Hurricane Advice

[barred2rock]

Has the worst got there yet please ?

Unfortunately it's still pretty far south. Fortunately it looks like it's falling apart, although no one in in Florida is out of the woods.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Here in north central fl, we will have our version of the madness in the dark. I hate night time storms' can't see what the noises are related to. Leaves too much to the imagination. If we lose fences during the night/early morn hours, my livestock could be down the road by sun up.
The unknown is bearing down on us. If it hops off land back over the warm water, it will get stronger. Stronger is not what I appreciate in a night blind storm.
Staying on land will help Tampa Bay out tremendously as well.
We just had someone pull up to our gate wanting to buy some eggs! Last minute provision prep I presumed...

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Granny, the saying you have under your posts is so touching and so deep. Thank you for giving us all something to think about.

Thank you, That was a sentence I took from my quote on Grannys gone and done it thread when my autistic sons therapy cat died.

 

[jeria]

Here in north central fl, we will have our version of the madness in the dark. I hate night time storms' can't see what the noises are related to. Leaves too much to the imagination. If we lose fences during the night/early morn hours, my livestock could be down the road by sun up.
The unknown is bearing down on us. If it hops off land back over the warm water, it will get stronger. Stronger is not what I appreciate in a night blind storm.
Staying on land will help Tampa Bay out tremendously as well.
We just had someone pull up to our gate wanting to buy some eggs! Last minute provision prep I presumed...

Have to have milk, bread and eggs!!! I also do not like night time storms here in the Midwest, can't see what's coming.

 

[Peeps61]

I saw a news story out of Palm Beach that said that over 50 animals had been collected from homes that had been evacuated, many of them simply left tethered to trees in the yard. Turning an animal loose to fend for itself is bad enough, but leaving it tied up like that is unspeakable!

They may have tied them out there to be picked up. Hopefully, that was the reason.

 

[chickisoup]

Hi Granny
Heard from my granddaughter in Naples. There are 7 of them together in one house riding it out til they can get back to the zoo (all are zoo keepers or other animal support folks) and everyone is ok!!! The house was far enough inland to miss the storm surge and the latest report was no severe damage to the house, just a couple minor roof leaks and some water blew into the attic thru the vents. They reported that even the trees are still standing. Thank you Lord! And thank you all that added them to your prayer lists. Weather still isn't safe to get back to the zoo and there is no word on the damage there from the ride out team yet.

 

[chickisoup]

They may have tied them out there to be picked up. Hopefully, that was the reason.

sadly doesn't look like it. there were similar reports earlier out of Miami of over 50 dogs tied to poles. The mayor went on tv promising that they plan on doing whatever it took to track down and prosecute the owners. You could see in his face he was livid. The rescue worker beside him that had found many of them was in tears.

 

[barred2rock]

Apparently it looks like it's moving inland toward Sebring & Orlando. That said there's still a lot of rain and wind out there for most of Florida.

 

[Peeps61]

At times like this, a little levity seems like a good idea. Beat me up if I'm wrong...

Many years ago when I was a LOT younger (and dumber I might add) we had a hurricane form in relatively short order and threaten Okinawa. We were there for exercises but the main force had a long weekend. There was less than 24 hours between the time that the hurricane formed til it made landfall with 90 mph winds... My crew of 240 or so folks managed to get all of the birds sheltered in like 18 hours--but that meant no food or rest until the job was done.

We didn't have enough time to shelter anywhere else before the thing made landfall, so we were sleeping on concrete floors in the shelters. So here comes the craziness... We had a 4 barrel grill and we managed to convince a guy from the chow hall to bring us food and charcoal as long as we could protect his truck. He brought hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, buns, charcoal, potato salad,macaroni salad, lettuce salad buns and salad dressing. We used 1/4" steel cable to tie the grill down and used straps to tie us down. My chief, Operations officer and I cooked all of the meat using the cycles when wind dropped off to bring food in. We managed to feed about 260 folks. The tidal wave that hit us next put out the grill but we were already inside.

No one was injured, no aircraft were damaged and no one went hungry. The next morning, once the storm had passed, everyone went to the hotel for a good nights rest. The three of us who manned the grill had to head home to deal with the same hurricane and its damage. We lost two critical building and had a lot of glass damage but no loss of life. It was a "good" storm.

You gotta do what you gotta do! You needed to eat

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Hi Granny
Heard from my granddaughter in Naples. There are 7 of them together in one house riding it out til they can get back to the zoo (all are zoo keepers or other animal support folks) and everyone is ok!!! The house was far enough inland to miss the storm surge and the latest report was no severe damage to the house, just a couple minor roof leaks and some water blew into the attic thru the vents. They reported that even the trees are still standing. Thank you Lord! And thank you all that added them to your prayer lists. Weather still isn't safe to get back to the zoo and there is no word on the damage there from the ride out team yet.

Thank you for letting us know how you fared, glad to hear it wasn't terrible. Lots of hard work ahead, but it's do able. good luck with clean up and repair.