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Sep 8, 2017 | 09:23 AM

#16

BowtieConvert

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Originally Posted by shortride

Man I don't know why in the world so many people chose to say home when something like this happens. I can understand the concern for the security of your personal belonging but nothing is worth risking you and your family's life.

Please take heed and get out while you can.

Hey Shortride, I can't speak to other people's circumstances, but there are a lot of variables. Traffic, gas shortages, and economic circumstances are probably three of the most prominent. Even though I live only about 1000' feet from a 3 mile wide river I am on a little bluff and am not in an immediate evacuation zone. My house has 6" steel re-enforced poured concrete (ICF) walls to the 10' plate height. I have a safe room under the stairs. We may lose the roof and second story but should be survivable. We have a generator for the essentials. Top that off with owning a business and that dictates my circumstances. If we were taking a direct hit from a category 4 or 5 that would be different. As of now by the time it gets here it should be downgraded significantly. One man's decision doesn't dictate others but that is my reasoning (maybe flawed). Prayers for the people in south Florida who appear to be going to face the brunt of the storm.

Sep 8, 2017 | 02:49 PM

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jims94vmx

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They showed a lady on the news a day or so ago saying she was staying and had her young kid next to her. She showed the reporter her special windows.....unreal, if her house comes down the windows won't matter.....please protect your lives! Things can be replaced.....be careful.....praying for those in its path....

Sep 8, 2017 | 03:30 PM

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Tedster9

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It's not as simple as it sounds. Does your job allow you to just take off for a month? Do you have somewhere to go, somewhere to stay? What about relatives? Florida has lots of retirees and elderly. They don't have a car, or a driver license.

Being stuck in a parking lot, that's what the highways turn into - no gas available, no food or water - the time to evacuate was a week ago.

Sep 8, 2017 | 05:22 PM

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redford

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Texas: Wow, that hurricane was bad. It'd be difficult to top this mess!

Florida: Hold my beer......

Sep 8, 2017 | 05:26 PM

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Finishing touches on truck prep (His and Hers)...

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Sep 10, 2017 | 01:25 PM

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BowtieConvert

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We've had a lot of rain here in Jax. The ground is pretty saturated. The street I live on has basically an oak canopy for pretty much the entire length. I've lived here for 12 years and have seen a lot of these trees fall over in much less wind and rain than we're getting now. Sometimes the pucker factor is high as I still have about 30 of them in my yard. Well, someone in a '17 SD dually just got a partial strike across the hood, but dodged a major bullet. The tree fell right in front of him but the main part didn't get him. My son said his hood got dent up but fortunately no one was injured and he was able to drive away. If he'd been 1 second ahead who knows? That tree could have mashed that cab like stepping on a beer can. I don't know if the person is on this forum and I am not judging, just saying that it may be wise for people to stay put in situations like this lest you put you and your family in unnecessary danger. Thoughts and prayers to the west coast folks. Stay safe.