Great, looks like a hurricane is coming.

[avistar23 10+ year member]

I was just watchin the weather channel. Looks like youre getting hit right now.

do i need to get u a map its no where near us.

-Mike

 

[Radar 10+ year member]

yep i faild geography //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I'm not very edumacated

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

supposedly it took a turn east for orlando....headed my way. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/patriotic.gif.b47a6e0394a3738334c387bdf79409f4.gif

 

[avistar23 10+ year member]

yep i faild geography //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I'm not very edumacated

Let me help you out.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

to bad thats the wrong coast //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[linksyz 10+ year member]

rmsranger are you alive man? i just watched news and it hit ft. myers really bad. i hope everything is alright

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

it was right on top of me...atleast the eye went over osceola and im 5 mins. from there. few trees sitting funny and some uprooted, i feel bad for like 3 minutes down the road, roofs were broken down and leaking, a couple roofs caved in. buncha windows broken, i feel bad, im gunna help my friends do their roof. well let us know how u guys on the coast turned out. hit us pretty hard but looks like everything was built really well so it did do too much in my area. will ride down the street later this morning.

 

[mjf2620 10+ year member]

I live in Venice, Florida and we were strongly urged to evacuate, although it never turned mandatory... My mother and I, along with a family friend decided to go about 3.5 hours east to the opposite coast where they said we would be safe, in Fort Pierce.

Before we evacuated I took a trip down to the Gulf to check out the winds and waves...

While I was there I spotted some kids whose parents apparently didn't care that their children were still swimming, even though everyone warned against it...they were just sitting on the beach watching them...

Then while at another beach down the road I spotted a man who was too busy attempting to find washed up treasures on the beach with two different medal detector devices, some small rakes, and little baskets, to evacuate...

In many places, the waves and wind were so bad, that they created 3 different coast lines, where it originally was, where the middle one was, then where the latest one was.......

I had to go through Arcadia on the way home, and took many pictures of all the destruction... I will post some as soon as I upload them to my computer...

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

Its kind of amazing how the weather people didnt even pay enough attention to see that it went from a category two to a four. I mean they should have kept a closer eye on it. People died, cuz they didnt have enough time to get out

 

[sid2004 10+ year member]

well, it's unfortunate that the weather people missed on this one , but they are so unpredictable at that stage. they knew it would strengthen but didn't expect that kind of strength. they said most people that rode it out said that they thought it would be just another good storm, but i guess most have'nt gone thru something of that magnatude and did'nt realize what was up with it. alot of the mobile home residents just did'nt evacuate.

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

All I can say is wow. My whole family is really lucky except for my step-father and brother, their house is gone. The storm was headed straight for fort-myers and cape coral but at the end it shifted about 10 miles to the north and hit punta gorda. So instead of gusts up to 186 m.p.h. (which was clocked in punta gorda) we sustained winds around 100. I was in the 3rd floor of my apartment and we were really close to having our roof ripped off and windows blown in if the winds were any worse. I got some really intense photos and movies off my digital camera. I'll try and post as soon as the restore the power to my area. We haven't had power since the storm and sleeping and living in 100 + degrees with the heat index sucks. Well I hope all the other FL members made out alright.

 

[somekook 10+ year member]

Ijust got my power back from that gayass hurricane like an hour ago. theres some pretty bad damage. about a hundred thousand people in my county still have o power. and i live on the EAST cost. hurricane came from the gulf.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

All I can say is wow. My whole family is really lucky except for my step-father and brother, their house is gone. The storm was headed straight for fort-myers and cape coral but at the end it shifted about 10 miles to the north and hit punta gorda. So instead of gusts up to 186 m.p.h. (which was clocked in punta gorda) we sustained winds around 100. I was in the 3rd floor of my apartment and we were really close to having our roof ripped off and windows blown in if the winds were any worse. I got some really intense photos and movies off my digital camera. I'll try and post as soon as the restore the power to my area. We haven't had power since the storm and sleeping and living in 100 + degrees with the heat index sucks. Well I hope all the other FL members made out alright.

How did you make this post without power?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

I went to my grandparents house in ft. lauderdale for the day to get some AC and cool down. I'm back to my aparment now because the power and phones were turned on today. All the volunteers and government/utility employees have been working real hard to get the phones, power, and water back up. I saw too grown men get in a fist fight over milk today too. I've got the pics and video of the storm on my laptop just not sure how to load them onto the forum.

 

[green_slip 10+ year member]

wow sorry to hear about this. i guess i'm lucky to live in a place where snow is the worst thing that could happen to us, weather wise. unless something phenomenal happened of course. good luck all in florida.