hurricane coming...

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.

just heard on NPR that ppl living west of Miami are arriving in the city

another cam, still up
https://www.earthcam.com/usa/florida/lauderdalebythesea/?cam=windjammer

storm chaser jeff driving around the naples area currently https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MnGnmNQrAyKO

cracked open my first St Bernardus, timing it so that I have my second around the time the squalls come in, then will chase w/ Sangria to be sufficiently buzzed during the trop storm winds, and then will take a sleep aid so I can sleep through the worst.

FL we got dis! stay safe

CNN blog post title: "Irma is sucking out water in some areas — and that's bad"

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idiots on FB saying "Orlando going to be wiped off the map", "my hometown Orlando is going to be destroyed".

jfc people the people on the west coast who are getting hit harder than us aren't even reacting that way.

theatre people are the worst (sadly 75% of my friends)

(for the record, we won't be)

fake news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z3pxRDPHVU

#conspricacys!

2nd st bernardus!

I lost power, am enduring what's supposedly the last of the major storm bands. I'm reading a George H.W. Bush bio.

boo to the lost power, tho I guess that's inevitable.

Gluck folks

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Sangria has been distributed......

stay g out there

Good vibes from Belgium! Sint Bernardus, that's from most of my relatives' village :-)

nice! just finished my last one though :(

attempting to add "canesplaining" to urbandictionary

down to a Cat 2 now (110 mph).

our winds are supposed to pick up in a few hours (curfew is at 7 pm ET).

not turning as far west as expected yet. if it doesn't, might be more wind for us, but I downloaded my books and music and batteries are charged so I'm good for a while.

local networks are turning into disaster porn, so only watching sparingly.

attempting to add "canesplaining" to urbandictionary

I support this

first power blinks!

Power just went off about thirty minutes ago. The park streetlights went off about ten minutes later.

Wow, so much for those backup generators, eh.

latest here...

*dad plugged up the toilet (after taking a dump, cos of course it couldn't just be pee)
*I ask "ok, where's the plunger", and he loudly starts saying that can't be it cos he put his hand in the U-bend (through the poopy water).
*I realize he's saying this cos mo'fo doesn't have a plunger. they have literally been calling maintenance dude every time it 'gets clogged'.
*it's only a partial blockage so we just let the water go down and are using alternate ways to drain it, after I asked them "how the fuck can you not own a plunger" for 30 minutes...
*Winds have picked up considerably, we only have palm trees here but they're whipping about, lots of rain.
*power goes out right as new info coming on TV, apparently one network saying track changed and eye would wobble east and hit Orlando head on. Others are saying no, it's just moving north, it'll still come west of us. either way, heavier winds, more hurricane wind.
*mass confusion, though of course I'm puzzled at the freakout mostly cos it puts us back to getting what we thought we'd be getting on Thursday (Cat 1 winds).
*social media loses its minds

tbh, I am less wigged out by the storm then by the hysteria. I stopped reading social media except to update a friend of mine whose connection is slow. waiting for 11 pm NHC update so all th

I'm alive I didn't die in mid-post

thoughts and prayers 4 neanderthal's plumbing crisis, walk tall and carry a big plunger dude

Hope that's it for the next while. José did go off into the ocean and expire not replenish didn't it? Just hearing that the hurricanes have been feeding from the warm water of the oceans so hope its not going to come back.
Also hoping that this having been the peak of hurricane season means things are going to be dying down not brewing new storms.

really wondering if what was designated 1 in 1000 years happens twice in 2 weeks what that says about frequency from now on. Hope it's not now annual or more frequent.

Also wondering if anything can be done to cool down oceans that won't itself trigger off planetary reaction that will be as negative.

#pray4milo

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silver linings etc.

All those patreon bucks, like dust in the wind...

My parents have a boat in Ft Meyers that they've been trying to sell. Seems to have survived the storm winds, now it just has to survive the surge flooding....

My mom was supposed to move down to her place in Fort Myers Beach today but has postponed for about a week. It's on the Gulf shore - will know later if it's been damaged. She says her place is 20 feet above sea level so will not get flooded.

Im good. Other than trees down and flooding in the neighborhood that has already receded.

Had to drive half a mile down the street to get reception

Made my parents borrow a plunger this morning cos my dad freshly shat on top of the old poowater. I swear my folks are 12 year olds

moar thoughts and prayers 4 neanderthal's plumbing crisis

IT IS SOLVEEED

2 missing after riding out the hurricane on a boat

Joey Fago told CNN he can't find his relatives who rode out Hurricane Irma on a boat in Marathon in the Florida Keys. Irma made landfall in the Keys as a Category 4 storm.

Fago's cousin and uncle, who is a seasoned fisherman who's been through many hurricanes, were on a 48-foot sport fishing boat.

The National Guard is currently in the Keys, but Fago said the family wants to search as well.

"But there’s no communication back," he said. "We need to get down there."

Despite all that, Fago and the rest of his family are holding on to hope that the father-son duo made it through the storm.

"Everyone surprisingly is pretty good. We have a lot of confidence in Uncle Tom and Joey," Fago said.

Just got power.

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