Hurricane Ian - now at cat 4

Jedi boro

Jedi boro

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Not a very hurricaneeeey name is it.

Anyway all the best to those in it’s path hope you get through it unscathed.
 
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The fact that Disney Parks and Universal Studios have shut for 2 days speaks volumes. Hope it doesn’t hit as bad as expected.
 
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That is bad my mate in florida msgd me last night and wasn't expecting it to be that severe.
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From CBS news

Hurricane Ian grew into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4storm packing sustained winds of 140 mph early Wednesday, just hours before was expected to make landfall on Florida's southwest coast. About 2.5 million people were under mandatory evacuation orders as the hurricane started lashing the Florida peninsula with heavy rain and tropical-storm-force winds in the early hours.


www.cbsnews.com

Ian moves across Florida as a tropical storm after slamming coast as a Category 4 hurricane

It made landfall over southwestern Florida as a major Category 4 hurricane and, while downgraded, was still packing a powerful punch overnight.
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Jedi boro said:
From CBS news

Hurricane Ian grew into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4storm packing sustained winds of 140 mph early Wednesday, just hours before was expected to make landfall on Florida's southwest coast. About 2.5 million people were under mandatory evacuation orders as the hurricane started lashing the Florida peninsula with heavy rain and tropical-storm-force winds in the early hours.


www.cbsnews.com

Ian moves across Florida as a tropical storm after slamming coast as a Category 4 hurricane

It made landfall over southwestern Florida as a major Category 4 hurricane and, while downgraded, was still packing a powerful punch overnight.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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I have a few colleagues on florida. You got me a bit worried now.
 
Cat 4 is only one off the top scale cat 5

Karina and Andrew were cat 5's... look at the damage they did.

This is very bad news for anyone in its path, I really hope everyone remains safe.
 
I was over there when Ike, another category 4, hit Texas in 2008. We evacuated to the Hill Country, rather than 'hunker down' as advised. It wiped a town out completely and the damage done around Galveston was horrendous with most of the island under water.

We were fortunate that our block was located next to a fire station so the power supplies were underground and didn't cut out but the surrounding area was without power, much without water, for a week or so. That's in temperatures of over 30 deg C.
 
joeydiaz said:
The fact that Disney Parks and Universal Studios have shut for 2 days speaks volumes. Hope it doesn’t hit as bad as expected.
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Yes. An old work colleague of mine works for one of the kitchens in one of the Disney Parks. He has taken his wife and young son to relative safety at his in laws in Georgia. Luckily he can afford it. There are some I would imagine who don't have the same luxury.
 
CNN rating it as 9 with winds of Charlie snd storm surge of Katrina.

It’s moving at 5mph so that power will stay a lot longer than most normally do ( they normally average 25 mph) that’s movement btw not speed it’s 155mph but it’s moving at 5 mph.

It’s currently 60 miles wide 40 miles of them at cat 4 speed this thing is huge.
 
A (distant) friend of mine who recently moved over there posted a picture on facebook of his house "tied down", with some kind of rope over the roof and anchored to the ground. I'm sure that the locals know what they are doing, but it did leave me wondering what possible benefit that would have. It was a proper house, not some kind of caravan.
 
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