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https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/hurricane-milton-florida-10-09-24/index.html
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The good news is that when the resort inevitably descends into barbarism, you will have easy access to elephants for your war engines.
Hoping the power holds out for at least a few more hours before the really nasty stuff starts to settle in.
We will settle for the sad, solitary zebra that my kids have nicknamed Steve (uh, no offense Raijin) who hangs out alone by a few trees straight across from our room most of the day every day.
condolences on being there under the worst circumstances
Mildly curious but moreso concerned for you guys because oof, rough timing
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This was just some bad timing. Two days off for parent teacher conferences this week so we'd planned a week at Disney since the kids only miss 3 days of school and it's less crowded than normal vacation times. We flew in Saturday morning. Weather reports were fine last I'd looked on Friday, we only heard about the storm after we checked into the hotel. Too late to get back home with the way things booked up.
Disney was offering full refunds on pretty much everything for anyone who canceled a trip. Refunds on unused hotel nights/tickets for people who left early. All unused theme park tickets are being extended for a year. They do a lot to keep kids happy in the hotels and provide a surprising amount of food and entertainment options until it becomes unsafe to do so. No complaints about how they handle things in a situation like this.
Good news everyone, no flooding, the waters all gone
That clip has the same vibe as filming the empty T-Rex pen and going "wow the T-Rex is gone". No, it's not gone it's right behind you, silly journalists, get out of there
It’s blowing my mind how Daytona is getting tornadoes and freaking Fort Meyers Beach is getting a massive storm surge again, this storm is so big
The Florida Division of Emergency Management had to put out a warning not to walk into the area the water receded from.
Okay I won't walk into it but I'm still gonna film some stuff for my Ten Commandments fan film while I can
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cr753r34n3rt
tower crane collapse in st petersburg too
The blue dot is the single story house my partner is currently living in. I at least convinced her to sleep in the laundry room, which doesn't have windows.
It’s beyond record breaking. Its jaw hit the floor stuff. Also I hadn’t realised but apparently Tropicana Field was set up as a shelter and staging area for first responders, so with that roof gone they won’t be having a fun time in there. At least nobody should be hurt. Though quite a few may be drenched.
Just found out that it apparently collapsed right into the offices of the Tampa Bay Times. Luckily, under the circumstances, almost all of the staff were working from home.
Yeah, it's got to be surreal for these guys.
There have been “a number” of deaths along the coast, though thus far it looks like the loss of life is nothing as terrible as was feared. The deaths so far seem to be confined to St. Lucie, where a caravan park was hit by a tornado.
St. Petersburg and Tampa recorded over EIGHTEEN INCHES of rain. Which is just mind-boggling to think about. The guts of half a meter JUST from rain, never mind any storm surge. Clearwater fared little better, reporting fourteen inches of rain.
More than three millions homes and businesses are without power. The deluge of rain means safe water supplies in St. Petersburg are cut. The city manager of Plant City is reminding people to avoid venturing into the flood water, not just because it’s powerful enough in places to knock you off your feet and sweep you away, but mostly because it’s a toxic soup of raw sewage, gas, oil and Gods knows what else.
THERE ARE STILL TORNADOS! Five people have been taken to hospital in Palm Beach County due to tornado touchdowns in the area. Keep an eye on NWS alerts and even if there’s no flooding nearby, stay indoors if you can.
Milton is now grinding his way towards the Atlantic. He’s still at Category One, and likely to remain that way right across Florida. Stay safe, Floridians!
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It’s kind of a crappy name.
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And this when all that area was pretty well saturated by the last hurricane. I am guessing once light comes up and they get a look at it there was a lot of flash flooding all over the place from the rain even if nothing else.
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