(10-07-2024, 05:50 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:(10-07-2024, 03:36 AM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: Be safe, and good luck.
I was just reading that the models are predicting the storm to grow in size regardless of whether it intensifies or weakens. So, either way it's going to cover a huge portion of FL.
We'll just have to see what happens.
I don't have a lot of faith in the dike around Lake Okeechobee.
They have been talking about 100 year storms. Last time Lake Okeechobee was hit with a bad hurricane, was 9/13/1928. Too darn close to 100 years for comfort, and it wiped out over 2,500 people.
Now the storm is a Cat 5.
I'd take extra precautions, if possible. I'm going to be in a huge building that's built like a fortress tomorrow, and will be there for the remainder of the storm. It'll be big enough to cover just about all of Florida. Now we play the waiting game of who's going to get hit the hardest. From what I see the Tampa area will get center storm.....but who knows; until it's here.
Hopefully that dike will hold for you all.
The stores and gas stations are a mad house here. People lined up for gas. Things are almost wiped out. We legitimately needed toilet paper, and it was actually hard to fund.
It has begun.
I love storms, but after that last one, now this one even stronger... I'd say, just don't (foe anyone in the area who's reading) take this hurricane lightly, like we floridians tend to do.
It's a new ballgame (apparently).
They live.
We sleep.
We sleep.