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Thread: Hurricane 2021
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08-30-2021, 02:06 PM #51
Pretty much all the homes from the '50's and '60 were built short and squat out of brick in FL, low roof lines, nothing over 2/12 pitch, they are real obvious in the panhandle sitting next to homes that look like they could be in Indiana. Most of them survived on the beach over the decades until Ivan came through with a 35' storm surge and scraped all but a few off their foundations.
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08-30-2021, 02:40 PM #52
Love me some Jim Cantore. THUNDER SNOW!!!
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08-30-2021, 02:43 PM #53
It really is nuts, mainly because most will be rebuilt.
Our coast development is quite crazy, but, it's actually a bit worse over in Spain. I'm watching the Vuelta right now (for non bike race geeks, it's the Tour de France of Spain), and I'm up to stage six, where they come down to the Mediterranean around Valencia and Alicante, and, man, it's like a huge garden of condo buildings everywhere, right on the water. Do they get bad storms over there in the sea?
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08-30-2021, 03:43 PM #54Head down, push foreword
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HURRICANE IVAN DAMAGE SURVEY
https://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/106925.pdf
The highest storm surge measured was 4.4 m (14 ft.) at Perdido Key, FL. Storm surges in excess of 3.8 m (12 ft.) were measured in Grande Lagoon, Escambia Bay, Tiger Point, and Blackwater Bay areas.
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08-30-2021, 06:03 PM #55
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08-30-2021, 07:52 PM #56lysterine
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08-30-2021, 07:58 PM #57
I was just thinking it’s about time Benny brought up coastal homes.
I still call it The Jake.
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08-30-2021, 08:01 PM #58
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09-01-2021, 02:48 AM #60Registered User
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And we are about to get thoroughly soaked again, this time by the remnants of Ida. Models have me at 5-8" of rain and this time it looks like there will be some wind too. As wet as the ground is from the last few soakings I have a feeling this time we'll see some trees down.
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09-01-2021, 05:42 AM #61Banned
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Yeah going to be a soaker eh ..hope winds aren't too bad.
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09-01-2021, 07:19 AM #62
Anyone else pleasantly surprised at how competently everyone dealt with this storm as it swept through LA? Sure there’s damage and flooding and loss everywhere but in the big picture the levees held, there’s no Anderson Cooper worried about his Prada loafers getting wet, no general chaos... nicely done LA.
I still call it The Jake.
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09-01-2021, 07:21 AM #63
Dude, the entire city of New Orleans will be without power for at least a week. In summer temps.
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09-01-2021, 07:29 AM #64
After Katrina my buddy's wife's place invested in enough generators to keep their walk in freezers running. Everyone on the staff back then was encouraged to take anything they thought they could use quickly. They lost so much food that they said never again. Now they just have to find enough gas to keep the Genny's humming, no small feat considering the current state of affairs down there ATM.
Brandine: Now Cletus, if I catch you with pig lipstick on your collar one more time you ain't gonna be allowed to sleep in the barn no more!
Cletus: Duly noted.
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09-01-2021, 08:08 AM #65man of ice
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09-01-2021, 08:20 AM #66
Never stop looking for that grey in the silver clouds Benny.
I still call it The Jake.
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09-01-2021, 08:22 AM #67
Venice probably won't get power for a month. One of the levees breached and one of the flood gates failed.
Nothing good will happen for oil prices because of this.
We were going down to help clean up my friend's condo, but can't get there. Two shrimp boats that were blown adrift ended up in his dock. Not sure how much damage was done.
In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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09-01-2021, 08:23 AM #68
Shit, I would never visit New Orleans in summer with air conditioning.
Another trip off the list for a while, and I was open to it for this fall. Fly into Memphis and drive down to New Orleans for a week or two, eating southern food and checking out roadhouse music. Oh well.
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09-01-2021, 08:35 AM #69
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09-01-2021, 09:58 AM #72man of ice
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Not enough negative shit going on to keep the media interested.
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09-01-2021, 10:01 AM #73
It's all about fear. Big buildup, then on to the other oncoming crisis. A lot of times these storms do much more damage inland with the floods and landslides from the rain, but, on to the next baby in the well.
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09-01-2021, 10:12 AM #74
All the way back in 2017 it had been 11 years without a major hurricane making landfall on the US (Cat 3 or higher). As someone who spends a good chunk of my life in hurricane country, that always struck me as odd, thinking OK, when is this gonna swing and we'll get pounded with mega-storms.
You are both not wrong. The digging to the middle pages to get storm recovery stories has been different for sure.
Yep. When Irma hit family came up from Lowcountry to ATL to sit out the storm if it turned just slightly right as it ran up Florida; we ended up with super high winds and soaking storms which knocked down trees all over and were out of power for a few days which was way worse than anything they would have had.I still call it The Jake.
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09-01-2021, 10:19 AM #75
Vermont got really fucked up from Irene, and the national news barely blinked.
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