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The flag might be considered "added evidence" but when it was posted online during Houston's flooding (and the freeways even were flooded enough for a shark to swim in the waters) there were hundreds or thousands of people who believed there were sharks swimming in the waters of Houston's streets...
Most people in my experience are always ready to believe what fits their preconceived ideas of what is possible...
Whether it is photographi evidence doctored or faux news stories...
Thanks---I watched the video--and I see that there was drift to the NW--but what we saw on his tracking app showed N heading from Naples...
We were mainly interested in path up to our area around Sarasota
And it looked like it was tracking N vs NW
Once we knew our kids were safe and the surge was less than expected we called it a night and went to bed
And haven't been following today either--
Guess that sounds callous but we had family and friends and property at risk in Harvey's attack on Texas and then Irma blows up and threatens FL...
The uncertainty and not being there for our daughter made me a basket case
I hate having no control over situations like this
So I stand corrected...
Just glad Irma did not go so far west my daughter was on the "dirty" side...
Ya it did look North all the way to at least Tampa while trying to follow it on radar during the storm, maybe even wobbled slightly to the left and right along the way, but then it got so disorganized and nothing on the bottom half really so became difficult to tell where the storm was actually going with radar!
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My area in north Nokomis came through relatively unscathed
No flooding in any of our homes---seems like our storm drains worked very well
The reduced strength of Irma undoubtedly was a blessing to many west of the eye
The scariest thing was having a queen Palm in front yard fall parallel to house--not on roof...
Sideline fence is somewhat pushed sideways but kept our pool cage w/o any lost screening or bent sections
Our daughter's house in good shape as well
We were definitely on the right (left) side of the eye...seeing what is going on along the east coast I am just incredibly grateful not to be dealing with that flooding...
I can't thank those of you who followed this storm for so long and gave so unselfishly of your time and analysis enough...
I felt that I got much better info about what was going to happen than from almost any other source-and without knowing ANY of you I could trust your opinions...
So thank you who obviously are staying with Irma in the last days of her passage--
pbMaise, Cambium, Psychoma---you are the best IMO...
While I hope I don't need to return to this forum in the future (kind of unlikely with homes in TX and Florida), I hope you are still around --- doing your thing---cause you are top-notch in my book!!
Thanks V
It was nice to follow something more closely than dang politics for a change.
Still haven't purchased tickets to fly back to US via Korean and worried about different kinds of wind.
11pEST Monday 11Sept 2017: Downgraded to a Tropical Depression with winds of 35mph, moving NW 15mph, pressure 988mb. "Center" located near GA/AL border.
Yes it rose above normal level by about 2 ft at peak.
It is still about 1.5 ft above normal at time of this post.
They had predicated 5 feet of storm surge for tampa, how did they get the forecast so wrong?
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