What's the latest in Florida? (Page 8 of 9)

Hi everybody,

Here we go again!  Jeanne isn't turning north so she's likely to pass near to right over our heads here.  She's about 70 miles a little SE of here, has been downgraded to cat. two hurricane status, and they're expecting her to be a cat. one by the time she gets here.  This would be a stronger storm than was Frances, we are likely to have much stronger winds.... I live in a concrete building and there are security bars on any exposed windows, I feel safe.  And of course, I'm prepared . 

We, as you can see still have electricity, but I don't expect that to last too long, we rushed to make waffles for breakfast while we could.

I have been reading the posts here and the Matthew transmission was very interesting.

montalk, at sunset last night the air was sooo odd.  There was the yellow tint to the air that's been discussed before. It was very wicked, my mate and I went outside, the wind was blowing, the clouds were dark and kinda roiling.  And that strange color to the air... even though the wind was blowing it got real still for a few moments.

Thank you Kathy, you are very dear.  Welcome to the board!  And of course that thanks is extended to all others keeping FL in their thoughts.

Anyway, better post this before I can't.  I'll check in with y'all when I can.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you guys: yesterday I lifted the toilet seat and the water in the commode was swirling... hmmm, counterclockwise I think.  Likely of course because of all the barometric pressure, but all the same strange when everything else in the apt. is seemingly standing still.  Even though a plumbing system is different from a human body, this also makes me to wonder how that affects the water in the body.  I sure as heck have a headache today.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Hi Auendove,

Thanks for the updates.   Wow!!    Now, have you heard anything about the Fort Lauderdale area?   For some reason, that area seems to get neglected in news reports, don't ask me why.   It has over 1 million people living there, and is sandwiched between West Palm Beach and Miami, but really, who cares, right???      Seriously, I saw NOTHING about Ft. Lauderdale on the news in our motel rooms back during Frances.  The only thing I've been able to gather about Ft. Lauderdale after Frances was that they were without power for a bit of time, and there was no more gasoline left at any gas station, or ice to keep people cool.   And we got that tidbit of info. from an AM radio station while traveling north through Georgia.   On television....nada.      So just wondering if you've seen or heard anything yet after Jeanne, since Fort lauderdale is within 80 miles of where it made landfall.   Thanks...

The last time four hurricanes hit one state was in 1886, in Texas.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Tropical Storm Bonnie never actually made it to hurricane status.

http://weather.terrapin.com/wx/storm_sh … p;area=ATL

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/adcbin … p;partner=

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

We traveled through Punta Gorda on our way to Ft. Myers for the holiday and we were stunned by what little we did see (because we were on the Interstate doing 80) in a matter of a few minutes.

You know those tall 50-60ft light poles on freeways? We saw a number of them bent in half like they were trashed paper straws. We passed by hundreds and hundreds of temporary housing units. There were still huge, huge piles of debris. In this one certain area the tree groves were all just stripped of their leaves and height.  The palm groves looked like they were all twisted up. This much still almost a half a year after Charley hit.

All of this was one thing, but the energy of anxiety that both myself and my mate (he not always so sensitive to subtle energy) felt was very strong. I had thought that I was feeling the anxiety the first time passing through because what was seen was rather shocking, but the same feeling came over both of us again as we passed back through going home. We both got the willies thinking about how horrific it must've been hunkered down somewhere with all that wind force for 3 hrs., praying for one's very life.

I'll tell ya, those few minutes when we passed through the first time did more to make me reconsider living in FL than did the whole summer of storms we had here. Really. I had heard people who'd been to Homestead after Andrew talk about how stunning it was, but I didn't truely understand until last Friday.

As it is now, even in my area where minimal damage was done relative to other areas, shingles for roofing are simply not to be had, people have blue tarps on their roofs down south. Screening is not to be had (for pool cages and patios). My mate is a construction super and his company, roofing and remodeling, had million dollar-plus years each.

At the company xmas dinner party the big bosses, three of them :x, actually had the nerve to say they were grateful for the hurricanes because they've made a lot of money in bonuses. One of them was bragging about paying off his house, another bought a boat... though they did say they were sorry so many lost their homes . Very, very tacky.

The owner of the business asks that everyone at the dinner table says what they're grateful for in their lives... some said hurricanes, I simply said "I'm grateful for change".

You see, I know what they didn't, we'll be leaving this area in a few months, for other reasons and not because of hurricanes. I think it's kind of odd because people around here are already talking about next summers hurricanes, and I'm just not seeing it.

BTW, what are y'all doin' up there in the northern states? We're freezing our patooties off down here! Brrrrr!

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

If you have an aversion to mainstream news reporting you may not want to read this because I heard this on the news, and I haven't yet found a link for this info, but...

FEMA is blaming a "computer glitch" on the mispayment of funds in the amount of apx. $29 million to FL residents of Miami-Dade county.

Miami-Dade county?

Miami-Dade county was one of the very few counties in FL that wasn't affected by the hurricanes last summer. Miami-Dade county never even experienced winds over 40-50 mph, these not even tropical force winds. They don't anticipate recovering any of the money because those who were payed relief funds are "poor" and have already spent the money.

A $29 million computer glitch? Yeah, right.... more like the US Federal Blunderment at work.

Just how in the hell does something like this happen?

$29 million... for cryin' outloud! And to blame it on computers no less... somebody's got to run those computers, somebody's got to input the info, somebody's (in a position of authority) got to approve the release of funds somewhere along the line... somebody made a huge blunder, not a computer system.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.