My Dad Won't Evacuate

Does he have a will? A medical directive? 

Not sure where it's going to hit obviously but I hope your father and all who might be in it's path are safe!

my cousin is in Broward County and laughed when I asked if she was going to evacuate. 

Hi Peak - If it is heading his way by Friday he should get out, talk some sense into him.

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common medical ailment among the elderly.

hurricanes should scare you shitless however...

My parents are on Anastasia Island in St. Augustine and always downplay hurricanes.  Their house is actually built on old sand dunes and is at around 10' above sea level, which is one of the highest spots in town and much higher than downtown which gets water topping over the sea wall even during a stiff nor easter.   They laugh off evacuations and whenever I call them after a storm, they usually brush it off as "a little rain and some breeze."   

Hurricane Matthew last year flooded much of St. Augustine including the Davis Shores neighborhood near them on the island, but when I was finally able to get through with them on the phone, they initially refused to believe what I told them I had seen on the news.  I am sure they will stay put for this one too.

>hurricanes should scare you shitless however.

have you seen the way these gray hairs drive in Florida?!

HURRICANE IRMA: PALM BEACH COUNTY SAYS STAY, NOT ENOUGH GAS TO EVACUATE

BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) - It is just one line, but it is a line with great meaning. Palm Beach County has issued the following statement: "The state has advised that fuel demand is outstripping fuel supply and they advise that all residents shelter within the county."

http://bocanewsnow.com/2017/09/06/hurricane-irma-palm-beach-county-says-...

Perhaps he's afraid there won't be an early bird special elsewhere?

In all seriousness, hope dad gets to a safe spot!

Peak, I'm sure your dad will be ok.

I understand the mentality of not wanting to leave.

after my family told me they were not leaving i said ' awesome, talk to you when you get the power back ' - 

i heard the Broward County admin say just the opposite regarding gas -  ' there is enough for everyone, you may have to wait in line tho...'

i guess we'll find out soon enough..

Peace

My best friend is in Palm Coast won't leave. He had a close call last year.

I'll take Cali over Florida any day!

People are underestimating the storm surge threat. The ocean could rise up 20 feet or more.

(((Peak's Dad)))

Wishing the best for those in Irma's path.

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But does it really?

Godspeed and good luck to those that won't or unable to leave.

Having only seen hurricanes on TV I can't really comprehend the force and scariness. Is it only older people and cocky young ones who decide to stay or could it be anyone?

Peak, hoping your dad fares well. And everyone else, too.

>>>>Is it only older people and cocky young ones who decide to stay or could it be anyone?

From what I have seen, its generally the transplants that get all freaked out and its the native Floridians who stay ("oh I remember Hurricane Dora back in 1964, we road that out").

Anyone remember this 1974 ABC movie of the week, Hurricane?

The movie was based on a popular urban legend revolving around the supposed deaths of 23 people at a "hurricane party" at a beachfront condo during 1969's Hurricane Camille.  Of course, most of the party goers in the movie end up being killed by a massive storm surge, but that didn't stop the idea of a "hurricane party" from taking off and my parents even threw one for Hurricane David back in 1979.

Sweet Porn Stache.

My parent drove us kids home from FL to PA in the family station wagon during hurricane Agnus.  Not sure what they were thinking.  Palm fronds and crap was flying across the highway, high winds, hard sideways rain.  My Dad seemed cool, and lit up a smoke in the car.  My Mom took the cigarette out of his mouth and started smoking it.  That is what scared me the most, because she never smoked a day in her life then or since.

In Boca and work in Lauderdale. We are not leaving and I only know a few that have left. Our whole community is staying.

Will we be flattened? ... possibly but there is really nowhere to go.

I did just get the email for Dead/Co at BBT in Dec, so if we are alive and the BBT center is still standing ... rock on.

Wish us luck

"Did you try giving him prune juice?"

- J. Timmy Hoover

I was with my Mom & her friends & their kids (younger than me, I was 10) for tropical storm Doria in 1971, we were staying at an old boarding house a block from the beach in Ocean City NJ.  It was only a tropical storm but man the walls of that building shook hard all night long.  My dad was pissed that my mom was willing to do this, he has always been especially scared of the ocean, he always said "a huge wave can just come up without warning & wash you away".  Now I kind of see where he got that fear from, as his family emigrated from a city in Sicily that had been destroyed by earthquakes & subsequent tsunami's multiple times in the late 1800's/early 1900's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Doria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Messina_earthquake

In Houston it was poor people and dog owners on those rescue bass boats.

there's a spinoff thread waiting 

low hanging fruit

The latest trackings are now in agreement that the storm will hit Southern Florida dead on and then march right up the I-95 corridor from Miami to Jacksonville.  

Saw on the news they are ordering a "mandatory" evacuation for all of St. Augustine (where my folks are) starting Saturday morning.  Its not really mandatory in that the police aren't going to drag you out of the house, but they are shutting down the bridges to Anastasia Island, so nobody can get on or off the island, and they are shutting of the water to avoid structural damage to the system.   My parents, of course, think everyone is overreacting and are staying put, but they are filling up buckets and making sure their cell phones are charged. 

Are they cutting off the water in advance in other parts of the state?

What Judit said 

Sis and wifey are in Orlando now. They don't expect to find much left when they get back to west Palm area.

 what's crazy is the storm is 4x the width of Florida

my dad is the same....stubborn as hell....i got him shuttered up on wednesday and then he decided to ride it out.....i had hotels booked 8 hours away in georgia,,,no thanks...long story longer..he got the mandatory evac order today and is headed to gainseville...out of surge....my poor mother in the passenger seat aof a cranky old irishman

Wife's cousin waited too long to leave Marco Island - now has to go to a shelter nearby. Wife's friend in Key West won't leave because her husband is a vol. fireman and feels obliged to stay, and because her daughter is a neo-natal nurse at the hosp. and felt obliged to stay because there were some preemies that were deemed to fragile to be evac.

It now looks like the eye will pass right over or near both of those places. Vibes for Joan and Leda if you can spare any.

Get out of the way if you can.

vibes to zoners and their fams

((( zoners, friends and families )))

Apparently Joan made it from Marco Island to Georgia and safety.

Leda and fam. still intending to stick it out in Key West.

kudos to  heroic First Responders and health care professionals who are staying to help and provide life saving services. 

Don't forget the Utility workers that come from all over the country . They are like an army, going from projected target area to projected target area waiting to get our power back on as fast as possible.

It's now heading up the west coast .My sister and 81 year old dad  and his wife with Alzheimers  are in a high rise my father on the 21 floor and my sister on the 16th floor across the street from the scientologist flag ship building in clearwater .They are staying . They say the building is on high ground and rated for 150 mile an hr winds WTF

Southernmost point webcam in Key West:

 https://youtu.be/X7ld45pUueQ

How did your Dad do, Peak?

My buddy has no power (FLP is saying 4 days to him) but does have running water. Cooking food in the freezer that's defrosting on BBQ in the backyard. He cleaned up debris in the backyard today. Told him shit was fucked up on a 4 ft surge and asked him where he'd be on 10-15 ft surge.

Coast Guard rescue divers are searching submerged live aboard boats off Florida Keys for bodies...BRUTAL

hope everyone is doing okay in TX and FLA. 

Florida Keys are hurting, especially the trailer parks.   I guess Jimmy Buffett got his wish when he directed ire and ill will towards mobile homes in his beloved keys in his song "Migration" off the A1A album:

"Now most of the people who retire in Florida
are wrinkled and they lean on a crutch.
And mobile homes are smotherin' my keys;
Well I hate those bastards so much.
I wish a summer squall would blow them
all the way up to fantasy land.
They're ugly and square, they don't belong here.
They look a lot better as beer cans." 

But as David Allan Coe sang:  "Jimmy Buffett doesn't live in Key West anymore."

Should we all pay (FEMA) to have trailers blow away every 10 years?? But we shouldn't let the corporations that bought those trailer parks build luxury condos there either.

Was looking at island photos and was shocked to see house boats on there sides near the water. Was horrified when I realized they were all trailers that were washed away. At least 30 of them. 

Reports from those not heard from? Hoping...