Hurricane Matthew thread

[SurfdOut]

@bucketswithsoil How hard did Cocoa get it?

 

[SurfdOut]

NSB

 

[Jellyfish]

Is that a street?

 

[bucketswithsoil]

made it thru....was a mother fucker thou...im fla east coast middle of state...not fun..

@bucketswithsoil How hard did Cocoa get it?

NSB

thats gotta be beachway ave,off 44,in NSB...im almost sure of it....

bashed up good surfedOut,offshores tomorrow,hopefully its just not beat down flat already..chk ya PM....
lets get it on....many blessings said,and many thks...alot of ABOVE help washed down...WOOT WOOT...

 

[KONY]

Seems for the most part the whole storm spared Florida. Never really made direct contact.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Out of state Utility repair crews are headed for the coast. Double overtime.

First priority: get power back on at the Waffle House!

 

[Lester Beans]

^Wow this guy is making faces...

 

[bucketswithsoil]

surfedout..
where ya score that picture of NSB from if ya dont mind shareing...

lesterBeans..
you in FLA as well...??

dont mind pinballWiz,he means no harm...
even thou he doesnt play the SILVER BALL much..LOL

 

[KONY]

I'm on an island just outside Charleston. Originally we looked real bad. The whole Florida landfall has been trending since Tuesday night but was never locked in stone. As of right now the bulls eye appears to be slightly above the space cape. People started to evacuate here on Tuesday. They opened up the interstate one way both sides up to Columbia. That must have been a weird ride. We are watching closely and have til tomorrow afternoon to make decisions. I am pretty sure we are moving cars at least. I ran a computer model on rising sea level. At 10 feet of storm surge about 90% of the island is under water. My front yard would be at water level at about 6 feet. That's about what is forecast, assuming Florida has to eat the worst of it. If it merely bounces off and then takes a new angle towards Charleston as a Cat 3 or better, we gone. Almost all the models have it getting as far as Savannah, or maybe Edisto, SC and then hooking out. That's what I want. Sorry Florida. 140 mph winds and up to 12 feet of surge will fuck shit up. So many people gone from Charleston with full evac going on it sure was easy getting around today.

How did you do? Hopefully the place didnt float away.

 

[ronbo51]

Our power just came back on this afternoon. The eye passed over us on Saturday morning at 10AM. We had driven the cars over to a parking lot that was pretty much the high spot on the island the night before. I had found an interactive flood map that you could raise the water level in one foot increments and it showed our neighborhood flooded at about 5 feet, but this parking lot didn't flood even at 10 feet. The house we were at was my daughter's. I watched them build it and knew it was really well built. It stands at 16 feet above sea level. They have a Generac that powers the whole house. The power went out at about midnight Friday. It was almost always certain that the storm was going to be a weakening cat 2 at best when it went by Charleston, but I was very worried about the surge, and at one point our weatherguy, Joe Bastardi, was predicting up to 10 feet and that was devastating news. Because of the timing we were going to have two high tides to worry about. Midnight Friday and noon on Saturday. Since it passed us at 10 or so Saturday morning the surge was greatly reduced. Once the wind turned around after the eye passed it drove any surge out of the bays and the great threat was over. I was a little shocked how strong the wind was on the backside. I figured the friction of the land would slow the wind some but it didn't. We had slowly diminishing winds all day Saturday and had very little rain on the backside. One of the coolest aspects of the whole storm was yesterday in my little neighborhood since there was no power all the kids were outside playing. Kids were running and biking and skateboarding and throwing footballs. It looked like something out of my childhood in the sixties.