Hurricane Irma check-in / status report

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At everyone of Scott's press conferences that I watched he had a gaggle of people standing behind him... why?
put theirs butts to work and stop standing around... the baddest hurricane of all time just laid waste to many parts of the state, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work (I know they were mostly before it hit, but still, why 15 people standing with him?).
 

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Mother nature is a bvtch. In all the destruction and chaos I hope all will have a nice laugh at this.

Rick Scott's epic sign language interpreter....looks like he was randomly placed in the video by a heck of a video editor or he was faking it all. I don't know if the National Sign Language Interpreter Association has an annual competition for best interpreter because it seems they keep getting more dramatic and hilarious.




That fool has to be a fraud!
 

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At everyone of Scott's press conferences that I watched he had a gaggle of people standing behind him... why?
put theirs butts to work and stop standing around... the baddest hurricane of all time just laid waste to many parts of the state, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work (I know they were mostly before it hit, but still, why 15 people standing with him?).


They are the leaders or PR peeps of the respective agencies of which he controls budgets and appointments.
 

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Still no power since 9pm Sunday night.

Spent all day yesterday helping a neighbor who lost 3 huge oaks and the tops of 3 others. What a damn mess. Really just needed to get to her fence to mend it for her animals so like Tag.... spent all day behind my trusty chainsaw.

We jumped in the truck and did a nearby tour and I was in complete awe of the destruction. Massive flooding in areas that I have never seen a puddle. I am guessing this is because we have had damn near 40 inches of rain in the past 10 weeks and the ground was saturated. Countless huge oaks either completely ripped out of the ground or snapped in half. Road was impassible in most directions. It's amazing that some of these huge suckers are dangling from power lines. Saw many homes crushed in half by one of these huge trees and 3 homes that were sitting in about 3 feet of water. Anyway, based on what I saw.... I am thinking it will be many days without power.

I am very fortunate and humbled at how little damage I had compared to my immediate surroundings. Makes my hand tremble even typing this.
That's pretty amazing, Brad. Those in central Florida often think they are safe from major hurricane damage - this one sure opened some eyes.

You must be seriously glad you bought that generator at the last minute.
 

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I have a big tree on top of my garage that poked thru the metal roof and two trees fell across my brand new fence. I have 2 more trees down that smashed my grape vines. I have pine branches and cones everywhere. Going to work on the garage this morning.
Glad everyone is okay, but that's a real pisser.
 

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Mother nature is a bvtch. In all the destruction and chaos I hope all will have a nice laugh at this.

Rick Scott's epic sign language interpreter....looks like he was randomly placed in the video by a heck of a video editor or he was faking it all. I don't know if the National Sign Language Interpreter Association has an annual competition for best interpreter because it seems they keep getting more dramatic and hilarious.


This guy is 100% authentic. I have a friend who is an ASL interpreter herself, here's what she said when I sent her video of the guy:

So this guy is legit as legit can be. He is actually a Certified Deaf Interpreter... he watches a hearing interpreter interpret what is being said then puts into amazing ASL. He teaches other Deaf people how to become a CDI.

ASL interpreters also use facial expressions and body language to further convey the emotion of what they are saying, since you obviously can't hear voice inflections when you're deaf.

Now the guy that was trotted out for Manatee County was not a real interpreter. Apparently the county didn't have someone for the job, and this guy has a deaf brother, so he knows some ASL. They asked him to do it, he initially refused, and one way or another they forced him to do it.



Hope that clears things up for the ASL experts around here.
 

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That's pretty amazing, Brad. Those in central Florida often think they are safe from major hurricane damage - this one sure opened some eyes.

You must be seriously glad you bought that generator at the last minute.
 
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This guy is 100% authentic. I have a friend who is an ASL interpreter herself, here's what she said when I sent her video of the guy:



ASL interpreters also use facial expressions and body language to further convey the emotion of what they are saying, since you obviously can't hear voice inflections when you're deaf.

Now the guy that was trotted out for Manatee County was not a real interpreter. Apparently the county didn't have someone for the job, and this guy has a deaf brother, so he knows some ASL. They asked him to do it, he initially refused, and one way or another they forced him to do it.



Hope that clears things up for the ASL experts around here.

I feel really bad for the guy in Manatee County. I give him a ton of credit for trying.
 

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Still no power since 9pm Sunday night.

Spent all day yesterday helping a neighbor who lost 3 huge oaks and the tops of 3 others. What a damn mess. Really just needed to get to her fence to mend it for her animals so like Tag.... spent all day behind my trusty chainsaw.

We jumped in the truck and did a nearby tour and I was in complete awe of the destruction. Massive flooding in areas that I have never seen a puddle. I am guessing this is because we have had damn near 40 inches of rain in the past 10 weeks and the ground was saturated. Countless huge oaks either completely ripped out of the ground or snapped in half. Road was impassible in most directions. It's amazing that some of these huge suckers are dangling from power lines. Saw many homes crushed in half by one of these huge trees and 3 homes that were sitting in about 3 feet of water. Anyway, based on what I saw.... I am thinking it will be many days without power.

I am very fortunate and humbled at how little damage I had compared to my immediate surroundings. Makes my hand tremble even typing this.
Glad you are OK. My wife and I have good friends in Ocala so I hope they are OK.
 

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You can see how much of that storm was knocked out when it hit Cuba. Incredible.
 

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My favorite deaf interpreter of all time (and gosh, there are so many) is still Lydia Callis. :lol:

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luckily never lost power even though it flicked of a couple times for about 30 seconds. i think they moved us last year to the same grid as the FD. Lost our fence and lots of debris, but our neighborhood wasn't to bad. My brother in laws neighborhood thats just a few miles away lost a bunch of oaks, but nothing to his property.
 

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Still without power. Sucks.
 

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