2022 Tropical Storm and Hurricane Thread

[Blotto 23465]

28 minutes ago, LonghornJones said:

Is anyone looking at a webcam between Tampa and Ft Myers? I cant find anything that works.

theres a bunch of webcam links in the reddit page I posted last night: 

Including another page of webcam links: https://old.reddit.com/r/controllablewebcams/comments/xow5yd/hurricane_ian_florida_weather_cameras_live_video/

And this aggregated page of youtube streams has a few webcams: https://multistream.co/p/7t1VnwTev2H/Hurricane_Ian

[The Dog 43882]

Waffle Houses are closing in the storm's path.

For those who need a refresher: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

[texasdago 7553]

What's amazing to me is people seeing the absolute devastation that occurred with Michael in 2018 (see Pensacola, Mexico Beach, etc.) and thinking, "yeah, I'm good... I'll just hang out here"

[RPM 26268]

Looks like landfall is going to be Englewood.

[LonghornJones 835]

Just now, RPM said:

Looks like landfall is going to be Englewood.

Thats no good.

[Hate 20104]

Englewood always up to no good.

[Buzzrock 14883]

How bad could a category 4 hurricane full of lightning and alligators be? “From the director of Sharknado…”

[GopherRock 1765]

21 minutes ago, texasdago said:

What's amazing to me is people seeing the absolute devastation that occurred with Michael in 2018 (see Pensacola, Mexico Beach, etc.) and thinking, "yeah, I'm good... I'll just hang out here"

An acquaintance from here in MN is currently hunkered down at her folks' place near Fort Myers. They never said if they were in an evacuation zone. I'm afraid they have no idea what is about to happen.

[wildcat09 29307]

Has anyone seen any reporting on how many people were staying vs leaving? Sure seems like a whole lot of people decided to be idiots and brave it out.

[DDD Dad 14272]

32 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Has anyone seen any reporting on how many people were staying vs leaving? Sure seems like a whole lot of people decided to be idiots and brave it out.

To be fair that's a lot of people to evacuate with limited means/routes.  Plus, the storm is so big it's really hard to "get" somewhere that isn't potentially just as bad to where many might be already.  That said, it's concerning that many of the designated shelters don't appear to be anywhere close to full.

Talked yesterday with a law school buddy of mine in Fort Myers.  He is riding it out.  He's about a block east of the evacuation zone (right near the Edison and Ford winter homes). 

Edited September 28, 2022 by DDD Dad

[pantone159 719]

15 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

How bad could a category 4 hurricane full of lightning and alligators be? “From the director of Sharknado…”

Also crocodiles.

[Hook1997 5334]

That Naples Pier is holding up like a champ!  Whoever built that Corpus needs to call them to rebuild Bob Hall Pier.  People still taking pictures at the souther most point and Naples Pier..

Edited September 28, 2022 by Hook1997

[SimonBolivar 10949]

This doesn't look fun.

[tokamak 6353]

1 hour ago, LonghornJones said:

 

Different angle, but this is what that normally looks like (via Google Maps).

[tokamak 6353]

1 hour ago, UTCzech III said:

This is Plant City, farther north than what you are looking for, but just as a bookmark for later when the storm gets closer (yes, I know, train nerd...)

 

#GrayShed

[UnivTex34 1763]

Man, Reed Timmer has himself in a bad spot. 

[SydneyCarton 47937]

32 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

How bad could a category 4 hurricane full of lightning and alligators be? “From the director of Sharknado…”

For starters, Hollywood would never say it was a Category 4. In fact, the title of the movie almost has to be "Category 6."

[Bevo 13534]

So is it safe to say Sanibel and Captiva are a bigger disaster than UT football?

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4968]

Cat 6: Gatorcane

Edited September 28, 2022 by NotActuallyALonghorn

[Ogie Ogilthorpe 639]

Local nbc Calling a landfall at sanibel captiva now

Edited September 28, 2022 by Ogie Ogilthorpe

[StruggleBus 3922]

16 minutes ago, tokamak said:

#GrayShed

Never 4get

[Updawg 2262]

Man, Reed Timmer has himself in a bad spot. 

No shit. Was just looking at his twitter. Crazy

[Brew 3049]

8 minutes ago, Ogie Ogilthorpe said:

Local nbc Calling a landfall at sanibel captiva now

Going to suck, Charley did a number on the islands as a smaller hurricane that hit it more centered and crossed where Ian is going to catch it with the eastern edge  and run up it as a much larger, more powerful storm. Captiva is easily going to be washed over with this one.

[Blotto 23465]

Jeff P priaprism imminent

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

48 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

That Naples Pier is holding up like a champ! 

No kidding. I got a little mesmerized watching that cam because that pier has been stalwart. Hope @Ogie Ogilthorpe is hunkering down because the wind there looks nasty.

[Gatorubet 30165]

18 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

. . . and when the power goes out, don't open the fridge/freezer doors for the usual "stare and eventually select" game.  Know what's in there, grab it, shut those doors pronto.

You need to put five days of food in a really good yeti type cooler full of ice.  Eat out of that and do not open the fridge or freezer for days.  Put the temp control on coldest the day before you expect the power out. 

Put a quarter on a frozen water filled shot glass.  When you come home and stuff is frozen, but the quarter is 1/2 down the glass, you know your freezer  was below 32degrees for a long time. 

I have a small inverter generator just dedicated to the fridge.   If everything else fails, and my big gen for transfer switch fails, I can run it one out of four hours and keep my freezer cold.   .5 gallon of gas is four hours of small gen, giving me 20 hours of freezer cold.  

[MNLonghornFUKM 8815]

Jeff snuck away from his wife because he had run errands

[LonghornJones 835]

53 minutes ago, tokamak said:

Different angle, but this is what that normally looks like (via Google Maps).

[Incredulity 11568]

6 minutes ago, LonghornJones said:

 

This stream just went down.

[LonghornJones 835]

back up

[Johnny Sack 8397]

15 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

You need to put five days of food in a really good yeti type cooler full of ice.  Eat out of that and do not open the fridge or freezer for days.  Put the temp control on coldest the day before you expect the power out. 

Put a quarter on a frozen water filled shot glass.  When you come home and stuff is frozen, but the quarter is 1/2 down the glass, you know your freezer  was below 32degrees for a long time. 

I have a small inverter generator just dedicated to the fridge.   If everything else fails, and my big gen for transfer switch fails, I can run it one out of four hours and keep my freezer cold.   .5 gallon of gas is four hours of small gen, giving me 20 hours of freezer cold.  

I use that trick for the freezer at the ranch.

[LonghornJones 835]

[washparkhorn 9937]

Ian tentacle reaching Clemson. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19097]

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

Has anyone seen any reporting on how many people were staying vs leaving? Sure seems like a whole lot of people decided to be idiots and brave it out.

Florida...duh.

[hookemATL 11623]

Ian Tentacle sounds like a really shitty punk rock front man. 

[Rip76 4918]

No freaking way.

 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20359]

I love this headline:  Ian makes landfall today; Indiana remains tranquil


https://fox59.com/weather/ian-makes-landfall-today-remains-tranquil-for-indiana/

[Brew 3049]

These guys have camera on FMB and Sanibel that are still up.

 

 

[LonghornJones 835]

Maybe they are referring to the remains of Indiana Jones.

[Ogie Ogilthorpe 639]

Lost power 30 minutes ago, fired up the generator, started right away. I have a portable that I have hooked into my panel. I will be investing in a whole home generator before next season.

Winds are definitely lightening up here. FPL is busting their asses getting power back up. Hopefully we will be back soon.

[Blotto 23465]

2 minutes ago, Brew said:

These guys have camera on FMB and Sanibel that are still up.

 

 

Cool camera feeds, but 50% of the commentary sounds like a f'n telethon.

[Brew 3049]

Have it muted once i heard the camera locations. Camera 5 is on the second floor of a condo and is getting waves over it. Camera 9 is sitting around 10-12 feet and has water going over it.

[Incredulity 11568]

that stream in #403 is something else. holy smokes.

 

Edit*** mute definitely recommended.

Edited September 28, 2022 by Incredulity

[utee94 15752]

Man that looks... really, really bad.  Hope all of our Florida surlys are hanging in there. 

 

[Jshep34 2304]

Sanibel and Ft. Meyers are screwed

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[utee94 15752]

Looks like they've lost a couple of webcams from the feed above.

[Hornius Emeritus 12445]

Camera 9 is a cousin of blue shed.

[Texas St. Armadillos 1381]

Damn, the eye is as big as Lake Okeechobee.

[Blotto 23465]

9 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Camera 9 is a cousin of blue shed.

speaking of, Jeff P is back online and out driving around

Edit - and his feed went out. I think he's driving around englewood.

Edited September 28, 2022 by Blotto

[Brew 3049]

7 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Looks like they've lost a couple of webcams from the feed above.

They have been dropping and then coming back up. He said earlier they have multiple ways to upload video from them, so they have to give them time to load when one source goes down. Apparently, they are some sort of specially designed cameras in Pelican cases that they attach to fixed mounts in multiple locations. It was pretty interesting while I listened for a few minutes, except for all the other BS he was going through.