Hurricane Irma Live Thread Part IV

NHC/NOAA ^ | 9/10/2017 | NHC/NOAA

[SamAdams76]

Maybe. But for the most part, the smartphones did just fine in the recent hurricanes. Thousands of hot spots remained available in even the hardest hit areas. There are apps already available to get just about any radio station you want. And if you lost power, you can easily re-charge the phones in your car. That’s what I did when I lost power for a few days in an ice storm a few years back. The Trump Administration even put out a FEMA app for storm victims to quickly get assistance. It will only get better from here.

[bgill]

All the Hemmingway cats are fine. All the staff are fine. The house is fine.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/09/10/hemingway-houses-cats-hurricane-irma-key-west/

[dfwgator]

The baby birds on Channel 12 in West Palm Beach are safe, they even brought them into the studio.

[dragnet2]

3k people? Okay, but I don't thing you're implying everyone in south Florida is still up and connected, because I'm very confident that's certainly not the case here.☺

[bgill]

That’s good. Just don’t put the cats and the birds together.

[dragnet2]

Tropical Storm Harvey takes out 911 centers, cell towers, and cable networks

148,000 Internet, TV, and phone customers lost service in storm’s wake. Tropical Storm Harvey has disrupted at least 17 emergency call centers and 320 cellular sites, and it has caused outages for more than 148,000 Internet, TV, and phone customers.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/tropical-storm-harvey-takes-out-911-centers-cell-towers-and-cable-networks/

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I rest my case.

[snarkytart]

Oh a lot of people were excited to see devastation but the media makes money off of it because of ratings. Oh well too bad.

[jeffers]

Outer band tornado threat increase.

[jeffers]

I know that guy! What luck for him!

[dynachrome]

Adding my thanks for the work you have done here.

[Justa]

Signing off for the night. Power is out, running on UPS ‘til that’s gone.

Back whenever. Best of luck to all affected FReepers for the duration of Irma.

[snarkytart]

Tornadoes scare me almost as much as hurricane. They’re so random where they hit and will flatten a house in one minute.

[steve86]

I agree South Florida Zello is great if you want to hear 70-90% “yutes” and associated profanity.

I’ll bet there’s very little of that on 2M band or whatever you’re using.

[Blue Highway]

The way I read it the guy said it straight up and it fit his moniker of cranky weather man.

[Blue Highway]

The way I read it the guy said it straight up and it fit his moniker of cranky weather man.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

#FloridaStrong

Thanks for the new thread! Winds are picking up pretty good here in Lakeland. Looks like we might be in the eye of the storm, now. Still have power! (Knock wood)

[jeffers]

Save some UPS for emergencies. Sleep safe.

[Blue Highway]

Only a 1=3 foot surge in sarasota predicted and that’s an hour south of tampa. I had to go to CNN via you tube too very any local coverage.

[SamAdams76]

And during that time, most people were still able to communicate on their smartphones. Cell phone towers and networks go down even in good weather but there are redundancies in place. My aunt was able to speak to her friends in Marco Island this afternoon even when all the power was out there.

Multi-band receivers are nice to have but they are more of a 1970s thing. My sons laughed when I used to pull out my Grundig. Younger people today aren't going to be buying a multi-band radio receiver! Just isn't going to happen.

[Blue Highway]

Only a 1=3 foot surge in sarasota predicted and that’s an hour south of tampa. I had to go to CNN via you tube to get any local coverage. I found out between now and 10pm we will see the worst of the winds. Then sustained winds from 10=2am