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Hurricane Matthew
Topic Started: Oct 5 2016, 03:06 PM (499 Views)
daniel60
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Wesley and Air hope everything is safe your way. We are hoping the same. They have already reversed the interstate here. I'm going to work the long way tonight. If there is someone I missed please be safe too.
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W Gee
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I too wishing the best to those in Matthews path. Hoping everyone weathers the storm ok
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Douglas
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Hope everyone stays safe. It looks like it could affect a lot of people, so hoping all those are getting prepared the best they can.

In the Orlando area here folks are preparing for a rough time with Matthew. I believe they are still expecting it to start here tomorrow afternoon, and be bad all night and Friday.

I know on the way home from work I came across a gas station that still had gas, and not too long of a line, but I didn't have much money on me, so I stopped anyway and got what I could, just in case. I'll fill some water bottles at home tonight. Might stop at the grocery store tonight, if they aren't too busy and pick up a few canned goods.
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Everyone stay dry. Play with the diecast as they don't require power. :)
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juantoo3
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Thanks for thinking of us, Daniel. You stay safe too. Where I'm at I think we will be OK, but I was looking at the spaghetti plots this morning and saw where about half of them were predicting the storm would follow the coast up to around the NoCar/SoCar line then curve out to sea and recurve back onto Florida, they weren't talking about that on the news this morning, but it did get mention tonight. Folks along the East coast need to be careful the next couple days, but if that thing recurves and comes back around (which has happened in the past, so not unheard of), Florida could get a double whammy, and the second punch could be worse than the first.

This one definitely bears watching closely.
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Milton Fox Racing
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Most recent image I could find (12 hours ago), but seems a bit looser! Hopefully, it will haved veered over to Cuba and break up some more before it gets to Florida...

...I grew up on the Texas Coast and have been through my share of them - stay dry and safe!

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Edited by Milton Fox Racing, Oct 5 2016, 09:34 PM.
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b2young
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To all our friends along the southeast coast, I hope you all weather this storm well and that damage is far less than what I heard predicted last night on the news.

Stay safe. (I moved away from California and Alaska for jobs, but also to find a respite from the frequent earthquakes. I can't imagine living in hurricane country. Mother earth sure likes to shake things up, doesn't she?)
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webestang64
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Wishing all to be safe. That is one wicked storm coming.
Edited by webestang64, Oct 6 2016, 06:19 PM.
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Swifty
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To all of you in the path of Matthew, stay safe. I heard there are now mandatory evacuations in some areas - I urge everyone who can leave to do so. Better to be safe than sorry.
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daniel60
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I'm going to be at the Wando Terminal in the morning. Hopefully but unsure I will be let to go home. I work 1900 to 0700 hours. They said that it will hit about noon on Saturday here. Hopefully there will be not too many downed shipping containers or worst scenario in the near by neighborhoods. Lets all hope for the best.

I hope Florida will be o.k. There will be first on the southeastern coast to be hit.
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W Gee
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Anyone in the path of Matthew...your in my prayers , hoping you and your family's stay safe :(
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I am on the west coast of Florida. I doubt we'll be hit hard, but, this county does have a watch. You guys who are on the other side of Florida as well as Georgia and beyond stay safe!
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daniel60
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Checking out for work guys. I wish you all the best. See ya!!
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Airborn511
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piece of cake here Danny...................................Wish you the same................stay safe Buddy........................... :thumbup:
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juantoo3
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Just checked the radar (been watching off and on all day), looks like the eye is just north of the FL / GA line, around St. Marys as I write this. Looks to my untrained eye to be easing east just a bit, which started just before it was due east of me. Where I'm at we got sustained wind for about an hour at around 35, gusts to around 45, and we get more rain out of a typical summer thunderstorm than we got today. We were lucky.

East of us, closer to the coast, they were not so lucky. Saw pics tonight that show St Augustine swamped under several feet of water. Talked to my buddy about an hour south, his story similar to mine, but he was telling me his son whose apartment was beside the Intercoastal Waterway in Daytona, lost the roof and as a result he lost most everything he had inside the house. Fortunately his Dad talked him into going elsewhere for the storm, so he wasn't home when it happened.

I think we'll know more come daylight, but it is looking like from the St Johns River east to the coast got hammered pretty good, mostly from flooding. We were lucky, it could have been worse, the really nasty 100+ mph winds stayed out to sea. Which is more than we can say for Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. The news reported 800+/- lives lost already, and I'm sure that number will grow...this was a monster storm, and it isn't over yet. Keep a watchful eye, Daniel and anyone else up in the low country of the Carolinas.
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Swifty
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Glad to hear that both of you dodged a bullet. Hopefully the same can be said if you get round 2 of Matthew.

To those of you still in the path, please stay safe!
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juantoo3
Oct 7 2016, 08:34 PM
but he was telling me his son whose apartment was beside the Intercoastal Waterway in Daytona, lost the roof and as a result he lost most everything he had inside the house.
Do you know if he had insurance on the contents? I have a bunch of stuff that is too big for me now. If you can find out sizes and PM me an address of what he needs and how best to get it to him.
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juantoo3
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He's a pretty big guy, I think he's about 30 yo now, well over 6 ft tall and 200 lbs. He'll be OK, just the stress and headache of losing possessions.

Possessions can be replaced, lives cannot. Or as the old man told me once, "it ain't nothin' but a thing."

Thanks for the offer though, I'll let him know.

Watching this morning, it looks like the really bad NE quadrant is kissing Hilton Head when I got up this morning, and headed for Charleston. I'm sure Daniel is feeling the brunt right about now, and my guess is considerably worse than we had it here...so please stay safe Daniel!
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Douglas
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We weren't too bad in much of my area near Orlando.

The heavy rain bands started rolling in Thursday evening, the counties implemented mandatory curfews from about 10 PM Thurs, until 7 AM Saturday, only people allowed on roads would be those heading to shelters, news reporters, and emergency responders, which included utility company personnel. The sheriffs said these curfews would be enforced, so stay in your homes or shelters.

Thank God the Matthew shifted east, my area got the most heavy winds when the storm was around Daytona, the heavy rain bands and about 40 MPH winds with heavier gusts, but for me, I think the most heavy rains actually came throughout Thursday evening as the outer bands passed through. but still, I slept like a baby Thurs night, nothing extreme seemed to happen as to wake me.

Things weren't bad, so the county lifted the curfew at 2 PM Friday, so I went out for a drive in the area and didn't see too much off the main roads, a couple trees down in the neighborhood, but didn't see any flooding more than a parking lot or two in the area.

Over a million people in Florida lost power throughout the storm, I fortunately did not, but friends did, though it was restored for them within 24 hours, and that was with the power company telling them they were very low priority. Hats off to the utility workers from here and around the country who came to help.

It is very sad about the loss of life associated with this, especially with so many in the poor country of Haiti, I hope and pray no others will experience any loss of life or injury from this storm.
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daniel60
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Airborn511
Oct 7 2016, 05:23 PM
piece of cake here Danny...................................Wish you the same................stay safe Buddy........................... :thumbup:
Got power back just a few minutes ago. Damages aren't as bad as I thought except downtown is flooded. One neighborhood a friend I know was totally underwater. Unbelievable. Haiti was the worst. I'm going to send them some funds to the Red Cross.
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juantoo3
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Glad to hear you got through it OK Daniel!
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Swifty
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daniel60
Oct 8 2016, 05:51 PM
Airborn511
Oct 7 2016, 05:23 PM
piece of cake here Danny...................................Wish you the same................stay safe Buddy........................... :thumbup:
Got power back just a few minutes ago. Damages aren't as bad as I thought except downtown is flooded. One neighborhood a friend I know was totally underwater. Unbelievable. Haiti was the worst. I'm going to send them some funds to the Red Cross.
:thumbup: Best news I've heard all day is that you're okay! I've been worried.
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