[badbullgator]

Check it out we are getting wet

This baby wrapped up a lot tighter once it got off Cuba. So far the wind is only about 15 mph with a few gust near 20. Tonight will be the fun part.

 

[2tall]

I swear, from the satellite pics it looks like the center is already well east of the predicted landfall! I'm hoping that at least some remnants will make up into mid SC. They are about to dry up and blow away.

Are you getting any wind yet?

 

[badbullgator]

That is what it looks like on radar, but the true center is near the middle keys right now. It is coming up the west coast and then it will get a push up across the state and up your way. The heaviest rains are on the other side of the state from me right now as the east side of the storm always holds the most water. We don’t need the rain but it would not hurt either. What we don’t need is the wind taking out power. Way to hot to be without A/C
Very little wind right now 15 mph with a few gust to 20. Naples has gotten a bit higher and the keys were reporting 50mph about an hour ago

 

[Bud]

My parents are visiting my sister's family in Naples. They were suppose to leave in the morning, but they moved the flight up to sometime tonight. That radar looks like they should be leaving now.

 

[Thomas D]

Good luck, Corey. They are saying 25 to 50 mph winds for us, with some gusts higher. Power outages likely. I have enough gas for 3 days of generator use and diesel for one day of tractor use. Not many trees left after Charley. If I don't need the gas, I'll use it to get to Thomasville at the end of the month! Gas has gone up 5 cents a gallon in the last 2 days.
$2.65 still isn't bad.

 

[badbullgator]

Good luck, Corey. They are saying 25 to 50 mph winds for us, with some gusts higher. Power outages likely. I have enough gas for 3 days of generator use and diesel for one day of tractor use. Not many trees left after Charley. If I don't need the gas, I'll use it to get to Thomasville at the end of the month! Gas has gone up 5 cents a gallon in the last 2 days.
$2.65 still isn't bad.

:shock::shock: If that is not a typo I am moving up there. We are $3.58 here. I have enough for about 3 days on the generator, but maybe it won;t be needed, If not I will put it in the boat, but......there is another system working its way across the Atlantic.....

 

[achiro]

Let me clarify this, did you say up to FIFTY mph? FIVE-ZERO? If so, thats a normal spring day around here, how the heck is that going to knock out power?

 

[salty1214]

Just a little rain to fill the ponds

 

[lablover]

I sure hope some of that rain makes it to Virginia.
I'm tired of running water blinds where the dog leaves a dust trail behind him!;-)

 

[badbullgator]

Let me clarify this, did you say up to FIFTY mph? FIVE-ZERO? If so, thats a normal spring day around here, how the heck is that going to knock out power?

We have lots of trees, which I know are kind of rare on Oklahoma, that fall on them. Not very strong trees, but lots of em. Look we live in a state that let the Army Corps of Engineers totally devastate the everglades and then allowed them to handle the “restoration” of the everglades. Go figure let the people that screwed it up fix it. Hurricanes since the beginning of time and you think somebody would figure out that underground power lines MIGHT be a better bet?
Actually it is pretty boring right now. Wind has picked up a little bit but I just checked the sea buoy and the seas are only 3-4 feet so the calm before the storm maybe. Everything is 30-40 miles south of us and has been most of the day. Keep waiting and it keeps trying to rain. Radar looks very ugly just to my south, but it is just taunting us. The good thing is it is still a TS. Now they are saying it will hit us about 1 am as a cat 1.

BTW- archio it is the tornados and lightening that come along with the storm that takes the power out. Remember you get the sustained wind along with squalls that have even higher wind, lightening, and tornados. I would gather you can relate to that kind of weather too and know good and well that puts your power out when it happens.

 

[Thomas D]

That was a typo. $3.65

Living in the past regards.........

 

[D Osborn]

Hope you guys do ok-

 

[badbullgator]

Just about 5 inches of rain so far and the winds have been right around 40 in the last few hours with a few gust up into the 60's. they just said 12,000 are without porwer in the area, but we are still cranking. Pretty much just a pond filler.

That "eye" is 30 miles form my house at the moment. It is coming down hard right now​

 

[Kim McElwee]

Should be bringing the Lake up pretty fast! Storm is heading for us right now........... Fun, fun...........

 

[Leddyman]

I sure hope some of that rain makes its way up here.

It's so dry here the catfish have ticks on 'em.

 

[Thomas D]

They say it will come out around Titusville, into the Atlantic, hook back around and come back in south of Jax. Who knows where from there.....

Rain and 40mph gusts here.

 

[Snicklefritz]

Hurricanes are my other love in life, outside dogs. I've been watching this since early this morning. I noted the storm was more organized (more symetrical, hint of an eye, dramatice increase in outflow in the western quadrant, and more banding features) than it was just offshore.

My prediction to my co-workers was a strengthening storm on-shore. That's blasphemy of course. But, by 3PM the CEO was asking my opinion. Now, the storm is slowing down and looking due north.

Look out Buck Mann - could be coming your way big time.

Corey, hope you've done well with this one.

Regards to you, your dogs, and your embryos.

Hunkerdown! The fat lady ain't sung yet.

Snick

 

[2tall]

Snick, believe it or not, I am paying attention now. If Fay should decide to move a little north before recurving, it could get interesting! We have been hurricane free here for many a year, but you just never know.

 

[badbullgator]

We did fine. A few branches in the yard and I lost my home internet (comcast sucks anyway), but the power never went off at home or the office. A lot of people did lose power and some of our areas got over 12 inches of rain, mostly near the lake where it was really needed. Hope you guys get wet up north. It looks like it is not going to be much more than a rain maker for the entire state and maybe Georgia....now there is one more coming across the Atlantic.........

 

[Captain Mike D]

Well he!!,

The center of Fay seems to be stuck about 15 miles to the east of here. Melbourne and Cocoa Bch have been hammered by up to 17" of rain.

At the house we have only gotten about 5" but I think its about time for the storm to check out of the neighborhood!