Any Floridians out there ?
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If so, how are you all fairing through the storm, I have some friends from a musicians discussion group that seem to be MIA this AM. Last I heard form these guys they were all asked to evac last evening. Tony
With close to 2 million without power (I think that's the right number), I bet power + working phone/DSL/cable + working local service is REALLY hard to come by. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing
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With close to 2 million without power (I think that's the right number), I bet power + working phone/DSL/cable + working local service is REALLY hard to come by. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing
Marc Clifton wrote: With close to 2 million without power :omg: And I heard there is a third storm on the way (Sorry, I don't know the exact designation)
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Marc Clifton wrote: With close to 2 million without power :omg: And I heard there is a third storm on the way (Sorry, I don't know the exact designation)
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: And I heard there is a third storm on the way Yeah, "Ivan". Ivan the Terrible, eh? Powerful Hurricane Ivan, as of 2 PM EDT, was centered at 11.4 north, 54.4 west, or about 360 miles east-southeast of Barbados. Ivan is moving west at 22 mph. Maximum sustained winds are 115 mph, making it a category 3 hurricane. The central pressure is 969 millibars (28.61 inches). We expect Ivan to move through the eastern Caribbean Islands tomorrow afternoon. --from accuweather.com Current forecast has it missing Florida and nailing Cuba instead. But these storms seem to track a bit further north than the longterm projections. Either way, Cuba definitely and possible Florida (again!) are going to be suffering soon. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing
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If so, how are you all fairing through the storm, I have some friends from a musicians discussion group that seem to be MIA this AM. Last I heard form these guys they were all asked to evac last evening. Tony
Here are some posts from people I know who live in southern Florida (Hard Rock Cafe pin collectors). There is a big pin collectors get together in at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas this week, so many of the Floridian's were trying to catch flights... ======================================= We are very lucky to still have power. Over half of the residents in Broward county are still without power. The storm is still coming through north of us, our prayers are with you guys. The airports in South Florida (Miami and Ft. Lauderdale) are opened this morning, so hopefully my flight to Vegas will leave. See you all in Pindex, and those of you in Florida, hope you got as lucky as we did here in Broward. ======================================= I was also lucky because I only lost power for 1-2 minutes. However, my cable service got zapped early this morning. I couldn't sleep because of the howling wind, so I turned the TV on to drown out the noise a bit. Then we had a power surge, and goodbye cable. I live in north Broward county, and it looks like my neighbors just to the north in Boca and on up the coast suffered much more than we did. This was my first hurricane in the 4 years I have lived here. I also hope other Florida collectors are okay. ======================================= Frances was a crazy storm for us in Palm Beach and very scary last night. They call it, you ride it out, well we rode it out as they say in the closet, in the den, in the bedroom, at times the winds were over 100mph with sustained winds of 90mph+ for over 4 hours. The rain was hard, debris were hitting the back of our house very hard. Tree's were falling everywhere in our community. One landed on my car!! We still have no power, no phone and no water pressure. They expect to be out for days. We tried to leave for vegas on 7 different flights all to be cancelled, The WestPalm and Ft Lauderdale airports are still not open. We drove to Miami tonight to try to get on their only flight standby. If we didn/t make it we couldn't go back home because of curfew. Needless to say we made the stand by flight and are now in Las Vegas in air conditioning, TV, internet, phone service all those things we take for granted... ======================================= Steve