To everyone in Florida online right now....

[funboy6942]

I used to live in Florida back in 96-98. I did contract work for the Florida east Coast Railroad. I lived in a 5th wheel trailer. When a Hurricane came through in 97 and hit the keys I was in Miami and my boss and I both paked up and went north for a few days. It got me thinking why doesnt everyone in the state do this?? Everyone should own a 5th wheel. If a hurricane is projected to come pack up and go. If you come back and your house is gone well you hopefully had insurance on it and you have the 5th to live in while your new house is being built.
I personnaly loved it down in Florida and I am going to go back and live forever there. I had to work on the railroad from Jacksonville to Miami and slept in almost every town the way south. It is a great cheap place to live. $300 a month for full hook ups incluing the utilities and most palces a swimming pool. Cant beat that with a stick! Good luck to you all just thought I would pass on my thoughts.

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: funboy6942
I used to live in Florida back in 96-98. I did contract work for the Florida east Coast Railroad. I lived in a 5th wheel trailer. When a Hurricane came through in 97 and hit the keys I was in Miami and my boss and I both paked up and went north for a few days. It got me thinking why doesnt everyone in the state do this?? Everyone should own a 5th wheel. If a hurricane is projected to come pack up and go. If you come back and your house is gone well you hopefully had insurance on it and you have the 5th to live in while your new house is being built.
I personnaly loved it down in Florida and I am going to go back and live forever there. I had to work on the railroad from Jacksonville to Miami and slept in almost every town the way south. It is a great cheap place to live. $300 a month for full hook ups incluing the utilities and most palces a swimming pool. Cant beat that with a stick! Good luck to you all just thought I would pass on my thoughts.

Rent and mortgages have skyrocketed. For a 3 bedroom apartment in Pembroke Pines, the average price is $1400 a month, not including power, or water/sewage.

As for BD2003's mom, I can only assume she's never been through a major hurricane like Andrew in 1992. If she's near the beach and doesn't board up... well, I hope she has insurance and at least evacuates if it comes her way. Good luck.

 

[geckojohn]

Okay, Florida is awesome. my dad owns a couple houses there and i love visiting every chance i get. i don't care what people say about the heat and the humidity... i love it. i think the crazy weather is pretty neat... i mean, at least it's not cold outside!!

 

[Actaeon]

This is the hurricane is too slow! It has weakened over the Bahamas, and its traveling so slow, once it makes landfall, its going to take forever to get to where I live in Central Florida. It'll weaken greatly, around tropical storm strength, lots of rain, but weaker winds. I'm no longer worried about it.

Meanwhile, people on the east coast, I wish you luck.

 

[Bullhonkie]

Awesome high res pic (2.65MB 3100x3900)

:Q

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Bullhonkie
Awesome high res pic (2.65MB 3100x3900)

:Q

That's awesome.

This isn't going to be a Charley though, unless it strengthens in the next 24 hours.

It's moving so slow, that it will dump a lot of rain.. but you people can handle some 100MPH winds.

 

[funboy6942]

Where can you get more pictures like that one?? That very cool and would like to have more.

 

[stnicralisk]

Originally posted by: funboy6942
I used to live in Florida back in 96-98. I did contract work for the Florida east Coast Railroad. I lived in a 5th wheel trailer. When a Hurricane came through in 97 and hit the keys I was in Miami and my boss and I both paked up and went north for a few days. It got me thinking why doesnt everyone in the state do this?? Everyone should own a 5th wheel. If a hurricane is projected to come pack up and go. If you come back and your house is gone well you hopefully had insurance on it and you have the 5th to live in while your new house is being built.
I personnaly loved it down in Florida and I am going to go back and live forever there. I had to work on the railroad from Jacksonville to Miami and slept in almost every town the way south. It is a great cheap place to live. $300 a month for full hook ups incluing the utilities and most palces a swimming pool. Cant beat that with a stick! Good luck to you all just thought I would pass on my thoughts.

Some of us dont do this because we only have 170$ left after bills each month. Others because were lazy folk. Still more because they live in an apartment.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: funboy6942
Where can you get more pictures like that one?? That very cool and would like to have more.

NASA. Check the URL. There's a bunch of pics.

 

[aphex]

Beautiful weather over here on the west coast of FL right now, almost perfectly clear right now.... If i look east out of my apartment though, i can see the clouds in the distance flying by pretty damn fast....

I think we should be getting some soon....

 

[Shawn]

I'm in SW florida and I gotta go to work today. :|

 

[Mo0o]

They're demoting it to a cat2 now.

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
They're demoting it to a cat2 now.

No, they demoted it to a Cat 2 yesterday. The problem is that it is only a few mph off of a Category 3, so don't be fooled. It's a slow moving storm, over very warm water (80+ F). The wind shears to the west won't stay there forever. No one should let their guard down. It's never over till it's over with a hurricane. Anyone who's been through one knows that you don't f@ck with this stuff.

 

[mobobuff]

Best of luck to everyone waiting it out.

Do hurricanes ever produce tornadoes? Or is that meteorologically impossible?

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Best of luck to everyone waiting it out.

Do hurricanes ever produce tornadoes? Or is that meteorologically impossible?

Yes, they do unfortunately. Hurricanes are the uber bitch of storms.

 

[mrCide]

they bring weaker tornados yeah..

 

[tallest1]

I'm in Gainesville (right in its path) but I'm not worried.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Well.... It looks like folks are losing power a bit at a time. Last night, as many as 100,000 people we're out of power in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties as per Miami's WIOD AM 610. Today, I was listening to Orlando's WFLA when Castleberry lost power and my mom just called from Vero Beach because her power went out.

 

[rgwalt]

It is going to totally rule when the remainder of the hurricane's storms make their way up into Indiana. It will officially make Indiana the worst place on earth... we have tornado's, earthquakes, blizzards, and now, hurricanes.

Seriously though, good luck to all the FL people!

R

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Best of luck to everyone waiting it out.

Do hurricanes ever produce tornadoes? Or is that meteorologically impossible?

Last i heard, Hurricane Andrew spawned close to 200 tornadoes....

 

[Wag]

My parents live in Boca and their power went out.

 

[Syringer]

All you Florida people just think of all of us out in sunny California

 

[Farbio]

thanks for the sentiments all - i live in southeast orlando, so we might get hit quite hard. i'll get what pics i can for everyone

 

[mitchafi]

My cable just came back online. Hadn't been working since I woke up. It's getting pretty windy outside but supposedly the bad part isn't going to be here for a good while. A tree fell down in my backyard, but that's about it.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: Syringer
All you Florida people just think of all of us out in sunny California

yes but how long will cali be there? rumble rumble

im in the panhandle, and im not too worried as long as it doenst strengthen too much if it hops into the gulf. altho you cant really rely too much in the ratings. we had a cat 1 storm, erin, come in and tear this place apart. it ahd been a while since we took a dirtect hit, so i guess it just cleaned out all the dead trees, etc.

i used to love the excitement from a hurricane. now that i own a home, i hope it stays away.