Hurricane Irma cat. 5 has strengthened into the second strongest storm on record. People in Fl. seen filling gas cans. (gallon, Wisconsin)

[elan]

Originally Posted by thrillobyte

Strange. Reports coming out of St.Maarten are saying, "minimal damage". Maybe there was nothing there to damage in the first place.

Perhaps they built super doper hurricane proof homes.

[elan]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

The latest NOAA prediction puts it straight up the middle of Florida.

We had a nice cool front come through DFW last night, my guess is it pushes this thing off to the east.

[Donna-501]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

Add to that the fuel shortage due to the two largest refineries in the US that had to shut down due to Harvey.

Exactly! Last I heard I-75 is like a big parking lot around the Tampa area.

[Donna-501]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

The south west coast of Florida had 20 inches of rain 2 weeks ago that still remains, I haven't seen any rainfall predictions but that appears to be the least of their problems.

My daughter lives on the street behind where I lived. The area was flooded. I lived there for 24 years and it never flooded in that area.

[Catgirl64]

Originally Posted by thrillobyte

Strange. Reports coming out of St.Maarten are saying, "minimal damage". Maybe there was nothing there to damage in the first place.

Please link to the reports.

[Goodnight]

Originally Posted by Donna-501

My daughter lives on the street behind where I lived. The area was flooded. I lived there for 24 years and it never flooded in that area.

Yes very unusual but I recall 10 inches of rain was big news.

[thrillobyte]

Originally Posted by thrillobyte

Strange. Reports coming out of St.Maarten are saying, "minimal damage". Maybe there was nothing there to damage in the first place.

My apologies. It was Antigua.

After Irma battered the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, emergency officials reported three injuries and minimal damage, with some roofs blown off. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said flights would resume from the airport Wednesday afternoon.

https://www.aol.com/article/weather/...rida/23196563/

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by bentlebee

Difficult to decide what to do... leave town or stay!

We have our golden tickets to leave but what if our property gets destroyed what if opportunist will stop buy to take whatever they can!

Of course life's are more important than stuff but we have flight tickets as we planned to travel and can't take too much or we might need to check in suitcases and take more

Make sure you take your important papers ( house deed, social security cards, marriage certificate) with you. Best of luck to you, and everyone else in the path of the storms.

[CaseyB]

Originally Posted by thrillobyte

My apologies. It was Antigua.



https://www.aol.com/article/weather/...rida/23196563/

St. Maartin took heavy, heavy damage.

[Ponderosa]

I got a chuckle out of seeing car after car evacuating Florida with a golf cart on a trailer.