2024 Tropical Weather Thread (11 Viewers)

[ktulu909]

More models supporting cat 4 or 5 than there are supporting 1,2 or 3.

 

[Madmarsha]

Jim's in Tampa!

 

[CajunInVA]

Jim's in Tampa!

So are my sister and brother-in-law. She's taking the dogs and going stay with friends in West Palm, but the BiL is a doctor and has to stay at the hospital. Their house is on Davis Island in the bay. They got a little water this last storm. Can't imagine what this one will be like.

 

[Madmarsha]

So are my sister and brother-in-law. She's taking the dogs and going stay with friends in West Palm, but the BiL is a doctor and has to stay at the hospital. Their house is on Davis Island in the bay. They got a little water this last storm. Can't imagine what this one will be like.

Oh, I wish I could live on Davis Island. Just maybe not right now. Does he work right there at Tampa General?

 

[CajunInVA]

Oh, I wish I could live on Davis Island. Just maybe not right now. Does he work right there at Tampa General?

Yes. I understand that they have flood walls they raise around the hospital.

 

[Madmarsha]

Yes. I understand that they have flood walls they raise around the hospital.

Yeah, I read about that! AquaFence. It's pretty amazing!

 

[Madmarsha]

A personal account of a couple's experience in Helene in the process of learning what happens when all of the infrastructure that we all take for granted every day is no longer there.

 

[bclemms]

A personal account of a couple's experience in Helene in the process of learning what happens when all of the infrastructure that we all take for granted every day is no longer there.

Everyone makes fun of preppers. What most don't realize is how quickly everything you know can disappear. Of course I'm more sensitive to it than most since I see it first hand often but "it will never happen to me" syndrome is real.

I should put together a basic prepper pack that includes a few low voltage lights a lithium generator and solar charger, starlink mini, led lights, food and water to last 14 days. I could do it all for $2k and be prepared for a whole lot.

 

[superchuck500]

A personal account of a couple's experience in Helene in the process of learning what happens when all of the infrastructure that we all take for granted every day is no longer there.

I have a good friend in Sarasota and I’m “suggesting” he leave - he keeps saying “we’re good, it doesn’t flood here.”

I said “and so you and your place survive the storm, great . . . and then what happens?”

 

[efil4stnias]

I have a good friend in Sarasota and I’m “suggesting” he leave - he keeps saying “we’re good, it doesn’t flood here.”

I said “and so you and your place survive the storm, great . . . and then what happens?”

Sigh.

And this is a week removed from witnessing Western North Carolina.

5 days or more without water, electricity or ability to move about, isn't the vacation many think it is.

 

[Madmarsha]

Everyone makes fun of preppers. What most don't realize is how quickly everything you know can disappear. Of course I'm more sensitive to it than most since I see it first hand often but "it will never happen to me" syndrome is real.

I should put together a basic prepper pack that includes a few low voltage lights a lithium generator and solar charger, starlink mini, led lights, food and water to last 14 days. I could do it all for $2k and be prepared for a whole lot.

A prepper pack like that would be amazing.

I'm no expert but I've learned a lot from those who grew up in this area and living through Katrina and being glued to The Weather Channel from June 1 to November 1. I watched that video because it was a real person first-hand account. But as I'm watching it, I'm also taking note of the "mistakes" they and, frankly, many others who weren't locals around them made.

For one thing, they knew a storm was coming to an area they were driving to ... but then made a lot of assumptions about where it was going and where it wasn't going and kept going. They said it themselves, We thought it was going to hit Florida and then dissipate.

Better part of valor would have been to monitor the storm for themselves -- like literally everyone here does -- and take note of the likely track and then hang back a night till they knew it really had cleared the area they were traveling to before proceeding basically right into the path. By then, they would have known that they shouldn't proceed and they'd be high and dry and somewhere with all the infrastructure in place and then made a new plan. Frankly, I never would have done what they did.

 

[Madmarsha]

I have a good friend in Sarasota and I’m “suggesting” he leave - he keeps saying “we’re good, it doesn’t flood here.”

I said “and so you and your place survive the storm, great . . . and then what happens?”

Exactly. So there's the people that stay and know that if it gets that bad, help in the form of 9-1-1 and everything else ain't coming. And then there's the people that stay and naively think that if it gets that bad, I'll just call 9-1-1.

 

[Andrus]

 

[Nos]

Pinhole eye forming, in October. Prayers for Florida’s west coast.

 

[TheRealJRad]

Sigh.

And this is a week removed from witnessing Western North Carolina.

5 days or more without water, electricity or ability to move about, isn't the vacation many think it is.

Yea Ida didn’t do much too me from a damage perspective, but I am not keen on living a week without power again.

We were lucky most services were available, but I was taking multiple (cold) showers a day due to all that post storm stickiness and it was just generally miserable.