They have a built-in diesel generator that will run all the essentials. I feel like I am in a push prison with the corrugated metal shutters
If You are in the Path, & planning to stay, a NASTY Suggestion. Take a Sharpie & write You SS# some where it will stay, like Chest, shoulder or other. (Not Joking!!) What we have been going through is Nothing like this thing & as I am waiting on the 1st Adjuster to show, I Hope & Pray You are All Safe. JR
Allow me to personally say THANQ for all your PMs and Prayers! I must've received thou s a n d s. ..well naah, maybe hundreds. . .well Ok, eleven and a half emails from the Best group of Buick guys ever!!! Please let it be known, WE ARE ALL SET! My wife and I are all packed. My Classic vehicle and my speedboat all loaded and ready to move out... What more do I need! Life IS Good! Wheelz, Tampa Bay
Well, it looks like I still have a job on Monday, the storm didn't take out our plant in Cuba. Thoughts and prayers go out to those still in the way of that thing...
Feel bad for anyone who gets it. Did Katrina here in biloxi. 12 years later and the front beach is just now getting buisnesses building back on the beach front. Sure dont like the one map with a track heading here.
It's interesting that we live in a time when we have the technology to warn us of storms a week in advance. Of course a week ago the track was to the east and now it's to west. There's no way out since the airports are closed, the interstates are parking lot and the closest hotel with a vacancy is 500 miles away. I guess I should feel lucky that my house is 65 ft above sea level and my commercial building, where most of my car are located, is 25 ft. I've avoided the BIG ONE for 33 years but now it our turn.
I moved into that area 2 weeks before Elena came through in 85. Was renting a house on Indian Rocks beach. It got flooded and had to be torn down. Had many false alarms over the years and living 6 blocks off Tampa bay we were always in a evac zone. Only once did I board up. Think it was Charlie. We had sold the house and left it boarded when we moved out.
The interaction with Cuba knocked the max sustained winds down to 130mph. It may regain some strength over the warm waters in the Straits of FLA. The highest elevation in the Keys in 18 feet MSL. Due to the storm surge the entire Keys may go under water.
Kinda like peeing on a forest fire. CBS news reported that the energy associated with IRMA exceeds the energy of all of the bombs dropped in WW2 by all combatants including the nukes.
Kinda looks like IRMA will pass very near if not directly over our house. We're pretty well hunkered down - one hurricane shutter and a fold-down cover to go. We expect to be OK (famous last words), but it will probably suck for the next few days. Where we live is a bit rural, so we don't expect to be the highest priority in getting electricity back. I'm mostly worried about the trailer for the model T. I can't get it inside anywhere, so I'm just going to put anything heavy that I can find in it and hope for the best.
Hucker down & stay SAFE John. One of my GOOD LONGTIME (30+yrs.) customers just moved to Naples a month ago. What a welcome mat moving to Fl.!!!! Like I've told/said MANY times, "I'm NOT moving to Fl. to die". I can do the same thing ANYWHERE!!!!
John... If I may; fold the top down and line the inside with a blue tarp and fill it with water. That should be a ton or two to help hold it down. Its only about 1200 lbs anyway. ws
John, BANKS are closed, so a good buddy pulls his trailer under the drive thru of a local bank and/or a car wash...
Hunkered down here in Palm Beach area. Came down to get a few things done, and then on to a trip out of Miami. Needless to say that was cancelled. Had hurricane windows installed this year, so this will be a test for them. All my neighbors have been putting up thier storms shutters and looking at me like I'm crazy. Shutters re not bad, except 95% of the houses here re 2 story. Once your shutters are up it's like being in can you can't see whats going on. No light. Right now it looks like we are gonna duck the direct hit. Glad we aren't, but worry about all those on the west coast of FL. Hunker down, and stay safe.
Day 4-5 projections appear to show BG to be virtually the epicenter of the storm...what's the name of that river that floods there all the time? Went to switch to Allstate yesterday, and they said no new policies until IRMA is gone. And that's here in northern KY>YIKES I'm confident the capable men of this site will do everything in their power to keep themselves, their families, and their property out of harms way. It's the not so capable I fear for, and there's plenty of those around. God help them.
