Any weather nerds like me watching this? Talking about it possibly being a Cat 5 by the time it scrapes along the entire east coast of FL. Then it’s going to loop out to the ocean, take a 270 degree spin, and slam back into south FL again, though likely only a tropical storm by then. Only good thing is the worst of the winds will be on the ocean side assuming it doesn’t shift west and actually go inland.
I have to go to Roebling Road for work next week. We are staying in downtown Savannah. Hopefully things will be back to normalish by Monday afternoon (yeah, I mean I hope no one dies and property damage isn’t too bad, but for my own selfish motives I just want to get my work done)
I was originally going to go this week, but on Sunday 10/2 had 50% ran for Wednesday 10/5, rescheduled and it never rained…
God hates Florida. Not a great year for them.
My one buddy at work is always on some website that shows storms when they are way east before they are even named. He’s been watching this thing for weeks. He likes to waste his time on the clock looking at hurricanes/tropical depressions, I like to watch airplane crash investigation stuff.
Edit-I think that is the site he is always looking at
been watching it. earlier in the week it was slated to make landfall at the SC/NC border then come straight for us. Luckily that track has changed. Definitely not gonna be good for the Florida coast. Seems like local gov’s are doing a good job of bracing for it.
Yeah, I’ve mostly been following since a good friend of mine lives in Holly Spring, NC and he’s been freaking out a bit because 2 weeks ago he tested his generator and it was fine, then last week he tried it again and it wouldn’t start. Westinghouse is sending him an entire new carb and it should be there tomorrow though over the last 2 days the track has shifted so much it probably won’t be an issue for NC.
Did you see this “monster”
Property damage sucks… but let’s just hope everyone took the advice at GTFO of the area… homes can be rebuilt.
I just couldn’t imagine having to deal with that shit…hope deaths are minimal/none. Haiti is already suffering.
If you’re sitting in an evacuation zone, refusing to leave, here’s a little PSA for you.
The jeep is the hurricane, you’re the kid sitting on his ass refusing to move.
The part they cut out was him saying this was about the people refusing to leave mandatory evacuation zones.
Is it over the top? Probably. Unfortunately even saying it perfectly clearly like this people will still sit there and then blame the government like with Katrina.
Live feed of all the wind speeds and patterns.
I agree, people don’t take preparation seriously enough. Is there a lot of hype? YES. But most people don’t realize that the hype and coverage is the only way to get the message across that this is dangerous shit, and you should be PREPARED for the worst.
The old saying. “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst”, is relevant here. You may not get hit hard, or your shit may be destroyed. My parents learned this one the hard way during Sandy. Waterfront house, ignored evacuations, house flooded badly. By the time they panicked and tried to get out, the streets were impassable and they destroyed one of their cars (an Xterra) trying to get out of the neighborhood.
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So we got really lucky. The first week we were suppose to stay at Holiday Inn, but when we rescheduled changed it to Homewood Suites. Our rider and mechanics kept the Holiday Inn. Monday in ATL we received a text from our rider that Holiday Inn was closed for a week, even though he called ahead the day before. He was able to get into Homewood.
A lot of leaves and a few overturned trees in Savannah, reminded me of the aftermath of a mild ice storm. Get to Homewood ourselves “yeah, we just got power back on, we were closed until today.” Walk to some restaurants hardly anybody out, maybe 1 out of 5 were open, eat, and as we were leaving overhear a waitress say “no new customers after 9:00”. Apparently there was a 10pm curfew.
Tuesday morning take the rental around the track, no power, have pine needles and twigs lightly scattering the track, we were like “poop, there goes a few hours of testing getting this cleaned.” A couple more rental car laps, the rider goes out on the bike and comes back 5 laps later, sends out the sweeper again, goes out in the rental to set up some sight cones. Goes back out on the bike and everything was good to go. Only lost an hour, if that. Nothing Matthew related impeded the rest of testing. Rider tested 50ish rears, and I found out that the new Maxima is not a good track car even at 7/10ths.
By Thursday afternoon, tourism traffic had started to pick back up, 4 out of 5 places were open, ships were coming and going.
Crazy that the Carolinas are going to deal with flooding for weeks to come.