Hurricane Irma - #2

[popsicle]

So this is normal to you guys? The rest of the world is saying WTF!!

This is a big storm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rally-sucking-the-water-away-from-shorelines/

 

[jmcgladr]

Any sailor will tell you that, that is sucide. No material object is worth your life. Boat insurers m6st be freaking out right now. Florida probably has the largest boat population in the world.

How is it even going to save your boat, sitting in it? Either get it out if the area before the storm or tie it up well and rely on insurance. I know it's a big investment but this seems pointless and dangerous!


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[popsicle]

Is he back on or is that the re-recording from earlier? https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski/1MnGnmNQrAyKO

I think what you are watching was from an hour ago!?!

No he's back https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBEydlDnJN

 

[JerseyGirl]

Someone set up a webcam in the Estero/Fort Myers area (LEE COUNTY):

https://www.twitch.tv/benjamin1160

 

[JerseyGirl]

No he's back https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBEydlDnJN

Thanks, that link works!

We have friends who own a home on the canal in Marco!

 

[margarita25]

"Fatalities in Florida

As Irma bore down on Florida this morning, at least three deaths were reported in the state.

A man in Monroe County, which encompasses Key West, was killed after he lost control of a truck that carried a generator as winds whipped at tropical-storm strength, officials said.

Two other people, a sheriff's deputy and a corrections officer, died from a two-car crash in the rain in Hardee County, which is about 60 miles inland from Sarasota, officials said.

The deputy, identified as Julie Bridges, was a 13-year veteran of the county force, said Hardee County Sheriff Arnold Lanier. She was heading home after a night shift, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The second victim was a sergeant at the Hardee Correctional Institute who had been on his way to work, the highway patrol said."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricane-irma-close-landfall-florida-keys-dead-state/story?id=49738525

 

[JerseyGirl]

Live Stream of The Weather Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee-i0otSAOA&feature=youtu.be

 

[JerseyGirl]

Fort Myers Live Stream Cam:

[video=youtube;5FTv-gY4Z20]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FTv-gY4Z20[/video]

 

[margarita25]

4 cameras tracking Irma:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-landfall-in-florida-keys-targets-gulf-coast/

Cameras at Jacksonville Beach Pier, West Palm Beach, Miami and Naples, Fla., show Hurricane Irma passing through Florida.*(The Washington Post)

 

[JerseyGirl]

Waterfront Webcam St. Petersburg/Clearwater/Tampa:

[video=youtube;xlTKsRZttJE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlTKsRZttJE[/video]

 

[JerseyGirl]

Monroe County officials are receiving eye witness reports that the Snake Creek Bridge in Tavernier is “out” and that several other Florida Keys bridges may have been compromised.

Islamorada has reported water over US 1 on the Lower and Upper Matecumbe Keys.

The Florida Keys Aquaduct Authority has issued a precautionary water boil for the Lower Keys as the Niles Channel Bridge may have been compromised.

Navy personal will begin clearing the airfield in Key West as soon as possible and hope to have the field cleared by noon on Monday.

Vehicles have traveled safely over the Cow Key Channel Bridge, which links Key West to the Lower Keys as well as the Boca Chica Bridge to the Navy Base. Heavy debris on US 1 has been reported.

Please stay inside. There is no indication that the storm surge is over.

http://keysweekly.com/42/snake-creek-bridge-reported-as-out/

 

[JerseyGirl]

Fort Myers is getting pounded! Those waves! This is the gulf not the ocean!

[video=youtube;5FTv-gY4Z20]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FTv-gY4Z20[/video]

 

[margarita25]

Refresh, refresh, refresh

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/11L/html5-rb-long.html

 

[margarita25]

Huge crane atop Miami high-rise collapses in Irma's winds
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-miami-crane-collapse-irma-20170910-story.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

***Fast-moving tornado just reported at Fort Lauderdale International Airport moving NW crossing I-595!**

[video=twitter;906940805272801286]https://twitter.com/NWSMiami/status/906940805272801286[/video]

 

[CoverMeCagney]

No he's back https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBEydlDnJN

I just heard one of my kids say to my husband "mummy won't play with us any more cos she's too busy watching some bloke in a car". I am more worried about Jeff right now than my own flesh and blood.

 

[JazzTune]

"Fatalities in Florida

As Irma bore down on Florida this morning, at least three deaths were reported in the state.

A man in Monroe County, which encompasses Key West, was killed after he lost control of a truck that carried a generator as winds whipped at tropical-storm strength, officials said.

Two other people, a sheriff's deputy and a corrections officer, died from a two-car crash in the rain in Hardee County, which is about 60 miles inland from Sarasota, officials said.

The deputy, identified as Julie Bridges, was a 13-year veteran of the county force, said Hardee County Sheriff Arnold Lanier. She was heading home after a night shift, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The second victim was a sergeant at the Hardee Correctional Institute who had been on his way to work, the highway patrol said."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricane-irma-close-landfall-florida-keys-dead-state/story?id=49738525

These deaths are especially sad. They had no choice. They had stayed because their jobs required it. The sheriff's deputy was returning home at the end of her shift.

The Correctional Sergeant was on his way to work. They both had to have been nervous already, knowing they were in harm's way. But they stayed anyway to do their jobs.

Irma has no conscience. No sense of right or wrong. She just flat out doesn't care.

My heartfelt sympathy to their families...

 

[Henry2326]

NHC 2:00 update.
Hurricane Hunters find slight increase in pressure.

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[JerseyGirl]

I just heard one of my kids say to my husband "mummy won't play with us any more cos she's too busy watching some bloke in a car". I am more worried about Jeff right now than my own flesh and blood.

Is he still in Marco or Naples?

I'm watching Jeff and this guy:

[video=youtube;mguqotRlO6s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguqotRlO6s[/video]

 

[rsd1200]

A botany question: How do those tall, slender palm trees in tropical areas withstand hurricane-force winds? I know the bark and branches might come off during intense storms, but how do palm tree trunks remain standing?

Not a botany expert but from I understand it is because they are flexible. They bend with the wind. There's no branches and leaves to whip around like an oak or maple. They will snap if the winds are strong enough. When Irma hit Barbuda you could see some of them had snapped.