Hurricane Dorian

[Baz]

Originally Posted by masraum

I always chuckle when I read something like that for something in Florida.

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.

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by masraum

I always chuckle when I read something like that for something in Florida.

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.

[astrochex]

Webcam at a Melbourne beach.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

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, ......

Please try to include some sailboat masts for perspective.

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

[Baz]

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!


View to the NE - you can barely see the ocean to the right of the Cabbage Palm:


Looking West - the Intercoastal Waterway:


I was installing this antenna when I took these pics:

[URY914]

I wish this thing would just get on with it. Seems we've been getting ready for a week.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Baz

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!

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

[rfuerst911sc]

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 .

[Baz]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

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

This bad boy!

[Baz]

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

[Baz]

[Jolly Amaranto]

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

They are truly cruises to nowhere. Docked in New Orleans, two luxury liners, the Ecstasy and the Sensation from Carnival Cruise Lines, are temporarily home to thousands of city workers and their families.

Originally sought as floating residences for evacuees, the ships have been shifted to another use by the government, which signed a noncancelable contract for them and two others in the days immediately after the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to pay $192million for a six-month charter of three Carnival luxury liners and a$10million contract for a more spartan vessel. Struck quickly when many evacuees remained trapped in horrific conditions, the deals were widely viewed as a creative solution to an immediate crisis.

But it has hardly been smooth sailing. Two of them remain empty and may stay that way for weeks. The two in New Orleans are providing berths to city workers, after having sat empty for days in Galveston, Tex., when evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston refused to board them.


Already traumatized by the floods and eager to put their children in schools and apply for jobs, evacuees chose cots over cabins, an embarrassment for FEMA and a disappointment for Carnival, the Miami-based owner of the ships and the world's largest cruise company.

"We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money," said Bob Dickinson, the Carnival president and chief executive who was awakened by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the middle of the night to begin drafting the contract. "It was frustrating that no one wanted to come."

[herr_oberst]

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

[daepp]

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?

[Scott Douglas]

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.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by daepp

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?

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.

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

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.

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.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by daepp

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?

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.

[sammyg2]

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

[nota]

Originally Posted by astrochex

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.

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