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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Make sure you have enough food and water in your room...if you're staying on the north coast.

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    My current trip is scheduled to end today, leaving from santiago but my airline said i could change my flight for free.....normally we would jump at that chance to extend, but I thing this time it would be smarter not to.
    I know a few guys that have decided to spent a few days in santiago or somewhere else just in case

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Quote Originally Posted by ezsmile View Post
    My current trip is scheduled to end today, leaving from santiago but my airline said i could change my flight for free.....normally we would jump at that chance to extend, but I thing this time it would be smarter not to.
    I know a few guys that have decided to spent a few days in santiago or somewhere else just in case

    Maybe the smartest move. It's crossed my mind as well.

    The current forecast is at least a little more favorable.
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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Good thing it's moving further to sea, those 2 bags of sand and a few ditches were not going to hold out the floods.
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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    This is one of the few if not only advantages of living inland in Florida. Hoping for best or at least minimal destruction to those that were hit by Matthew last year. All the best wishes for those in PR, St. Maarten, DR and everywhere that's suffering the worst affects.
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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    In the mean time, I'm down here in SFL and the channel 6 weather guy says he really has no idea what this storm is going to do!

    He just said after the 5PM advisory that he doesn't even have a gut feeling for this storm. Says he (and everyone else) will have a better idea 72 hours out. Here that means probably the 11AM or 5PM advisories tomorrow. as they are forecasting 2PM Sunday as land fall time in SFL. Still waiting to see what the inevitable turn happens. They are still saying it could even go west but the majority say east of Florida or a direct hit on Miami.

    Mother Fucka.....and me with a ticket to Manila the 18th. In Andrew and Wilma it took a long time to get back up and running here. I'm not talking airports or flights getting back on line. I'm talking just getting electric and water back! I couldn't leave here until everything was working again.

    Oh well....just gotta hunker down and hope for the best, This ain't my first rodeo down here. Sad to say though, I'm to old to be bull riding.

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    It was another nice day here, but humid. Rains expected to move in around midnight. The worst of the wind is forecast for midday/early afternoon tomorrow.


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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Quote Originally Posted by Irie View Post
    It was another nice day here, but humid. Rains expected to move in around midnight. The worst of the wind is forecast for midday/early afternoon tomorrow.
    Just get your surf gear out and show them how the big boys ride out the storm.

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Quote Originally Posted by jacknback View Post

    Mother Fucka.....and me with a ticket to Manila the 18th. In Andrew and Wilma it took a long time to get back up and running here. I'm not talking airports or flights getting back on line. I'm talking just getting electric and water back! I couldn't leave here until everything was working again.

    Oh well....just gotta hunker down and hope for the best, This ain't my first rodeo down here. Sad to say though, I'm to old to be bull riding.
    As long as you can get on the flight, why worry about the electric and water?

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Quote Originally Posted by CentralNJDude View Post
    Just get your surf gear out and show them how the big boys ride out the storm.
    Surf gear??? I was thinking more along the lines of pool noodle and cold beer in a koozie.

    First rain bands passing through now. Breezy but still relatively calm.

    Will keep updates going......depending on Internet.

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Here is SD it's basically going to be a non event I think.

    We just got our first sprinkles about an hour ago.

    My hurricane prep was limited to putting a clothes basket upside down over the rear patio drain with a planter on top.
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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Quote Originally Posted by CentralNJDude View Post
    Just get your surf gear out and show them how the big boys ride out the storm.
    As funny as that may sound, a Dutch surfer tried to ride out one of Irma's humongous waves and it was the last thing he'll ever try.

    I'm reading that 95% of the dwellings on St Martin (French side) have been obliterated and the whole of Barbuda was reduced to ruble. My Caribbean friends, please don't poo-poo Irma. She's an angry Bitch and strong enough that a slight variance from her predicted path could be the difference between business as usual and the whole f'ing country washed into the sea. Take all precautions and make yourselves as safe as possible. I hope to see y'all soon enough after things get back to normal.
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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    The latest forecast (as of 8 AM Thursday) ...



    MAYBE the North Coast of Hispaniola will be spared the worst of it. The Turks & Caicos, though, and the Bahamas, will bear the brunt.

    And Florida ... Jack, I hope you and your neighbors are prepared to ride it out. The old cliché holds, "bread, milk and toilet paper."
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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    I just saw a video showing the POP airport is already flooded....

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Quote Originally Posted by LJDMV View Post
    I just saw a video showing the POP airport is already flooded....
    I think that was nothing to do with the storm. There was negligible rain when that clip was released around 9pm last night. Maybe a burst water-main there, or it was a clip from some previous year.

    The heavy rain does not start in this area until around 11am today. Not saying it will not get flooded then, though!

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    So far, so good here. Rains and wind started well after midnight. Rainy and breezy now. The next few hours are supposed to be the worst of it. In the clear by the evening.

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    This is was done this morning. Airport flooded this morning about 2 hours ago.

    Quote Originally Posted by weyland View Post
    I think that was nothing to do with the storm. There was negligible rain when that clip was released around 9pm last night. Maybe a burst water-main there, or it was a clip from some previous year.

    The heavy rain does not start in this area until around 11am today. Not saying it will not get flooded then, though!

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Guaranteed the video must be dated. As stated, basically no rain until the wee hours this morning. No flooding witnessed yet here. And believe me, I remember last November. Just need to look out my window for one of the biggest low spots in Sosua.

    And I do! Lol. Dont want my vehicle under water again.

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Not sure where you are but maybe airport is different because they cancelled flights today.. airport area is bad.

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    Re: 09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

    Quote Originally Posted by LJDMV View Post
    Not sure where you are but maybe airport is different because they cancelled flights today.. airport area is bad.
    Planes were evacuating as late as 1am last night. Unless my eyes deceived me.


    The airport is obviously closed now.

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