Florida

[Wine dude]

Walked around a bit between gusts my property and just out to the street, trees and branches down, one fence. No power now for 24 hours.
I can sit on patio and away from wind, have heard some trees snap, 10 inch branches.
I am in Miami so just gusts, however heard from Key Largo there was a 9 ft wave that came over the overseas highway and some homes swept away.
For our friends in Naples and north be careful and safe, 12 hours of rough stuff and then the painful clean up, hopefully no injuries..

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[96cobra]

We're in Tampa and hunkering down! Going to brace the garage door and ride it out. We didn't get our windows boarded but we have hurricane-grade windows so hoping for the best. Generator is ready, as well as a portable AC unit. We are in flood zone 4, so we will be OK with water, just have to worry about winds taking out windows and/or the roof.

Funny thing is, in order to put the GT350 in the garage I got rid of all the old gas cans that I had to get gas for my generator.. and after the storm started approaching, you couldn't find cans. So I have about 10 gallons of gas to run my generator and that's it.

I was thinking I could syphon gas from my Raptor (36 gallon tank) but quickly found out that the late model cars have syphon-proof tanks (didn't know this until a day ago).

Hope everyone else stays safe and hoping for the best of luck!!

 

[5-OH]

Damn this thing is wicked, holding it down in Palmetto Bay.

 

[Tomster]

We're in Tampa and hunkering down! Going to brace the garage door and ride it out. We didn't get our windows boarded but we have hurricane-grade windows so hoping for the best. Generator is ready, as well as a portable AC unit. We are in flood zone 4, so we will be OK with water, just have to worry about winds taking out windows and/or the roof.

Funny thing is, in order to put the GT350 in the garage I got rid of all the old gas cans that I had to get gas for my generator.. and after the storm started approaching, you couldn't find cans. So I have about 10 gallons of gas to run my generator and that's it.

I was thinking I could syphon gas from my Raptor (36 gallon tank) but quickly found out that the late model cars have syphon-proof tanks (didn't know this until a day ago).

Hope everyone else stays safe and hoping for the best of luck!!

I don't know if its too late, but we have room over here. Plenty of gas with a generator.

 

[Wine dude]

Damn this thing is wicked, holding it down in Palmetto Bay.

Just a little north of u on the boundary, not sure patio frame will survive wobbling a bit too much, white caps in the pool, dogs trying not to pee upwind.
She jogged a little east and the middle of the eye is almost even with Homestead, we still have a big thick part of the storm to go thru, I wouldn't say a band, we are in her and won't slide out for a while. Just had a neighbors tree at least 30 inches thick break 3 feet from the ground, the sound was incredible.
The west coast is gonna get creamed too many wooden beach homes and trailers. What we are getting is mild compared to Cuba, Keys and the west Coast of Fl. Heard overseas highway got a 9 footer go over it and homes were washed away.
No power for 27 hours and with more areas loosing power we may be withoutfor a long time, Andrew 5 weeks, Katrina and Wilma 4 weeks, the cold showers really get old.

 

[Steve68]

Irma gerd.

 

[FastCarFanBoy]

We're in Tampa and hunkering down! Going to brace the garage door and ride it out. We didn't get our windows boarded but we have hurricane-grade windows so hoping for the best. Generator is ready, as well as a portable AC unit. We are in flood zone 4, so we will be OK with water, just have to worry about winds taking out windows and/or the roof.

Funny thing is, in order to put the GT350 in the garage I got rid of all the old gas cans that I had to get gas for my generator.. and after the storm started approaching, you couldn't find cans. So I have about 10 gallons of gas to run my generator and that's it.

I was thinking I could syphon gas from my Raptor (36 gallon tank) but quickly found out that the late model cars have syphon-proof tanks (didn't know this until a day ago).

Hope everyone else stays safe and hoping for the best of luck!!

Disconnect line at rail and pull the relay and put a jumper in

 

[v-man]

good luck tampa it is coming in now, luckily weaker than expected I am in Vero beach 6 miles inland riding it out big winds coming in tonight. My house on Hutchinson island is hanging in there dock under water Water level at sea wall and rising

 

[Colleton]

Stay safe everyone!

 

[Tomster]

cat 2 now around the Ft Meyers area, will weaken to a 1 around the tampa area, good news! (in comparison)

 

[Wine dude]

Indeed great news, did an attempted drive thru neighborhood unable to get out, all roads blocked, even with AWD vehicle.

 

[Kurac]

Good luck fellas

 

[Wine dude]

Storm essentially done, all roads in and out of my area are completely blocked. Spoke to my mayor and PD, they said it's really bad, they can't even get to my neighborhood to assess even possible routes, AT and T down.

 

[stshoo]

Mine is in a ground floor garage in Ft Myers... And I'm in Germany... So its wait, hope and see....

Hey, we had to leave ours in Fort Myers too. Right now our storm surge on the map is 3-6 feet, but naples appears to be doing better than they had originally estimated. Check your PM and when I get back to town, I can try to check it out if I'm not completely underwater.

Scott

 

[stanglife]

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