Hurricane Milton

logger7

I don't see anything on NGC's site on the approaching hurricane; I assume mandatory evacuation will affect all of their employees as well as ICG in Tampa. I'm hoping the best for members here affected.

DocBenjamin

Unusual weather this year. Hoping that everyone is safe.

RiveraFamilyCollect

It does seem to be an active hurricane season.
I was in Florida for the 2005 season when Katrina and Wilma did a lot of damage to south Florida.

PeakRarities

@RiveraFamilyCollect said:
It does seem to be an active hurricane season.
I was in Florida for the 2005 season when Katrina and Wilma did a lot of damage to south Florida.

I've been in Florida for 6 years, an knock on wood, I have not experienced a serious hurricane since I've lived here. The west coast got slammed several times, but us east coasters have been lucky.

RiveraFamilyCollect

You never forget an active storm season, lemme tell you.
I've been a long time removed from Florida, but I still get that stomach pit feeling the night before a storm makes landfall. I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere near Helene.

Barberian

I was near it, 40-miles east of the eye. It was a rough ride for a few hours, followed by a five-day power outage. Trees and powerlines down everywhere. It's amazing what the power companies have to do to rewire the area.

We're about 100 miles north of the track on the "good side" of Milton. Milton's current wind speed is 180 mph. A Cat 5+

johnny9434

I got 2 cousins down that way, it's a good idea for prayers as well 🙏

pruebas

@logger7 said:
I don't see anything on NGC's site on the approaching hurricane; I assume mandatory evacuation will affect all of their employees as well as ICG in Tampa. I'm hoping the best for members here affected.

Is it time for NGC to move operations back to New Jersey?

OAKSTAR

It seems like it's the same outcome during every one of these events year after year. You could play back video footage from 30 & 40 years ago over and over again.....it all looks the same! ... Look at that car on top of the house, look at the washed out roads, look at the mobile homes floating away... etc etc..

Take it to the bank, there are people alive today that will be dead this time Friday due to this storm! Why?....because they ignored warnings? because they didn't know the storm was coming? because they don't have the means to escape and evacuate? because they refuse to evacuate? or just because they were stupid?.. Don't touch that downed power line!!...... Oops, too late!

Do real accidents happen?...Absolutely! You could be sleeping in your own bed, minding your own business and a tree cuts through your house and kills you.

It's multiple choice, pick one.

EDIT BTW: Protect your coins!

Walkerguy21D

We boarded up as a precaution before leaving for vacation this afternoon. We’ve offered our home on the east coast to friends and family in the Tampa area if they decide to evacuate.
Prayers for everyone!

ThreeCentSilverFL

I’ve been in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida for over forty years and am more concerned about this than any I can remember.

BobSav

90 % of all business are closing down today and tomorrow. A lot of gas stations are already out of gas in the New Port Richey area.

Jacques_Loungecoque

@RiveraFamilyCollect said:
It does seem to be an active hurricane season.
I was in Florida for the 2005 season when Katrina and Wilma did a lot of damage to south Florida.

That was an awful year. A lot of boiling hot nights without power and thus, A/C. Seemed like we’d never get back to normal. I’ve not experienced anything like that since. Now I’m gonna catch this one in Brevard, but I’m not complaining. The west coast folks are going to take the brunt. They can’t seem to catch a break lately.

Jacques_Loungecoque

@pruebas said:

@logger7 said:
I don't see anything on NGC's site on the approaching hurricane; I assume mandatory evacuation will affect all of their employees as well as ICG in Tampa. I'm hoping the best for members here affected.

Is it time for NGC to move operations back to New Jersey?

Never going to happen.

pmh1nic

The Florida west coast took a beating from Helene. I have a friend that runs a restoration business in Florida. He has been working none stop in the St. Petersburg area since Helene. It's crazy that all the work done (most of it not finished) is all going to have to be redone due to Milton. Very sad and very disappointing.

Byers

OAKSTAR

@Byers said:

I can imagine. Sarasota looks like about ground zero.

Eddi

We live in Germany but own a home in Bonita springs, Just north of Naples, which we use to escape from the European winters.

My wife and I experienced Hurricane Irma in 2017 - an experience we will never forget. having gone through that, I fervently hope and pray for our friends there, and everyone who lives within a few miles off the coast.

The worse part for us was the preparation and the anxiety at not being able to get gas or enough bottled water. Seeing everybody leave, and you are stuck there because your gas reserves will not take your far, and all flights are cancelled anyway. So we were stuck, and we hunkered down, taking refuge in our laundry room which is in the middle to the house. The eye of the storm passed literally over our street - that was eery, the quiet after the howling wind. The worst part was yet to come - 4 days without air conditioning. Eventually we made it out and back to Germany safely.
All of you who are still there, in Milton's path, keep safe!

knovak1976

@PeakRarities said:

@RiveraFamilyCollect said:
It does seem to be an active hurricane season.
I was in Florida for the 2005 season when Katrina and Wilma did a lot of damage to south Florida.

I've been in Florida for 6 years, an knock on wood, I have not experienced a serious hurricane since I've lived here. The west coast got slammed several times, but us east coasters have been lucky.

Dan…I have been in Hollywood since 1999, and only two storms have affected us…Katrina where we lost power for a few days, and one about five years ago that snapped a few branches off one of my trees. Other than that we have dodged every single bullet. Seems the majority of hurricanes move from the Atlantic and head just south of Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico and then suck up all the warm water for their destructive movement to the north. The west coast of FL seems to be a hurricane magnet lately. So sad….

oih82w8

No coins posted yet?

1866 5C FS-306/401

CRHer700

@ThreeCentSilverFL said:
I’ve been in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida for over forty years and am more concerned about this than any I can remember.

Are you staying?

CRHer700

@OAKSTAR said:

@Byers said:

I can imagine. Sarasota looks like about ground zero.

They may be unable to reopen for a while. Hope that they store the coins that they have in a watertight location.

OAKSTAR

@CRHer700 said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@Byers said:

I can imagine. Sarasota looks like about ground zero.

They may be unable to reopen for a while. Hope that they store the coins that they have in a watertight location.

I have some coins there now. 😭 😫

Maywood

Looks like NGC will take a direct hit with 125mph winds sometime around 8-10 PM tonight.

DocBenjamin

@CRHer700 said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@Byers said:

I can imagine. Sarasota looks like about ground zero.

They may be unable to reopen for a while. Hope that they store the coins that they have in a watertight location.

Well, more important that the folks in Florida and their pets are safe.

PerryHall

There's a concern that electric vehicles that get inundated with salt water from the storm surge will burst into flames due to the lithium in the batteries.

CRHer700

@PerryHall said:
There's a concern that electric vehicles that get inundated with salt water from the storm surge will burst into flames due to the lithium in the batteries.

Yes....... don't leave electric cars where flooding is likely.

CRHer700

@DocBenjamin said:

@CRHer700 said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@Byers said:

I can imagine. Sarasota looks like about ground zero.

They may be unable to reopen for a while. Hope that they store the coins that they have in a watertight location.

Well, more important that the folks in Florida and their pets are safe.

Yes pray for them. I know of several fools who are staying at their homes in the Tampa area. I know how hard it is to leave, but this is supposed to be historic.

CRHer700

For those wishing to see the forecast: HWRF Model (Runtime 12z 10/09)
Not official data. Just so you know.

CRHer700

CRHer700

HillbillyCollector

Hey Dan,
Believe me Brother, the E coast gets some big hits as well.
I came through Homestead back in ‘’93 and the complete destruction to that place was unbelievable! A bit before your time, when Andrew zeroed in as a Cat. 5 in ‘92, it basically looked like a lot of cleared, undeveloped land.
>
Andrew was one of the very few hurricanes ever to hit land as a 5!

Bullsitter

Praying for you guys, bad dude coming.....good luck.

CRHer700

Updated graphic.

Barberian

@knovak1976 said:

@PeakRarities said:

@RiveraFamilyCollect said:
It does seem to be an active hurricane season.
I was in Florida for the 2005 season when Katrina and Wilma did a lot of damage to south Florida.

I've been in Florida for 6 years, an knock on wood, I have not experienced a serious hurricane since I've lived here. The west coast got slammed several times, but us east coasters have been lucky.

Dan…I have been in Hollywood since 1999, and only two storms have affected us…Katrina where we lost power for a few days, and one about five years ago that snapped a few branches off one of my trees. Other than that we have dodged every single bullet. Seems the majority of hurricanes move from the Atlantic and head just south of Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico and then suck up all the warm water for their destructive movement to the north. The west coast of FL seems to be a hurricane magnet lately. So sad….

How about Hurricane Wilma? Are you confusing Wilma with Katrina? Katrina passed over the keys and dumped a LOT of water on Homestead but I don't recall long power outages. Katrina did most of its damage several days later when it hit Louisiana.

Wilma in the same year did a lot of destruction from Ft Lauderdale south to Homestead resulting in lengthy power outages from the reported 11,000 snapped telephone poles in south Florida.

Katrina is notorious for its storm surge flooding New Orleans along Louisiana and Mississippi coast, yet Wilma was the more powerful hurricane that caused $billions of destruction in south Florida.

RiveraFamilyCollect

@Barberian said:

@knovak1976 said:

@PeakRarities said:

@RiveraFamilyCollect said:
It does seem to be an active hurricane season.
I was in Florida for the 2005 season when Katrina and Wilma did a lot of damage to south Florida.

I've been in Florida for 6 years, an knock on wood, I have not experienced a serious hurricane since I've lived here. The west coast got slammed several times, but us east coasters have been lucky.

Dan…I have been in Hollywood since 1999, and only two storms have affected us…Katrina where we lost power for a few days, and one about five years ago that snapped a few branches off one of my trees. Other than that we have dodged every single bullet. Seems the majority of hurricanes move from the Atlantic and head just south of Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico and then suck up all the warm water for their destructive movement to the north. The west coast of FL seems to be a hurricane magnet lately. So sad….

How about Hurricane Wilma? Are you confusing Wilma with Katrina? Katrina passed over the keys and dumped a LOT of water on Homestead but I don't recall long power outages. Katrina did most of its damage several days later when it hit Louisiana.

Wilma in the same year did a lot of destruction from Ft Lauderdale south to Homestead resulting in lengthy power outages from the reported 11,000 snapped telephone poles in south Florida.

Katrina is notorious for its storm surge flooding New Orleans along Louisiana and Mississippi coast, yet Wilma was the more powerful hurricane that caused $billions of destruction in south Florida.

Katrina went directly over Florida before hitting Louisiana. It was a very destruction storm. I was in south Florida and I think we lost power and water for a week.
Wilma hit 3 weeks later and absolutely ravaged the area. Nothing had been rebuilt or fixed yet.

Barberian

@RiveraFamilyCollect said:

@Barberian said:

@knovak1976 said:

@PeakRarities said:

@RiveraFamilyCollect said:
It does seem to be an active hurricane season.
I was in Florida for the 2005 season when Katrina and Wilma did a lot of damage to south Florida.

I've been in Florida for 6 years, an knock on wood, I have not experienced a serious hurricane since I've lived here. The west coast got slammed several times, but us east coasters have been lucky.

Dan…I have been in Hollywood since 1999, and only two storms have affected us…Katrina where we lost power for a few days, and one about five years ago that snapped a few branches off one of my trees. Other than that we have dodged every single bullet. Seems the majority of hurricanes move from the Atlantic and head just south of Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico and then suck up all the warm water for their destructive movement to the north. The west coast of FL seems to be a hurricane magnet lately. So sad….

How about Hurricane Wilma? Are you confusing Wilma with Katrina? Katrina passed over the keys and dumped a LOT of water on Homestead but I don't recall long power outages. Katrina did most of its damage several days later when it hit Louisiana.

Wilma in the same year did a lot of destruction from Ft Lauderdale south to Homestead resulting in lengthy power outages from the reported 11,000 snapped telephone poles in south Florida.

Katrina is notorious for its storm surge flooding New Orleans along Louisiana and Mississippi coast, yet Wilma was the more powerful hurricane that caused $billions of destruction in south Florida.

Katrina went directly over Florida before hitting Louisiana. It was a very destruction storm. I was in south Florida and I think we lost power and water for a week.
Wilma hit 3 weeks later and absolutely ravaged the area. Nothing had been rebuilt or fixed yet.

I checked the path and you're correct. I confused the Katrina's path with that of Hurricane Georges, my first Hurricane after moving to Florida in 1998. I was living in Homestead and don't recall any lengthy power outage from Cat. 1 Katrina but remember the HEAVY rainfall (>13 inches) that inundated the ag fields. Looking at the track, it did not lose power crossing south Florida, presumably being sustained by the Everglades and Big Cypress. I've measured water temperatures as high as 105 degrees F in the shallow water Everglades marshes on hot, sunny days, so the potential is there.

Wilma, however, knocked my power out for a week near Homestead AFB, with entire rows of telephone poles down along the road to Everglades NP where I worked. My friend suffered major damage to his house in Fort Lauderdale. He always used to say, "Wilma was a B_ _ _ _!" Some areas didn't get power turned on for three weeks. I'll always remember a surge in windspeed that pushed over numerous trees at once, turned the sky gray from literally thousands of airborne roof shingles, and my fear that the shingles slamming into my windows would knock them out.

BLUEJAYWAY

Seems regardless where one lives there is no eutopia. Hope for the best for all survivors and all the clean up that will ensue. And what's needed to that end arrives in a timely manner.

allnewsanchor

Don't worry about CCG and NGC. I don't know how they made out, but just consider this. I live very close to where Milton came ashore. Lakewood Ranch, where the companies are, is quite a few miles inland from the bay and the ocean. Flooding would not be a problem for them. Wind damage? Yes. High water? No.

PeakRarities

@allnewsanchor said:
Don't worry about CCG and NGC. I don't know how they made out, but just consider this. I live very close to where Milton came ashore. Lakewood Ranch, where the companies are, is quite a few miles inland from the bay and the ocean. Flooding would not be a problem for them. Wind damage? Yes. High water? No.

The CCG building is a modern block structure with impact glass too, so there's no cause for concern. > @DocBenjamin said:

@CRHer700 said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@Byers said:

I can imagine. Sarasota looks like about ground zero.

They may be unable to reopen for a while. Hope that they store the coins that they have in a watertight location.

Well, more important that the folks in Florida and their pets are safe.

All good here in PBC! We had some strong winds that were keeping me up at night thinking about damage to my vehicles, but that was about it. Hardly any rain.

All of the animals are unscathed, as well .

logger7

A Connecticut dealer I know who burned firewood almost exclusively to heat his house moved to Tampa last year. No real damage to his house down there. The flooding that struck the area a couple months ago hit a dealer in Seymour hard with thousands of coins in the water and mud that he has tried to recover without them getting further damage.

allnewsanchor

Question for admins and mods. This thread remains open while mine, titled "Miltie" (and everyone should have known what I was referring to), has been closed. ???

JBK

My guess is that one off-topic thread was enough - we didn't need two. Yours was redundant.

allnewsanchor

@JBK said:
My guess is that one off-topic thread was enough - we didn't need two. Yours was redundant.

You mean repetitively redundant, don't you? I was just trying to wish everyone in the path well. I was spared despite being less than 10 mi from the eye when it came ashore, but so many weren't, unfortunately.

JBK

@allnewsanchor said:

@JBK said:
My guess is that one off-topic thread was enough - we didn't need two. Yours was redundant.

You mean repetitively redundant, don't you? I was just trying to wish everyone in the path well. I was spared despite being less than 10 mi from the eye when it came ashore, but so many weren't, unfortunately.

Look, you're new here. Off topic threads are not allowed. On occassion they tolerate one or two. Yours was well-intentioned but off topic. It's really no more complicated than that.

But you don't need to make your case to me - contact the moderators if you seek further clarification.

DocBenjamin

@allnewsanchor said:

@JBK said:
My guess is that one off-topic thread was enough - we didn't need two. Yours was redundant.

You mean repetitively redundant, don't you? I was just trying to wish everyone in the path well. I was spared despite being less than 10 mi from the eye when it came ashore, but so many weren't, unfortunately.

Glad that you were ok.

Some don't survive hurricanes, let alone questioning the mods.

CRHer700

@allnewsanchor said:

@JBK said:
My guess is that one off-topic thread was enough - we didn't need two. Yours was redundant.

You mean repetitively redundant, don't you? I was just trying to wish everyone in the path well. I was spared despite being less than 10 mi from the eye when it came ashore, but so many weren't, unfortunately.

Thankfully it went just south of Tampa Bay, and sucked the water out instead of pushing it in.