Posted on 09/06/2017 12:54:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
No evacuation orders will be issued in Miami-Dade County yet, Mayor Carlos Gimenez said Wednesday, warning that people living on barrier islands and low-lying mainland areas may still be asked to leave ahead of Hurricane Irma.
Gimenez had been ready to instruct residents to get out, but he said the 11 a.m. Irma advisory from the National Hurricane Center gave him pause.
“The storm’s slowing down, giving us a little bit more time,” Gimenez said from the county’s emergency operations center in Doral.
Nearly half a million residents who live in storm-surge zones A and B could be asked to leave before Irma hits, Gimenez said. That evacuation of about 470,000 people would take about 26 hours, according to county estimates.
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If everyone thought like you, there would be no Democrats in power anywhere.........................
One way out and everyone along that route and in that direction will be headed N too.
Those that plan 365 and not last minute and stay will be OK.
>>The former Cubans in Miami are credited by some with putting Trump over the top there.<<
My point was how stupid that was back in the Katrina days. I know FLA helped Trump.
Mayor is either stupid, wanting revenge on Latinos, or heeding orders not to interfere with the evacuation of the Keys yet.
He’s a Republican...................
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Depends on the threat level obviously, but if you live with a high probability of hurricanes it makes sense to have window protection already cut and stored in a shed ready to deploy.
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DUMMIES!!!
“Leave ASAP.”
You have inside dope?
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For intelligent people, evacuation orders are superfluous.
Governments are, by my experience, not overly stocked with gray cells. I depend on them for absolutely nothing.
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>> “You have inside dope?” <<
That’s all the MSM gives us, right?
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I concur!
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“That’s all the MSM gives us, right?”
No. The MSM has been saying all day that Irma is slowing down and tracking more to the east of Florida.
Natl Hurricane Ctr
Idiot, it’s slowing down because PR is coming up.....once it gets past that it’s going to pick up steam again. If you are in Miami-Dade...get out....get out NOW.
It will run from Puerto Rico...............
“Natl Hurricane Ctr”
Yes. Now shows hitting Atlantic coast of Florida Sunday AM.
If the course changes as much in the next 24 hours due to weakening of the high pressure system as they expect it to, it may miss FL completely.
NHC track is on the coast.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/175630.shtml?cone#contents
It’s possible that next week you will be seeing aerial photos/videos of perhaps 100 miles of inundated shoreline. I’m not saying that will happen, only that it is possible.
Traffic is already an issue...I live in the Tampa Bay area. I watched the traffic cams earlier today I 275 is already a parking lot.
Looks like it’s moving away from us (but being a 7th generation Floridian, I know the hurricane will do whatever it wants, not necessarily what the meteorologist says it will.) I remember Charley, a few years back, was supposed to be heading to Tampa Bay, but decided to take a sharp right and come in at Port Charlotte and it did awful damage.
What drives me crazy is the panic. It’s like water only comes in bottles. Have they ever heard of tap water. When we were kids, my folks would fill the bathtubs, buy big garbage cans (they were aluminum then) and fill them with water. Water solution solved :) And in June buy some peanut butter and jelly
and some canned goods, and set them aside. Once hurricane season is past, then you can eat them if you haven’t had any hurricanes and no need for them.
As for plywood, these storms come every year, get some, cut it to size, and have your anchors set.
We’ve always chosen to shelter in place (even when I was a kid and we had a couple whoppers go through.) We do that now, board up the windows, be well supplied and wait. But we aren’t in an evacuation zone even though we’re less than 2 miles from the water, go figure. We do have some elevation about 13 ft. above sea level and lots of lakes around on the golf course help to keep us from flooding even when other parts of the city do. We’ve lived in this neighborhood 30 years and I’ve never seen standing water in the street.
The houses we’ve lived in have been block, and other than fallen trees, we’ve been fortunate.
All hotels up I95 and I75 are sold out. Gas stations are out of fuel and the highways will become parking lots. They still have no idea where this monster will make landfall.
That’s the major reason I moved from there in 1980.......................
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