My house in the path..Savannah Ga. Expect 70-80 mph winds on my street, I'm downtown, 14 miles from beach.
If lucky the eye will pass 20- 60 miles off shore then turn and go out east ..but now it might swing around and go back to Florida where it could hit landfall again.
All those east of I-95 mandatory evacuation. That's the ENTIRE city. Expected storm surge, even if storm passes us is 9-11 ft. Most of the city barely above sea level....I'm 34 ft. Main road from beaches...islands east coming through city is ONLY 2ft above sea level and 12 miles straight through nothing but marsh, over 100,000 living out there with just that 1 road. At normal high tide road bed has water lapping up to it just feet away!
It will be 7-9 under water.
The fun begins ....here's a link to our local Hurricane hot line weather for those wanting to keep up with real local report.
This week was our annual Pirate festival 5 day of talk'n like a Pyrate. Over 25,000 already at Tybee beach where the parade & activities happen....all had to leave!
https://www.wtoc.com/weather
All roads coming in closed at noon today. Now all lane converted to exit direction. This is the largest evacuation in modern times over 28 million displaced in Florida- Georgia -South Carolina-North Carolina...now the big question.
Where they all going ?
Last time this happened '99... so many cars on I-16, they turned it into a 385 mile long parking lot. That's how far to Atlanta and that's how far traffic was backed up with no where to go! Sitting there running out of gas after hours & hours of not moving in the hot sun with AC running. There thousands of cars abandoned along the entire run.
Even a year after there were still several hundred abandoned that no one came back for, which they finally towed & auctioned.
Oh well maybe we'll get lucky and the damn thing will go find Toto & Dorthy.......
I wonder if the VAB would be easily damaged in a hurricane?
We've stocked up with Pop Tarts and Vienna Sausages, so I think we're prepared to weather the storm.
-- Roger
Hope hope for you and your wife will return to everything in tact an clean up minimal.
Sad news the result of Hurricane Matthew. Our Navaho missile that has sat for years outside the South Gate to Cape Canaveral AFS has "crashed." Too early to say if it can be repaired and restored. But if it is/does, it will have to go indoors. This photo taken by News 13 space reporter Greg Pallone.
Jim, I wuz gonna PM u and tell you to batten down the hatches and get some of those scalliwags off the beach to man the bilge pumps. Stay safe, brother-good karma to ya!My house in the path..Savannah Ga. ...
Oh well maybe we'll get lucky and the damn thing will go find Toto & Dorthy.......
I am out personally out surveying Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for damage in order to give everyone some visuals on what I am seeing today. Some of our older building, like the one pictured had significant damage. Please be patient as we get our teams in place for more detailed assessments and debris clean-up. I'll provide an update on Patrick Air Force Base soon.
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