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    Good for them - got in ahead of the evacuation start 17 mins ago. They sitting tight or leaving?
    I still call it The Jake.

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    They're leaving as they are no dummies. They just got caught a bit off bc they were away on vacation.
    Hope all ends up ok with your place too
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    Matthew is coming for the EC

    Whole family is spread across Mt Pleasant. Folks and SIL are headed to ATL to hang with Bmills. Sister and BIL are eyeing Asheville. Brother is a news douche, so he gets to ride it out.

    Update, Sisters are both headed to Charlotte. BIL was scared shitless and bailed to CA. It's also possible he's been there all week on business. No way to be sure.
    Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.

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    I am in Ft Myers right now. Hotels are booked solid all weekend with people from the east coast of FL.
    They are only calling for 1-3" of rain here, and 30 mph winds tops. West side if the storm is where you want to be for rain. Storm surge, not so much.
    Guroo- you will be just fine in Tampa. Friday will be windy and shitty, but no worse than our normal thunderstorms. That is, unless it keeps turning.
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    Have family in Cocoa Beach, Titusville and Rockledge FL. They are battened down as this isn't their first rodeo. Still scary. I miss those hurricane parties!
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    Titusville looks fucked. Google inundation map and look at Titusville. 4 to 5 feet of seawater in a lot of the city.
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    My sister and niece both live within a block or two of the Indian River in tville. They might be fucked. Niece in a concrete block house with good steel shutters, sisters house pretty cheaply made stucco/osb. She is at the nieces house. Barrier islands are evacuated, cousin from Cocoa Beach is at sisters in Rockledge. Shit is fitten ta get real!
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    That storm track is eerily reminiscent of the track the rogue planet took in 'Melancholia'. Creepy. My sister is hanging out at Angel Fire for a few extra days while this thing passes by.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheFugitive View Post
    My sister and niece both live within a block or two of the Indian River in tville. They might be fucked. Niece in a concrete block house with good steel shutters, sisters house pretty cheaply made stucco/osb. She is at the nieces house. Barrier islands are evacuated, cousin from Cocoa Beach is at sisters in Rockledge. Shit is fitten ta get real!
    Concrete block isn't doing much to keep storm surge out. How high above river level is the house?

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    Quote Originally Posted by boltonoutlaw View Post
    Flew to FL to assist my Mom who is alone in Delray Beach, FL. Looks to hit square upon us at this point. Hoping the intl community pulls together to assist Haiti.
    Father in law lives in lake Worth. Very close to del Ray. Hoping all goes well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    Looks like GA's Golden Isles will be getting the brunt of this. 1-3' of flooding in my neck of the woods, which is fine. House is lifted 6' and I allowed for 48" of change in waterline level tying off the little boat. I'm hoping that all this really downgrades before landfall and doesn't loop back or park itself offshore for any length of time.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    My sister lives north of Melbourne, near Viera. Her husband works at the space center. He said he filled the propane bottle, loaded up on beer, ice, and water. I hope the giant tree in the backyard doesn't crush their house.
    When I lived in Mobile, people emptied the supermarkets of soda, chips, and paper towels before the storm. I thought that was a very odd selection for a disaster cache.

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    That's funny. In ATL when a storm hits it's the midwest storm prep: milk, eggs, bread. Who the fuck eats that much milk bread and eggs that you can't go a few days without all three?

    Here's my storm prep:









    I'm good for at least a week on these provisions alone.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Parents decided to stay (HHI). Filled the tubs with H2O. Storm shutters on. Batteries charged. They won't have flooding (~20 feet above water) but I bet they're without power for a week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skidog View Post
    Father in law lives in lake Worth. Very close to del Ray. Hoping all goes well.
    Best wishes. Buttoned up the house and Kidnapped my Mom into central FL, Arcadia to be exact. Want no part of the resource-grab (food, fuel, water) in SE FL.

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    My uncle lives in Melbourne - he's got a generator already installed is planning to ride it out. I'm more worried about a tree falling on his house.

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    Living on the beach down there is really expensive insurance wise. I think the state backs it now. something like this, walking its way up the entire coast could bankrupt the state.

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    What's the over/under on how many who ignore the evacuation will end up dead?
    Has the looting started in evacuated areas?
    First looter shot will be?

    That area of 7-11' storm surge looks like a good place to drown.

    I hope all here and their families are safe. I had a couple of friends in Ft Lauderdale on business and they got out at 7:30 am today.
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    Well, there's already been one death in the US from Matthew:


    Man shot dead by S.C. deputies in hurricane evacuation dispute


    MIAMI -- A motorist shot during an altercation with South Carolina deputies over a HurricaneMatthew evacuation route has died.

    Berkeley County Chief Deputy Coroner George Oliver says 35-year-old Lucas M. Felkel of Moncks Corner died shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday.

    Sheriff Duane Lewis says it happened about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Moncks Corner when a motorist came to a checkpoint, knocked down some traffic cones and sped off.

    Lewis said he didn’t know at the time what the subject told the officers, but he said there was some indication by the subject that the officers were in danger, CBS affiliate WCSC-TV reports.

    “His actions placed the officers in danger,” Lewis said. “The Moncks Corner police called the sheriff’s office for assistance and we responded and picked up the chase on Old Highway 52.”

    The sheriff says when deputies finally caught up with the driver a few miles away he pointed a gun at deputies and started shooting. The sheriff says the deputies shot back, wounding the man who was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

    No deputies were wounded, but the sheriff says that four deputies have been placed on administrative leave.

    The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating. The coroner says an autopsy is scheduled.

    South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is taking every precaution in ordering a massive evacuation. To reduce delays, state troopers reversed all of the interstate’s east-bound lanes, creating a one-way, six-lane freeway that stretches more than 100 miles from Charleston to Columbia. That’s in addition to South Carolina’s established network of hurricane evacuation routes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    Well, there's already been one death in the US from Matthew:


    Man shot dead by S.C. deputies in hurricane evacuation dispute


    MIAMI -- A motorist shot during an altercation with South Carolina deputies over a HurricaneMatthew evacuation route has died.

    Berkeley County Chief Deputy Coroner George Oliver says 35-year-old Lucas M. Felkel of Moncks Corner died shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday.

    Sheriff Duane Lewis says it happened about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Moncks Corner when a motorist came to a checkpoint, knocked down some traffic cones and sped off.

    Lewis said he didn’t know at the time what the subject told the officers, but he said there was some indication by the subject that the officers were in danger, CBS affiliate WCSC-TV reports.

    “His actions placed the officers in danger,” Lewis said. “The Moncks Corner police called the sheriff’s office for assistance and we responded and picked up the chase on Old Highway 52.”

    The sheriff says when deputies finally caught up with the driver a few miles away he pointed a gun at deputies and started shooting. The sheriff says the deputies shot back, wounding the man who was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

    No deputies were wounded, but the sheriff says that four deputies have been placed on administrative leave.

    The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating. The coroner says an autopsy is scheduled.

    South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is taking every precaution in ordering a massive evacuation. To reduce delays, state troopers reversed all of the interstate’s east-bound lanes, creating a one-way, six-lane freeway that stretches more than 100 miles from Charleston to Columbia. That’s in addition to South Carolina’s established network of hurricane evacuation routes.
    Man I hate shitty reporting. Dateline Miami?

    Aside from the initial police contact occurring at an evacuation checkpoint exactly how is shooting at police related to/blamed on the hurricane?

    There's a 90 page thread that's about police related shootings where this can be hashed out. From this clip it has nothing to do with the hurricane.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Given there would be no evacuation and no road block, I'd say it relates pretty well.

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    At this point, all the people who "choose " to stay are on their own. If the shit hits the fan they can die, just as long as they don't put first responders and other safety personal at risk. If they die, it is their choice, but if people die trying to save their sorry ass then I'll be possed.

    Good luck to those who stayed, but you are on your own.

    I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...
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