Hurricane - Irma
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We have a lot of employees in Puerto Rico. Still waiting to hear what the state of thing is but hoping everyone is ok.
Latest as of 5pm (25mins ago) it'll go further west before turning, we should be getting 70+mph winds and 6" of rain pretty much guaranteed
I may be missing something here, if so I apologise, but whenever I've arranged car rental on line, I've paid by card, got the voucher via email, turned up at the arrival airport, handed over my voucher, produced my driver's licence, filled in my vacation address etc. and drove away.
Once again, maybe I'm missing something, but the way your post is worded, it sounds as if you go to the Alamo desk, hopefully show them your licence, then they say, "Help yourself to that Caddy Escalade, or Buick, see you when you get back, have a great trip."
AFAIK they raise a charge against your payment method but you don't technically pay anything until you return it. (That is how it has been in the past for me).
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Gah, that's us buggered then, good luck mate!.... whats the weather normally like in Feb?
Cold lol, February is the coldest month, can get down to freezing overnight and 40-50's during the day.
It's almost twice as wide as Florida isJust seen a comparison gif the size of Irma could cover most of UK and Ireland combined
Stay safe! I've got family near West Palm Beach that are expecting to get hit pretty hard.It's almost twice as wide as Florida is
that famous st maaarten airport has been destroyed I think.
The footage showed most trees surrounding that area little more than stumps, widespread damage to buildings, most fences down, etc.
Im over from the UK working in Canton Mississippi for another month. Over the last couple of days all the TV and radio stations have been randomly broadcasting storm warning emergency transmissions. I've even had a test emergency broadcast flash on my phone.
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ah ok, cheers, probably go in May then.... BA still have our flight into Tampa as going ahead lol
I'm in the path. Boarded up both my homes, and just leaving another as is. Just waiting to see what happens. They've not issued mandatory evacuations apart from mobile homes and homes close to the beach/ The European model has it hitting my town. US model has it hitting the east coast.. Anyway not much else i can do.. Shutters are up, and just got to wait to see what the damage is. I'm insured, but even so the hurricane deductibles are pretty high. 10k per home. So it could be a costly event.. Already spent the best part of a $1000 ! Was in France on Tues, has to change my flight over to get home and start preparations. Hopefully it stays east.... most models predict it will stay a little east... Wife wanted to evacuate, but the roads are all at a standstill... My home is reasonably new and has all the metal shutters installed and building codes are more stringent on new homes. Even so this is a bit of a beast. Its unfortunately part and parcel of living in the tropics.. Going on probabilities, every 40yrs you're going to get hit hard... Every few yrs, you're going to be under a serious threat, but mostly you'll end up dodging a bullet.. Hopefully this one is a dodge ! Been here 13yrs so far, and only had one major hurricane hit us on the nose.. Needed a new roof.
funny the things you don't even consider ~ there was a thing on one site saying in preparation one place was removing all the coconuts from the trees ~ ****** good idea when you think about it, wouldn't want to meet one of those in 150mph winds!
We're due to visit Antigua, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, St Kitts, St Lucia and Barbados in November. To paraphrase Airplane - "Looks like I picked the wrong year to visit the Caribbean".