Looks like more than prayers will be needed for you folks in Florida. Not good
Looks like more than prayers will be needed for you folks in Florida. Not good
1972 16 OB - C16B-63 - "Surface Tension" Resto Project
1974 16 OB - DMR16106017-B - "The Mule"
All of us out here 1000 miles away in our own hurricane alley are just horrified watching this play out . Thanks to satellite and cable tv we're getting all the same coverage that you in the US are and the images coming in from the islands to our south is just mind blowing .
I'm guessing that a lot of Florida's home construction is similar to that of St Maarten and Tortola and what you see in those places is just awful . And that's not even taking into account that Florida has a lot more to worry about with storm surge than those islands did .
Our thoughts are with everyone that has been and will be in Irma's path . This is another one that is going to take a very long time to get over .
And now we've got Jose bobbing around doing loop de loops under us in a few day's time , and then another one behind him !
Last year we had Nicole a strong cat 3 do a direct hit and the year before it was 2 direct hits in 6 days .
Global weather pattern change ... naah , can't be such a thing , surely .
Just because something's old doesn't mean you throw it away !
Hurricane Andrew decimated Homestead in August of '92 and over the next year the building codes were
completely overhauled. Homes built starting in '94 had the roof structure tied securely to the concrete
foundation. Our house was built to these codes, actually in '94. The shingles may come off at 130 MPH
winds, or so, but the roof is good for considerably higher than that. Florida is said to have the toughest
building codes in the country, but that doesn't help older homes, or mobile homes. A good friend just
left his house near Key West. It was built in the early '70's and is only about 3' above sea level. In other
words, it's virtually uninsurable. So he's not expecting to return to much n ext week. I hope FEMA will be
able to help him.
George Carter
Central Florida
gcarter763@aol.com
http://kineticocentralfl.com/
“If you have to argue your science by using fraud, your science is not valid"
Professor Ian Plimer, Adilaide and Melbourne Universities
Good luck to everyone down there. Thankfully, she's a lot weaker than when she was tearing up the Antilles. Hoping for the best.
"I don't have time to get into it, but he went through a lot." -Pulp Fiction
Thoughts with you folks.
Had to get my kid out from the University of Tampa and a cousin out of Port Charlotte. Airlines should be ashamed of themselves.
Also, hope the looters get strung up by their B@##$!
Don't worry about Jose. It won't hit the US. Trump won't let it in.
Be Safe everyone.
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