Hurricane "Ian" may be heading for us here in Florida

Ft Meyers Beach


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Goof morning. 7 am in St. Auggie Florida. Lots of wind last night, almost constant rain. Just getting light. We are on a barrier island and the roads are clear. We still have power, and the retention ponds are not at max ..... Yet. We are about 1.5 miles from the ocean and 500ft from the intra-coastal.

Will report back later.
 
Good morning from Tampa.
Rained all night with steady 20-30 mph winds. Supposed to rain all day today with 20 mph, but not raining now.
Only damage was minor plant damage in the garden.
Ready to resume Pickleball tomorrow.
 
Dtail said:
Good morning from Tampa.
Rained all night with steady 20-30 mph winds. Supposed to rain all day today with 20 mph, but not raining now.
Only damage was minor plant damage in the garden.
Ready to resume Pickleball tomorrow.
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That is great news for you!!

Question is the eye of the storm off of land now? I can't seem to find out from news if eye has passed over now and back at sea.
 
street said:
... The problems water does to connections (salt) is job security. In time or right away it needs to be replaced. Eventually open connection will fail is a given. If not salt fine sediment and the dirt in flood water does the destruction and failure of power.
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If the buried utilities may need replacing eventually, that may be better (from a storm recovery perspective) than having to replace large sections of them all at once after a major storm.
 
Lewis Clark said:
If the buried utilities may need replacing eventually, that may be better (from a storm recovery perspective) than having to replace large sections of them all at once after a major storm.
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I respect your opinion. Thanks
 
street said:
That is great news for you!!

Question is the eye of the storm off of land now? I can't seem to find out from news if eye has passed over now and back at sea.
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The 8 am update from the National Hurricane Center had the center over Merritt Island (by Kennedy Space Center).
 
kgtest said:
And of course, you gotta love when Jim Cantore heads out with his rain poncho and baseball helmet:

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/video/jim-cantore-hangs-on-during-hurricane-ian
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I like him too, but, he is a bit of a showman.:) Sometimes he cracks me up. I've seen him "leaning into the wind" while in the background some guy is casually walking down the street without any problem or the trees in the background look like they are in a gentle breeze. Once he was talking about all the area flooding while he's standing in a small puddle. But I've also seem him in some really bad conditions and he does seem to be able to pick the locations where the hurricanes will come in. Regardless, not a job that I'd want.
 
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Lewis Clark said:
It was more a question than an opinion. I have no expertise in the construction industry.
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Underground power utilities in large metro areas have their own issues and not all what people may think they are.

Transmission line doesn't get buried because of its high voltage capacity and that is the source for all secondary voltages. Substations can't be buried, and the reasons why go on and on.

Not to belittle anyone but the average person/consumer sometimes don't see the large picture. Topic is a whole new thread on why or why not UG vs OH.

Thanks
 
street said:
Underground power utilities in large metro areas have their own issues and not all what people may think they are.

Transmission line doesn't get buried because of its high voltage capacity and that is the source for all secondary voltages. Substations can't be buried, and the reasons why go on and on.

Not to belittle anyone but the average person/consumer sometimes don't see the large picture. Topic is a whole new thread on why or why not UG vs OH.

Thanks
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We had similar challenges in the telecommunications industry. Buried cables vs aerial. Example, buried cables are great in high winds, aerial cables not so much. Buried cables seem to attract backhoes (digging equipment), aerial cable, not so much.
 
My brother sold his house last year. He lived on a canal in Englewood. I'm sure it must have flooded. They also had 150mph winds. I sure hope everyone in that area evacuated.
 
street said:
Underground power utilities in large metro areas have their own issues and not all what people may think they are.

Transmission line doesn't get buried because of its high voltage capacity and that is the source for all secondary voltages. Substations can't be buried, and the reasons why go on and on.

Not to belittle anyone but the average person/consumer sometimes don't see the large picture. Topic is a whole new thread on why or why not UG vs OH.

Thanks
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I've been trained as an engineer, though I never attempted to earn a professional engineer license. One thing I learned is that everything comes with trade-offs. Making something a little better in one aspect will inevitably make it worst in a different aspect.

There are rarely, if ever, perfect solutions.
 
JoeWras said:
On Nextdoor, everyone is an expert. A group of neighbors was telling us all the mistakes the power company made and how they would design it right. This happened after our last tropical event a few years ago.

Their brilliant solution was to simply bury it all. So simple. Gosh, the power company has so many dunces. They patted each other on the back and moved on to solving the police staffing shortage. Experts in everything!
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This happens across the entirety of the US...an extreme weather event disrupts power for a few days (weeks or months in some very extreme cases) and there is an uproar to 'BURY EVERYTHING!!!!' giving little to no thought to the costs and near impossibility of doing such a thing. It's expensive enough as it is to keep up the status quo.
 
Ft Myers, Sanibel, Punta Gorda, Naples etc got slammed. 4 breaks alone in the bridge out to Sanibel. a friend of ours friend in Naples told her "our house is gone".

Gonna be a long recovery down there.
 
Car-Guy said:
I like him too, but, he is a bit of a showman.:) Sometimes he cracks me up. I've seen him "leaning into the wind" while in the background some guy is casually walking down the street without any problem or the trees in the background look like they are in a gentle breeze. Once he was talking about all the area flooding while he's standing in a small puddle. But I've also seem him in some really bad conditions and he does seem to be able to pick the locations where the hurricanes will come in. Regardless, not a job that I'd want.
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To Jim's credit..he wasn't the "showman" that got called out. That was Mike Seidel. Poor Jim got smacked with a limb last night...but hey, when you stand in a HURRICANE, you gotta expect that. YTTV has Fox Weather which reminded me of the old (and good) Weather Channel. They reported the weather with little drama.

Mike's "performance":
 
Lewis Clark said:
I've been trained as an engineer, though I never attempted to earn a professional engineer license. One thing I learned is that everything comes with trade-offs. Making something a little better in one aspect will inevitably make it worst in a different aspect.

There are rarely, if ever, perfect solutions.
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That is very true Lewis Clark. Some of it comes down to economics in replacement etc..
 
Downtown Old Town St. Augustine seems to be flooded, but honestly it always does, even with an average downpour. Always a lot worse at high tide (In 60 mins) when the sea wall is breached.

We are still OK. .... for now. Retentions ponds are fill, but streets are clear in our neck of the woods.
 
ExFlyBoy5 said:
Although the storm is not nearly as impressive looking, I thought I would share this link that is of the GOES East satellite. It is one of the more impressive products available from NOAA. Weather geeks are pretty big fans. :)

This link is configured for a 20 hour loop.

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=240
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When we got hit by Fran in '96, it looked totally unimpressive. It was down to a 3, no visible eye, open radar on the south. I relaxed and fell asleep. Then...

It was a night of terror.

I will never again underestimate the power of a storm in the stages of dissipation. The eye collapsed right on Raleigh, and that apparently had something to do with it.

In any case, those of us farther up the coast need to be vigilant. The referenced satellite view in the quote shows convection popping again over the warm gulf stream.
 
finnski1 said:
Ft Myers, Sanibel, Punta Gorda, Naples etc got slammed. 4 breaks alone in the bridge out to Sanibel. a friend of ours friend in Naples told her "our house is gone".

Gonna be a long recovery down there.
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Looked like it. I’ve spent some time in the area both for sailing (Colgate Sailing School on Captiva) and birding/nature photography in many locations along that SW coast. Wow, hard to imagine the damage.
 
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