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Bleedred

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Stay safe everyone. Looks like the worst is going to be right around Tampa Bay.

Rule of thumb. Run from water and hide from wind. Stay high and dry and bunker down someplace secure

Be careful with all the tornados. A f*** ton all over Florida today
I evacuated to the Treasure Coast (east coast of the state) and my phone (which I have plugged in to keep pinned on 100% just in case the power goes out) and my phone keeps going off every half hour about a tornado warning here and the previous warning being extended.

The power already went out here for a minute, then came right back on. I went to the store earlier with my friend and his grandmother and the power went out for a minute at dollar tree. Publix here is closed, which surprised us. That’s where we were going.

Just a bunch of nasty rain here and tornado warnings. The rain has at least broken here for now. Apparently the rain won’t be that bad on the south side of this storm. It’s looking like it’s gonna come out the other side about 75 miles north of here.
 

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I evacuated to the Treasure Coast (east coast of the state) and my phone (which I have plugged in to keep pinned on 100% just in case the power goes out) and my phone keeps going off every half hour about a tornado warning here and the previous warning being extended.

The power already went out here for a minute, then came right back on. I went to the store earlier with my friend and his grandmother and the power went out for a minute at dollar tree. Publix here is closed, which surprised us. That’s where we were going.

Just a bunch of nasty rain here and tornado warnings. The rain has at least broken here for now. Apparently the rain won’t be that bad on the south side of this storm. It’s looking like it’s gonna come out the other side about 75 miles north of here.
There have been several tornados today along the east coast north of forts Lauderdale to about Jupiter. One was very close to my folks in Palm Beach and that was a bit nerve wracking. Another was in Wellington where one of my youngest’s best friends has his family. Just a crazy day in an area that shoukd have been spared the extreme weather.
 
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There have been several tornados today along the east coast north of forts Lauderdale to about Jupiter. One was very close to my folks in Palm Beach and that was a bit nerve wracking. Another was in Wellington where one of my youngest’s best friends has his family. Just a crazy day in an area that shoukd have been spared the extreme weather.
I’m in Stuart, not too far north of Jupiter. We took a ride over to the beach in Hobe Sound to check out the ocean. It’s a mess. That’s where we’re at right now.

It only stopped thunderstorming and tornado’ing (well, the warnings stopped) an hour ago here.

It’s not very windy here at all. It was gusty earlier when it was storming.
 
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I’m in Stuart, not too far north of Jupiter. We took a ride over to the beach in Hobe Sound to check out the ocean. It’s a mess. That’s where we’re at right now.

It only stopped thunderstorming and tornado’ing (well, the warnings stopped) an hour ago here.

It’s not very windy here at all. It was gusty earlier when it was storming.
And I should add to this. There's some downed trees on the US-1 from a suspected tornado earlier. We had to take a detour. The thunderstorms were pretty scary here earlier. It's fairly calm right now. I expect winds to pick up a bit, but I'm hoping we've seen the worst of the thunderstorms.

Be careful on the east coast for bad winds
Fortunately where I am is well south of where that map shows. It only goes to Sebastian on the east coast. I think where I am is about 50 miles south of there? Probably 50 land miles away. Where I live is in the 100+ MPH gust zone though.

I feel pretty safe here, despite it being a mobile home.

Actually, let me rephrase that. I feel safe from the hurricane here. I don't feel too terribly safe from the tornadoes here. I'm not sure if I would even in a non-mobile structure.

But those have calmed down and from what I've heard rain and thunder won't be as prominent on the south side of this storm.
 
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It’s f***in horrifying here. Not sure if this is just a mobile home in a storm or what, but this is scary. Power keeps flickering and it’s way gustier than I thought it would be. I can’t sleep through this.

I’m gonna guess we’ve had 60 MPH gusts already.

And then we had that tornado that was only about 2 miles from here late this afternoon.
 

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My parents narrowly missed the tornados but my youngest in Gainesville made it sound like they avoided anything scary. I'm hoping at this point we have all come out unscathed? @NjDevsRR how did your parents fare?
They are All good. Best case scenario occurred. Milton went south of Tampa but north enough from my parents. Plus the southern half of the storm collapsed which reduced the surge threat.

Very lucky the shear came in play in the final 12 hours before landfall
 

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Hope you're alright, Bleed.
Thanks!

I’m good where I am. I evacuated to the east coast, only it was in a mobile home, which was scary! I never expected it to be as bad down here as it was, but we got 70 MPH gusts if I had to guess. It was pretty bad here between about 1:30 and 4:00 AM. I’m surprised the power didn’t go out, all it did was flicker a few times. It was worse than we thought, considering the closest the storm got was like 80 miles and it was a cat 1 by then. And one of those tornadoes yesterday afternoon was only 2 miles from where I’m staying.

I think my house (which was almost in the direct path of the storm) made out fine, but the electricity is still out I think.

The dog and I will probably stay here until Saturday. We’d probably stay through the weekend, but my friend’s girlfriend and her daughter are coming to visit him for the holiday weekend. She lives in Jersey still.

Of course I don’t have to get out, I just figured they want time to themselves and my dog is not good around strangers. But I may wind up staying if power isn’t restored.
 

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Any advice tonight in net fellas? I drafted Sway and threw him on IR in my fantasy league. He's starting tonight. Should I let him marinate on IR or bring him back. My struggle is trusting my other two tonight instead. Help
 

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Any advice tonight in net fellas? I drafted Sway and threw him on IR in my fantasy league. He's starting tonight. Should I let him marinate on IR or bring him back. My struggle is trusting my other two tonight instead. Help
My advice is you will get more replies on the actual hockey threads :)
 
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I wish I would’ve come on here the past 3-4 days, you guys posted some good information on the hurricane. The last 12 hours before hitting land Milton decided to shift and stay further south from Tampa and much closer to my area south of Sarasota… at one point it was even projected to come right over the top of me (like literally) as Ian did 2 years ago. We had quite the adventure.
 

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We just took a walk outside and half the trailer park here is out of power. There’s parts here where there’s power on one side of the street and nothing on the other side. It may even be over half the park without power. I’m not sure if it’s been out since early this morning when the storm came through or not. We had no clue in the daytime cause you can’t tell if places are without power in the daytime. We saw the trucks over on the highway before you pull into here when we came back from a ride earlier, right before the game started.

Someone my friend knows a few blocks away in another mobile home park has power, but it’s the same thing over there. She’s got power, the entire row across the street does not.

Apparently 14% of this county is without power, and we were well south of it.

69% of my county is without power the last
I checked.
 
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We just took a walk outside and half the trailer park here is out of power. There’s parts here where there’s power on one side of the street and nothing on the other side. It may even be over half the park without power. I’m not sure if it’s been out since early this morning when the storm came through or not. We had no clue in the daytime cause you can’t tell if places are without power in the daytime. We saw the trucks over on the highway before you pull into here when we came back from a ride earlier, right before the game started.

Someone my friend knows a few blocks away in another mobile home park has power, but it’s the same thing over there. She’s got power, the entire row across the street does not.

Apparently 14% of this county is without power, and we were well south of it.

69% of my county is without power the last
I checked.
They should be able to get it running in less time than they predict. That’s my experience from over here.
 
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the "ahhhh....ahhaa...ahhhhh" backup 'vocals' are a mix to 12 tracks of the band's voices. mixed and faded in on the board as opposed to tape loops as a mellotron would to create sound, and sounding like a woodwind too





more mellotron wonderment.....



and of course no doubt,

 
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@My3Sons

cbc radio is playing full stop making sense right now. a nice surprise while out back in my shed. (as i call it )

but i think i need a better description of it to people .. its 16' x 16' full wood structure and poured concrete floor. ....also a shop and part smoke house


....but what to call it?
 
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@My3Sons

cbc radio is playing full stop making sense right now. a nice surprise while out back in my shed. (as i call it )

but i think i need a better description of it to people .. its 16' x 16' full wood structure and poured concrete floor. ....also a shop and part smoke house


....but what to call it?
Stop Making Sense was fantastic although not my favorite version of Crosseyed and Painless which missed Adrian Belew in the movie. As for the shed I’d go with Smoke Head Shop. You can sell pulled pork and rolling papers.
 

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