hurricane coming...

i heard irma's going to pivot to video

Starting to breathe easier...

me too. prediction for winds reduced to trop storm where I'm at. tho then because of shifted track my aunt (who I haven't seen in 14 years) had to evacuate from ft Myers. these tradeoffs, oi.

Poor Tampa, too...

had another St Bernardus, saving the rest for tomorrow. gonna bust out some Sangria in a bit.

watched Goodfellas, reading It....

My friend and her new coworkers did indeed get out of Tampa and up to NYC this morning.

mom is north of tampa, not responding to FB messages

Confirmed reports of tornadoes on the ground have come from central Broward County, as tornado warnings were extended across South Florida.

Residents were urged to take cover immediately. At 7:40 p.m. a confirmed tornado was at Interstate 75 and U.S. 27 near Alligator Alley, moving west at 35 mph, the National Weather Service said. The tornado was located earlier over central Broward.

“At 7:18 PM EDT, a confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado was located over Plantation, moving west at 35 mph,” the National Weather Service said. “This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW!”

The weather service said the tornado threatened North Pompano Beach, Markham Park, West Ken-Lark, Ramblewood East, downtown Davie and Broward Estates.

“Heavy rainfall may hide this tornado,” the weather service said. “Do not wait to see or hear the tornado. TAKE COVER NOW!”

fuuck

tornadoes are the one wild card w/ hurricanes that you really can do fuck-all to prepare for. a lot of Orlando's damage from Charley came not from the winds itself but from tornadoes spawned :(.

down to 120 mph now, headed towards Florida now, probably about to re-strengthen. just how much remains to be seen.

Tropical storm force winds in full effect here, including tornado warnings in Broward.

sheer size of this storm is insane

fuck guys hang in there

it's moving so slowly, it seems. 9 MPH would give the eye another 10 hours or so to cross to the keys. whether that's good or bad, as far as people making a last second decision to evacuate vs the lengthier time allowing it to gain strength, idk.

xpost i think we're gonna be fine here...assuming no surprises tomorrow.

a little more concerned about my friends in Tampa but the friends are super knowledgeable about hurricane safety and I trust their judgment.

Glad things are looking better for our Floridian ilxors and my coworkers as well as everyone in my neighborhood's parents or grandparents.

Here, put this in your mixes!

heh we were at karaoke tuesday and the host refused to let my friend sing the Scorpions song so he sung "Winds of Change" instead

tampa ilxor here. worried about my house and my cats, secured everything i could, not in a flood zone, thankfully. weathering the storm tomorrow night at a friend's house with boarded up windows. DJing tonight at a bar, no reason not to as it's perfectly fine outside tonight, but the feeling is eerie and anxious. it's good to have something to do with my mind and body.

Those moments? Treasure them. I spent last night at a buddy and his wife mixing martinis and talking shit. Therapeutic!

xp damn dude have a good set ! what you playin

Riders on the storms, of course. Into witch - let's get together ( thanks local garda)

Storm

Oh! Forgot Fleetwood Mac's "Sara."

I can tell who hasn't been in any kind of tropical event before.

friend of mine posted a pic of his house with his car parked in front of his house and someone actually asked "omg won't thes torm send the car flying into your house"

(which yes, if a severe tornado spawned, ok, shit can happen, but like it's provided me some needed laughs after a fatiguing weekend)

new track came out - they are now projecting it to make landfall as a 3 (120 mph) instead of a 4.

good news....

That's why every true Floridian has an anchor attached to their car

I just sell mine every time a storm comes

would be nice if Jose wasn't just chillin out there in the Atlantic. currently forecasted to do a loop de loop

good news is that it looks like jose is going to end up just dying slowly while chilling out in the atlantic!

hope so. everybody's nervous given the infamous Jeanne loop-de-loop in 2004 when we'd thought it was dead but that one was also a little further north.

found my LiveJournal from 2004 (lol) and looked to see what I wrote about Hurricanes, and it was very little except to complain about the media sensationalism about them. at least I'm consistent.

i am in awe of how much craziness you guys take as a given, just from living through all these hurricanes & storms over the years.
Doff my cap to all you mfers

the one big cyclone in Australia happened 2 years before I was born a bajillion miles from where i live & the fkn ~tv movie~ gave me nightmares. i still have panic attacks during lameass wind storms here in Sacramento. i dunno how yall do it <3

Watching footage from Mexico this week, I still cannot imagine what an earthquake feels like.

I've never experienced a hurricane first-hand, but we had Gustav squat on top of us for about a week, so I can picture that ten times more intense.

yeah earthquakes too - experienced a small one in Vegas 20 years ago & just about shit my pants in fear while Mr Veg, who rode out Loma Preator in SF, was practically filing his nails with boredom

There should be a picture book for adults about the different kinds of recurring disasters that threaten the people and things in all the regions of the world. I am going to see about this.

there was when i was a kid! it was this coffee table book of like a century of world disasters with newspaper photos & headlines

i was OBSESSED with it

terrifying :D

feel free to dig this post up when the 7.8 hits Los Angeles but the strongest quake I've felt in L.A. took place almost exactly 16 years ago to the day and it wasn't a big deal. we just felt a couple jolts. However despite not being a big deal, whenever you feel those jolts you wonder for a few seconds if they'll continue and get stronger. my wife lived thru the northridge quake (on the 9th floor of student housing no less) and is sensitive to quakes. So much so that my 3am shifting around in bed has caused her brief panic a couple of times (maybe bc the northridge quake hit in the early morning hours.)

Last track: Pin up club - friends of the vortex

i've felt two very mild earthquakes -- one in alaska and one in nyc(!?) -- and it is deeply weird. i don't blame mrs nomar one bit for being edgy

lol, was it the east coast one in August 2011? i was in new york & on the phone with my dad, who was in maryland. we were in the middle of a long conversation & i heard something fall in the background on his end & he said 'whoa, what the fuck... i think i just felt an earthquake.' it took about a minute for the earthquake to reach me - my bed started swaying and forth and people were screaming outside. good timing

I hope all the Florida ILXors are all right... please take care of yourselves!

If you get 2 1 in 1000 year hurricanes within a week and a half of each other is that it for the next year or is this now the new norm.

anyway, hope people are safe and this is a short term thing that can allow life to continue without much further resulting chaos.

2 cameras down on the 8 camera page already: https://zeryl.github.io/irma.html

Pulling for all ILXors in the path.

Hope all of you are OK - my mom was supposed to be joining you this week but her place is in Fort Myers Beach so she'd better not.

Hi!

<3

I'm worried that my shitty ads Jensen radio not working with batteries.

i just had the best sleep I've had in a week

Ha!

my local newscasters seem to have huge boners for tornadoes.