NE Florida ALERT: Make hurricane preparations ASAP.

[Blue Sky Country]

Dorian AKA Global Warming Boogaloo is shaping up to be a sledgehammer. Estimating it to be a Cat. 3 or strong Cat. 2 when it makes landfall Monday morning.

If you got generators, run em' now and make sure you got good fuel in them...

 

[Jgunner]

I am always surprised at the people who live in such areas and are completely unprepared. When interviewed they always seem surprised it happened. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Like how much is a couple of buckets of dehydrated food and few blue barrels of water? Shit lasts for years if taken care of, couple drums of fuel with stabil in it would be wise too. But what do i know...

 

[TACC]

I'm with you, it is amazing how unprepared some people are, then they expect to get bailed out of their bad situation.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

I am always surprised at the people who live in such areas and are completely unprepared. When interviewed they always seem surprised it happened. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Like how much is a couple of buckets of dehydrated food and few blue barrels of water? Shit lasts for years if taken care of, couple drums of fuel with stabil in it would be wise too. But what do i know...

Some people underestimate the Cat. levels of a particular storm, and that is a main cause of complacency from my viewpoint so far. A Cat. 1 may not be a Cat. 5 but it will still fuck shit up plenty, and I mean plenty. With hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, whatever, it ain't the wind that causes the majority of the damage... It is water. Ocean water. Storm surge to be exact. Plenty of folks have been trapped in their homes and drowned during 'low' Category 1's. When Sandy hit the tri-state area in 2012 entire neighborhoods and like half of Staten Island and all of Lower Manhattan got swamped. To this day they are still repairing the damages caused by that clusterfuck.

 

[oneshot86]

woo hoo
hurricane partyyyyyyyyyy

 

[Precisiondada]

9 times out of 10 these things turn into nothing. We live here, we deal with it. The media hypes these things so people stay tuned bottom line.

My house is made of concrete and the roof is buttressed and strapped. We’re also not in a flood zone. Bathtubs get filled with fresh water, propane and gas tanks are filled, and we have plenty of food both dry and perishable on hand.

Panicked people are unpredictable, We stay put.

 

[FS1]

I'm just barely in the cone of death. If goes where they say it will be a rainy day for me. But I am ready if it changes it's mind.

But I agree with the above it's seldom as bad as the news says.

 

[atepointer]

My biggest concern is if this mofo hits Saturday night and the Auburn/Oregon game isn't powered up THEN we have problems. 31 years of FL hurricanes....always hyped to the max...FEEDER BANDS look out Jim Cantori!

 

[hlee]

I'm just barely in the cone of death. If goes where they say it will be a rainy day for me. But I am ready if it changes it's mind.

But I agree with the above it's seldom as bad as the news says.

Houston was outside the Cone of Death when Harvey hit. Was just a bit more than a rainy day here...

 

[FS1]

I have lived here for 45 years in Hurricane land I’m ready.

 

[308pirate]

I am always surprised at the people who live in such areas and are completely unprepared. When interviewed they always seem surprised it happened. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Like how much is a couple of buckets of dehydrated food and few blue barrels of water? Shit lasts for years if taken care of, couple drums of fuel with stabil in it would be wise too. But what do i know...

No different than people up north where I live shown on the TV news panic buying snow shovels, salt, and food when a snow storm is announced.

They must be from down south

 

[Precision Underground]

It’s always hyped and seldom turns out to be a big deal. But one out of the bunch can remind you how bad it can get. We were not far from the eye wall of Michael and some areas around here still look like a war zone. It literally wiped our favorite sleepy beach vacation town off the map, literally. It leveled thousands of acres of forests. I sat on my porch for a lot of it and it’s an incredible thing to witness. Stay prepared and don’t freak out. Most of the time it turns out to be no big deal but don’t be one of the sheep scrambling for supplies the day before or after if that’s not the case.

 

[Snipe260]

1J04 is gonna be delivering propane tanks to that area for assistance!??

 

[FS1]

Nowadays folks just order Supplies from Amazon during the storm. Those millennials have it all figured out.

 

[oneshot86]

1J04 is gonna be delivering propane tanks to that area for assistance!??

is that how we get to meet him in person???

 

[MtnCreek]

Hope it doesn't F-up dove season.

 

[candyx]

Send your ammo and guns to me so they don't get wet, I have a nice dry closet all ready to store them.

 

[FS1]

Send your ammo and guns to me so they don't get wet, I have a nice dry closet all ready to store them.

Then what the eff do I spray paint on my walls? You loot, we scoot? Nah I’ll Keep Em dry.

 

[308pirate]

Throw some franks red hot

We Put That Shit On Everything (TM)

 

[MtnCreek]

The only trustworthy government is .45-70.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

I'm amazed at how the media can whip an entire fucking region into a "shit-ma-pants" panic over a low to mid intensity hurricane, 5 full days before the fucking thing will make US landfall.
Brought to you by the same mother fuckers, who can't accurately predict whether it will rain 2 days from now.

 

[beretta_man11]

I'm getting on a plane from JAX at 530pm tomorrow! It's not because I'm scared, it's my normal work week travel, but still, everyone here at the job site is battening down the hatches as we speak.

 

[lash]

A gray picture of Dorian:

 

[ForgeValley]

My brother is near KSC, local stores already sold out of shit and generators impossible to find.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

What's the update on Dorian since my last post?
What are the storm trackers saying now?
Omg!
Omg!
Omg!

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Has anyone stared the “triangle of uncertainty” yet?

Here...you start making us some tracking diagrams.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

Was in East Pasco co for 20 years, cains were never an issue there, lightening an nators were a different story. Bottom line something comes with every address, no matter were you live. If you want the address, when it goes to shit just suck it up butter cup,...

 

[powdahound76]

The only trustworthy government is .45-70.

Um, did you forget the 30'06 gov't? Its pretty darn handy too. Never let me down.

Oh yeah, who waits till the first hurricane is headed in to go generator shopping? I already have my plans for tuning up my snowblower in late Sept and filling a couple fuel cans for it. Also buying plenty of salt for the sidewalks and drive and rerouting a gutter downspout the same weekend. That thing is messing up the driveway pavement with the water.......

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Hell yeah I love coloring!

Just haven’t figured out how to color between the lines yet

You don't have to color between the lines, just color the lines.
Since you are being lazy, I went ahead and drew up a tracking diagrams for Dorian:

 

[Tazman]

9 times out of 10 these things turn into nothing. We live here, we deal with it. The media hypes these things so people stay tuned bottom line.

My house is made of concrete and the roof is buttressed and strapped. We’re also not in a flood zone. Bathtubs get filled with fresh water, propane and gas tanks are filled, and we have plenty of food both dry and perishable on hand.

Panicked people are unpredictable, We stay put.

Unless you have steak and beer I will take my chances with the Hurricane!!!

 

[Mike Casselton]

Was in East Pasco co for 20 years, cains were never an issue there, lightening an nators were a different story. Bottom line something comes with every address, no matter were you live. If you want the address, when it goes to shit just suck it up butter cup,...

I'm in east Hillsborough county and the same applies here.
I think the spaghetti models look like someone took a wet mop and slapped it on a desk.

Okay boys, we now have a scientific model to make uneducated guesses for scaring the shit out of the general public.

No more accurate than the cone but it give idiots something to latch onto.

 

[308pirate]

Oh yeah, who waits till the first hurricane is headed in to go generator shopping?

The same morons who wait until the first winter storm to buy a fucking shovel

 

[oneshot86]

im hoping for the big one
maybe a tsunami too

 

[308pirate]

9 times out of 10 these things turn into nothing. We live here, we deal with it. The media hypes these things so people stay tuned bottom line.

My house is made of concrete and the roof is buttressed and strapped. We’re also not in a flood zone. Bathtubs get filled with fresh water, propane and gas tanks are filled, and we have plenty of food both dry and perishable on hand.

Panicked people are unpredictable, We stay put.

+1

I grew up in PR. Both houses I grew up in were poured, rebared concrete including the roof (poured as a slab over rebar lattice). Neither of those houses would even blink at a cat 3

I rode out hurricanes Allen, Carmen, Debby, Frederic, and David in those houses with the same preps you did.

 

[oneshot86]

rock on, give it to me i know ya brought it

 

[armorpl8chikn]

When I moved away from the coast, and moved to the mountains I said:
"Welp, don't have to worry bout hurricanes no more."
Yeeaahhh.......not even close.
A few years later Frances dropped 24" of rain on my mountain. Then Ivan dropped 36" of rain the next weekend. The real funny, was all the folks who fled Florida to put themselves smack dab in the middle of a disaster area.

Took me a month with a full size JCB to fix my driveway, and install vastly oversize culverts so "this shit won't happen again".

Years later I hear folks down in the Piedmont making their plans to "retreat to the mountains where it's safe". Lmao.....oh I've tried to tell them. This place is turning into a fargin prepper madhouse.
So I'm moving away from this swarm of locusts. I can no longer afford to retire here, and it's turning into just another new age hippy shithole.

Just this week a neighbor surprised some home Invaders when he came home. It's a real shame he wasn't armed.

Be prepared wherever you live. Then you don't have to worry about wandering around through the destruction with that "how could this happen here" look on your face.

 

[MtnCreek]

Um, did you forget the 30'06 gov't? Its pretty darn handy too. Never let me down.

Oh yeah, who waits till the first hurricane is headed in to go generator shopping? I already have my plans for tuning up my snowblower in late Sept and filling a couple fuel cans for it. Also buying plenty of salt for the sidewalks and drive and rerouting a gutter downspout the same weekend. That thing is messing up the driveway pavement with the water.......

I just look for reason to say it. There was a user here years ago that had the sig line 45-70 The Only Government I Trust.

 

[MtnCreek]

When I moved away from the coast, and moved to the mountains I said:
"Welp, don't have to worry bout hurricanes no more."
Yeeaahhh.......not even close.
A few years later Frances dropped 24" of rain on my mountain. Then Ivan dropped 36" of rain the next weekend. The real funny, was all the folks who fled Florida to put themselves smack dab in the middle of a disaster area.

Took me a month with a full size JCB to fix my driveway, and install vastly oversize culverts so "this shit won't happen again".

Years later I hear folks down in the Piedmont making their plans to "retreat to the mountains where it's safe". Lmao.....oh I've tried to tell them. This place is turning into a fargin prepper madhouse.
So I'm moving away from this swarm of locusts. I can no longer afford to retire here, and it's turning into just another new age hippy shithole.

Just this week a neighbor surprised some home Invaders when he came home. It's a real shame he wasn't armed.

Be prepared wherever you live. Then you don't have to worry about wandering around through the destruction with that "how could this happen here" look on your face.

Ivan was rough. I lived close to roaring creek.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Ivan was rough. I lived close to roaring creek.

I lived close to two roaring creeks ?
Dang things sounded like the outfall of Hoover Dam.

 

[Threadcutter308]

I'm amazed at how the media can whip an entire fucking region into a "shit-ma-pants" panic over a low to mid intensity hurricane, 5 full days before the fucking thing will make US landfall.
Brought to you by the same mother fuckers, who can't accurately predict whether it will rain 2 days from now.

welcome to NW Washington........

"weathermen" = Tits = Boars......

 

[Anthonyc]

I live in Jacksonville. This is going to suck!

 

[armorpl8chikn]

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

How about we raise the hype level just a shade? I foresee shit heads coming from all directions now.

Dorian Slams Virgin Islands; Likely to Approach Florida as a Major Hurricane

Dorian is likely to be a major hurricane threatening Florida’s Atlantic coast, and it may plow onward into the Gulf of Mexico next week

www.wunderground.com

 

[FS1]

They hype it for profit no doubt. But they also hype it because there are so many stupid people who have no common sense. They have to scare them into action. Home Prep for me is easy, test genset, make sure NG gas bill paid for said genset, put up a couple sheets of plywood. Everything else has already been done.

Securing the biz is usually a couple of hours work for the employees. After biz secured the rest of day is making sure all employees homes are secured. We are a team and the employees are almost are part of my family. Actually three of them are.

 

[308pirate]

It’s amazing how they keep the masses hanging on by a thread.

Wonder what’s going to happen when something actually happens?

There's a reason why I have all alerts disabled on my phone. As far as the "presidential" alert that you cant turn off, I'll ignore it if I see fit.

 

[brianf]

follow the European model, not the sexy girl but the forecast

the european weather model has been more accurate over the past several years

weather forecast is computed by using a grid system, the smaller the grid the more data points, the more accurate

the european model was updated several years ago to a smaller grid equaling more data points etc

 

[Crang]

Ivan was rough. I lived close to roaring creek.

I lived in NOLA during Ivan and skipped the mandatory evacuation like always. They said it would be a Cat 5 city killer like they always do. I roamed the city plenty and really didnt see other people. Empty city felt like the apocalypse but ended up only Cat 1 or 2 strength there. Spent my time lighting off bottle rockets with a kitchen torch seeing how far across town I could zing them in those high winds. Tons of fun.

Only worth taking these things serious when they get to Cat 3. Katrina wasnt fun.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

Home Prep for me is easy, test genset, make sure NG gas bill paid said genset

Do you have Propane as backup to the Natural?
When I built the one that's on the house now (25kw) I made Natural primary but plumed a second system in for Propane as backup as I will not be w/o an on site fuel supply. Have a pair of 250 gallon tanks that Y to the genset as well as the gas pack I heat with. That way if the NG goes to shit I still have lots of ride threw time. Opening the LP tanks valves, an flipping a switch an she's back in operation. Plus have a std gasoline carburetor an fuel supply ready to install as back up to that.

Still have two ATS switches tied to the house with the 3 + back up's to utility, I installed when the wife was sick. Then a 3500# battery pack that feeds the inverters as last resort. When she got sick & alive I was not going to allow this home or Her life support machines to be w/o power at all, hence the levels of backup

 

[FS1]

I would just change the orifice or use a propane snorkel.

Motorsnorkel by US Carburetion – Propane and Natural Gas Generator Conversion Kits

www.motorsnorkel.com

 

[MtnCreek]

I lived in NOLA during Ivan and skipped the mandatory evacuation like always. They said it would be a Cat 5 city killer like they always do. I roamed the city plenty and really didnt see other people. Empty city felt like the apocalypse but ended up only Cat 1 or 2 strength there. Spent my time lighting off bottle rockets with a kitchen torch seeing how far across town I could zing them in those high winds. Tons of fun.

Only worth taking these things serious when they get to Cat 3. Katrina wasnt fun.

The remnants of what was a hurricane can cause hell. When creeks or small river forks that you can typically wade rise 30' and look like something out of an Indiana Jones movie, it can tear some stuff up.