- Jun 19, 2014
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Hurricane Dorian
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- Aug 12, 2014
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Note the title change - it’s headed out to sea and will dissipate.
Name and town if you wish to opine.
Name and town if you wish to opine.
- Jul 30, 2014
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This was the extent of the damage in Norfolk. Parts of VA Beach might've had some flooding from the storm surge.NEVER FORGET!!!
- Aug 16, 2018
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After hearing a few people hope it hit Mar a lago last week I was sort of hoping it would swing in to catch Obama's beach front mansion this weekend. I was hoping I could pull up a couple of old posts I saw on another site about Mar a Lago and comment see God knows who his enemies are.
- Jun 11, 2014
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Meh... just an average day in the Bering Sea.️
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Or any day in the Stream during a hard NE blow.
- Jun 11, 2014
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confirmed 43 dead in the Bahamas, and they are expecting that number to skyrocket... :(
- Jun 10, 2014
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Yeah it’s just going to keep getting worse. Feel terrible for them.
- Jun 10, 2014
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I cannot understand why anyone would stay with that thing coming at them. It’s akin to playing Russian roulette.
- Jun 13, 2014
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Surprised it isnt ten times or more higher with all the crazy people there that decided to hunker down instead of seeking the few buildings that thy knew would hold up to the wind at least and only flood.
Craziest and saddest story was the guy who lost his 5 year old son because he saw sharks in the flood waters and put him on the roof and he was swept away before he made it up there with a broken leg he had sustained. I thought I was seeing stuff but in one of the early videos I thought I saw a shark swimming around but I had always heard they usually went to deeper water when they sensed a storm was coming.
- Jun 11, 2014
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It may be, when all is said and done.
I wouldn't be shocked if there was a large number of "missing" as well.
- Jun 10, 2014
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If you’re poor and you live on a small island that’s flat as a table, where are you going to go?
- Dec 31, 2018
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Beat me to it. Some of these folks have no choice.
- Jun 10, 2014
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As I understood, they were ferrying anyone and everyone to other islands that weren’t expected to get a direct hit. Many (hundreds) chose to stay and ride it out. Insanity.
- Jun 19, 2014
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The areas that took the bad hit were very affluent areas, and not just resorts for affluent transients. We're talking residences in the upper 6 and 7 figure marks. The "im poor and have no option" people were the large minority.
- Dec 23, 2015
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Regardless of who you are, it's still relatively small islands. Even more so than in Florida, you can't just decide to evacuate a day before. There is a lot more to thousands of people trying to find safety when flying or boats are your only option.
I spent the last week involved with command teams prepping for managing Urban Search & Rescue teams for Florida. Remember that on Friday of last week, this storm was forecast to go right up the middle of the state as a major hurricane. Fortunately for us in Florida, the single outlier track on the spaghetti models was the winner (the orange one by the way!)
Decisions on pre-positioning US&R teams changed every day. Initially, on Sunday and Monday these task forces from all over the eastern US were spread out in Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville. Each day these teams were being moved further north as the track changed. These decisions were being made based on some pretty intensive meteorological analysis. It is hard for individuals to take all that in and come up with the right choice.
Kind of interesting being inside the Orange County Convention Center and seeing about a dozen helicopters in there, including 3 Blackhawks "stuck" in a corner. Big place.
- Jun 12, 2014
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Kevin just made it back from little Abaco after a 400+ mile journey to bring 3000 lbs of supplies to some folks that were super happy to see them. Waiting on him to get home so he can write a detailed trip report.
- Jun 12, 2014
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- Jun 19, 2014
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that's great, but none of that was ever in question. My statement was in response to an emerging (false) narrative that all these ppl were poor with no options. That's all.
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- Dec 23, 2015
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I have not seen any specifics on the demographics of who was affected, so I will definitely defer to you on that topic.
For the more affluent, at some point their only "option" became how well-built their house was - I suspect that there is not much in the way of hardened public shelters on the islands, no matter your income.
For the more affluent, at some point their only "option" became how well-built their house was - I suspect that there is not much in the way of hardened public shelters on the islands, no matter your income.
