Posted on 10/07/2016 1:30:24 PM PDT by drewh
Where/when is this photo from?
Well, I wish them the best. Get up high and pray, be extremely careful if they decide to light candles. Being burned out during a flood is a thing.
Shep was right - EVERYONE IS GONNA DIE!!!!
The MSM including local news crews hype every storm as the Ultimate Storm or the Big One. One year we had pictures on the tube (back in the 80s because I still had a TV) of the reporter being blown and splashed out at the beach. My daughter was a producer for the station then and said they had to use big fans and a sprayer and flickered the lights because the storm was off script. One year a storm went back and forth off the coast here and the newsies were crying panic and everybody evacuate for your lives! and an hour later it was wha hoppen??? where did it go? The hurricane just kind of rapidly petered out.
They will just sell it in Atlanta.
From your link - idiots are out driving around in it and wondering why they’re having trouble. What kind of stupid does one have to be to go out in a wheelchair? Sorry, even if he were my father, I tell him he deserved what he got.
Yep. The wind isn't that bad if they do have to go on the roof.
I bet the historic “Old Town” section is really getting a lot of flood damage...All those neat shops right at ground level...And also Flagler College...
The building has withstood storms for over a hundred years.
the problem is that once they get high there is no one is rescue them from the roof. hopefully the water recedes fast and they have supplies...
I have lived various places through various storms on the coast of Florida since 1963 minus 4 years in the AF and lived in Norfolk for Donna way back then. I have never left my house but once when an impending storm gave me and the wife an excuse to go visit friends in Gainesville. Gville got worse wind and damage than hometown got. Gville wasn’t even in the storm’s path.
Shep Smith did it
If the water goes over the roof, they’d better improvise some boats and PFDs. However, if they run out of supplies, the worst that happens is they’ll be a little uncomfortable until someone can safely paddle over with a boat.
It’s not like they’re in New Orleans: this is a modest-sized city in a sensible state where people will go and help out as soon as it’s safe, even if they’ll also tell the dopes they were dopes.
I remember seeing a reporter on a beach back years ago...He was fighting the wind and swaying and talking about how bad it was....About that time a couple went by behind him at the water edge just walking along the beach...LOL
Hope that get out. I have been through this and seen it up close and first hand. Anyone that refuses after being warned I feel sorry for but I would not send my people in if it were a risk to their lives,I would just refuse.
The video I saw showed water not even up to the ground floor porch, the hotel is old with a prudently raised foundation. They’re “trapped” because they don’t want to wade their way out.
At this point, no lives are at risk. This is a contest of wills: silly people who’re tired of their adventure, versus embarrassed civic officials who want to teach them a lesson about who’s boss.
Oh. Freep that!
I had family in Melbourne for years. Really fond memories.
Maybe 15 years ago a Hurricane came directly thorough Melbourne and caused a lot of damage. Wiped out the old hotel where I used to stay at Melbourne harbor. And the Marina.
Uncles place was over the Causeway at Indiatlantic. He was about 3 blocks from the beach and 2 blocks from the Intercostal.
When he passed away I asked Dad why not just keep the house? We all like going there. “One thing, Hurricane insurance is $17,000 a year”
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