Florida Posters

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Move to higher ground and stay safe!!

Nancy (can't tag her on my phone), has your triathlon been cancelled?

[milee]

It's been raining on and off for the last two days so things are already fairly flooded here in SW FL.  The bay is several feet higher than usual but nothing we haven't seen in previous tropical storms.  My dock (and most of the docks I can see out my back window) is slightly underwater but the water level is still a couple of feet below the top of the sea wall.  We'll probably have flooding in certain areas, but I think my house and our business will stay dry.  I don't think the storm will push much more water in for a big storm surge since the bands didn't really tighten up and start to swirl in an organized pattern before mid day today.

And on the plus side (hope I don't jinx myself with this) but we still have power, water and internet.  So no worries.    

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Be safe all my Fla friends. I think it is supposed to hit land in 4 hours. Not sure what it'll be like when it gets here Saturday/Sunday. Definitely rain and high seas. Maybe 50 mph winds. 

[Anne_in_VA]

Stay safe our FL peeps.  

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feel free to send the rain here. We are down almost 9 inches of rainfall this year and subject to mandatory outside watering bans.

Keep the wind, though.

[milee]

Dang, I did jinx us with that earlier post.  Brief power surge (lightning strike nearby)... everything powered back up except the A/C.     We're still dry, but it's going to get hot and sticky in here very quickly.  

[suesinfl]

I'm under a tropical storm watch and we are expected to have winds of 50 mph, rain about 9 inches with a high threat of tornados.  I work in a Federal building, but am not a Federal employee and our building is closed tomorrow. It's a good thing that I already schedule a vacation day tomorrow, since I cannot enter the building if it is closed.



Schools are closed tomorrow so at least I don't have to worry about the kids. I haven't really stocked up, but did stop by the store for some food, water, and beer. So we're set to stay inside for the day. My only fear is that the worst weather will happen later tonight and I won't be able to see what is happening outside.



I think my kids are going to be surprised, they don't remember the year when we had 3 hurricanes back to back. Heaven forbid if the internet goes out, they won't know what to do with themselves.

[justme]

It's barely raining where I am. Looks like it's still to come.

[Jaguar]

Tagging NancysSummerSip for GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl

Nancy are you okay?


I hope all of our Florida peeps stay safe.

[justme]

Nancy is I believe south east Florida, she might not have even gotten any rain. My family is a bit south of her in Miami and aren't getting anything. I'm not sure where the other poster is.

[taz157]

Sept 1, 2016 19:51:18 GMT -5 justme said:

Nancy is I believe south east Florida, she might not have even gotten any rain. My family is a bit south of her in Miami and aren't getting anything. I'm not sure where the other poster is.

Nancy lives about an hour north of me (before we moved) and I spoke a coworker of mine, they aren't really getting anything and shouldn't. There maybe a stray shower but nothing more than that.

[zibazinski]

Tampa and Jacksonville are okay. My concern is my flight being delayed or cancelled. I hope to find out today.

[alabamagal]

DD lives in Jacksonville.  Looks like they had a lot of rain, small amount of power out.  Waiting to hear from her, but likely still sleeping.

Bad part of the storm went between 2 of my kids (Jacksonville FL and Athens GA) and looks to be headed up the coast toward the other one (DC area).

[milee]

Still raining.  Power out all over town, but we've been lucky and not lost power after the blip last night.  Water level in the bay is down a foot or two (I can see the top of my dock), but water all over town is still rising.  Lots of flooding.  I'm trying to get a hold of one of my friends who lives in a very low lying area next to a major river and who has a two month old baby to see if she needs anything.

So far, wind damage looks minimal; wind was sustained around 30 with a few gusts to 50.  Most of what I'm seeing is flooding.  Not the end of the world.  

[naughtybear]

We felt it here in Jacksonville for a good few hrs early this morning. I still have power and internet but I know others here that don't. It looks like we should still be getting strong winds/gusts but we aren't.

[NancysSummerSip]

Sept 1, 2016 18:02:10 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Move to higher ground and stay safe!!

Nancy (can't tag her on my phone), has your triathlon been cancelled?

It was not cancelled; in fact it was yesterday. But I love ya for the concern.

 I'm on the east coast, which hardly got anything from the storm. Ironically, we are getting rain today from Hermine, even though the storm has moved to the northeast U.S. There is still tropical moisture from it dragging down here. Seriously, I washed my car at 7 a.m. and it rained at 8 a.m.

My brother works in Sarasota - his office was flooded (20+ inches of rain). He lives north of there and his house was fine, however.

Another brother lives in Baltimore - they expect rain, but no serious issues from the storm as it passes by.

[zibazinski]

This is the third day of no rain and plenty of sunshine.

[naughtybear]

We did get a lot of wind and rain, clearly was a tropical storm feeling but it was mostly in the early hours of the morning. The schools were closed, no generalized flooding but power was out in many areas. I am not or sure where the cut off for feeling any effects in FL but considering it was north of Jacksonville maybe the Cape and south didn't feel anything.

[zibazinski]

Must have been north of Jacksonville because DD lives there and said no rain.

[naughtybear]

Your DD lives in Jacksonville and said there was no rain from Hermine ? That is what I was talking about. Sorry for the confusion, no rain at the moment but last night there was.

[zibazinski]

I'm sure she meant that Friday when everything was closed and everyone was panicking thanks to the media bs. She went to her clinical on Friday and patients came in, same as usual.

[milee]

Sept 5, 2016 14:57:06 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

We did get a lot of wind and rain, clearly was a tropical storm feeling but it was mostly in the early hours of the morning. The schools were closed, no generalized flooding but power was out in many areas. I am not or sure where the cut off for feeling any effects in FL but considering it was north of Jacksonville maybe the Cape and south didn't feel anything.

On the east coast maybe.  But the west coast had flooding even south of Tampa. 

[naughtybear]

Yes, I was referencing the East coast.

[naughtybear]

There wasn't much rain friday. The storm woke me up at 430 am, it was very stormy but I believe the worst was over by 10am. It rained lightly on and off friday during the day but not strong.