Keep an eye on Inv 97L (Now Hurricane Matthew)
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But but but....I wanna see football....most won't have power, roads crazy with returning evacuees, many of those roads underwater and damaged or blocked by debris- is everyone on this board under 30 and cannot recall Andrew, Floyd, Charley, and maybe even Dora as a kid?
Cat 4 = BAD!!
Cat 4 = BAD!!
Agree. On top of that most who haven't been down there have no idea how densely populated the area is. A football game, while it may be a needed distraction, should be the least of our concerns.
Right now, the area where my sister and BIL live in Palm Beach County is forecast to have hurricane force winds for 8 straight hours with 3 of those at 90+mph. Scary as hell.
I'm feeling for my hometown right now. Never fun to hear "Vero Beach" coming out of Cantore'a mouth.
What kind of winds you can expect in Jupiter/Palm Beach Gardens and when:
- Tonight: 16 mph sustained, 23 mph gusts
- Thursday 6 a.m.: 22 mph sustained, 31 mph gusts
- Thursday noon: 33 mph sustained, 47 mph gusts
- Thursday 9 p.m.: 59 mph sustained, 76 mph gusts
- Thursday midnight: 78 mph sustained, 97 mph gusts
- Friday 2 a.m.: 91 mph sustained, 111 mph gusts
- Friday 6 a.m.: 55 mph sustained, 74 mph gusts
- Friday noon: 25 mph sustained, 36 mph gusts
- Friday 5 p.m.: 20 mph sustained, 28 mph gusts
I was a kid. A1A was underwater - ocean met up with the Intracoastal and there was nothing there. Now the homes and condos stretch from Jax Beach to Vilano. I manage two oceanfront condos in Ponte Vedra Beach that were not there in 1964. I have told them to expect breaching of the dunes and water intrusion on a significant scale. Only two residents are insisting on remaining. Wouldn't you know both are in their 80's and are natives who are stubborn types. I can't make them leave.
I here ya. My parents, sister and BIL and there 4 kids all went to Tampa last night. The stupid stubborn sister and BIL with 3 young kids won't leave. She said God told here to stay. I said God said you will be a statistic. They are in Port St. Lucie. Can't help stupid
The damage from this thing is going to be crazy. Melbourne at 2am gets hit with 113mph winds going up to 120 at 5am dropping down to 77 at 8am. Even Fort Lauderdale is going to have sustained 60+mph from 3pm today until midnight. Palm Beach 75 to 93 from 7pm until 3am.
Makes me sick thinking of the damage. My brother and his family are well inland in Orlando vicinity and will get hammered by winds even there. Praying for that thing to move offshore a little further and also very nervous about what it's going to do after the loop.
I know a girl that Cantore hooked up recently. I figured he had a girl in every port but his texts to her are odd as hell. He has an ex-wife and a live-in girlfriend but says that relationship is dead but these texts seem like they are written by a 14 year old boy who get his first taste of trim.
I'm sure ESPN is pushing hard for it too (top 10 ratings game every year), but yeah it's pathetic. Listen, we get that you have this big recruiting weekend and think you have a great chance of ending the streak. But maybe, just maybe, these kids might want to be with their families? Or perhaps the volunteer resources and cops could be better served helping communities put their lives back together?
Nah, you stay classy, Miami.
The route we took it wasn't bad. We took the back roads to avoid I4 and the Turnpike. Passed under the turnpike and it was bumper to bumper.
I remember seeing that on tv - that was something!Hope the are nothing like Houston during Rita....
Unfortunately, for Houston there are basically 4 ways for 4 million people to get out of town and away from the gulf coast. We drove all the way to Midland, Texas. 24 hours straight. When we returned home, the damage was pretty extensive - (see below).
My dad isn't leaving St. Augustine. Stubborn old man. Has some friends that are staying with him that live on the Island. Starting to get real worried about our rental property in Savannah as well.
Can't do anything about either but sit here in Mississippi and worry.
Can't do anything about either but sit here in Mississippi and worry.
The day before Andrew came in, I was in the capital of Latin America for some meetings. What is normally about a 4 hour drive home took almost 11 hours. The turnpike was essentially a parking lot - between Miami & Yeehaw Junction, the fastest I ever got going was about 30 mph, and that didn't last long. About all of the rest area restaurants ran out of food.
It was really fun.
It was really fun.
And yet, folks are still worried about playing a damn football game.
The Governor is actually becoming involved now. He didn't express an opinion, but I think the fact a call was made means their is some pressure to cancel.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nake...th-fsu-u-f-about-saturday-football-games.html
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