Oso planning to go pro
We are safe and sound in South Florida, but daughter is at UCF and the latest models show a(nother) shift east toward her. Might be heading out tomorrow to go get her. UCF keeps postponing its decision. There are two very different sets of models on this one. One heading if over west central Florida and one heading toward the panhandle. Very strange to see this significant of a different in models 72 hours out.The one closer to central Florida landfall also shows it stopping just off shore as a Cat 3 or 4. Bad news for the Tampa bay area if it holds. I keep saying "next forecast run will be clearer", I keep being wrong! (Ft Myers should still be fine for the tournament)
My parent's development in St Pete is in a mandatory evacuation zone. Scary stuff. Thank god they are up here for 2 weeks, coincidentally. Hopefully damage is minimal
Have lots of business interests in Tampa /St Pete and all through the projected path into North and Central Florida that will be devastated First we protect employees and then figure out how to wind down operations This is going to be an expensive storm
My favorite cousin and his wife have a beautiful home in St. Pete's historic Old Northeast neighborhood. They have readied it for the hurricane as best they could and have evacuated to the Lauderdale area, where his wife has relatives. My only living aunt (my cousin's mom) is in an assisted living facility in St. Pete. "It's a brand new, concrete-block building that was built with these disasters in mind, and they have a readied disaster plan and a wonderful staff. She'll be safest there," my cousin said. Hoping all of them come out of it OK, obviously.
Ughhh....that's scary. I hope your Aunt and that building is spared from flooding
This thing is no joke. Right now it looks like Fort Myers and Naples are going to get the strongest punch. Key West is getting 75 mph gusts and Ian isn't that close to shore. The thought of 8-12 feet of storm surge with relentless rain is an uh-oh situation with no solutions.
Will make landfall at or near a cat 5 Hurricane. Yikes. We had three tornadoes bracket our neighborhood last night. We are now expecting strong tropical force winds and we are 150 miles away from it.
Some experts are predicting that many of the Florida Keys will be underwater within the next 20 years. This will not help.
Sea levels have been rising for the last 20000 years; so not much of a prediction except for the 20 year bit.
Latest path is now causing us to close more operations throughout the state This is literally a Perfect Storm in terms of destroying our business
I was curious about this statement. If you are curious its true but pretty meaningless, especially in context of my perceived intent of the poster. The sea has been rising that long, but the intensity of the increases in the past 100 are on a different level. The increases are also accelerating.https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-rise