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None Shall Pass said:
My favorite thing I learned about Disaster Recovery in grad school: The Waffle House Index


Apparently all the Waffle Houses between Tampa and Orlando are closing in preparation.
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The Waffle House one is great and so true.

Down here in Florida there’s also the Jim Canatore (I think I’m remembering it right) theory where if you see this weatherman show up in your town it’s an “on s**t”
Moment because he’s essentially a storm chaser who goes to the exact area that’s going to get pummeled.
 
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It’s not too bad for me yet, as far as the winds go. It’s a bit gusty and the wind has picked up. All it’s been doing is raining though and heavy. Had some tornado warnings last night and had to turn my phone off cause it causes your iPhone to go off (that and Amber alerts) when you get a local tornado alert/warning cause I guess there’s no long term warning for tornados.
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My parents in Plam Beach are getting wind but not too much rain. Of course their roof sprung a small leak two days ago that they can’t get fixed until after this passes.
 
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I've been sending messages to a friend for the last two hours with no response ... he's a fishing guide in Cape Coral and decided to hang nearby, Matlacha on Pine Island actually. Not feeling good about this.
 
JimEIV said:
I've been sending messages to a friend for the last two hours with no response ... he's a fishing guide in Cape Coral and decided to hang nearby, Matlacha on Pine Island actually. Not feeling good about this.
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Any word from him yet?
 
There’s an empty garbage can rolling around outside on the street.

If I had to guess it’s probably the assholes that moved in about 6 months ago, who I fell in love with the night they moved in at about 3:00 AM and were courteous enough to put their flashers on (which came right through my bedroom window) for about an hour as they parked their truck on the side of the road, just in case one of the zero cars that come down this street at 3:00 AM might not have noticed them when they didn’t drive by.
 
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My3Sons said:
Ugh. Just awful. Hopefully everyone had some safe place to ride it out. Having been in a few over here it's scary and once it goes wrong it can be life threatening very quickly.
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The hurricanes down here have been known to actually scare many Jersey-ites and other non-natives out of Florida and either back where they came from or somewhere a little more landlocked.

And insurance premiums are awfully high here, I still pay considerably less, if not only even half of what a decent 1 bedroom apartment goes for here a year/month with only having to pay property tax and insurance, as I bought this in cash back when the market was super cheap. I think I only paid like $150k-something (I'd have to look at the deed lol), but apparently Zillow has me worth $524k right now. :oops:

It was a little Golden Girls-y looking when I first came, which I've done a bit to make it a little less Golden Girls-y looking. What I mean by Golden Girls looking is the living room and kitchen were a bit 80's looking (it was built in 1979) like their house. And some of the carpeting in the back and on the porch is the original. I also have a pool, which was basically a must for me if I was buying and it had to be my own pool and not a shared community one.

All in all, I'm very happy with my purchase and I'm very happy and thankful to have gotten to come here to live at 35 and not 65. My move was in the works for about 15-20 years, since I was a teenager. That's why I worked A LOT of hours and commuted stupid miles working in a carpenters union and lived at home for a lot of my under-35 life. I'm so glad I don't have to do that work anymore either, as I would be falling apart by now. I took that money and ran and now have a much more lower paying, but also lower manual job now. It's all I need.

So I don't mind paying thousands a year in homeowners insurance. My house is almost the entirety of my net worth. If I'm ever in the market for another vehicle and have to make car payments and take a loan again, I might be a bit annoyed with the homeowners insurance premium prices.

I do still get the tiniest bit of freaked out when a hurricane comes up or a tropical storm with hurricane potential.

Right before I moved out of Jersey in 2011, we had a storm hit Jersey like two weeks before I left and it made landfall near Atlantic City. I think it was Irene? It was probably the weekend before Labor Day weekend. I was worried for my family on Long Beach Island. It wound up not being too bad, but then they had Sandy the next year, which I was already down here for that.
 
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this is just ft myers beach - so its an area im very familiar with - my parents lived right over the bridge for 10 years, my aunt has (or had) a house right down the street from these photos , and my brother and his fiance are both FD/EMS for Ft Myers - the pictures from this storm are already very reminiscent of my experiences with Sandy, and I'm sure there a plenty more photos of devastation to come
 
My supervisor’s dad lives in Orlando and they just lost power. Apparently a lot of people didn’t evacuate. As I put it to my coworkers, people don’t think they’re going to get punched in the face until they actually get punched in the face.
 
DevilDoggo said:
My supervisor’s dad lives in Orlando and they just lost power. Apparently a lot of people didn’t evacuate. As I put it to my coworkers, people don’t think they’re going to get punched in the face until they actually get punched in the face.
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I can't blame people for not evacuating Orlando though. It's quite a bit inland and more often than not you're safer in Orlando than most every other larger city in Florida (other than maybe Tallahassee), as pretty much every other city is either on the Gulf, Atlantic or close enough (Tampa).

I'm not saying Orlando is completely safe, nowhere in Florida is, but it's generally been safer there than places like Tampa/St Pete (Gulf), Sarasota/Bradenton (Gulf), Fort Myers/Cape Coral (Gulf), Naples (Gulf), Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach (Atlantic), Treasure Coast (Atlantic), Space Coast (Atlantic), Daytona Beach (Atlantic), St Augustine/Jacksonville (Atlantic) and then you got the panhandle and the Keys both near coast line.

Typically, by the time a storm gets to Orlando, they've usually weakened after somewhere on the coast took the massive hit.

Lots of people on the coast in both Tampa/St Pete area, as well as Daytona Beach and even Jacksonville area actually evacuate to Orlando.
 
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DevilDoggo said:
My supervisor’s dad lives in Orlando and they just lost power. Apparently a lot of people didn’t evacuate. As I put it to my coworkers, people don’t think they’re going to get punched in the face until they actually get punched in the face.
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working in dispatch - I can track the path of the hurricane based on the quantity of calls coming in through a specific city, jacksonville seems to be going through it now in terms of power outages
 
non partisan post


today is the day for truth and reconciliation in canada

a "stat" holiday it seems

i find it shameful that government employees have the day off WITH PAY.

/rant
 
njdevils1982 said:
non partisan post


today is the day for truth and reconciliation in canada

a "stat" holiday it seems

i find it shameful that government employees have the day off WITH PAY.

/rant
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I have a contractor from Vancouver working in my group and he took today off for the holiday.
 
njdevils1982 said:
non partisan post


today is the day for truth and reconciliation in canada

a "stat" holiday it seems

i find it shameful that government employees have the day off WITH PAY.

/rant
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Eh. I've worked in the public sector for the entirety of my adult working life. We all sacrifice making more money in the private sector for better benefits, including the occasional odd paid holiday day off.
 
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None Shall Pass said:
Eh. I've worked in the public sector for the entirety of my adult working life. We all sacrifice making more money in the private sector for better benefits, including the occasional odd paid holiday day off.
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in light of the past treatment of kids at the residential schools the government should'nt treated to the bonus of a paid day off. it's akin to giving yourself a pat on the back
 
njdevils1982 said:
in light of the past treatment of kids at the residential schools the government should'nt treated to the bonus of a paid day off. it's akin to giving yourself a pat on the back
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Fair enough, and I don't even pretend to know the horrors of what the Canadian government did to those kids. I'm only vaguely aware of it.

With Columbus Day now, at least we're trying the whole Native American heritage day thing instead.
 
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Its 23PM and my flight to NY takes off tomorrow at 1 PM.

What a great timing to pick up a cold... My left ear feels clogged and cant open it. No way i can fly to the US tomorrow. Google says differences in cabin air pressure can be extremely painful, not risking of being on a brink of suicide for 9 hours.

Bums me out so hard right now, gotta wait at least 5 days i reckon before i dare to rebook flights. Luckily my company is paying the flights as ill be working for them in the US, so dont need to worry about the economics of this hassle.
 
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