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| Author: | SparkChaser69 [ Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | WILMA, she must be a gringa |
As I sit here in Fort Lauderdale in the phucking dark . I just found out that this is only the outer bands coming through. How awsome is that 
At least I'm not on a boat this time. Thank god for laptops and Verizon air cards. 
Sparky PS to all my FL brothers hang on!!!!! |
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| Author: | Californicationdude [ Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:49 am ] |
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Fort Lauderdale Newspaper report this morning One dead as hurricane-force winds hit Broward in worst storm in half a century By Scott Wyman Sun-Sentinel Posted October 24 2005, 8:46 AM EDT Wind gusts began reaching hurricane strength in Broward around 6 a.m. today. The county's emergency management director said Hurricane Wilma may be the worst storm to hit the area in half a century. One person was reported dead in Coral Springs when a tree fell on him. No other details were available due to the storm. The hurricane is expected to peak in Broward around 9:30 a.m. as a strong Category 2 storm, officials at the emergency operations center said. Sustained hurricane force winds will continue till noon, and sustained tropical force winds will continue to 3 or 4 p.m. A gust of 92 miles per hour was recorded 8:05 a.m. at the downtown Fort Lauderdale courthouse. A gust of 94 miles per hour was recorded at the same time in Dania Beach. As of 8 a.m., the number of 168,000 customers in Broward County were without power. Part of the airport has lost power but is operating on generators A gust of 70 mph was recorded at 6 a.m. at the Emergency Operations Center in Plantation, while gusts in the upper 60s have been recorded between 6 and 6:30 in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Cooper City and Port Everglades. Those winds came hours before the expected arrival of the brunt of Wilma, a Category 3 storm. Some unconfirmed reports of damage were coming in around Broward to police departments that were powerless to respond. Roofs reportedly came off several houses in Fort Lauderdale, and a tree crashed into the roof of a home in Pembroke Park. Windows blew out in a Fort Lauderdale apartment on State Road 84, and residents were hiding in a bathroom. A large construction crane was reported to have blown over on Hendricks Isle in eastern Fort Lauderdale. Early reports were that at least 168,000 homes and businesses had lost electricity around Broward. Tony Carper, the county emergency management director, now compares the destructive force of Wilma to that of Hurricane King, a Category 3 storm that swept through Broward in October 1950. He previously had predicted it would be the worst storm since Cleo in 1964. Like Wilma, King was a late-season storm and developed in the western Caribbean. It brought extensive destruction to Miami, Davie, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale with winds of 120 mph. The outer bands of Hurricane Wilma began whipping across Broward early Monday morning as emergency management officials braced for the hardest hit from a storm in more than 40 years. Carper said he expects up to seven hours of severe weather, with the worst conditions occurring between 9 and 10 a.m. "It will be seven hours of really bad weather and high winds, but it will all clear by tonight," he said. Because Wilma's eye is so wide, neighborhoods across Broward will feel strong effects from the storm. Although he knew of no major power outages before dawn, Carper said he expected that to change as Wilma passes by. Conditions will be ripe for strong tornadoes to form and bring more damage, but Wilma is moving so fast that little flooding is expected. Forecasts are for two to five inches of rain in Broward. "For Broward County, this is a much stronger storm than Katrina and Rita earlier this year or Frances and Jeanne last year," Carper said. "None of the storms this year or last year had sustained hurricane-force winds, and I think a lot of people will be unpleasantly surprised by what is in store for us." Although South Florida is not known for tornadoes, it is a major concern with Wilma because the storm will collide with a cold front as it crosses Florida. That will create a dangerous mix of moist and cool air in a turbulent atmosphere. Emergency managers compare the possibility to a spring storm that struck central Florida in 1998 and resulted in a dozen major tornadoes and the destruction of a mobile home park in Kissimmee. The last time a major tornado spawned from a hurricane in Broward was during Isabel, another storm that struck the area in 1964. More than 35,000 residents who live in mobile homes in Broward were ordered to evacuate. Deputies went door to door in mobile home parks urging people to heed the order and handing out identification bracelets to those who didn't. About 1,500 people are housed in Broward's shelters. That includes about 100 people in the four homeless shelters. Broward's pet-friendly shelter at Millennium Middle School in Tamarac is home to 30 dogs, 10 cats, a hamster and a parrot. Officials are warning residents to pay close attention to television and radio for tornado advisories. If one is approaching, residents should move away from windows and doors and take cover in the strongest, interior point of their home or under heavy furniture. No hurricane warnings had been issued by 5 a.m. in Broward although warnings had been posted elsewhere in the state. A warning is an advisory that a tornado has been sited in the vicinity. Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport are closed. Bus service ceased at midnight, and all bridges are locked down. County government offices, including the library system, are closed Monday. School is canceled for today and Tuesday. There will be no garbage pick-up. |
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| Author: | SparkChaser69 [ Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:57 am ] |
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Yep, I can verify its phucking windy and raining. I am shooting video out of one of my windows. So far so good here at the casa.
Sparky |
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| Author: | Circus the younger [ Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:54 am ] |
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Take care Spark. Hope your condo fairs well in the storm. Should be about over by now hopefully. I've been in a few hurricanes and know that wind sound all too well. Good luck. |
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| Author: | Mucho Gusto [ Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:36 pm ] |
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Well, we made it through Wilma with minor damage. Downed trees, widespread flooding, minimum roof damage. But we had 3 tornado's touch down in Brevard County (East coast / Central Florida) doing some pretty substantial damage. We pulled my boat out of the water for this one. Glad I did. One broken antenna, and some torn Eisenglass on the Fly-bridge. Could've been a lot worse. But I know that South Florida got hit much worse. Hope all the brothers down South are doing ok. Wilma......another gringa b*tch !!! Mikey B. |
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| Author: | SparkChaser69 [ Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:34 pm ] |
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Okay, made it through. Much nicer in a house than a boat. No power and no water. This should be fun. I wish I was a canvas guy right now. I'd be retired in about 3 months. Oh well, cell service is spotty as is my Verizon air card right now. Hope all the other S FL brothers came through okay.... Sparky |
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| Author: | Scubabum [ Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:46 pm ] |
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I only lost 1 window and all the roll up hurricane shutters on 1 patio. WTF! Oh well, who cares as I am here for 3 more weeks. I hope I have power by then. La Playa Pompano has a curfew from 7 to 7. |
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| Author: | Admin 1 [ Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:18 pm ] |
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As I sit here in the Dark, No power, No water, No Cellular, No food (Well I could lose a few lbs)..... ALl I can think of is why the Phuck did I come home Sunday Night!.... On my last 5% of battery on Dial Up yes the land lines work as long as you don't have a plug in cordless.... North Miami Beach / Sunny Isles is destroyed...buildings, windows blown out no gas, banks /ATM...... its ugly..... Worse than Andrew where we are as far as damage goes... Don't know how long we can go without power.... Wish as all luck! PURA VIDA take on whole new meaning..... |
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| Author: | SparkChaser69 [ Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:13 am ] |
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Lets start a pool. My best bet is Ft. lauderdale(middle,lower class) 1 week until power restored. Upper class, 5 days or less(Los Olas area) I havn't made it farther south than Dania Beach so I don't know about that area...Admin 1? Sparky |
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| Author: | Zigmonger [ Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | my brother- in law |
(sister house) had everything boarded up in Naples. Not a huge problem, just a few shingles off the house...the eye was only 15 miles south of them, it goes across the whole state, how can the destruction be compared to andrew????? Just asking, but last I knew that was the big one to hit south of mia., specifically homestead area. Hopefully, this was no Andrew, that you guys had to deal with! |
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| Author: | SparkChaser69 [ Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:56 am ] |
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Zig, we were lucky because there was no tidal surge being that the hurricane came from west to east. The wind damage is unbelievable. Trees and power lines down everywhere, roofs torn off, I don't understand how Naples got so lucky but Ft. Lauderdale/ Miami took a serious ass kicking. The FT. Lauderdale boat show is officially indefinitley (read cancelled) postponed. This is a mega dollar hit for the industry here. I have been through quite a few hurricanes and the wind damage from this one is very impressive. Sparky |
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| Author: | Admin 1 [ Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:32 am ] |
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Still on Dial Up but Power Restored here in Sunny Isles... ZIg to answer your question, Andrew went very south of here and though more powerful moved through in a very quick period of time. It also hit very unpopulated open areas.. Wilma THE GRINGA BITCH moved through west to east Slowly causing sustained wind damage for almost 10 hours with the wind never slowing down the entire time. It caused much move damage to densely populated tourist and afluent residential damage in Broward and Nothern dade county. The business communities well destroyed, tourst areas beach and otherwise destroed. There is no gasoline or electricty still for 90% of the tri county area No electric means no cell, ATM, gas, most cases water also. I was here for andrew NEVER LOST POWER never felt threatened. This made you stop and think and the aftermath is shocking. Unless you have been through both you can't compare. I can simply state this is worse. I know the persons who had homes leveled in homestead with Andrew but this took out 200 mile wide path and it is really bad down here. FLL & PB airports still closed 3 days later Miami opened on limited schedule.... Hope our brothers are safe! Sparky to address who gets power first well Miami Lakes was first.. Mayor of Miami dade lives there.. 
We got power over night we in SIB are hugely invested construction wise by the Donald Trump group.. HMMMM maybe your on to something there... Then again I think we are just lucky. |
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| Author: | Californicationdude [ Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:02 am ] |
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south florida newspaper links http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/ http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ http://www.palmbeachpost.com/ pictures/stories are unbelievable....total power outage for millions |
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| Author: | Mucho Gusto [ Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:19 am ] |
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I heard this morning that over 6 million people are / were out of power in South Florida. Because so many power lines are down, and thousands of power poles were "snapped" in half, they're saying that it could be a month or more before all power is restored. To all my South Florida CRT brothers....hang in there. Although we (here in Florida) are no strangers to hurricanes, you never seem to get used to them. In central Florida, we took a hit, but nothing compared to you guys down South. I've got family in Boca Raton, Wellington and Pompano Beach. They're all out of power right now. It's not a good situation at all. Like Admin said, "Pura Vida takes on a whole new meaning" !! Good Luck All. Mikey B. |
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| Author: | Dapanz1 [ Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:01 pm ] |
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Quote: ALl I can think of is why the Phuck did I come home Sunday Night!....
Because if you didn't you would have had to wait until Wednesday like me. I had a two day delay getting home. Just got home last night at 8:45PM. MIA was a madhouse yesterday. Never EVER again in CR when there is a threat of hurricane. Stuck in Cartago with nothing to do! The good news is that I now know I can't live my novia for more than about 3 days at a time. I guess it was a blessing in disguise. UGHH..........The stress! dapanz1 |
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