Oldbased
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When you go by cloud cover it is pretty damn beefy. Most hurricanes are fairly tight and small. Can't speak for Andrew but Irma is as big as presented in whatever picture someone posted it seems.
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Borzak
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Anyone in FL having phone issues already? Got a message via ham from someone with a callsign registered to FL where they pass a message to call someone eventually on the other end. I passed it along. "OK, phone busy" and their name and callsign was in Miami. No idea if they meant all phones busy or just the person they were trying to call. Wanting to call someone with a Nebraska area code.
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edko
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Agenor
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This guy using a storm surge tool. Storm surge has been bumped up from 10 to 12 feet.
Surge portion starts around 3.20
Surging Seas: Risk Zone Map
Surge portion starts around 3.20
Surging Seas: Risk Zone Map
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Kiroy
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parking garage with a 2nd floor is the best bet for anyone who stayed in the keys. Not sure how many of those there are though.
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edko
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Kiroy
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that's where i'd go if I had second thoughts on goign full retard
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Borzak
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During Katrina the biggest storm surge was in MS and there were areas where houses, casinos, buildings, etc...were just washed away including the slab for several blocks in. At that point I'm guessing doesn't matter how well your house is built when the entire slab is lifted and washed away with the house still on it.
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Korrupt
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Texting is fine for now in South Florida at the moment. Reading that this is stronger than Andrew which decimated us is just scary. How the fuck are people refusing to leave when something weaker did this to us? Our house was pretty new construction and it still wrecked our roof and ripped our patio off like it was made of paper.
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Oldbased
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It would have to be anchored deep into the ground. Goes back to those cat 5 houses. How good is the foundations. Is it tied to pillars run deep into the earth with bolting plates? The dome can handle water/air on it due to being dome shape but can it handle the impact of a car, a boat, a train car, a house hitting it?
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Drakurii
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CNN has been interviewing retards all day long, one was a mother of I think a 4 year old and a 14 month old living in a multiple story apartment building.
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An open parking garage during a category 5 sounds like about the most unpleasant place in the world.
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Oldbased
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Almost all of them have very thick and secure stairwells. They use them to help provide rigid support to the structure so it is usually thick concrete with reinforcement.
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Kiroy
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Ya it would suck asshole but there are lots of concrete walls that should offer pretty good physical protection.
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I don't know. I have always thought that it would be exhilarating to see a storm like that if you were in a building that you knew could take it. Add in the fact that he's got the money to just fix whatever of his shit that gets destroyed and why not stay? I think if I was him I might do the same thing, just for the experience.
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Oldbased
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I'm going to assume the bridges are gone.
edko
will you rent a heli to go back or go in by boat after it is all said and done? I would assume helicopter is cheaper since so many of those down there anyways and they are not booked up until the end of the year doing supplies and transport.
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will you rent a heli to go back or go in by boat after it is all said and done? I would assume helicopter is cheaper since so many of those down there anyways and they are not booked up until the end of the year doing supplies and transport.- 1
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Borzak
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This was from Katrina, I assume south Florida has a lot more boats/ships per area than the gulf coast had. I'd be very concerned about somsone elses stuff come wrecking my stuff. Have a large boat float into your house would put a dent in your day I'm guessing.
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edko
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I'm going to assume the bridges are gone.
We were just talking about this. Even if the bridges are standing, they will all have to be inspected. There's 42 of them. And power will be out for weeks, minimum.
MIL has a condo in Vero we are welcome to. Friend of mine has a rental unit in Miami Beach.
I have my boat with me and I can theoretically get to my house and back from as far away as Flamingo in Everglades National Park, to assess damage and figure shit out. Assuming one of my friends that stayed survived however I won't need to do that.
TL;DR, fuck if I know just yet.
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