I know but it's all relative in this case.

My house sits on top of a natural dune ridge on the barrier island.

Indeed, I do have the high ground. ;)

One thing for sure, it is a HERricane. Gotta be female. It can't make up it's mind where it wants to go, and it is taking forever to get going. She going to take the home away from hard working men.

I am about 30 feet above sea level, might not sound high but for Florida it is.

Like Baz I am on a sand ridge, behind me is the Florida East Coast Rail Road which is on higher ground. I have a hill that is a good 12 feet higher than my house behind it and east of it. I am very shielded in these storms and the chance of me flooding is about zero. Even if there were a 20' storm surge I would still be 10' over it.

When I have a chance I will grab a picture of the neighborhood just north of me, some of the houses sit 60 feet above sea level. The view from their backyards is pretty amazing, a friend of mine used to live in one, he moved to the Ozarks where he grew up.

Weather getting increasingly crappy here due west of the storm as it starts to move north, squall lines are more frequent and a couple of them a little more powerful. Still have power and do not expect any damage other than picking up the yard debri.

Neighbor just north of me seems to have lost a phone line going to her house it is laying over my fence, it is definitely not a power line too thin. So either phone or cable TV.

I am toying with running back to my office this afternoon and putting my cloud server back online I am trying to draft and it will be easier for me if it was set up and I could
access it.

I will try to shoot some more video this afternoon if it gets a little dicey, as I said much relief as we are not expecting much at all.

I wanted to go over to the beach today except they closed the causeways so we may run down to the riverfront instead.

I few businesses opened up today there is a sandwich shop open 1 town south and its packed. Everyone is sick of sitting in their houses.

Webcam at a Melbourne beach.

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Please try to include some sailboat masts for perspective. ;) SmileWavy

Seems to be weakening, hope so for everyone's sake. News from Bahamas doesn't look good.

Pic of part of my front yard taken 9 years ago from my roof. I'm standing on the lowest part of my low slope gable roof.

Gives you an idea of how high up my single story house is above the main roadway out front.

That's the corner of my garage roof lower left corner.

No way I'll ever be flooded!
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View to the NE - you can barely see the ocean to the right of the Cabbage Palm:
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Looking West - the Intercoastal Waterway:
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I was installing this antenna when I took these pics:
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I wish this thing would just get on with it. Seems we've been getting ready for a week.

Great looking place. What brand of tweezers do you trim your lawn with?

Lived in Orlando for 18 years so had the pleasure of hurricane prep 🌀 You never want to under estimate mother nature when she's angry . Our youngest son is still in Orlando and said as of an hour ago no wind or rain . I told him it's OK if this monster misses you . Good luck to anyone in it's path .

This bad boy! :p

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It's coming.........

https://radblast.wunderground.com/cg...na+Beach%2C+FL

Maybe things would work out different in the Bahamas. Carnival, under contract with FEMA tried that after Katrina.

Thinking good thoughts to all of you in Alabama. Batten down the hatches, looks like things are getting dicey!

For those of you in Florida or along our southeastern shores, do you think the 24/7 news coverage this storm has received has been helpful? Harmful?

Hey Baz, I used to have an old Winegard antenna that looked just like that one you have. Gave it away to the guy that put my roof on.
Stay safe out there.

Disclaimer: I've always been very critical of the media - lazy and uncreative "reporting".

That said - they are doing what they always do - churn out as much drama as possible with sprinkles here and there of actual useful data.

I feel bad for those people who are unable to form independent and critical thinking, but I guess that's the world we live in so nothing new and the media is just lowering it's standards to meet the lowest denominator.


Hey Scott.....got it at Radio Shack along with the gray colored poles in the pic to the left there, which I mounted the antenna on. Eventually the winds blew so hard the pole ended up bending over and I abandoned it and now have a standard leaf antenna inside the house, which works pretty good.

Weather coverage seems to form most of a news broadcast, but 24/7 turns coverage up to 11. Even during the Indycar broadcast this past Sunday, they had an inset that was a loop of radar coverage. Talk about frustrating and not getting a break. I got numb to coverage last weekend and just started looking at maps and trends. News coverage always seems to maximize drama, even though they say they are doing it for your safety.

Sorry for the bad news but ........


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you got to see the race

in miami it was cut off after the first pit stops to full time news about a cane NOT coming here :mad: