Florida Hurricane People let me hear ya!!

ZOO

ZOO

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I got some big winds here in south FLA, just checking to see
how everyone is doing, let me now Ill stay oline to hear ya:yawn: :yawn:

Zoo
 
got 30mph gusts here. maybe a bit higher than that. It's not forecasted to get any worse than that in my area.

I feel for the people up north aways right now. I hope all our BF members in the panhandle are getting the last of everything taken care of before heading out. This is looking like a bad one. :grumpy:
 
roughedges said:
got 30mph gusts here. maybe a bit higher than that. It's not forecasted to get any worse than that in my area.

I feel for the people up north aways right now. I hope all our BF members in the panhandle are getting the last of everything taken care of before heading out. This is looking like a bad one. :grumpy:
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I think we will be fine here! looks like just rain and wind:confused:
Take care of your family and friends!!

Zoo
 
About 20-40 MPH in South Florida; shutters are up and I am glued to the weather report. It doesn't look good for our friends in the Pan Handle. I am just hopping that Dennis doen't invite half a dozen buddies over to visit during July.

n2s
 
Hope everyone was fine and still is, we lost power and when that came back
lost the DSL so I wasnt able to check in:confused:

Hope all is well up north hang on tight:yawn: post an update when possible.


Zoo
 
We're so far east we've only had the very edges of the storm, although at 0130 today the wind and rain was rather exciting.

My prayers are with those in the Panhandle.
 
I hope everything is okay. I'm thinking that no news is bad news... :( (I'm such a pessimist sometimes! Well, just a worrier, I suppose.)

My sister moved back to PA from Florida about two years ago. I have no idea if she would have been affected by this if she were still living there, but I still am glad that she isn't there anymore. She lived near West Palm Beach; is that an area that is affected from the hurricane?

~ashes
 
not at all ashes. I'm just about 45minutes outside of west palm beach and all we got here was some 30mph winds and some strong rain last night.

I get all the updates emailed to me from NOAA and their last report has Dennis as a Cat 4 hurricane. They also reported that it appears that the Gulf Coast of Alabama should miss the worst of it... the last report had it 40 mile SE of Pensacola and looking to make a direct hit there. :grumpy:
 
A hurricane like Dennis packs the energy of 40 20- megaton nukes. It is hard to imagine how much damage these storms can do. Not just the big news worthy stuff, but the massive cummulative amount of smaller items, like downed street lights, damaged electrical systems, lost trees, broken windows, lost of productivity (absent from work), and the like.

n2s
 
roughedges said:
not at all ashes. I'm just about 45minutes outside of west palm beach and all we got here was some 30mph winds and some strong rain last night.
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Well, good I guess! She and her husband still have some friends there. I just used to hear "Florida" and think "Oh, crap!" I don't know why people even live there, with all the "weather" problems.

MOVE! MOVE NORTH! GET AWAAAAY!!! Move to Pennsylvania!!! :D

~ashes
 
Move north?! NEVER! Not if hurricanes were a monthly occurance would I sit up to my keister in snow and ice. If I move anywhere it will be to a Caribbean Island.
 
3:14 p.m. ET Sun., Jul.10, 2005

B. Bernard, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel

The northern eyewall of dangerous Hurricane Dennis is moving onshore now, thundering over Santa Rosa Island, just south of Pensacola, Fla. Dennis, packing maximum sustained winds of 120 mph has weakened to a strong a Category 3 storm but remains very dangerous. The eye of the storm should swirl across the coast within an hour. Destruction of coastal property in the region will be extensive. Water rise is expected to be in the 12- to 18-foot range. Buoys offshore reported waves as high as 35 feet earlier today.

Heavy rains and gusty winds from Dennis have pushed inland through southeastern Mississippi, the southern half of Alabama and the southern half of Georgia. Winds in the western Florida Panhandle are peaking now as the eye of the hurricane approaches. Destin was being pounded by 74 mph gusts as of 2 p.m. CDT.

As Dennis piles inland through southwestern Alabama this evening, hurricane-force winds could penetrate inland as far as 150 or 175 miles. A tornado watch is in effect for a broad area of the South until midnight. The watch area includes all of northern Florida, the southern two-thirds of Alabama and the southern two-thirds of Georgia.

Rainfall amounts of 4-8 inches are forecast for much of the South, also. Locally higher amounts are likely along and just east of the track of Dennis. Flood watches blanket areas from the Gulf Coast to the mid-Mississippi and lower Ohio Valleys.

Hurricane warnings remain in effect along the northern Gulf Coast from the Pearl River east to the Ochlockonee River with tropical storm warnings from the Ochlockonee River to Long Boat Key, Florida. In Louisiana, tropical storm warnings are posted from Grand Isle to the Pearl River, including New Orleans and Lake Ponchatrain.
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http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news
 
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