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Frigging Irma...
Sep. 8th, 2017 06:15 pmTrying not to obsess over crazy-ass monster Hurricane that is the size of Texas or all of the Briitish Isles and France, due to pummel Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tenessee, Kentucky and Alabama, after already wrecking havoc over the Caribbean Islands. Barbados -- over half the island is homeless. St. Martin's and The Virgin Islands pummeled. Puerto Rica kicked. Cuba wasn't hurt that bad. It's going over the Bahamas tonight, slated to make landfall in Florida on Sunday, Carolinas by Tuesday.
Half of Florida is under a mandatory evacuation -- as is the eastern coastline of Georgia and South Carolina.
So think about this for a minute -- Florida is a major tourist destination and point of departure for various cruise lines. Most of those people don't have cars. And they are now competing for flights home with people trying to evacuate. And the airport is not a secure evacuation area.
Even if they did have cars...there is grid-lock, nothing is moving, no gas, no water, no food, and no hotels available, everything is packed to capacity.
Here's the current trajectory.
OR better yet, National Hurricane Center Trajectory
According to ABC News, it's predicted that it may hit the Florida Keys as a Cat 5. This is worth watching -- it shows how impossible it is to evacuate the state. There's no flights after 8PM tonight. And a gas shortage.
They aren't sure how it will hit or how bad. Just that the Eye will pass right over the heart of Florida. And are predicting that this may well be the Natural Disaster of our time.
I'm really worried about my Aunt M (who is just north of Tampa on the northwest coastline), Uncle (south and in the middle), and cousins (Orlando) down there, who can't leave and are sticking it out.
Talked to my mother, she's en route to Charlotte, North Carolina to wait out the storm with a bunch of people from her new neighborhood. She said it's stop and go traffic, it's moving but barely. She's been on the road on a bus since 11:30 AM this morning. They'll probably get in late, but at least they have a bathroom (a nice one) on the bus. Got lunch on the bus, and water. So much better than driving themselves. (My parents are very smart when it comes to evacuations. My mother is a logistical worrier like I am, it's possibly genetic.)
It is the worst storm to hit the continental US in years, and predicted to be even worse than Andrew. And there are two hurricanes in the Atlantic right behind it.
I don't know...it's as if 2017 looked at us...after 2016, and said, honey, 2016 was just a prelude, wait and see what I've got in store.
Half of Florida is under a mandatory evacuation -- as is the eastern coastline of Georgia and South Carolina.
So think about this for a minute -- Florida is a major tourist destination and point of departure for various cruise lines. Most of those people don't have cars. And they are now competing for flights home with people trying to evacuate. And the airport is not a secure evacuation area.
Even if they did have cars...there is grid-lock, nothing is moving, no gas, no water, no food, and no hotels available, everything is packed to capacity.
Here's the current trajectory.
OR better yet, National Hurricane Center Trajectory
According to ABC News, it's predicted that it may hit the Florida Keys as a Cat 5. This is worth watching -- it shows how impossible it is to evacuate the state. There's no flights after 8PM tonight. And a gas shortage.
They aren't sure how it will hit or how bad. Just that the Eye will pass right over the heart of Florida. And are predicting that this may well be the Natural Disaster of our time.
I'm really worried about my Aunt M (who is just north of Tampa on the northwest coastline), Uncle (south and in the middle), and cousins (Orlando) down there, who can't leave and are sticking it out.
Talked to my mother, she's en route to Charlotte, North Carolina to wait out the storm with a bunch of people from her new neighborhood. She said it's stop and go traffic, it's moving but barely. She's been on the road on a bus since 11:30 AM this morning. They'll probably get in late, but at least they have a bathroom (a nice one) on the bus. Got lunch on the bus, and water. So much better than driving themselves. (My parents are very smart when it comes to evacuations. My mother is a logistical worrier like I am, it's possibly genetic.)
It is the worst storm to hit the continental US in years, and predicted to be even worse than Andrew. And there are two hurricanes in the Atlantic right behind it.
I don't know...it's as if 2017 looked at us...after 2016, and said, honey, 2016 was just a prelude, wait and see what I've got in store.