Hurricane season is here

[FrommerStop]

Cat 4 now.

It just keeps getting worse. It is about like the storm that hit not far away in 2018.

Michael made landfall along the Florida Panhandle near Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) around 1:30 pm EDT (12:30 pm CDT) on Wednesday, October 10, 2018 as a category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 140 knots (161 mph) and a minimum central pressure of 919 millibars (mb)

Took a long time rebuild after that one.

 

[FrommerStop]

The leading edge is making landfall, but the eye is a distance away.

 

[Snake-Eyes]

Still a Cat-4 now. Expected Cat-2 north of Moultrie, tomorrow morning.

 

[Jester896]

Micheal got us pretty good too...I think it was still a Cat 2 when it got here. I cut trees out of the road in front of the house and on the next road over for emergency vehicles if they needed to get through.

I cut my tooth on Camille and I have lost count of the ones between then and now. If it isn't any worse than Michael it'll be good....when I run out of fuel for the generator we will start cooking for the neighbors...flat grill and char grill are full...even my annealer has a full bottle on it

 

[Longtooth]

Stay safe y'all!

 

[Bodhisattva]

 

[Southalabama]

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Wise man.

 

[Jester896]

we dodged the worst of it...at 0400 the rain gauge had overflowed at 5" and the winds were 25+ and gusts probably twice that and has calmed a little more since then

 

[Recondo 101]

The hotel has now closed and the evacuees have all gone home. Scratch one more hurricane scare. Hope the folks around Perry are OK. Could be others yet to come.

 

[sloporsche]

panama city beach we got nothing but a light rain for hours and no wind to speak of .......4 and 0 so far storm wise for us in one year here

 

[Themumfordman]

Really seems like all the action on this one was on the dirty side of the storm. I’m on the far east end of Navarre right before the county line and there was literally nothing out here. I turned my sprinklers back on last night.

 

[Miami_JBT]

For a major hurricane, the fact that it made landfall in Perry, was a blessing for the majority of the state. The storm's path was through mostly rural under-populated areas. It royally sucks for those who were affected, but the state dodged some major issues like what's happened with Michael and Andrew in terms of population centers being hit.

A lot of the damage statewide is either related to storm-surge flooding or old trees falling over on property/power lines. When I lived in Tallahassee, the first thing my wife and I did was remove every damn tree form the property.

The deep south's infatuation with old growth trees lining every damn road to make a canopy roof is a major issue for power and property when it comes to wind storms.

 

[FLT]

Yes sir , it doesn’t look anything like the starkness’s of Miami.

 

[Miami_JBT]

Yes sir , it doesn’t look anything like the starkness’s of Miami.

Non-trimmed old trees with rotted roots and cores are a hazard to the public. Living in the panhandle for over a decade proved such every time Mother Nature sneezed.