HEADS UP Floridians! Cat 4 Knocking

[huntsman53]

The latest 5-Day Forecast Track shows a worst case scenario with Matthew traveling up the Florida East Coast to off Jacksonville, then making what may be a complete 360 degree turn around by next Tuesday as a Tropical Storm. If this happens, it may re-generate to Hurricane strength. I haven't looked into the Models yet and definitely hope that if it does re-generate to Hurricane strength, that it does not slam in the East Central Florida Coast and head inland!


Frank

 

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[ECS]

With its projected path near Daytona Beach, the interior of Central Florida will experience down trees, damaged roofs, flying screen rooms, and other items that can become flying missiles. Been through many Cat 3's that have caused serious property damage in Ocala, but never a 4.

 

[Terry Soloman]

The wife's conference in Orlando decided to close early, and I got her a seat on a flight leaving at 6:15pm tonight. They have already announced the Airport will close at 8:00pm. There are 10,000 nurses attending this conference, so the scramble to get out two-days earlier than expected has made for chaos at the airport. Praying for my daughter and granddaughter across the panhandle in Lakeland, and that my Honey can get on that jet!

 

[The Rebel]

Be safe out there everyone don't take any fool hardy chances and those rip currents are going to be nasty.

SUMMARY OF 200 PM EDT...1800 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...25.7N 78.4W
ABOUT 65 MI...100 KM SSE OF FREEPORT BAHAMAS
ABOUT 125 MI...205 KM ESE OF WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...140 MPH...220 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 325 DEGREES AT 14 MPH...22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...939 MB...27.73 INCHES

 

[BigWaveDave]

Charley kicked our ass over here, Cat 3, back in 2004...... but it was pretty localized to SWFL.....
A Cat 4 up the length of the east coast....geez, this is gonna suck.

I hope everyone makes it through this ok...

The good thing for me, when there is a scare, I make bank....I've sold over 1200 bottles this week, along with 500 cases of H2O....
I won't sell crap next few weeks though....

 

[Terry Soloman]

Kate is on the plane in Orlando, and they should be in the air within 20-minutes. She says the rain bands are just starting in Orlando.

 

[Darren in NC]

Good news, Terry. Glad she got onboard.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

We are starting to get heavy rain bands from the storm plus windy gusts. I am hunkered down as much as possible. Dave from repair center called me, he found mower shop that still had 12 generators I had them hold one for me, by the time I arrived they had 2 left and I bought both generators 2000 watt. They are impossible to find..... Generators have ability and cables to run both at same time in parallel and double the wattage output to 4000 watts.

We have a 5000 watt portable AC that allows us to cool our family room, I have curtain for the room and can keep the room at 70 degrees. Enough power to run the small AC and power TV, DVR, cable box and refrigerator......

We are stocked with plenty of food, milk, beer, vodka, scotch, 15 gallons of drinking water, 8 gallons of gas for the generators, both cars gas tanks are topped off, two bath tubs full of water and clothes washing machine, that water is used to flushed toilets and baths in case power is off for long time.

As long as we get no wind damage or flying objects hitting our windows we should be good here.

We are also set up to hit Daytona Beach as soon as they open the bridges up.......





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[SADS 669]

Hope you guys only get a glancing blow to uncover all the treasure...

 

[ARC]

I hate getting a glancing blow.

:P

 

[hunter harv]

Need a little help here! I am a semi-experienced detectin' fool over here in the Naples FL area, drooling at the thought of what that hurry-cane might do. I don't know if the roads will let me get over there Sat or Sun or not, but if I can I will. I would be immeasurably grateful to find someone to go with who knows the area and its ins and outs. I tried my luck there once when the waves were little puppy dogs, but my luck wasn't trying to help me.
BUT this is the TIME. Is there anyone reading this who would consider allowing me to traipse along with you? If not, do you know anyone else who could take me along or give me some advice on that area?
I have a Garrett Sea Hunter II and a Garrett GTI 2500. For the latter, I also have the huge attachment, the Treasurehound, that five foot long double coil thing that supposedly can go down 6 or 8 ft for a large target (like a car or a chest of King Phillip's gold). I have a dry and a wet pin-pointer. I have a mosquito head net, too. ! Maybe some of this would be of help.
Grateful for any help,
hunter harv

 

[seekerGH]

Looks like Matt is gonna give FLA a double tap.

(time for some of you to repent!) hahahahahaha

or sin more....hmmmm

Vote for:

( ) Repent

( ) Sin more

voting begins!

little hanging things will NOT be counted

 

[BigWaveDave]

I guess I should repent....
I lost power for about 2 hours....just came back on....
Thank goodness.,..baseball is on.

 

[releventchair]

We are starting to get heavy rain bands from the storm plus windy gusts. I am hunkered down as much as possible. Dave from repair center called me, he found mower shop that still had 12 generators I had them hold one for me, by the time I arrived they had 2 left and I bought both generators 2000 watt. They are impossible to find..... Generators have ability and cables to run both at same time in parallel and double the wattage output to 4000 watts.

We have a 5000 watt portable AC that allows us to cool our family room, I have curtain for the room and can keep the room at 70 degrees. Enough power to run the small AC and power TV, DVR, cable box and refrigerator......

We are stocked with plenty of food, milk, beer, vodka, scotch, 15 gallons of drinking water, 8 gallons of gas for the generators, both cars gas tanks are topped off, two bath tubs full of water and clothes washing machine, that water is used to flushed toilets and baths in case power is off for long time.

As long as we get no wind damage or flying objects hitting our windows we should be good here.

We are also set up to hit Daytona Beach as soon as they open the bridges up.......



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Sound traveling as it does ,I chain my genny down.
A siphon hose for back up from fuel tanks around the yard.
Most new genny's need oil changed after several hours.
Hang in there T.H..

 

[FISHEYE]

Matthew is tracking 52-82 miles offshore east of the gulf stream,so looks like the barrier islands will be spared.

 

[ARC]

Hmmm... maybe time to dust off the detectors...
Last time I was at Vero was after the last storm that made some great cuts.

Worked it from Bon Steel to Pierce.
Found lots of interesting stuff... just nothing from wrecks.

When I walked out on Turtle... there were 100's of detectors everywhere...
2 guys were in knee deep... and getting crap from the other detectorists... some yelling going on etc...
I turned around and went to Bon...

The guy at the Fishing Museum at Jupiter found a silver at Bon and told me where...
But...
None was there for me.

 

[ARC]

Oh... I might add...

I have a blunder... on this story...
First time I had a stripped out knob on detector... on discrim...
No clue why or how.
When you looked at it...
It was at 0-1... but really was at like 16 ish...
did no notice UNTIL pierce. :/

But ... had a great time partying with some fellow like minded folks in the RV park. :P

 

[diggummup]

I battened down the hatches and got all prepared. This storm was so bad I didn't even lose my satellite tv signal, much less my power which usually flickers in a regular thunderstorm. I'm heading to the beach to see how much sand got moved. Much ado about nothing here, which is a good thing I guess. lol

 

[FISHEYE]

Matt is right off the cape.88mph +

 

[ARC]

Damn... that sucks only 88...

At 90 mph the wind starts throwing gold coins. :P