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Old 08-29-2023, 03:58 PM
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Do you live The Villages? South of 441/27?
Go into your garage and look at your garage door. See all that metal reinforcement.

That’s part of the building code to protect you and your house from strong winds. That door is not going anywhere.

Also, roof rafters are designed to withstand hurricane winds.

Building codes were updated a dozen or so years ago after a pair of hurricanes (Michael?) tore through Florida and did a lot of damage.
I lived in South Florida when Andrew hit. We were 60 miles from the eye of the storm. We had some palm fronds down in our neighborhood. It was after Andrew, I believe, that building codes were improved.
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The best thing is to find a good site on the internet with real meteorologists. Stop listening to the weather lady on local news whose whole qualification is she has big breasts in a tight dress nd can read from a teleprompter.
I dunno'. She seems to know what she's talking about...

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Not sure why everyone is in panic mode hoarding food and gasoline. Almost every restaurant in TV will be open on Thursday and the only reason a few wouldn't is because of lost power. If you lose power, there will be someone you know probably within a mile of your house who doesn't and will be glad to take on your perishables. I've done it a couple of times for people who lived literally 2 blocks from me. The gasoline hoarding is what ****es me off. If you have less than a quarter of a tank, pump away. If not, how about saving some for the people who HAVE to evacuate. There are people coming to this area from the coastal areas who won't be able to get back because a bunch of panic driven folks have hoarded the gas.
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Old 08-29-2023, 05:07 PM
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I don’t know what she’s saying because her Brazilian lift gets in the way.
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Old 08-29-2023, 05:20 PM
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When we first moved to FL I packed a "go bag" on June 1st, the start of hurricane season. Put extra meds, first aid kit, copies of insurance policies, phone chargers, couple of days clean clothes, etc. I also stocked up on canned food, bottled water, paper plates, that sort of thing. Each year I became more lax. It's probably still a good idea. Just hope this one veers off and all the hype is just that. Just in case - good luck everybody.
Your insurance policies should be with the beneficiaries or your heirs and you are missing your healthcare proxy if they find you and you are unconscious and whom do they call? And the EMTs /hospital can't do anything with the insurance policies, really another copy should be with in the safe deposit box, and the health care proxy with you
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Old 08-29-2023, 06:08 PM
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Weather channel app is showing 25 mph winds tomorrow. We get worse than that on a typical afternoon storm.
But panic away!
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I have always wondered about this. Do people think that the Gravity will fail? Water comes out of the water towers and the pressure is regulated by the height of the tower which is WHY there are towers. There is a lot of water in them so the electricity would have to be out for
A long time for the water to stop. So why the bottled water and filling the tub? I have no idea. The toilet paper is really weird, so you think you will have to poop more or what? Very strange.
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Just got the NOAA tornado warning for Wildwood from now through 6 AM tomorrow. .

Now everyone needs to sleep next to their phone, fully charged, or plugged in, with the volume on loud!

good luck to us
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Old 08-30-2023, 01:23 AM
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Above advise is right on. The media is talking about this on and on, scares people to death.

This place was engineered to move water as necessary to prevent flooding.

Follow basic precautions, stay indoors during the worst of it and you will be fine.
Just like they scare people to death about gators... they make people believe they could be snapped up at any minute to never be seen again. Could it happen, it could.. but to live life like that, constant fear, not a way to live. Lived with hurricanes our entire lives. Have always been aware, guarded, and never a joke to us, but frankly since we moved this far north and central, have not really gone into this kind of "clean out the stores" type of panic mode at all. In south Florida we did have to close hurricane shutters, and many people had to board up, but here Charlie was the worst we've experienced. It was a big one, but no lives lost here, just a mess that took more than a couple weeks to clean up, haul away, etc. The one thing that struck me most after Charley, I was on 466 to see if any gas stations might have possibly opened once it passed, and that's when I saw the HUGE overhead lights that literally hung across 466 intersection from enormous "arm like" structures... all laying like a pile of junk in a junk yard all over the 4 lanes of 466. Later that week after, drove past the huge tree not far from the movie theater in Spanish Springs.... the roots were so big I could not even estimate, but when the tree toppled and all those roots came up, it took out many sections of sidewalk... stunning site. We have some gigantic live oaks here, Charlie took out quite a few.
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I lived in South Florida when Andrew hit. We were 60 miles from the eye of the storm. We had some palm fronds down in our neighborhood. It was after Andrew, I believe, that building codes were improved.
Yep, remember well. We lived in Deerfield then. We did have steel hurricane shutters, so we never had to board up with plywood... that is one big job, we've helped many family and friends.
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Old 08-30-2023, 04:53 AM
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Just got the NOAA tornado warning for Wildwood from now through 6 AM tomorrow. .

Now everyone needs to sleep next to their phone, fully charged, or plugged in, with the volume on loud!

good luck to us
I am awake next to my phone. Does that count?
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I am awake next to my phone. Does that count?
No, go to sleep.
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