TD-14 (Hurricane Milton)

sdowney717

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Other issue is after the storm surge, the power is likely to be out, maybe for days or couple weeks. Maybe utility water is also gone, or unsafe. Most likely any generators you had are also flooded, all sorts of knock on effects, stores wont be open. Life there is going to be hard for a while. Your roof might have blown off. House might be gone. You will be around lots of needy people who need everything. You might get hurt and need medical care. You or those with you might die. Imagine if you have a chronic medical condition, and can't get medicine or any care.

50% of people are staying, they will need lots of help after the storm
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jbcurt00

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A long time friend built & moved to their dream home on the water in Port Charlotte 2yrs ago.

He's posted since Helene, but has been incommunicado since late Sat, hopefully was busy with home prep for storm and bugging out.

Good luck to all in Miltons path and those that come to their aid after.

Great time to be a storm chasing lineman.
 

nola mike

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Ugh. My mom "evacuated" about 1 mile in in Nokomis. Didn't listen to me to GTFO. Going to be about the worst place for the surge. Helene wiped out all the dunes already.
 

redneck joe

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Storm surge does not include the rainfall, correct? Have to add that water that is not able to run off to the storm surge?

By brother from another mother stayed in riverview. First time he's ever boarded up. He's 67 feet above sea level.
 

briangcc

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As far as I know Joe that's correct. Surge is the water being pushed against the shores by the winds.
 

Scott Danforth

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Looking like it will hit south of SRQ. So the heavy rains will be 46.7 miles north (distance from eye to outer bands).

They dropped the storm surge to 9-13 from 10-15

Here is where we put the helmet on (Quoting Ron White (
 

Scott Danforth

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Storm surge does not include the rainfall, correct? Have to add that water that is not able to run off to the storm surge?

By brother from another mother stayed in riverview. First time he's ever boarded up. He's 67 feet above sea level.
He will be fine. I'm 22 feet above sea level
 

ScottinAZ

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Looking like it will hit south of SRQ. So the heavy rains will be 46.7 miles north (distance from eye to outer bands).

They dropped the storm surge to 9-13 from 10-15

Here is where we put the helmet on (Quoting Ron White (

yep, Good ol' Ron White.... "Its not THAT the wind is blowin.... Its WHAT the wind is blowin"....

Good luck to y'all
 

flashback

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Time to get the blender up and running and watch the palm trees dancing down the street.
 

aspeck

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Watching this currently. Denis Phillips seems like he has his stuff together and is not about hype. There was just a lot of "better" news in his report ... but this is certainly a bad one!
 

tpenfield

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5:00 PM EDT wind speed and direction in the Tampa area . . .
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