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https://www.theguardian.com/...ic-caribbean-islands

GOAT of Atlantic Hurricanes.

Not good...

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The Carribean is going be in a world of hurt after this. If it keeps staying on the line they are looking at so could the Keys.

I told one of my friends in Naples he can come up to Disney and stay with us. if it doesn't look like we're in the pathway since Naples very well could be hit real hard.

She wisened up. Flying to Nola. She did admit that she doesn't want to leave the dog behind with me.

Truth be told, I kinda sorta want to see this thing first hand.

crate and take the freaking dog - while at it, take you too!

And it's so damned strong that it doesn't matter where it hits: you get out of any path it might take.

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Hes fairly close to the coast. If the storm turns up to the north just off the beach its gonna bring in alot of storm surge. Some of the models are showing more of a track to the east . Lets just hope that trend continues.

Friend of mine was at Disney for a hurricane a few years ago. They closed the parks the day the storm hit and went down to minimum staff. He was at the Grand Floridian which apparently has a large glass atrium where a guy played piano most of the day. My buddy said it was like a scene from the Titanic.

The models have shifted it right in my back yard. I'm hoping it continues the eastward trend, which I think it will. At least we won't get the north east quadrant (Typically the worst part of the storm.) that way.

The stores are completely out if water and I spent a half hour in line yesterday filling my car with gas. I spent another 2 hours at Home depot because two of my windows are unprotected and the wood we had rotted from not being used.

I've taken more Xanax in the last few days than I have in a month. My stomach is in knots and I can't eat.

I'm at zip code 33462, you can google that to see where the storm is relative to my house.

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Stay safe. Have her go to Pat O's and raise one for you.

I never realized that Disney World was so limited to when you could visit.

My former and wife's current employer, Nationwide, pulled out of Florida for both auto and homeowner's for the most part a few years ago because the exposure was too high. That decision is looking like a pretty good one right now. Wow, looking like it will run end to end.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Are you staying ?

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I hope to. I have impact windows, generator, jugs of H2O and stores of food. I'm in coconut grove...Not in a flood zone.

I know, a cat 4/5 laughs at that level of prep but I'd feel safer at home w the pup then on the road headed to Tampa or Daytona.

You got enough beer to last too? Just making sure you're completely prepared.

My brother rode out one when he lived in FL. It wasn't supposed to be bad but something shifted and they got hit pretty good. He said it was like a train running over the house with the shaking and noise.

Stay safe if it hits.

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"The worst hurricane in recorded history"

LOL. Lots of people are starting to sound like Trump, big on rhetoric, not so much on facts...

It's the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record IIRC from the news brief this morning

The quote above: "Texas: We just had the worst hurricane in recorded history" is what I was referring to in terms of facts...

Especially since they are probably going to close'er down.

Latest models have it moving east, which is the best of all possible scenarios.

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I'm in Savannah, GA, which is on the coast of GA, on the SC border. The current truth is that we're right in the crosshairs. We got whacked last Fall, but usually the Hurricanes miss us to the N and hit Charleston (SC), or miss us to the S and hit Jacksonville (FL). But I'm always the optimist.

Last Fall's hurricane was a pita. We fled inland for 3 days. I got to town as soon as they allowed folks to re-enter the county. Family came home the next day. Our block was w/o power for several more days. We have a generator so were able to run the main fridge and the beer fridge.

Work was kind of a mess. I'm in IT and all of our voice links and 3 of 4 data links were down. So re-routing voice and data traffic time and again as our external links slowly came back up was a 24/7 pita. Didn't sleep for a couple days. Was like being back in the Army.

Wife wants to go ahead and rent a cabin in the N GA Mountains and have us head our with the boys and the dogs. But I need to stay closer to work. There'll be some discussions of this tonight.

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By measure of economic impact, Harvey will have been the most costliest storm in history.

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Irma is the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in the Caribbean.
Harvey wasn't even the strongest ever to hit Huston! 1900 Galveston was both stronger(15 mph faster) and the most deadly hurricane ever to hit the US. Harvey and 1900 were cat 4. Irma is a 5. So was Andrew and katrina. Matthew last year. Ivan and Hugo