thought it was normal until we all married and our husbands who explained to us that it was indeed not normal behavior. Is it not normal to know every meteorologist on every station and what nights they work? How to properly read weather radar? Tell the whole room to quiet down when we hear a weather alert siren on the screen? Text each other back and forth, giving wind speed updates, rain gage data, and rotation spotting s, like we are watching the Super Bowl? Don’t all families do that?
No not at all. But as a desert dweller myself, rain and storms are rare so its like winning the lottery usually to see a good storm.
Arizona representing here
Same here. Most of my life. Haven't loved outside of a desert all my life lol.
They pull the same crap in CA with earthquakes. "The Big One could happen any day now!!!" "Have you purchased.....everything we told you to purchase so you can make us rich??"
I, and least one of my adult children are addicted to weather watching. Doesn't even have to be where we live.
We've been lucky this year (tornadoes in East TX). We only had to shelter 4 times. Two of those times the sirens went off, and both had actual tornadoes spotted within 5 miles of my house. Last year we probably had sirens 5 or 6 times.
Those fancy tracking radars are pretty good if the station doesn't fear monger. One of the tornadoes that hit was only an F0 and was only on the ground for less than 1 mile. It's damage was very localized, but it was caught on film and proven. We had 3 minutes warning on that one, and more than 5 on the other warnings.
Must be a follow Okie. Can confirm his statement. If you know what, “I’ve got Val on the getner” is then you’re a true Okie.
Ha ha ha Texan here, I can spot a hook echo from a mile away.
It’s the first hurricane of the year after a doomsday prediction in spring of worst season evah...
Gotta make rain while the sun shines...
Or something like that.
Better yet, they move back North or where ever else they came from.
Fear is what galvanizes the public into submission.
Fear global warming, Fear climate change. Fear crime, fear natural disasters. Fear globalization. Fear conservatism. Fear QAnon. Fear spy devices. Fear the spectre of communism. Fear nazism. Fear government.
Fear everything but God.
Brings new meaning to, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
Yeah, and they're really good at ramping up the fear. As a coastal dweller I do like to keep an eye on things, but the constant bleating of how the next storm is going to be devastating is getting a bit stale here. Every Nor'Easter is going to blow your house away, every blizzard is the "storm of the Century". They've overdone it.
I live in Polk county Florida and don’t take chances that don’t need to be taken. My house is boarded up so my windows don’t get broken and then my roof sucked off. Better to be safe than sorry dealing with a storm like this. They can’t predict it well outside a day or two. I’m having a Hurricane party if anyone wants to come ride one out……. Till the lights go out
The real fun doesn't start until the lights go out...
I’m from South Louisiana and if you live on the gulf coast but have never had a hurricane party, you’re doing it wrong. 🤷🏼♀️😂 I know it’s crazy but I kinda miss the thrill of riding out a hurricane. I don’t miss the “no electricity and no water” part after the hurrican, but I do feel like everyone back home is having fun w/o us whenever they start gearing up for a hurricane. 🤷🏼♀️😬😂😂😂
Amen fren.
are "they" f#cking with the weather as retaliation against DeSantis?
Most likely. However, have faith that something good will happen to avert disaster. All of the fires set by the cabal arsonists in California just got put out all at once last week with a really weird storm that just sat on top of all of them for 12+ hours. They were trying to use the fires to push their "climate change" BS right before the midterms. Somebody dumped some water on that idea.
That kind of doesn’t make sense, remember the trump rally where he said ‘there’s a storm coming we’re gonna have to cut this short, we have a very powerful military’ is it more likely that trumps military dropped a simple storm for comms or it was actual luck that there was a storm that day?
I heard this hurricane is 500 miles wide. Sustained winds of 80mph. Possibly growing. I think hurricanes are natural occurrences. But again not making sense why wouldn’t weather controllers do something to reduce the power of a potentially deadly storm like this?
It was aimed at Tallahassee for a little while, it moved over.
Be scared, climate bigot.
I keep getting calls from friends up North asking if Im prepped for hurricane. My answer is Im always prepped. I am never not ready for things to go to shit.
And We live in NE FLA...no worries.
Amen, S FL here.
Central Florida...Lake County!!!! Publix grocery stores were full of people that were just buying "STUFF" like there was NO tomorrow!!!!!!
Me...4 bottles of wine, eggs, bacon, sausage, back-up generator and propane grill---ALL READY TO GO!!!!!!! AND I FACE A LAKE...WOWZA!!!
Will take pics and post them if I can!!!!!
Keep your head on a swivel and ALWAYS check your 6!!!!! That is ALL!!!
Mind boggling that some people don’t hav me a cpl purple weeks of TP in the house.
Have family down there, daughter & grandkids and sister. Not that I can physically do much of anything but wish I could help them. I'm in south bama, I was thinking for a bit there that it might swing more towards us. It's going to hit right where my family is, scary, wish they could drive up here, but they won't. My daughter will have to go to work probably right after the storm if they open and oldest granddaughter's father most likely won't let her leave the state (jackass that he is). My sis has to deal with the prepping shit all alone and has been given the evacuation orders. She has nothing for the windows because she has been super busy with work that she didn't prep.
Be Safe everyone! 🙏
I live on the beach where this thing is expected to fall. We are ALWAYS prepared.
Howdy neighbor stay safe and God bless.
Exactly, they've been waiting all season to try to scare the shit out of us.
They always do, they do the same here in S. Bama.
Fuckers forgot about Michael in '18. And for that very reason, they are hysterical. We survived and are stronger for it. Cowards.
Michael wiped Mexico Beach off the map. Cat 5. No amount of preparation would have helped one with that. I was there 4 days after it happened. Complete and total devastation. 19' storm surge.
Panama City here and the eye went over my house. No national coverage like Katrina or Andrew...they hate us here.
Did the "eye" see your house? 😊
NO...he was bent over watching his other eye!!!! The more you know!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yup. Looked right down at it.
Its was just a blip for the MSM. God forbid we cared about a mostly conservative area. So easy to see.
Panhandle is the reddest place in America, IMO. That's why they hate us. I say "us" as I'm a Cracker and spent a lot of my life on that little patch of land in MB. I haven't lived in FL since the 70s.
We're glad to have you as an honorary "us"!
Not honorary. Member of Florida Pioneers ; ) Pure Cracker.
They were still clearing fallen trees from the sides of I10 6 months later or more. (I'm near Pensacola)
GC
What was wild was when the 200 mph wind hit the freshly baled cotton and blasted it into the trees across the road like blown in insulation. Damndest thing I've seen.
The pine forests in the I-10 medians between Tally an P'cola have yet to recover.
The scariest part was how fast Michael developed. Just a few days from "keep an eye on this" to "Oh shit, this storm is a beast".
HAARP
Hmmm...better ask Dave about that one!
We're talking millions of people for this one in the Tampa Bay area. Pinellas County is the most densely populated County in the country. There is serious cause for concern.
Stay safe. There's enough illegals down there, they'll send lots of media, NGOs to traffic people etc. Raise a bunch of money to stuff in their pockets too. Yup, they'll show concern if their replacement population is involved.
Thank you. Hurricane Charlie took out A LOT of illegals that no one ever wanted to talk about. The missing were no considered in the disaster numbers.
Yup, and were my daughter & her family and my sis live. I know they've been through them before, as have I being I use to live down there for a good portion of my growing up years, but I'm concerned for them. My sis was just giving the evac orders and my daughter said they haven't even told them when her work will close (grocery store). I'm very concerned for them.
They just need to get away from the beach or bays. A sturdy structure will suffice as long as there are no trees that might be dangerous.
Well they both have large trees, just going to have to pray for the best. They've managed to get through other bad hurricanes with little damage, hoping this one will be no different.
Michael was the Sharpiegate hurricane, right?
Nope. Tbat was Dorian. Michael was the strongest storm to ever hit, yet they don't mention it ever.
They think it could hit 140+ mph by landfall. That's a big deal.
I'd rather have a governor who declares a state of emergency beforehand and doesn't need to use it than a governor who la-dee-das through the storm and then blames the federal government for not sending enough help a week later.
Floridian Here: (South FL, not Tampa)
Ian isn't something to be scared of, evenif Cat 4 or even 5. Yeah, I know how bad it can get, but there is no need to panic. We've been through these hurricanes before, I remember Andrew, Wilma, and that one year (05?) where there were 9 back to back to back.
I can see for how all the new peeps who moved here, yes, it would be something "they've" never seen or experienced before.
Keep calm. Prepared. Food for 2-3 weeks, plenty of water, medication (30 days) and shutters. Things will be ok.
Ty for update fren be safe just heard this The US MILITARY COMMAND CENTER IS IN TAMPA , they must know something because it hasn’t even strengthened yet . Maybe Man made weather catastrophe …just sharing
MacDill Air Force base is HQ to US Central Command Center “Centcom” (they are responsible for the Middle East.
Some parts of Tampa already have evac orders including MacDill.
A MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER FOR LEVEL A, and VOLUNTARY EVACUATION ORDER FOR LEVEL B has been issued by Hillsborough County including all low-lying areas, mobile and manufactured homes starting at 2 p.m. on September 26, 2022 due to Hurricane Ian.
https://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/library/hillsborough/media-center/documents/emergency-management/hillsborough-evacuation-zone-map-english.pdf
Ty fren good info !! gonna pass on to anon fren who mentioned
Thanks. My friend just said Hillsborough(Tampa) evacuates before Pinellas (St Pete) because “they’re more woke.” Lmao.
Hahaha that’s funny
Yeah MacDill is right there literally by the water. I lived on base when I was a kid and had one of my kids there while hubby was in Dessert Storm. I can see MacDill being evacuated. My sis got the evac order also, but she doesn't live near the base.
I'm guessing you aren't a Zone A inhabitant. I've lived on the Gulf Coast all my 55 years and have seen a many a storm. In my experience if you are in Zone A - get out. I'm not that concerned for life and limb, but I am for my property. But that's the price of living in paradise I reckon.
Media pushing fear.
F E A R
False Evidence Appearing Real
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Edit : be safe Florida anons remember ole bush and don’t be Katrina’d smh !!
Great acronym
so true isn’t it (:
Oh yes it is.
The more people panicking the more feeding it. The more prayers and calm, you get it…🙏
Fear Porn... They want the people afraid so they will submit. unless this hurricane has record-setting winds and dumps the entire Atlantic on the state, there is no way the state hasn't faced one like this. oh, how I miss the voice of reason, the late Great Rush Limbaugh.
I agree with most here - they promote fear and people respond. I always thought that areas know for such know how to deal with it best they can. I would hope that the Floridians who are prepared might teach the newbies how to prepare.
I'm from PA and we do get plenty of blizzards.... get milk, eggs, bread and a shovel. I just recently moved to MD and they literally shut down when calling for snow.
And the earthquakes. I hear they can be a bit shaky.
At least you can run from a hurricane.
Living is too easy. Thus the plethora of tards.
Condolences.
Amen to that!
Yep…We call it “French Toast Weather”!!! 😉
LOL I used to live in MD. Can confirm.
You know when they send Jim Cantore to the beach...it's serious... :D
He leans to the left.
I'm not a fan.
It's all of the new residents shitting their britches. I don't know any natives that are worried about it.
Fear = Control
I seem to remember a few years back another storm was thought to be heading straight towards Tampa. Everyone was worried about it then, but the storm veered away from the area. The cat3 that hit there 101 years ago pushed storm surge over 11 feet and flooded everything. It has a lot to do with the counter-clockwise rotation pushing water into the bay with nowhere for it to go but land. There are over 3 million people in that area now , and of course the elevation is from sea level to about 50 feet.
Weather people are worried about the rest of Florida as well, but a direct hit to the Tampa Bay metro area (Clearwater, Tampa, St Pete) could be catastrophic. Note - the last major direct hit to Tampa was the one in 1921. NOAA has said before that a direct hit of a CAT4 would flood Tampa with 20+ feet of water, and estimates from 2016 said they expect property damage to be in the hundreds of millions. That doesn't include crop damage. In 1921 over 50% of the citrus trees were destroyed - and remember that was a CAT 3.
It is extremely rare for a direct hit to Tampa, especially thanks to Cuba's mountains, and in fact the last hurricane that directly hit was in 1946 (not a major one).
I'd just watch he hell out of the weather channel to see if it will steer towards Tampa, and if it does get the hell out. That area with the bay is the perfect storm.
edited - Forgot to mention I actually did live in Florida in the Daytona area for a few years before coming back to Texas. I've been through hurricanes in FL, and even one in MD while I was growing up (which flooded my town). I stayed for those.
https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/pinellas-county-officials-hold-briefing-on-hurricane-ian-preparations/
Pinellas County issues mandatory evac orders for Zones A, B, & C
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/09/26/macdill-air-force-base-issues-evacuation-with-hurricane-ian-looming/
They’ll be evacuating aircraft as well as personnel. Just a heads up in case it’s missed below
A MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER FOR LEVEL A, and VOLUNTARY EVACUATION ORDER FOR LEVEL B has been issued by Hillsborough County including all low-lying areas, mobile and manufactured homes starting at 2 p.m. on September 26, 2022 due to Hurricane Ian. https://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/library/hillsborough/media-center/documents/emergency-management/hillsborough-evacuation-zone-map-english.pdf
Here's another link to add, I was looking for evac orders in my daughters area of Paco and these had some info.
https://weather.com/news/news/2022-09-26-hurricane-ian-evacuations-florida
https://www.pascocountyfl.net/322/Evacuation-Zones
if you click on the map image it will take you to this page where you can enter your address and it will tell you which zone you are in ...
https://pascofloem.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9fa8f4cd8c4c4c2b943c4b4ec8f6fb84
And here's for Hillsborough..
https://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/library/hillsborough/media-center/documents/emergency-management/hillsborough-evacuation-zone-map-english.pdf
ThanQ
Weather hype to get you to watch the idiot box (TV). Same nonsense EVERY year.
I know I went to the store for some milk and bread and shelves are bare here in NE FL, all fear mongering as usual from msm. Stay safe friends and God bless.
Some people here aren’t worried, some people brush this all off as hype but a lot of us are well prepared and still concerned. I’m one of those. Andrew devastated south Fl back in the day. I saw the effects of Panama City and Port Charlotte a few years ago. People were devastated. Irma was no joke. It wasn’t as bad as expected but there was a lot of damage. When you lose power, and 15 million people just in Florida did with Irma-you have people suffering from heat related problems and exacerbation of existing medical conditions. Think of all the older people living in FL. It’s a certainty that many will suffer because they have no support. So I don’t take this lightly. I hope it veers west but nobody knows till it’s closer.
There are a lot of areas in Tampa and St Pete that flood. The flood zones were evacuating today as well as all mobile home dwellers. That’s smart because storm surge and flash floods cause the most deaths in any hurricane. You have to take it seriously.
Warnings are up now. Please reach out to any friends or relatives who live down in FL and make sure they’re doing ok and make sure they’re able to leave if ordered.
I’m in Tampa and I ran to Publix for some deli stuff around noon today (immediately regretted it) and it was packed with people loading up carts. Also, so many masked people, mostly older but UGH!! The parking lot was packed, no carts available but I didn’t need one. Thankfully, Publix is always on their game and had multiple lanes open. They were testing their alarm system with that sound you hear when there is an emergency alert in your phone. It just added to the panic heavy atmosphere.
Seriously don’t understand why everyone waits till the last few days to stock up. It’s always the same story, though. No water left, no stupid bread.
true Floridian here, No panic, always prepared. Just pissed at the lack of gas
I would be far more concerned about this storm if we were in Tampa/St.Pete area as that area looks to be taking darn near a direct hit. Hundreds of thousands of people All trying to pack up and head North on interstate 75 that can jam up for an hour + for a fender bender(same applies for I4 East or 95) Who knows how many will be stuck there when the worst of this storm hits Florida? We live in Volusia County and while we will get more rain and flooding than I care to deal with along with some tornadoes, it will be minimal compared to the West side of the state. We will be praying for us all. This is our 1st hurricane, but I'll gladly take this rather than another 7.0 or greater quake back in Alaska. At least with hurricanes you can see them coming days ahead as opposed to having No warning of a quake.
China's got typhoons too.
IMHO, I believe it is all hyped. Even the Weather Channel needs to have high ratings. My son watches this stuff and even he said it's as if they want us all in a state of panic.
Wasn't the weather channel recently complaining about low profits due to this being a mild hurricane season, and it's already over half over, or something stupid like that?
better to be prepared than not.
Desantis knows what hes doing
Turn off the fake news. The ONLY people in Florida scared of this hurricane are New York transplants. That's probably why the Fake News is overhyping it. Too many New Yorkers leaving for Florida. But trust me. Florida isn't scared of this very average hurricane.
How to catch moles with a water hose.
https://youtu.be/sMKhqPkO_G0 (12 min)
How to catch moles with a hurricane. (Stay tuned)
https://youtu.be/XE7xtLrDDak
Width of the storm combined with the fact its running up the entire west coastline. Most hit at one point and reduces widespread flooding. This going uo the coastline would flood nearly half the state.
That is the theory anyways.
Yes!
Everyone is shitting their pants over a thunderstorm. I'm in Brevard County and the thing's crossing the whole width of the state, over land.
The storm is nothing.