Hurricane - Irma

thedoc46 said:
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.
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So if you're house gets hit you have a $10k excess effectively?
 
thedoc46 said:
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.
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Where are you?
 
kaiowas said:
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".
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our full list is
  • Barbados
  • Antigua
  • St. Kitts
  • Tortola
  • Amber Cove
  • St Maarten
  • Martinique
  • St. Lucia
  • Grenada
  • St. Vincent
think most of them are in a pretty bad state right now
 
Watching the live feed on youtube Police in Florida going door to door telling people to evacuate the traffic of people trying to get out looks crazy!!
 
Some people are either ignorant or don't believe in the force of these things till they witness them first time.

That being said they still have a good number of hours before it lands.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Some people are either ignorant or don't believe in the force of these things till they witness them first time.
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It is a strange human condition. When there were floods here in 2013/2014 despite it being warned in advance quite a few people did nothing at all, carried on like normal until their houses were in 5 feet of water - then they kicked off.
 
SPG said:
Remember nothing to do with climate change, climate change is a myth and the USA is just unlucky.
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We get hurricanes form every year, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.

We're in an evac zone now, we'll stay as it's going up the state, if it was coming from the Gulf then we'd leave as the storm surge would be too much.
 
acemastr said:
We get hurricanes form every year, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.

We're in an evac zone now, we'll stay as it's going up the state, if it was coming from the Gulf then we'd leave as the storm surge would be too much.
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Well wish you well. Just watched multiple news items that are predicting 9-12 foot storm surges for Tampa. US military central comand HQ has evacurated all personel from tampa as a result.

This is going to cost billions in repairs Florida Keys bridges are a major worry as experts say they may not hold up.
 
It's cat4 now, it'll be hitting just East of us, like 25miles away from us... 100-120mph winds predicted but should be <cat3 by then
 
The storm surge is going to cause some serious damage to Florida.



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Something I have picked up this week is the UK and Euro tracking is proving correct and the American isn't, this happens quite frequent, how so?
 
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