The Official Zone Severe Weather Thread

[VolNExile]

His freezers full of Fresh Gulf Ocean fish are downstairs in the garage. He put them on 4" blocks and he has 2 generators. But none of that does any good if the water gets 5" or higher. He said it's close now.

Does he have a sump pump (or similar) that will run off the generator? Just keeping things bailed enough until the tides drop a bit.

I’d be a wreck.

 

[Behr]

Does he have a sump pump (or similar) that will run off the generator? Just keeping things bailed enough until the tides drop a bit.

I’d be a wreck.

Can't sump pump the Gulf. Not being a smartass but it's just fact.

 

[VolNExile]

Can't sump pump the Gulf. Not being a smartass but it's just fact.

Yeah, I guess so. I just keep thinking of bailing out a boat, trying to stay level

 

[GordonC]

Just heard from the mom of one my old friends. He closed on a condo in Mexico Beach last week and hadnt made it down there yet. They took a buncha movin trucks on a detour until this passes.

My cousins in punta gorda is staying put.

Havent heard from cousin on marco.

 

[Behr]

Naples got it pretty bad I'm sure Marco did too.

 

[NorCalVol67]

Holy s*t, up to 140 mph winds.

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

So I know my concerns are minor next to your dads, but everytime we get alot of rain I end up with a wet ruined basement with a few inches of water.....wifey and I (as I said in prayers thread) are like traumatized by rain at this point. Anytime I hear hard rain I feel stomach start to knot up.

So today I decided I would do battle....granted at a ghetto budget. (still spent 500 or so if you add up everything)






...and the result?

.....rain has barely started here and I now already have water coming into basement.....and I have no idea from where. I have a gap around the slab around my whole house...once that fills it then starts to leak from half a dozen different low points around the basement, so I never actually know for sure where water is coming from. trickling but there......I can't even turn on that sump pump until I get about an inch on back basement patio. Which also means I'll be up all night waiting to hit the switch.

I can't even deal with much rain here, I don't want to even think what the poor people on coast are dealing with...I mean I am watching it but this already sucks in my home and the rain won't really start in earnest here till 5am. If my basement was a person I'd shoot em and bury them on the backside of the mtn.

I feel sorta B**ch to even complain given I am not going to see hurricaine winds, and any real flooding like my friends and family south of us (we have alot of fam in south/middle Jawjaw and I think they already had nader touch down earlier near them... so I realize my issues are insignificant, ......but it still sucks....

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

Holy s*t, up to 140 mph winds.

I saw in a message chat following live stuff someone said it had clocked 160 now and was cat 5 now? no confirmation.

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

Been watching ventusky but it only clocks to 90mph on wind speeds, but rain fall is pretty damn accurate..well up to 2 inches and hour.

Ventusky - Weather Forecast Maps

Live wind, rain, radar or temperature maps, more than 50 weather layers, detailed forecast for your place, data from the best weather forecast models with high resolution

www.ventusky.com

 

[VolNExile]

@volwindy
@82_VOL_83 (for GVG)

Holy shiznit, don’t head this way Friday morning. Click on “Latest Weathercast” (will probably be update at 11 tonight) and slide to “futurecast”, and look at the predicted wind speeds for 7:30 am and next few hours.

(I’m sorry - you’ve probably already posted alternate plans, but I’ve lost track.)

Weather

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wlos.com

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

@volwindy
@82_VOL_83 (for GVG)

Holy shiznit, don’t head this way Friday morning. Click on “Latest Weathercast” (will probably be update at 11 tonight) and slide to “futurecast”, and look at the predicted wind speeds for 7:30 am and next few hours.

(I’m sorry - you’ve probably already posted alternate plans, but I’ve lost track.)

Weather

WLOS News 13 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Asheville, NC and nearby towns and communities in Western North Carolina and the Upstate of South Carolina, including the...

wlos.com

Ashville and all of western N.C. may see worst of it..looking a lot like Camille situation rain wise.....1969. Mudslides....epic flash flooding..

 

[Behr]

It's worse than i thought. Just saw video on the news. At 6 pm the Gulf was breaching the road. So dad is getting it from both sides. The road that leads to the causeway to get on Sanibel is closed and under water.

Poor coastypop is getting hammered too.

This thing is devastating

 

[VolNExile]

Ashville and all of western N.C. may see worst of it..looking a lot like Camille situation rain wise.....1969. Mudslides....epic flash flooding..

Yep. All these narrow valleys, many which have lost anchoring trees on the slopes, with nothing to stabilize them. And crucial roads on the valley floors.

 

[VolNExile]

It's worse than i thought. Just saw video on the news. At 6 pm the Gulf was breaching the road. So dad is getting it from both sides. The road that leads to the causeway to get on Sanibel is closed and under water.

Poor coastypop is getting hammered too.

This thing is devastating

 

[Behr]

Sorry to have given some of you a preview of what's headed your way.

 

[Behr]

So I know my concerns are minor next to your dads, but everytime we get alot of rain I end up with a wet ruined basement with a few inches of water.....wifey and I (as I said in prayers thread) are like traumatized by rain at this point. Anytime I hear hard rain I feel stomach start to knot up.

So today I decided I would do battle....granted at a ghetto budget. (still spent 500 or so if you add up everything)
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...and the result?

.....rain has barely started here and I now already have water coming into basement.....and I have no idea from where. I have a gap around the slab around my whole house...once that fills it then starts to leak from half a dozen different low points around the basement, so I never actually know for sure where water is coming from. trickling but there......I can't even turn on that sump pump until I get about an inch on back basement patio. Which also means I'll be up all night waiting to hit the switch.

I can't even deal with much rain here, I don't want to even think what the poor people on coast are dealing with...I mean I am watching it but this already sucks in my home and the rain won't really start in earnest here till 5am. If my basement was a person I'd shoot em and bury them on the backside of the mtn.

I feel sorta B**ch to even complain given I am not going to see hurricaine winds, and any real flooding like my friends and family south of us (we have alot of fam in south/middle Jawjaw and I think they already had nader touch down earlier near them... so I realize my issues are insignificant, ......but it still sucks....

That sucks. Where are you?

 

[Orangeslice13]

The weather channel just said they’re asking people who didn’t evacuate to write their names and address on their body to help identify them if they don’t make it.


Crazy

 

[NorCalVol67]

The weather channel just said they’re asking people who didn’t evacuate to write their names and address on their body to help identify them if they don’t make it.


Crazy

Damn

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

It's worse than i thought. Just saw video on the news. At 6 pm the Gulf was breaching the road. So dad is getting it from both sides. The road that leads to the causeway to get on Sanibel is closed and under water.

Poor coastypop is getting hammered too.

This thing is devastating

They are not near storm surge are they?

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

That sucks. Where are you?

Chattanooga…. It’s not even rained hard yet it’s just been steady

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

Tybee has water spout tornado confirmed

 

[VolNExile]

The weather channel just said they’re asking people who didn’t evacuate to write their names and address on their body to help identify them if they don’t make it.


Crazy

On a much smaller level, UNCA asked all resident students who stayed on campus to log in, so that they know who’s in which dorm and where. Just in case.

 

[Behr]

They are not near storm surge are they?

Who? Dad, yes. Coastypop I don't think so but not sure.

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

Horse s

Who? Dad, yes. Coastypop I don't think so but not sure.

mind if I ask where? Not near the 20 foot surge is he? Horse shoe is getting rocked…

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

Appalachicola is my favorite part of Florida breaks my heart so many old Florida homes, live oaks etc…..was a time capsule of what Florida used to be like…. Hoping it avoids worst but doesn’t look it. What is crazy to me is even east coast has 14 ft waves..