Ok. That’s fucked. Unless it’s just temporary until it gets ripped down and a new house gets built over it.
Some of the stuff I see that has been done to these grand old houses is just heartbreaking. This is a different house, but this entry way is in the best shape of any other room in the house, the house is completely packed with garbage. Such a shame.
anyone in the tampa area is about to get fuuuuuucked. My parents live just south of there and have already vacated premises. This hurricane is supposed to make landfall as a strong cat 3/low cat 4.
I got friends down there. They are already making mandatory marina evacuations. Their options are go try to get hauled out, leave and get west as far as possible(the stupid option), or tie up along the occachobee or in some mangroves. Wife's grandpa sold his house there last year, so don't have to worry about him.
i would be going as far north as possible, not west. Of course this thing will dump rain inland, but if it turns a bit, it’ll turn west not east. And you’ll have people evacuate just to have the storm chase them
My cousin and her family line in Cape Coral (across the river from Ft Myers) and they're not too concerned. Time will tell
I think the worry with this one is not the strength of the storm necessarily, but just how long it may sit over the Tampa area and just dump inch after inch of rain.
that's my concern as well. Though I do think the strength is gonna be an issue when it pushes that storm surge into tampa bay. I'm seeing reports that there could be isolated areas of up to 20" of rain. If it hits and sits, that's a lot of fucking water.
I am just praying to God this isn't a repeat of 2017. An "I" hurricane (Irma, in 2017) fucks up Florida, while Puerto Rico is recovering from a glancing blow from a hurricane....while Harvey and Maria get ready to fuck some shit up.....PR is still fucked up from the last storm. I've worked Florida, and....nope. I'm not doing it again, especially not with the politics the way they are right now. Good luck, and God speed you panoramic dumpster full of dirty diapers and burned crosses.
rip to all the bridges along Florida's gulf coast. Also desantis just said to evacuate to higher ground. Uhm... what higher ground?
First of all, choke on your mother's dick. I didn't post from an official FEMA account, did I? Second of all, I'm up, listening to the 5:30 daily ops briefing, and this is the most prepared Florida, Georgia and SC have been for a hurricane in years. The only notable issue they reported is panic-buying causing some localized fuel shortages, which the locals have sorted out. The response guys have their shit ready to go, and while I'm grateful to not be about that life anymore, I am impressed at how quickly they stood up literally everything to address this. Third...I'm in long-term recovery, which tends to overlap with long-term development, planning, etc., especially at the county and local levels. These jurisdictions are typically broke, and FEMA's combined efforts give them either a 75% off discount for whatever projects/updates they need, and a line of federal money that can stretch into the billions. Imagine the fuckery that results in Florida when they have the federal equivalent of a promo code, and spend it on political stunts instead of actual infrastructure improvements or things to y'know....address the risk of hurricanes? There are 3-4 places right now that I literally could not staff, due to bad blood, shitty history and toxic politics. Like, I would have folks refuse to go if asked, or straight up quit if they were voluntold to go. Texas and Florida are chief among them, because of how....involved the respective governors get in disaster recovery, and how their direction tends to guide things away from folks/areas in actual need and towards....well, greener pastures with whiter faces, so to speak. Fourth: relief is what the Red Cross does, I guess. We do preparedness, response, recovery, resilience and mitigation. Right now, we're in preparedness about to transition into response. Recovery will kick in within a month or so. If my group has to deal with Ian, it will be somewhere between 3-6 weeks after landfall, or when the lifelines (stuff like power, health services, communications, etc.) hit 80% stabilized. Fifth: The evacuation orders are not bullshitting you. If you are in the parts of Florida that say "GTFO" listen to them, please. There's no inside information, aside from heed the warnings and a Cat 3 means 100+mph winds.
Get over it. The idea that workers will refuse to go to specific areas due to local/state politics is frankly disgusting. And before a strawman manifests itself in the assumption that it excuses the misuse of funds and resources provided to local jurisdictions, it doesn’t.
We know a few people who are staying. They're just south of Sarasota, on a barrier island. I'm at a loss of words for how monumentally stupid that is.