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Hurricane Matthew's track changed, for the WORSE!

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CraKaJaX said:
What is happening here???

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Holy shit thats my cousin.
 
House finally finished boarded up late last night including a complete plywood "wall" in front of my 1974 fiberglass garage door that's anchored to the concrete, no way the fiberglass door survives these intense winds. Managed to gather 35 gallons of gas as well. I look at some of my neighbors who have done nothing and I remain puzzled, as bad as this storm is intensity-wise it's a slow-crawler too boot, the worst of both worlds. We did experience 85-95 MPH winds here during "Charlie" in '04 but it was over in 2,5 hours, this will expose the Daytona area to 2 DAYS of these punishing winds and flooding as an extra unwanted bonus. Now I pray the tree's stay upright, I already know the amount, type, and scope of the damage to the power-grid will have us out of power for possibly many weeks. In a way this is as bad as a direct landfall because the westward side of the storm will still be over the gulf stream and can re-nourish the system while the east side delves out horrific punishment, this might be my last post for a long time, I'd like to thank all those who wished well for me, you guys have been great.
 
I dread the rain more than i do the wind where i live. We've had a good bit of rain off and on over the past week and a half. The river that was very low is now close to over flowing near the town i live near. It will flood if we get much rain from this storm. Good news, i don't live in the 100 year flood plane so there is that i guess. Just wonder how much. Plus. with the ground being saturated, trees will uproot easily.
 
bigboxes said:
My nephew is a recruit at Parris Island right now. Found out that the Marines are evacuating the recruits to Albany, GA. I got a buddy that lives in Morehead, NC that says he's not going anywhere. Nuts I tell ya!
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If you've never been to PI there's a long drive from the front gate on the curve to the island itself surrounded by marsh. It wouldn't take much to flood it out and the last time I was there they kept a marsh buggy at the gate just in case they had to go patrol it. FWIW that place is the reason I joined the Army. I was a teenager standing outside the PX waiting on my parents when I looked across the street at some recruits wearing chrome domes in formation when a drill started yelling at them. He then proceeded to snatch a m14 from his hands and then but stroked him with it knocking his helmet off. Once I joined the army I found out that they trained the marine drills in their academy so it was all the same anyway.
 
Puffnstuff said:
If you've never been to PI there's a long drive from the front gate on the curve to the island itself surrounded by marsh. It wouldn't take much to flood it out and the last time I was there they kept a marsh buggy at the gate just in case they had to go patrol it. FWIW that place is the reason I joined the Army. I was a teenager standing outside the PX waiting on my parents when I looked across the street at some recruits wearing chrome domes in formation when a drill started yelling at them. He then proceeded to snatch a m14 from his hands and then but stroked him with it knocking his helmet off. Once I joined the army I found out that they trained the marine drills in their academy so it was all the same anyway.
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Haha! I know I wouldn't have made it through PI. I'm too much of a pussy. I hated bootcamp and I went to Orlando in the Navy. His mother (my sister) went to Parris Island so he's just taking after her. From what I understand PI has a lot of sand fleas. At least Orlando has that in common.
 
Western Broward county...I drove up to Parkland earlier to help a employee put his last few shutters up. He was working on it yesterday and twisted an ankle. It helped reinforce my happiness at having impact windows and doors installed 2 years ago. Had a few weak rain bands go through, but it's still early. We're expecting things to go downhill this afternoon, maybe 2pm-ish. If the track holds, my area will "only" get tropical storm or Cat 1 conditions..but that doesn't change any of my prep.

I've locked down the hurricane features on the garage door, and have everything else taken care of. I don't expect to go outside again until sometime tomorrow. Might post back later assuming my electricity stays on long enough.
 
I'm in the Melbourne/Palm Bay area. My house is boarded up and ready for the wind. Hopefully flooding won't be an issue. If I lose power, my friends Johnny Walker and Jack Daniels will keep me company.
 
Dedpuhl said:
I'm in the Melbourne/Palm Bay area. My house is boarded up and ready for the wind. Hopefully flooding won't be an issue. If I lose power, my friends Johnny Walker and Jack Daniels will keep me company.
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Started as a hurricane thread, ended as a George Thorogood song.
 
bigboxes said:
Haha! I know I wouldn't have made it through PI. I'm too much of a pussy. I hated bootcamp and I went to Orlando in the Navy. His mother (my sister) went to Parris Island so he's just taking after her. From what I understand PI has a lot of sand fleas. At least Orlando has that in common.
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Ditto! The toughest part about it was going in July and August.
 
dainthomas said:
Ditto! The toughest part about it was going in July and August.
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I arrived in March. As I was standing in formation, I remember thinking what pretty clouds they had in Orlando. Then the sand fleas kept biting the back of my neck. I kept getting yelled at for "fidgeting". So, I'd wait until they weren't looking and scratch my neck anyways. LOL
 
echo4747 said:
If the storm takes this path At the point in the above pic that denotes the "8AM Mon" Is the ocean water there warm enough for the storm to intensify again and come back for 2nds next week as a major hurricane again?
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Maybe, though the first pass plus Nicole will have sucked some heat out of the system.
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