The Hurricane is Comming right here....

[hitmansb]

Originally posted by decadecadeca


Category 4 now, bad news.

:(

Hope you got all those windows boarded up, or shuttered if you've got em (I know I would if I lived in Florida or the Carolinas).

[Puddles]

Originally posted by decadecadeca
Looks like its turned east faster than they thought. Anybody south in Sarasota / Ft.Myers area?


Category 4 now, bad news.

They just said it may be borderline category 5.

That's where my mother is. She lives in a manufactured hom in a retirement community. My Godparents are down the block from her. I wish she would have come HERE like I wanted her to. I haven't heard from her since this morning and now it's gonna make landfall right where she lives. They left their community and went to houses but still, they're not in a safe area at all. Cat. 4 usually means complete destruction of all mobile homes. I doubt my mother's community will have anything left and they're all elderly people. :(

The other areas around the hurricane are on tornado watch so we're still keeping our house secured. But thankfully we won't get the flooding that was expected.

The sad thing about the change of the hurricane is that most of the people that live in those areas are older people. Good thing is that those areas are much less populated.

Keep the older people in your thoughts, they're frail and just can't handle the aftermath of a situation like this as well as younger people.

[Irishgirl]

Sorry to hear that Puddles :( I have family in Port Charlotte too, so I'm hoping everyone is ok!

[PimpJigga]

I feel you on this one buddy, I lived in Miami during Andrew, looks like I'm pretty much in the clear this time though.

Good luck w/ everything though, I hope you guys will be ok.

[spidey]

It just made landfall north of Ft. Myers. Still a cat. 4 with 145 mph sustained winds with higher gusts.

My father lives just south of Tampa in Sun City. I hope he is OK.

[blm]

I'm not in an evacuation zone, but I have four people and their pets here with me that do. It's is eerily calm right now. There is an occassional drizzle and the wind is calm. It is apparently going to hit below us in the Ft. Myers area and we will see hurricane winds and rain. We'll see!

[Bouncer]

Originally posted by blm
I'm not in an evacuation zone, but I have four people and their pets here with me that do. It's is eerily calm right now. There is an occassional drizzle and the wind is calm. It is apparently going to hit below us in the Ft. Myers area and we will see hurricane winds and rain. We'll see!

On the weather channel they had a guy close to Ft. Myers and he was getting nailed with rain an wind. Then they showed a reporter in Tampa and it was sunny and calm. LoL, the guy was like, "umm dont have anything to report" hahha. even the water behind him was calm.

[redneck99]

I've been through a couple of hurricanes. Everyone down in S. FL be safe and hope everything turns out OK.

[Luftdude]

Puddles, 'bout living on high ground I know how you feel. When TS Allison hit Houston, most parts of Houston got flooded but we live on relatively high ground in my neck of the woods and got lucky.

LD

[blm]

Fortunately, everything passed by me here in Tampa. Porta Gorda (sp), got hit with the eye and up to 160mph winds. It ripped the roof off a shelter and the Holiday Inn that a news crew was in. It was strange, looking outside and seeing it so calm and then watching tv and seeing so much destruction...with the same storm.

[Puddles]

Tampa is very lucky. We had a little bit of rain and wind but nothing even compared to our usual summer storms.

Looks like my mom's town got hit bad. I still can't reach her. It's driving me nuts. I don't know exactly who's house she's staying at. So far the news is saying no reports of death or injury in the area although buildings and cars are demolished. It looks like those people really listened to the warnings and evacuated in the dangerous areas. :) The news will show pics from hellicopters tomorrow once it's light out.