Aren’t you in the path of the hurricane, Tony? Don’t you live a block or
two from the beach in Miami? Why don’t you mail me all your instruments
for safe keeping until the storm passes. I could take good care of the
Wooff set and get in perfect working order. Does Jeff still has your
loaners? That might be good right now.
You’ve got about 5 days as of now. Unless high pressure inland steers the
storm up the East Coast, this may be an epic storm like the last one.
Yeah Lorenzo, I’m a 10-15 minute ride from Miami Beach, thankfully out of the evacuation/flood zone.
I just came in from shopping at the HOME DEPOT to pickup batteries and flashlights.
Hopefully the storm will make that predicted right hook and stay in the Atlantic Ocean missing landfall.
After hurricane Andrew 11 years ago I was without power for 10 days. If this storm stays due West, I’ll be at The Home Depot again on Monday to buy a gas generator.
I imagine you’re holding off on those remodeling plans for now. It sounds like you have a buffer zone between you and the beach, ie, the evacuation zone being the buffer. Everyone living to the S and SE of you can mitigate the impact of the wind on your place, to some degree? Probably not a lot if the wind is above 100mph right?
The eye of Andrew passed some 30 miles South of me and reports of 160-180mph winds tore garage doors off many 2-story townhouses blowing the cars in them right into their backyard pools. Many trees had the bark torn off the side facing the wind. The roof to the National Hurricane Center was torn off rendering the center inoperable. That’s some serious damage.
People on the islands don’t have a chance as many live in tin shacks on the sides of mountains facing the beaches.
I had a new tile roof put on my place last year… it came with a 25 year warrantee, hurricanes excluded.
Wow! did you get any pictures? I can’t imagine bark blown off, yet the tree still standing. And people on the islands in tin shacks, on the sides of “mountains?” You must mean shoreline banks. I can’t imagine mountains. How high would these be?
Tile roof…you mean the kind shaped like this ( and this ) overlapping the edges, and red clay-like colored? Do people have slate roofs? I would imagine that any roofing, no matter how heavy, is susceptible to blowing off in the kind of winds you describe…cars blown into pools.
Many islands have a short shoreline and rise to a few hundred feet. The Domican Republic is like this. They grow bananas on the mountain side and the migrants live in shacks on the slopes.
The original roof on my house was spanish tile with the shape you described and now I have interlocking ‘S’ tiles that are lower in profile. This meets the newer building codes and is applied with FOAM similar to the yellowish insulation foam in a can used to seal around pipes and gaps around windows.
My daughter lived in Homestead at the time. I went down arriving 12 hours after the eye passed. I have never seen anything like it in my life. I have been though many hurricanes but nothing like that. She now lives in Pembroke Pines. I hope it passes you and her by. Good luck
Looks like the high pressure inland is winning the battle. It could still mean trouble for those North. Now you have all those spare toys, having been spared.
A few years after Hurrican Frederic hit the Gulf Coast, I visited a bar in Gulf Shores, Alabama which had been there before the hurricane and had been rebuilt. Incidentally, there is a town called Foley which is about 20 miles north of the Gulf. I asked the bartender, who had been there before & during the hurricane, to try to give me some idea of what it was like. He shrugged. When I pressed him a little, he said, “Well, it just kinda picked up Gulf Shores and dumped it in Foley.”
Now they are saying the Outer Banks of North Carolina- Fabulous, so possibly I could get my first hurricane next week. When I lived in California it was earthquakes, in Boston it was snow and now In North Carolina its hurricanes.
Anyway my partner and I went to Walmart yesterday when things were looking a little hairy and bought water, batteries and a radio- we decided to hold off on anything else until we knew for sure, and now that they are saying it looks to be North Carolina or north you cannot get within a mile of Walmart, or Home Depot- all the generators, propane canisters, batteries, plywood, and flashlights in most of the Triangle are already bought out!
Oh well- here’s to hoping it veers out to sea
-Angela
[quote=“atarango”]Now they are saying the Outer Banks of North Carolina- Fabulous, so possibly I could get my first hurricane next week. When I lived in California it was earthquakes, in Boston it was snow and now In North Carolina its hurricanes.
Anyway my partner and I went to Walmart yesterday when things were looking a little hairy and bought water, batteries and a radio- we decided to hold off on anything else until we knew for sure, and now that they are saying it looks to be North Carolina or north you cannot get within a mile of Walmart, or Home Depot- all the generators, propane canisters, batteries, plywood, and flashlights in most of the Triangle are already bought out!
Oh well- here’s to hoping it veers out to sea
You need to head for the MOUNTAINS of NC.
My Mom and Dad were on the outerbanks quiet a few years ago when a hurricane decided to visit. It was not a really disasterous one and they still ended up getting all the glass broken out of their truck by flying debris.
Here’s a “real time” (in motion) satellite picture loop of the hurricane. I’ll just post the link since it does take a minute to complete…dial up would probably take about 45 sec. with a good connection.
I hope this isn’t as bad as last time. Right now the track looks like it is heading for my daughters place. All of you in that area take precautions. If your not going to leave prepare for a hurricane party and do it up right.
