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Hurricane Irma

mpearson

Mark Pearson
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As of today it looks like Irma is a cat 5 & is going to be headed up the west coast of Florida. Wow.

If I'm not mistaken I think we have a lot of members like Lee, who might be right in the path. I hope you all evacuate and/or stay safe!

You folks in Florida, keep us posted on how you're doing, please.

I've been in Tortola & seen the amazing fleet of catamarans there. Today they look like a $100 million Boat Salad.

Really sad! Look at the before & after photos here:

https://www.passagemaker.com/lifestyle/irma-tortola
 
Sorry I got stuck looking at old Woodstock photos! I wasn't there but I did attend Monterey Pop Festival...that was pre Woodstock...Florida and the keys look pretty bad too.
 
The west coast of Florida is getting hammered. The eye is now over Naples at 6:15 PM. The surge is yet to come. My boat is on the east coast (Daytona Beach) at a floating dock marina. I will have a better chance than the west coast boats. Good luck to all.
 
Virgin Gorda was destroyed. Bitter End wiped out, same for Saba Rock resort. Yacht Harbor, all boats are up near the street. Arial photos show no vegetation on the island. The Willie T is on the beach at Norman.
All totally sad.

Dick
 
Jim: We are giving "Dashaway" to our son Dave. He and 2 friends sailed her back here. In Marion harbor now.
Anyone wishing to view photos of the BVI, go to bvinewbies.com

Dick
 
There is a Morgan 38 at Indian Harbor, Florida...wondered if anyone knew who owned it. It looked fine.
 
I have been looking at photos and videos of the vast damage sustained in the Caribbean. It will be years before they return to some semblance of order. So many people will be out of work and have trouble feeding their familys. Hopefully they will look at the buildings that didn't survive and develop a set of building codes that would produce strong, survivable homes.

Jim
 
My family and I were in a private shelter at 2:AM i heard it go right over our building. Sounded like a frieght train standing 5 feet away ! OMG if i were not in a concrete building, I sure would have thought God is comming for me !

The Boat was fine in her slip on the Anclote river. Bimimi up with solar panel on. All sails on and lashed main and jub. Tripple tied 3/4 in nylon all 4 ways and each minship cleat. All my Big 12 inch bumpers out and The Giant RED balls I use to stop the dink from banhing on the boat when on the davits. one each side to keep her apart from neighbors.
I lost 60 some roof tiles from rhe house. plenty of trees down been 4 days of chain saw work . Cut up and drag to the curb. They say they will pick it all up . Fema will pay for cleanup .
Between Huston and now Florida and Fema out of money !!!?! Hows there going to be enough money to build the WALL ?
 
Glad to hear you and boat are ok, Lee.
I don't know, maybe they'll build the wall out of hurricane debris and salt water soaked cars?!
There must be at least 100,000 cars/trucks that were fully soaked in salt water with the two hurricanes.
I was just reading an article saying insurance companies consider those 'totalled'.
So that'd be cheap wall building materials. And it would look pretty classy too ;)
 
That's an even better idea, Jim. There are a couple of good bars in Georgetown that we'd need to work the wall around.
 
Yes i would be in favor of scrapped cars to build a wall. in 1961 there was a hurricane on the New jersey coast and the barrier island Of l
Long beach island was hit very hard. They took scrapped cars from philly and dropped them off shore for 18 miles to make a barrier from the waves.
There was little EPA back than. It sure saved the day . The cars all had gone thru a car crusher and were about a foot thick. Did the JOB !
 
Cape Coral and Lee County in general fared pretty well west of US41.
The winds West of the storm appeared to be MUCH weaker then the East side.
Damage is pretty random in the neighborhoods with some houses being fine and others next door with 3 houses in a row their pool cages ripped right off.
Google maps purchased the aerial photos of the Lee County area (coincidentally?) as they were taken 48 to 72 hours after Irma came through.
Turn 3D mapping ON in google maps to get the recent Arial view cache images.
 
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