[Dustya]

Stay Safe Everyone wishing everyone and their families the best in what could be a potentially bad situation!!! Hollar out if any help is needed.

[Glen e]

It will change the face of Florida......all of it. People down here, who have ridden out all the storms of 2003-2006, are even shit-scared of this one.(incl me). Roads are packed and I-75N may make the highway of death in Basra look like a picnic, if it stays clogged. About 24 hours and counting, before things like cows and cars start flying like in the movies, from the 30 mile across eye wall.

Watch brian norcross on TWC, solid info.

And I promise.....no gofund me if my Camaro starts to fly…

[Buzzberd6]

Like Glen said, this one will be a game changer for the state, possibly along the lines of Andrew. I truly hope not but I've lived here since the 50's and Matthew last year scared the crap out of me. This one seems to be looking a LOT worse! Thankfully it 'looks' like it won't be running right over top of us here on the Space Coast like it appeared it was going to two days ago.

Be safe everyone!

[Risky Justice]

Originally Posted by Glen e

And I promise.....no gofund me if my Camaro starts to fly…

That's what insurance is for, right?

Should be interesting. Hurricane party! That's the beauty of not being sober...no matter what happens you're good

[MostlyHarmless]

Originally Posted by Glen e

And I promise.....no gofund me if my Camaro starts to fly…

Hope all our Florida friends stay safe and act sensible over the next few days. You will be in our thoughts.

And Glen, you are one of the few I actually would support a GoFundMe account as a thank you for the many hundreds of selfless hours you put into giving members constructive and helpful advice and feedback. Both on here and previously on the C7 forums. You are one of life's good guys.

Stay safe everyone

Mark

[Glen e]

Thank you.....we are now worried about our Naples friends which is about the go nuclear.
Pray a lot we get a shift west again. Less than 18 hours before nature "unleashes hell"......

[Risky Justice]

I would rather it not go further west...as that is my direction. No matter where it goes, shit will be bad. This is one of those symptoms of global warming, so this is just a sign of things to come I'm afraid. The weather models are not handling the situation very well. This has a lot to do with not being able to rely on historical data anymore, due to climate change. Our storms will become stronger as the temperature of the earth increases, as the two ingredients needed for a storm system to develop are heat and moisture.

[blazzin1]

I'm in Plant City (just East of Tampa), and it looks like it will be going right on top of us now!!! This will be my first Hurricane, so I'm concerned to say the least, especially with 3 kids in the house! No mandatory evacuation orders for our area, and don't expect any since we are not in a flood zone. But they're saying 100+ mph winds on Sunday night!!! Luckily, my Camaro is at the dealership (supposedly inside) getting the exhaust rattle fixed. So if anything happens, I'm sure their insurance will take care of it nicely. They gave me a pretty nice 2017 Silverado as a "loaner", not a bad trade for the weekend.

[Risky Justice]

Originally Posted by blazzin1

I'm in Plant City (just East of Tampa), and it looks like it will be going right on top of us now!!! This will be my first Hurricane, so I'm concerned to say the least, especially with 3 kids in the house! No mandatory evacuation orders for our area, and don't expect any since we are not in a flood zone. But they're saying 100+ mph winds on Sunday night!!! Luckily, my Camaro is at the dealership (supposedly inside) getting the exhaust rattle fixed. So if anything happens, I'm sure their insurance will take care of it nicely. They gave me a pretty nice 2017 Silverado as a "loaner", not a bad trade for the weekend.

wtf, you get a Silverado as a loaner? I got a base model Cruze when they had my car for some paint touch up.

Make sure you board up your windows and put some sandbags down--just in case. Stay as far from the windows as possible as well...those wind speeds are no joke. If you have somewhere to evacuate to though, then you should really consider that. You would have to leave right now though...so probably too late at this point. I hope you have some food and water stocked up--power and water are going to be out for at least a day or two...could be a week or more with this monster.

[Jmueller]

Everyone fair okay? I evacuated from Fort Lauderdale over to Tampa, right into the path of the storm! Turns out it was a good move as my father needed help putting up storm shutters and getting prepared. All was well in Tampa and power only flickered a few times. Nevertheless, I have been without power in Fort Lauderdale for four, going on five days. I have not returned Home as a result. My office also has no juice so work is at a standstill. I consider myself and my family very lucky.

[Glen e]

Fort Lauderdale looks a lot like this. There are trees down everywhere. Other than that damage is fairly light. For some reason Deerfield Beach got hit hard.....I lost power for 72 hours....and it's 90+ degrees with dead calm...very uncomfortable.....

[keon718nyc]

Trees down, some roads were flooded and power can be null till 2 weeks at my store in Tamarac is what i was told. Just a big F'n mess that mother nature felt was over due.... God bless all of Florida who was affected.

[Timbo-1LE]

Family safe, need a new roof, and fence...

Many are really impacted and will be for years, please donate to Red cross if you can.

[14Black1LESS]

Originally Posted by keon718nyc

Trees down, some roads were flooded and power can be null till 2 weeks at my store in Tamarac is what i was told. Just a big F'n mess that mother nature felt was over due.... God bless all of Florida who was affected.

We are still over due. We didn't take a direct hit. Hopefully you will get power back on at your store soon. Unfortunately there are tens of thousands still without power in Dade and Broward.