FlowerMama Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Courtesy of the Hurricane, what weather are you seeing? Link to comment
dadummy Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 just looked out the window and saw nothing but plywood Link to comment
Acielot Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Today was actually a beautiful day in Central Florida. Nothing really out of the oridinary except huge lines at the stores and gas stations. Just put up the storm boards a few hours ago. Link to comment
Astinus Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Cloudy and breezy this Morning when I went for my coffee. I am on the Gulf Side. We are expecting Rain and TS winds later t'day and t'night. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Just waiting assuming power will go out per usual Link to comment
owlshead19 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 I'm in Clearwater - on the Gulf Coast and we don't really expect more than a little rain and some wind. Probably just enough to knock down a few tree branches... the usual stuff. Link to comment
Newstead Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Had to share what a friend who lives near the east coast of Fl on a river has done to protect their rescued tortoise who normally roams their 5 acres... Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 currently drinking hurricanes- if you can't beat em join em. It's 1:45 P.M. Friday, not much happening yet. some small light rain bands. House is boarded up so I have to go outside to see anything. Dogs are getting antsy. Fish are clueless. Link to comment
Astinus Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 We just got a rain Band with some wind...20 MPH? Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Just waiting assuming power will go out per usual Had to share what a friend who lives near the east coast of Fl on a river has done to protect their rescued tortoise who normally roams their 5 acres... HARRY! How will your tortoises fair? Link to comment
stash98 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Im ####ed. Thought I had D batteries for my battery pump and I do not. Of course they are all gone from my local stores. If the power goes out, my tank is dead. Anything I can do? stir the water? lol..god dammit!!! Link to comment
Clown79 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Turkey baste it, fill a cup of tank water and then pour it back in. Fill up some drinking water bottles and freeze them. If the temp goes too high in the tank, you can put a bottle in to cool it. Not much else one can do in these situations. As long as everyone is safe, thats important. Have you checked walmart, they usually have a slew of batteries Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Gainesville here, I work part time at a Best Buy and had so many people buying the APC battery backups yesterday. We aren't expecting mass damage or anything, but I have 5G each of SW, RODI, RO (for drinking), and ~20G waste water (for toilets). I am only concerned about losing power here. I filled up my car today which was at less than half a tank, went to three gas stations before I found one with gas, and even then they only had premium. I know some guys in Jacksonville area whose houses are slated to be underwater if the storm surge is really 8-12 ft, they're expecting to loose their tanks and everything else. Can't imagine that feeling. Link to comment
MedievalITGuy Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Over in North Melbourne here. It has been gloomy and raining off and on all day, though nothing too severe yet. I suspect we're going to be fine, because even with the palm trees swaying across the lake, it's almost dead still around our apartment. As for tank backups, we've got 5 gals of RODI for the tanks, and plenty of drinking water. and two battery powered air pumps, so we should be good. Link to comment
SouthFlorida_Tron Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 It completely missed south Florida. We expected the worst and we barely got outter bands. Link to comment
Clown79 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 I can only imagine what it must be like to go through emergencies of this nature. Link to comment
SouthFlorida_Tron Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Two things I can't stand, no AC, and no water movement in the tanks... TV I can deal without... IPhone gets me by... Our power flickered twice. Lucky... Link to comment
Acielot Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Power outage is the worst part of these storms in my area. Luckily I still have power for the time being. Its only raining a bit right now but supposedly the sustained winds right now are at 45mph. Much of our fence was toppled and some of our bushes/trees were broken. No home damage either. Tonight should be the worst of it according to the weather stations. Link to comment
WRX Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Best of luck to everyone impacted by the hurricane. Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 So far wind and rain but we still have power. Stay were ever you and be safe Link to comment
dadummy Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 storm was a bust!! thank god Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 HARRY! How will your tortoises fair? Lol! They're great. The "hurricane" was smaller than an average Florida storm here, didn't even lose power ? It completely missed south Florida. We expected the worst and we barely got outter bands. Yep!! One palm frond down ? Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Well lots of leaves blown down here, a branch here and there, and had one power flicker. Nothing exciting otherwise though, which is lucky. For the amount of media hype you'd have thought it was a Category 5 coming to flatten all of Florida lol. Link to comment
Revenant Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Happy it missed us S.Floridians. Link to comment
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