OT Hurricane Ian
dawnblade
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Thoughts and prayers going out to fellow artists in/near Fort Myers and other affected areas!
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I used to live on Sanibel Island. Prayers for them, Captiva and Ft. Myers :'(
@barbult lives somewhere in Florida. I do hope the hurricane gones nowhere near her.
Cheers,
Alex.
I have been worried for all the DAZ Floridians. The images on MSNBC and Twitter are horrific.
I hope you all are safe, high up, and secure right now.
Mary
I'm on the east coast. We will probably get hurricane force winds and 6-10 inches of rain. It is raining here now, and there are tornado warnings and watches, but the wind is just starting to pick up. It will be worse later today and tomorrow. We'll probably lose power at some point. That usually happens. Every storm is a little different. You never know for sure what will happen. The west coast of Florida is much worse off with Ian.
Take care, everyone, sending best wishes from Europe
I just checked @novica's profile. She hasn't posted in a week, but she seems to be online now.
Her home is not in the path or this storn, luckily.
Good to know. Her absence is still conspicuous, though, as she's usually the first to update us about things like this.
Yo, people in or near the path, be prudent! I am sending all the positive vibes I can.
I know. I hope her mother is OK.
Hey gang, I'm fine. I've been busy answering PMs, thanks for thinking of me.
I'm very, very sad watching The Weather Channel (since yesterday, almost non-stop.) It's almost embarrassing Pensacola through Eglin AFB is enjoying absolutely GORGEOUS weather. The cold front came down and we have balmy breezes and temperatures in the upper 70's/ low 80's. I just saw Tampa Bay as a mud flat, with water drained out. It will come back in, so those stupid people who went way out there to photograph it better take a Reality Pill and swim lessons.
The best thing you can do is contact your friends via text and offer to text them still images of the weather radars. I do that for my sister in Jacksonville, and I send video clips showing her area but limit them to 10-15 seconds max. I have a friend by Tampa and I am sending her texts/images of the radar.
FYI for those of you with ROKU (who don't have to pay a dime for cable tv or satellite) if you have FRNDLY television, it's about 8.00 a month for high definition, and has The Weather Channel. I always subscribe through hurricane season.
Sending positive vibes...too many storms and floods lately.
Hoping everyone there is, and stays, safe.
Seeing images of the devastation. @barbult I really hope your home comes out better.
Stay safe, everyone.
I first visited Sanibel & Capitiva in the mid-70s and a few times afterwards. The racoons and skunks will rob your tent of all food while you sleep in the nearby state park (just south of Fort Myers).
The whole area is so nice and the people are too. I hope the hurricane doesn't do serious damage.Stay safe.
I hope you and everyone are staying safe.
I hope my daddy is okay. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
I live in NC and not looking forward to the rain and wind.
@sfariah Talked to my sister in Jacksonville, she said constant rain but very few heavy downpours, she did say wind was howling last night. Their Goldendoodle dog slept in the bed with my niece all night, lol- he came in from doing his business and went straight into her bedroom instead of to his pet couch. Like, "Deal with it people!" He's a 75 pound sweetheart with a big personality.
Pensacola is currently still getting 28mph gusts and the waves were 5-7 feet today out at the beach. We're all feeling quite guilty at the fantastic weather here and are thinking of all of you elsewhere in the state and in the path of Ian. @barbult I'm so glad you're okay!
Unfortunately, Sanibel was devastated. The lighthouse still stands, but ALL the buildings that were with it are gone. The causeway is ruined on all spans and the islands between - at least one of them is partially underwater now. Ft. Myers is just as devastated. So sad for me to see :'(
https://www.fox4now.com/weather/hurricane-center/causeway-collapse-broken-spirit-ians-wrath-upon-swfl
I live in South Carolina.... this thing has had its way with Florida and is heading our way for dessert.
Stay safe. I hope it spares you any real problems.
I think Petercat lives in Charleston. I hope he and any other South Carolinians are OK also.
Florida Governor DeSantis announced today that the Sanibel causeway would have to be completely rebuilt. I think that might take a LONG while. Also the bridge to Pine Island from Cape Coral was also destroyed. Two very popular tourist destinations. The tourism industry there is going to really suffer and no bridge is going to make it really difficult for the people that live on those islands.
I remember when a vicious storm tore up all paths into Santa Barbara in the 90s, I couldn't drive to work for days. Employees who didn't drive home in time, were stuck sleeping at work, or if they had enough money, rent a hotel room. But Hwys 101, 154, and 1 were all closed with slides and cave-ins under the roads, the airport had flooded, and after two days, they managed to get tourist boats to start ferry runs back and forth from Ventura to Santa Barbara until the 101 was repaired. We had broken roads for months, often with only 1 lane open each way. If Florida can get that much up and going, that will be helpful.
Unfortunately, this will be something we will be living with for the rest of our lives.
I was very shocked the causeway was blown down. And all the other damage is just as bad. I think people that build in hurricane zones will have to go back to the drawing board of how and where and of what meterials homes are built using; and say that having lived in a house hit by a hurricane 700 miles from the nearest ocean. These are not our grandma's hurricanes.
They are going to have to bring some ferries out of mothballs I would guess. We used to have to take a ferry going to Little Talbot Island just north of Mayport but that was long ago. They probably have a few in mothballs for these type problems. However, ferries were from a time when literally everyone wasn't spending their time keeping the roads hot.