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Hurricane Irma... All of the talk this week has been directed to Irma. Current status on Hurricane Irma is it's a category 5 storm with 180mph sustained winds, traveling on a path that will take it directly over Miami on Sunday afternoon. Reports are it's the most powerful storm recorded in the Atlantic Ocean since they have been keeping records on storms. This is not good for anyone in this area. Due to the overall size of this hurricane it's wider than the state so evacuation and not be affected would certainly take you a thousand miles to get far enough to escape the path of destruction. As the models suggest the storm that was originally predicted to pass under the Florida Straits, is now making a hooked turn northward as it passes over Cuba cutting through Florida. Guided by a high pressure area out in the Atlantic Ocean, if this high moves out. there is a possibility Irma will make the northerly turn sooner missing Florida completely. All we can do right now is wait and see. The image I uploaded is from the current update 8pm Wednesday night. ----- EDIT ----- I'm adding the latest forecast and image as of Friday morning 9-8-2017 .   |
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The next 48 hours are critical to all of South Florida. If this storm turns north a few degrees sooner than predicted we will be spared billions of dollars in damages. I have a daughter who is walking distance to Hollywood Beach. Thursday at noon the city will enforce mandatory evacuations in her area as it's prone to flooding.
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Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers. The forecast was Irma would track eastward and skirt the coastline, but now it's shifting farther west than Thursday's prediction and it will hit the bottom tip of Florida and move north cutting directly through us. Yesterday, it looked like we would have the storm in daylight hours and now it's going to be early Sunday morning. Good news is the wind speed has slowed slightly and may continue to do so.
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I've seen the satellite images and Irma is wider than the state of Florida so trying to evacuate to somewhere else in the state is a futile attempt and only wastes gas. According to the 8pm advisory, Irma will travel over the coast of Cuba, slow in wind speed slightly and move to the west a little slower. That is both good and bad. Now the tracking says it's going to head to the west coast instead of the east coast and drop in speed, possibly as a category 4 down from a category 5. These changes are good for the east coast and bad for the west coast. Ideally, it would be great if Irma travels due west another 100-150 miles before heading north and avoiding landfall as it drops to a category 3 and not cut through Florida as a category 4 hurricane.
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We are without power right now working from batteries and inverters. The entire area is blacked out as 3900 homes are affected. Tomorrow I'll startup my generation to power the refrigerator and room air conditioner.
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John, he's perfected chaos in his administration. Is that a positive thing?
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John,no problem. On the reality Trump actually didn't get the popular vote. The electoral college made the decision. Those are all small things. Keeping staff is the bigger issue.
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John, Hillary died and I blogged about it. Sorry you didn't read or remember. I have a small generator that powers the bedroom a/c and 2 marine batteries with inverters for fans and lights.
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I had a 5,000 watt generator that burned a gallon per hour. After a hurricane a cabinet maker I worked with asked to borrow it because of its 220 output. I never saw it after that. I'm happy with the smaller one. 2 gallons goes about 6 hours.
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Travel into the Florida Keys is blocked at mile marker 74.
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