Hurricane Irma check-in / status report

[Durty South Swamp]

 

[URGatorBait]

 

[CapitalGator02]

This is unreal

 

[AugustaGator]

Spent the last 2 days prepping. We're ready. If it tracks out into the gulf and strengthens we'll probabaly leave. If it stays east of appalachicola we'll ride it out. I'm ready either way. Plenty of guns ammo and beer.

Where r u?

If you r st marks you r sweating it.

 

[revgator]

Stay safe over there! My brother and his family left and went to my parents in Winter Haven.

Thanks, same to you and Sas

 

[CGgater]

My parents are in Gainesville and too old to brave the traffic. Dad expects loss of power but hoping it won't get worse than that.

 

[Swamp Queen]

Thanks, same to you and Sas

Thank you!

 

[bradgator2]

 

[78]

Well, it made the big turn overnight and was magnificent to watch on satellite even if it sucked knowing what was coming. It's gonna caress Indian Rocks Beach as a Cat 3 before it makes landfall up at Big Bend.

If I knew the electricity would stay on, I'd probably ride it out. It won't. We're gonna bop up to G'ville and hang with a buddy for a couple days and, of course, the juice will go out there, too. Isn't that how it always works?

Be safe, my fellow Pinellans. It's gonna get rough tonight.

 

[GatorStud]

I'm East Coast, the Cocoa-Cape Canaveral window... but my favorite places to beach are that Marco-Long Boat-Captiva-Siesta Key-Sunset beach belly... can almost cry thinking about the beating forthcoming... God protect the families now in harms way. We all have to get our camping mentality face on and constantly wipe the grit and oil off our faces for days if not weeks. Be safe to all my affected GCMB, signing off to begin monitoring for leaks and creaks through the night. Go Gators!

 

[NVGator]

Any of you guys gonna post actual video while you are riding it out? Looking for first hand experience.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Brickell Avenue in Miami.

 

[bradgator2]

Any of you guys gonna post actual video while you are riding it out? Looking for first hand experience.

No

 

[NVGator]

No

Well that sucks.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Well, my mom and dad are sheltered inside for good now. Now I get to defecate all over myself for the next 18 hours or so.

 

[Swamp Queen]

 

[ppinesgator]

Been locked up in the house with wife, son and MIL since 4 p.m. yesterday. There's a curfew and no one is allowed on the roads. This is a long, long process. So far I've lost about half of our landscaping - the wind beats away at it and gradually, trees and shrubs are laying down. The winds are at their highest right now.

But somehow, we've kept power the whole time.We overstocked with food and beer, luckily. The curfew is going to last until 10 a.m. tomorrow, at the earliest - be prepared to be inside for 36 hours, folks. Luckily, we've got a newer roof and high impact windows - seeing able to see out makes this a bit less tortuous.

Wifey and her mom are basically having a cookoff. My son and I are fattening up.

We're lucky the storm skirted west. Sympathies to those on the West Coast.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Been locked up in the house with wife, son and MIL since 4 p.m. yesterday. There's a curfew and no one is allowed on the roads. This is a long, long process.

People are going to be through their 72 hour supply before the storm hits in many places.

 

[ppinesgator]

People are going to be through their 72 hour supply before the storm hits in many places.

Drink slowly, my friends.

 

[ppinesgator]

People are going to be through their 72 hour supply before the storm hits in many places.

Brickell Avenue in Miami.

Holy ****. I worked about a half a block from there for five years. The Miami River is about ten feet underneath that highway of water. It has spilled its banks completely and it looks to me like tens of millions of damage to downtown hotels. This is from storm surge, not rain.

Miami Circle Park is completely underwater. That's the Epic Hotel and condos across the shore - there's likely fish in the lobby. Brickell Key is the left- looks like their seawall was broached too.