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The [Weather] Thread: Your guess is as good as mine.
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Sounds like everything is good in those places for the most part.
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Hi yes. I am at my parents house. We have no power and I just got both phone and water service back but we’re in one piece and their house is too
My condo association sent out a auto call and apparently there’s very little damage but no power and a lot of standing water in the parking
My partner is safe but apparently her place got partially flooded, she’s gonna check on my place for me shortly
Ty for the concern, we got insanely luck in st pete, we still got hammered badly but we dodged a straight up cataclysm
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It's hard to say for sure right now, we likely won't get full damage estimates for a few days at least while the focus is on search and rescue, as well as getting power and utilities back to the affected areas.
The storm losing coherence definitely spared central Florida from a lot of the worst impacts, but northern Florida will likely have gotten it way worse than anticipated.
There's also the fact that while the storm itself may not have been as bad for parts of Florida, we did get more confirmed tornado impacts yesterday at once than at any point in prior recorded history.
That was the big win for sure. Tampa getting a 15 foot storm surge would have been bad.
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The water that surged in down south in like Sarasota/etc came from Tampa Bay- as the surge went back out to the ocean, it filled back up in the Bay
So it went out and back in at the speed of the storm surge which is slow when you say like “1 foot rise per hour” but insanely devastating when you factor in the area over which that water is rising and how you can’t outrun it rising uniformly over such a large area
With Helene it was the worst part because it got pushed back in. Here it kinda came back slowly
It happened in Port Charlotte the first year I moved down there with one of their hurricanes. It didn't do much damage and it happened when I had my trip home to Michigan so I don't remember the name, but it's not always catastrophic when it happens.
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Hurricanes - actually on par with earthquakes and other top tier natural disasters
the lee county sheriff walks right up next to me in the weedkiller section with his posse... i thought they were filming something because ... you know... he had a squad, and he was dressed in full desert camouflage... and they were doing this very performative gesturing at the various weedkiller choices like they were planning the invasion of normandy or something
anyway i just nodded and went and got my other stuff, 5 minutes later they are still DEEP in discussion at the roundup aisle... then the sheriff made his selection and got behind me at checkout, at which point his posse departed and it was just him
i guess... i guess thats just how cops shop for things
not specifically weather related but i figure the few other people in lee county would have eyes on this thread and might appreciate the anecdote
the sheriff has some weeds and intense efforts are underway to address the situation
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
The Plants vs Zombies situation is extremely real right now
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
I think his purchases are normally made with money he 'won' from gambling and definitely didn't attain in some illegal way.
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Fuck those dudes.
Yup, this is the only reason I am sitting in my (powerless) house instead of homeless. The eye stayed south enough the bay was spared the storm surge (though we got the worst of the wind and rain). It really could have been so much worse if they had managed to squeak into the bay proper.
now... i currently live *kinda* close to the water, not really, but kinda close.... close enough to be in flood/evac zone A.... my shit floods when a hurricane hits. i know what i signed up for
but my house near Oldsmar... i checked the map... was actually even closer to the water and in a very similar situation to my current house... just a little layer of marshland between you and the bay, and most importantly a lot of little creeks and waterways working up into the communities from the bay
those waterways that finger up off the bay is what does a lot your flooding
thing is that neighborhood of mine near oldsmar... not in a floodzone technically, not even discussed, nobody is/was ready or thinking about it
NINE FEET across hillsborough ave.... imagine
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Oldsmar (and nearby Westchase) are built in the flood plain of the bay, they cease to exist if the bay takes a direct hit.
https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1859006911116718445
He was probably pretty happy to have 5 guys on the ground as outrigger though we only barely graced the treehouse that's older then me thank God it lived
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