Hurricane Milton - Are you in the path?

a reply to: frogs453
We got two days tops to clean up as much debris as possible before H-Hour. However, the state did help to get power restored to most folks from the last Hurricane in record time, and we are getting more efficient at it. That is a plus. The best thing we got going for us, is this state is prepared and efficient with storms. The Governor has really taken the lead in getting us through these natural disasters, and I know he will continue to deliver as long as he serves us. God Bless you Governor DeSantis.

This is a link to NOAA radar in central Floridia for those who don't know it.

radar.weather.gov...

Thoughts and prayers to all in this storms path.

a reply to: marg6043

Could Milton become a Category 6 hurricane? Is that even possible?

Milton’s race from a Category 2 to a Category 5 hurricane in just a few hours has left people wondering if the powerhouse storm could possibly become a Category 6......

The open-ended Category 5 describes anything from “a nominal Category 5 to infinity,” Kossin said. “That’s becoming more and more inadequate with time because climate change is creating more and more of these unprecedented intensities.”

a reply to: worldstarcountry

Wishing you the best of luck and most importantly safety.

Not in the way. I live on the other end of the country.
We are still facing wildfires with extreme fire behavior and record high temperatures -- in October!
I live at 5100 feet elevation in a forest and still have daytime temperatures in the upper 80s. Very unusual. 30-40 years ago we would have already had the first wetting fall storm by now and getting ready for snow.

Weird weather.

a reply to: matafuchs

I just saw an interview with the mayor of Tampa and she was asked if she had a message for the people there. Her reply was if you do not choose to evacuate and decide to stay, '' you will die''

a reply to: MetalThunder

Let's make a Category 6. Then a Category 5 won't be such a big deal, and Category 2 will be a nothingburger.

a reply to: BingoMcGoof
I don't like Mayor Castor, she is a WEF stooge trying to break inroads here in Tampa for the Davos crowd. I cannot beliece she ran unchallenged in the last election. I hope the next mayor cuts the entire DEI part of every city agency and tells all employees that the mission is over, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 will suffice for all future diversity and equality issues.

I never trusted her, and my motto before she went on demanding to the county commissioners that they impose a county wide lockdown, curfew and mask mandates. She had me followed for awhile when I was name dropping the Bilderberg and WEF on the City of Tampa twitter and her own twitter account and calling it all a scam from day 1. of course that is my speculation, but the timing fit.

I said before, vote a Police Chief mayor, get police state policies. And she did precisely that. Thank goodness the Sheriff cut off her nuts and made it clear his office was not going to bother enforcing any of those mandates, leaving it to the idiot private security guards that would routinely harass me when I walked into anywhere without a mask as if I just punched a kitten in the face.

Anyways, she don't do #. She is just like Kamala, just talks a big game, takes some pictures and does not actually do much of anything. I cannot wait until her chapter is behind us all.

a reply to: MetalThunder

Here is a website thats usually pretty accurate and they give amateur radio updates when the net is active.

Hurricane Watch Net

Feel free to use it!

Prayers for all in the path of the storm!

a reply to: worldstarcountry

I hope the next mayor

Well, that is supposing there will BE a next mayor.

I lost a roof to helene, and now depending on if milton goes a few more degrees north, or south will my dads house and sisters house be on the good or bad side of the hurricane.

Also no my dad isnt leaving and my sister and her kids will be in his house, if I had to ride out a Cat 3 or 4 my dads house would be the house I choose.

He built it with his dad, the trucked in a ton of dirt to raise the ground before laying the foundation, cinder block walls, reinforced with rebar, and a brand new roof on it, also no trees close to the house to put it at risk.

Lastly and most importantly zero risk from storm surge hes far enough inland.

But I still worry..