Florida: “DAMN DAMN DAMN!”
Hurricane Milton projected to hit as a category 2. Storm could cover entire length of state, stretching from the Keys to Tallahasse at its apex.
The danger of a storm this big is rain. The flooding for this may be devastating, as all outlets to the sea on the entire Florida peninsula would be inundated with an immense about of rain at the same time.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | October 6, 2024 8:13 AM
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I refuse to be frightened by something named Milton.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 5, 2024 6:15 PM
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Do the Democrats have no shame?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 5, 2024 6:19 PM
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Milton? They can't be that desperate for names.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 5, 2024 6:19 PM
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Where the uck is it coming from? Is Texas sending weather bombs to Florida?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 5, 2024 6:31 PM
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Oh, fuck -- here we go again.
Looks to be hitting Tampa Bay (my poor father!) at a Cat. 2, and that's no fun. And it's almost certain that this will blow over my county.
On top of my worries about the election, now I have to worry about [italic]this[/italic] ?
Bah.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 5, 2024 7:42 PM
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I believe you have my stapler.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | October 5, 2024 7:43 PM
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It’s official—TS Milton has been named!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 5, 2024 8:17 PM
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Couldn’t even make it to r2?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 5, 2024 8:17 PM
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Now projected to be a major Cat 3 at landfall. Tampa is in the center of the cone.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 5, 2024 9:08 PM
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Listen Large Marge, if we could control the weather Trump would have been struck by lightning a long time ago.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 5, 2024 9:17 PM
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Time for Trump's Magic Sharpie!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 5, 2024 9:42 PM
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Has there been a Bradley yet?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 5, 2024 9:46 PM
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They should have named it MAGA.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 5, 2024 9:48 PM
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Milton packs quite a surprise, Florida!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 16 | October 5, 2024 9:52 PM
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miss God apparently hates Tampa-St Pete
she be cuttin a bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 5, 2024 9:57 PM
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Sorry. If you're good, you can try this...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | October 5, 2024 9:58 PM
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Hmm. The local meteos in Tampa are saying secure property Sunday and be prepared to evacuate the area Monday.
Tampa-area DLers, be safe!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 5, 2024 10:13 PM
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I have a former friend who lives in Tampa. I hope it blows her house over like a stack of cards.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 5, 2024 10:28 PM
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@R22
I'm guessing you're not still in touch?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 5, 2024 10:41 PM
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It’s what she deserves.
Desantis can only hold off insurance cancellations for just so long.
Once all the insurance companies flee the state, the real estate speculators will be the next to leave, and home values will plummet. Homes have been overpriced for a decade (I sold my late father’s home for crazy $$$ in ‘18).
The confluence of events will make post-2008 look like a cakewalk.
Florida Eldergays, call Tom Selleck and get you reverse mortgages tonight and prepare to stay put until Kingdom Come!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 5, 2024 11:02 PM
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Milty, you need to quit it this instant!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 5, 2024 11:19 PM
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I'm going to watch the weather tomorrow morning when presumably they'll have narrowed down the path a little. If it's still headed my way, I swear I'm gonna drive to Texas. Hopefully, I-75 N and I-10 W aren't too badly blocked by debris.
If I could afford to relocate to some place I actually want to live (CA), I'd have been gone long ago.
Sad.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 5, 2024 11:20 PM
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[quote] Milton packs quite a surprise, Florida!
I was almost ready to post: "This post is useless without pictures." Which I should've, given that R16's link sucks.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 5, 2024 11:22 PM
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I'm hoping it does major damage to shithole Florida.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 5, 2024 11:31 PM
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Everybody say bye-bye to homeowner's insurance.
And/or FEMA.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 5, 2024 11:33 PM
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Senior Lesbian, I feel your pain. Are you still living in the Ocala forest? I am still in Leesburg. We can only hope the storm decides to go over Miami, otherwise the rest of Florida is doomed to have the worst hurricane year since.... forever? Well, perhaps, 2004.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 5, 2024 11:37 PM
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Why can't Mar-a-Lago sustain a direct hit? During a Trump family reunion.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 5, 2024 11:45 PM
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Tallulah and SL, hoping you are both safe.
Bad Memories of 2005.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 5, 2024 11:54 PM
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Thank you ElderLez. You are so kind. If this storm turns into a CAT 4 or 5 and dumping on this rain soaked state, I don't know what many will do? I must say that DeSantis did really well with this last storm in preparations, responding and help, that I almost forgot he is a MAGA. But, another super-storm on top of the last is too much to comprehend or bear. Especially, with the thought of home insurance rates next year. Oy!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 6, 2024 12:14 AM
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How did we get from Helene to Milton so quickly? Are they no longer going in alphabetical order?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 6, 2024 12:21 AM
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Clearly, this is God’s revenge on those who refuse to help immigrants.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 6, 2024 12:23 AM
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What about the pythons and gators?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 6, 2024 12:24 AM
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This is clearly the earth's revenge for not taking care of it. If you buy a brand new car and then never change the oil, or do routine maintenance it is eventually going to break. Why people thought that the earth would just keep giving and giving and giving without any maintenance is beyond me.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 6, 2024 12:30 AM
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How do you propose that we have Earth's tires rotated, r39?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 6, 2024 12:35 AM
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you have to clean them first
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 6, 2024 12:37 AM
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[quote] The confluence of events will make post-2008 look like a cakewalk.
Wouldn’t the collapse of real estate in Florida be good for values elsewhere? All the people abandoning the state need to go somewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 6, 2024 12:50 AM
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Thank you for posting that video with him. …What hurricane??!
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 6, 2024 12:58 AM
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Tallulah @ R32, I was trying to remember your moniker just the other day when we were discussing Helene here, because I wondered how you had fared. I take it you made it though OK with your property intact.
I was very lucky with that storm; it only clipped my place at 61 mph. But I don't know if my raggedy old place would survive a Cat 2. I've been unsuccessful at finding an updating map with the latest spaghetti models, but I did find a good map of the clouds pictured from a satellite on the Windows weather site.
The other thing I was looking for was a traffic/damage map for the interstates to see which ones are open. I've driven up I-75 to I-10 more than a few times, but I remember that once, after a hurricane, I-10 had quite a bit of debris which I was able to circumvent on my motorcycle. But I figure that, if I leave here, the only way to go is west and then north -- that is, if I decide to go. I'll have to take my motorcycle on the back of the truck (which I'll need help to load) and my poor little old dog.
Plus, fucking useless Marion County hasn't even listed an evacuation place yet. I stayed at a relatively close high school the one time I did have to evacuate with my dog, but the one they have posted now (for Helene) is quite a ways on the other side of the county. And Marion is a big county.
Fuck. I'm just not ready for all this again -- plus I'm worried about my 88-year-old father, who lives in St. Pete and now has "walking pneumonia" from his efforts, and loss of power and water during Helene. It looks like they'll be taking a direct hit.
Keep in touch. I'll be checking this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 6, 2024 1:38 AM
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At a certain point, areas of Florida will need to be abandoned. Let mother nature reclaim those areas.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 6, 2024 1:39 AM
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But I'm dead in the center!! Nowhere near any water!
This shit sucks.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 6, 2024 1:41 AM
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The problem in Florida are the insurance companies as they don’t want people to build houses the way they do it in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 6, 2024 1:43 AM
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Senior Lez, outer Palm Springs is somewhat affordable.
Hubs and I are retiring there.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 6, 2024 2:24 AM
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Your idea of affordable and mine are probably quite disparate, R48, but thanks for the thought.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 6, 2024 2:59 AM
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Heading straight for areas already obliterated by Helene.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 50 | October 6, 2024 5:55 AM
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Are you suggesting they’re in cahoots?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 6, 2024 6:07 AM
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R36 Isaac and Joyce were fish storms, didn’t affect land and are long gone now. Hurricanes Kirk and Leslie are currently out in the Atlantic, closer to Africa, so now we’re up to Milton.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 6, 2024 8:13 AM
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