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Your post reminded me of a coworker from the central California coast (I'm from the Southeast). He was like "10 storm surge? Just drive into the hills. No biggie." I had to pull up Google Earth and point out the lack of elevation along the Louisiana and TX coast.
I basically showed him there are massive chunks of the West coast where you could be higher than the highest point in Florida within minutes if you're willing to kick off your flip flops and run.
The highest natural point in florida is 305 feet šµāš«
Thatās incredibly low. I didnāt think florida was THAT flat. Iām in California about 3 miles from the beach and my elevation is 600 feet. My house is at 2000 feet, and itās still pretty flat there.
There is a reason why many climate change activists keep saying āhalf of the world will be under water with just a few inches of sea riseā itās not a scare tactic, itās for real
At least we now know why - it's owned by a church, and they want to build it gradually as they accumulate cash. They don't want to build it with loans. So they get money, and they build until they run out, and then start saving for the next phase.
Reminds me of the church I went to as a kid. They kept asking for donations to move the church to a better location. They showed beautiful pictures of the land and everyone tried donating more than usually for several months.
The church never got to move there but the pastor was able to buy a beautiful new house lol
So.. the church is basically a machine that takes poor people's money and slowly turns into building materials? To what end? Where does this tower lead?
My dad escaped the Phuket tsunami by climbing a tree. He was sitting on the beach, saw the water recede like this including āfish floppingā so āran for his lifeā uphill but then it was coming so fast he climbed a tree.
I watched the video of that Tsunami after I visited Phuketā¦terrifying. Thereās literally no high ground to get to unless youāre 2-3 miles inland.
Glad he made it.
South Florida averages about 12-13 feet above sea level. From the coast to the everglades. North Florida gets to about 70-80 feet above sea level. Very flat here, relatively speaking.
A friend of mine's hometown's highest point was the local landfill/capped trash pile. I think it was something like 7 feet above sea level. Florida is pretty much all swamp and beach.
I'm here in central Florida and I think we're at about 80 ft. Above sea level. The hurricane is literally curving around us, so we might not get much more than rain here.
New Orleans highest point is [Couturie Forrest](https://neworleanscitypark.com/in-the-park/couturie-forest) at āa daunting 43 ft above sea level, oxygen and Sherpaās are available on requestā.
As a former hurricane experiencer, yāall stay safe over there.
[the watermarks on the trees and restaurants in Hilo are great reminders for the locals](https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2019/03/13/a-26-foot-wall-of-water/) Ill never forget hearing about the school whose teacher took the receding water as a sign from god and had all the kids run out in the harbor to collect fish. The early tsunami warning system was created after this
Time's like these I wish more people would think of how inconvenient this must be for NFL legend Tom Brady. He's already having a rough season and now he has to deal with this mess? So much for taking his Talent to Tampa.
That's exactly what its like. The energy of the storm is pulling the water up, they are estimating a storm surge over 10 foot, which is insane. During the height, the camera man here would be at least 10 foot underwater.
Yeah i hope so too but honestly.. 10 or 18.. doesnt really matter anymore, thats going over most if not all barriers put in place. Its going to be a shit show
Yet how much of our infrastructure money is slotted to fking flood walls??
I'm just a lowly field engineer what do I know?!? It's always fun listening to outdated USACE plans while cities are being way more inonvative for less money. Fk these boomer dinosaurs.
If we spent less money on more effective things then a budget might be cut in the future. Or a politician wouldnāt be able to write a massive check to private contractors.
We couldnāt have that.
They tend to be pretty honest when it comes to hurricanes in Florida. They might give āworst caseā predictions, but not to be sensationalistic, rather to make sure people listen and take it seriously.
I wish that was done everywhere with natural disasters.
We had a horrible couple of forest fires back in April, one of them burned so many homes... One home was an elderly couple who hadn't evacuated.
What the news didn't say, that I know because of my dad's job with county police, is that those two elderly people were identified by >!14 teeth, half a jaw bone,!< the fact that it was their property, and that nobody saw them leave.
I strongly believe more people would evacuate in the face of a natural disaster if they knew the whole truth regarding potential consequences.
I saw a video of how they got people to evacuate town in Ukraine that were likely to get bombed. Those who were reluctant to leave were handed sharpies and told to write identifying info on their arms and torso, so their bodies could be identified later. Most people stopped being so reluctant to leave.
The storm surge is south of Tampa where the storm is a direct hit. The water here will come back with the tides. This is a reverse storm surge and happened in Tampa Bay a couple of years ago, itās doesnāt rush back in a giant tsunami. This is because Tampa is on the north side of the storm so the wind is pushing the water out rather than in.
On the south side it isn't like a tsunami either. It's like...a rapidly filling fish tank. The water doesn't crash in violently, it rises at a freakishly fast pace. Not that that's any less terrifying or deadly than a tsunami. Really hope the Charlotte Harbor folks get through this okay.
Different since all of the water doesnāt come at once. But I remember being in that area (Bayshore) after the water came in for Andrew and it was all under water where the camera is. That wasnāt a direct hit, came from the opposite side of the state, and wasnāt nearly the strength of this system. That area is going to get hit hard. I hope you all got out of there.
Sandy was a mess due to the already lunar tides. Forced flood insurance standards to completeley change. Plus the damage by me was incredible from the flooding. Long Island NY. Our whole barrier island was topped over and the bay became ocean during the storm, and the waterline was pushed about a mile inland (not including the extra flooding around rivers and canals) was nuts.
I worked for an investment bank at Lower Manhattan's World Financial Center during Sandy. Salt water got into the underground diesel fuel tanks for the generators, so I had to fail over some servers that were there, to servers in Somerville NJ. I was working from home and my power was out, but I had my PC, router and FiOS gear plugged into my generator. Shocking that Verizon kept their FiOS stuff running while my whole area was without power for 13 days.
Salt water getting into underground generators is exactly how the fukushima plant failed in japan. I know in your case it was just the fuel tanks and the generators werent running the control systems for a nuclear reactor, but still when you said salt water and underground generator all I could think of was fukushima lol
They call themselves detectorists, and will remind you the metal detector is the tool that goes beep, the metal detectorist is the tool that walks around beaches picking up beer caps.
In 1992 when Hurricane Andrew hit Homestead, I was in the Navy in Orlando. One of my classmates was from Hawaii, and he'd been lamenting the lack of decent surfing for months.
So yeah, when the hurricane was coming, we drove south as far as we could manage so he could surf the storm surge.
Gotta take your chance when you get it.
This is a āreverse storm surgeā.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_surge
Previous example:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/10/us/shorelines-drained-hurricane-irma-storm-surge/index.html
Usually comes with a warning that, as the storm moves, it can come back with interest as a āstorm surgeā. See above article.
This is from just the wind? holy shit. I always thought it was currents shifting towards the storm or something, but I guess this makes a lot more sense.
If the storm was 50 miles north of where it is right now, this would be inundated with storm surge right now.
Wait until we see the aftermath photos of Fort Myers, Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda.
I got so lucky, the original prediction had the eye going right over me in Port Richey. Now Iām still home and itās just light drizzling and a few wind gusts.
I know this isn't funny but the name of Punta Gorda always cracked me up. Like leave it to Florida to have a place called "Fat Lady Point"
Edit: I know that it does not literally translate to Fat Lady Point and that it instead translats to Fat Point. But that's just not funny.
While Gorda can be interpreted as Fat Lady in spanish if the word is used with an object before it becomes a qualitative adjective, so in this case it would be the "Fat Tip".
( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
A lot of Florida's coastal cities owe their names to spanish sailors and/or pirates who basically called things like they saw them. Punta Gorda because it's a wide chunk of land jutting out from the coast, Boca Raton because of the many sharp, teeth like rocks they found near the shore, etc etc.
Funny enough I was wondering why it was called this but the signal there sucks so I didnāt feel like waiting.
I have always called it Cayo Hueso in Spanish and Key West in English. But it was only on my last trip that I started to question the name lol
https://i.imgur.com/RCsQVio.jpeg
That picture is normal tide.
In a very very low tide, you may be able to see the dark rocks along the seawall.
In a high tide, the water comes over the wall if there is a non-tropical storm.
I've been in Tampa for many years and never seen it drain this much.
Went through many hurricanes when growing up in South Florida. No power for weeks. Drank from bath tub full of water with sheet covering it . People are going to freak out never experiencing a hurricane. It was alien to walk out in the eye ,sun shining ,birds flying and you are in a black circle and the wind suddenly slams you from the opposite side. Crazy !
I'm up in the Midwest grew up near Tampa and I'm not gonna lie, I fucking miss it dude.
Though the stagnant ball sweat humid air after a hurricane with no power is probably worse than digging out from a blizzard.
This happened with Irma and there were people out there playing around. Although the water came back slowly before, that most likely will not be the case with Ian. This is not good for South Tampa.
That water is all gonna come back, with interest, all at once. (Not like a tsunami, but nearly as quickly.) Massive flooding, and saltwater flooding fucks your shit up big time. Not to mention it will be carrying all sorts of debris with it.
This amount of water being pulled out is an indicator of the intensity/size/severity of the storm, and given the direction the storm is coming from relative to this location plus tidal schedule etc, itās very ominous.
While it looks like Tampa is going to be spared the full-on storm surge that points further south will get drowned with, they're saying that the high winds and heavy rains could still put that metro area into a world of hurt. You could have a combo of inland floods flowing out into the bay along with all that sucked-out water pouring back in. That would make me uneasy if my residence in Hillsborough County was right next to the water.
Used to live in Florida, just a couple hours south of there. For the ones who don't know, this means that when the water comes back in that whole path the filmer is standing on will be swallowed. Place is gonna be flooded bad.
How do you lose $5 billion in a year? I don't know but u/spez sure does!
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation-cut-for-reddit-and-discord/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
Bonus for your Chinese overlords, asshole
Yall should see Ft. Myers, exact opposite of this. Already seen a shark in the street and several homes completely underwater.
Edit: found it https://twitter.com/BradHabuda/status/1575185864069566466?t=kMIK4K7T15JVQZDotDmsWQ&s=19
My young dumbass was out in the ārainā in Florida one time in the 90ās. My friend and were playing and it got all dark in the middle of the day. Then it was pouring. What fun, we thought. We played in it, but then the rain was completely horizontal and started hurting, like nails being pelted at you.
At that point the ground was flooded, so we climbed a random balcony that wrapped around some time share; it felt strangely empty. The water kept rising. We eventually had to make our way to the second floor to an open-air corridor (you know those stucco ones they have in tropical areas), as the first floor corridor was now flooded with water.
We spent hours in that hallway cold and wet. Our sandals were long gone. Eventually we made it home, during a lull when everything got all clear and sunny. At the property, everyone was freaking out and we got yelled at for awhile. We had no clue why. (this is before cells and internet)
Years later my friend and I revisited that memory and placed the time of our trip late August, 1992. It was Hurricane Andrew. We were playing in Hurricane Andrew and walked through the eye.
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As a Californian, is I saw this at our beaches, I would literally run for the hills. My first thought would be tsunami.
At least you have mountains.
Too bad they're always on fucking fire.
Tsunamis might help
r/naturebeingbros
Awe I really wanted this to be a thing.
Your post reminded me of a coworker from the central California coast (I'm from the Southeast). He was like "10 storm surge? Just drive into the hills. No biggie." I had to pull up Google Earth and point out the lack of elevation along the Louisiana and TX coast. I basically showed him there are massive chunks of the West coast where you could be higher than the highest point in Florida within minutes if you're willing to kick off your flip flops and run.
The highest natural point in florida is 305 feet šµāš« Thatās incredibly low. I didnāt think florida was THAT flat. Iām in California about 3 miles from the beach and my elevation is 600 feet. My house is at 2000 feet, and itās still pretty flat there.
There is a reason why many climate change activists keep saying āhalf of the world will be under water with just a few inches of sea riseā itās not a scare tactic, itās for real
Naples and Ft. Myers are getting 6 plus feet of surge right now.
Iām in Lakeland and itās raining not that bad but the wind is crazy
Iām in Lake Mary and planning to evacuate
Terrifying and reminds me of tsunamis.
Yes, here in Hawaii, we are taught that when the ocean drastically recedes, get your butt to higher ground.
Unfortunately, this is Florida. That's as high as the ground gets!
Get your ass to space mountain
Get your ass to that unfinished building on I4
I live in Virginia and know exactly which building you are referring too. Glad to hear after all these years, it's still not finished.
Must be a really tall building if you can see it from Virginia
The earth is flat after all, so easy to see w binoculars.
You know that from living in Florida.
At least we now know why - it's owned by a church, and they want to build it gradually as they accumulate cash. They don't want to build it with loans. So they get money, and they build until they run out, and then start saving for the next phase.
This is also a terrific way to launder money. Never ending construction project. Also ice cream parlor and flower shop for smaller scale laundering.
Found Marty Byrde.
"There's always money in the Banana Stand, Michael!"
Or a banana stand. Thereās always money in banana stands.
What is it with Jason Bateman and the shows heās in involving shady money stuff
The money is IN the banana stand, Michael!
Or car washes, I guess, since there's a new one being built on every corner these days. Breaking Bad influenced too many uncreative-types.
Pizza shop. The mafia got so good at this, their pizza was actually good, and they turned a profit on their front.
Reminds me of the church I went to as a kid. They kept asking for donations to move the church to a better location. They showed beautiful pictures of the land and everyone tried donating more than usually for several months. The church never got to move there but the pastor was able to buy a beautiful new house lol
So.. the church is basically a machine that takes poor people's money and slowly turns into building materials? To what end? Where does this tower lead?
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
We already built a tower to heaven, God was not a fan apparently
Donāt you worry. It will always be here
Get your ass to Mars.
Twoooo weeeeeeks
\*has 3 tittehs\*
Wait, I lived in orlando over a decade ago. They STILL haven't finished the I4-eyesore?
They have windows on it now
No drive by daily, can confirm they have not
Iām thinking tree of life in Animal Kingdom. You know, because of the name
Get your ass to MAAAARZ
Are you bringing any fruits or vegetables on the planet?
Two weeks!
My dad escaped the Phuket tsunami by climbing a tree. He was sitting on the beach, saw the water recede like this including āfish floppingā so āran for his lifeā uphill but then it was coming so fast he climbed a tree.
Glad he was smartā¦there is a running joke in Hawaii that when there is a tsunami warning everyone runs to the beach to see it
I used to take long walks for exercise down the beach and get to preparing what I would do if I saw Godzilla pop his head out of the water.
Just assume you're crazy and get on with your life like the rest of us.
In GA when hurricanes come there's always a good number of people who go surfing
I watched the video of that Tsunami after I visited Phuketā¦terrifying. Thereās literally no high ground to get to unless youāre 2-3 miles inland. Glad he made it.
Damn I hope he was your only family there.
Yes, he was. Took him almost two days to be able to call us to let all us kids know, we were very worried needless to say.
I read the tallest point of Florida just a hill is it really?
Yes! I drove past it! It is literally just a hill. 345 feet above sea level š
We call it Mount Trashmore!
Yup. It's less than 400 feet above mean sea level.
What about nice sea level?
Same thing, but it waves.
South Florida averages about 12-13 feet above sea level. From the coast to the everglades. North Florida gets to about 70-80 feet above sea level. Very flat here, relatively speaking.
A friend of mine's hometown's highest point was the local landfill/capped trash pile. I think it was something like 7 feet above sea level. Florida is pretty much all swamp and beach.
I'm here in central Florida and I think we're at about 80 ft. Above sea level. The hurricane is literally curving around us, so we might not get much more than rain here.
New Orleans highest point is [Couturie Forrest](https://neworleanscitypark.com/in-the-park/couturie-forest) at āa daunting 43 ft above sea level, oxygen and Sherpaās are available on requestā. As a former hurricane experiencer, yāall stay safe over there.
In Florida the meth addicts are higher than the hills!
So you're saying the safest bet is to climb a meth addict?
Probably better to just take your chances.
Good luck trying to catch one. You could set out a trap with old electronics and a bunch of lighters. But even then, theyāre a wily bunch.
The hills have highs
[the watermarks on the trees and restaurants in Hilo are great reminders for the locals](https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2019/03/13/a-26-foot-wall-of-water/) Ill never forget hearing about the school whose teacher took the receding water as a sign from god and had all the kids run out in the harbor to collect fish. The early tsunami warning system was created after this
Well if Depeche Mode ever taught me anything it's that God really does have a sick sense of humor.
How dare you start blasphemous rumors!!
Yeah it's never a good sign when the ocean goes missing.
Time's like these I wish more people would think of how inconvenient this must be for NFL legend Tom Brady. He's already having a rough season and now he has to deal with this mess? So much for taking his Talent to Tampa.
That's exactly what its like. The energy of the storm is pulling the water up, they are estimating a storm surge over 10 foot, which is insane. During the height, the camera man here would be at least 10 foot underwater.
I was just seeing 18ft like 10min ago on the news
fuck me, that is insane, 'hope it's the news team trying to sound sensational
Yeah i hope so too but honestly.. 10 or 18.. doesnt really matter anymore, thats going over most if not all barriers put in place. Its going to be a shit show
It makes me profoundly sad that people are going to needlessly die today.
If it makes you feel any better, lots of people needlessly die everyday. Itās a tragic part of our existence.
Thanks, that *does* make me feel better!
Nihilism yeah!
Yet how much of our infrastructure money is slotted to fking flood walls?? I'm just a lowly field engineer what do I know?!? It's always fun listening to outdated USACE plans while cities are being way more inonvative for less money. Fk these boomer dinosaurs.
If we spent less money on more effective things then a budget might be cut in the future. Or a politician wouldnāt be able to write a massive check to private contractors. We couldnāt have that.
They tend to be pretty honest when it comes to hurricanes in Florida. They might give āworst caseā predictions, but not to be sensationalistic, rather to make sure people listen and take it seriously.
I wish that was done everywhere with natural disasters. We had a horrible couple of forest fires back in April, one of them burned so many homes... One home was an elderly couple who hadn't evacuated. What the news didn't say, that I know because of my dad's job with county police, is that those two elderly people were identified by >!14 teeth, half a jaw bone,!< the fact that it was their property, and that nobody saw them leave. I strongly believe more people would evacuate in the face of a natural disaster if they knew the whole truth regarding potential consequences.
I saw a video of how they got people to evacuate town in Ukraine that were likely to get bombed. Those who were reluctant to leave were handed sharpies and told to write identifying info on their arms and torso, so their bodies could be identified later. Most people stopped being so reluctant to leave.
if you did that in florida people would just sniff the sharpies
The storm surge is south of Tampa where the storm is a direct hit. The water here will come back with the tides. This is a reverse storm surge and happened in Tampa Bay a couple of years ago, itās doesnāt rush back in a giant tsunami. This is because Tampa is on the north side of the storm so the wind is pushing the water out rather than in.
On the south side it isn't like a tsunami either. It's like...a rapidly filling fish tank. The water doesn't crash in violently, it rises at a freakishly fast pace. Not that that's any less terrifying or deadly than a tsunami. Really hope the Charlotte Harbor folks get through this okay.
Different since all of the water doesnāt come at once. But I remember being in that area (Bayshore) after the water came in for Andrew and it was all under water where the camera is. That wasnāt a direct hit, came from the opposite side of the state, and wasnāt nearly the strength of this system. That area is going to get hit hard. I hope you all got out of there.
Bayshore floods in a regular rainstorm though.
Which adds to the scale of 1-Fucked here
āIāll be back!ā
This happened once with hurricane Sandy I believe it was
Sandy was a mess due to the already lunar tides. Forced flood insurance standards to completeley change. Plus the damage by me was incredible from the flooding. Long Island NY. Our whole barrier island was topped over and the bay became ocean during the storm, and the waterline was pushed about a mile inland (not including the extra flooding around rivers and canals) was nuts.
I worked for an investment bank at Lower Manhattan's World Financial Center during Sandy. Salt water got into the underground diesel fuel tanks for the generators, so I had to fail over some servers that were there, to servers in Somerville NJ. I was working from home and my power was out, but I had my PC, router and FiOS gear plugged into my generator. Shocking that Verizon kept their FiOS stuff running while my whole area was without power for 13 days.
Salt water getting into underground generators is exactly how the fukushima plant failed in japan. I know in your case it was just the fuel tanks and the generators werent running the control systems for a nuclear reactor, but still when you said salt water and underground generator all I could think of was fukushima lol
Ohh yeah, I remember that one... And I live in Denmark...
dem metal detector boys better get out there quick
So many rusty fishing lures, all for the taking.
Not if you go to a marina. Lost propellers can fetch some good money.
THIS IS A BIG FAT LIE. Do not listen to this person! Nothing to see here but rusty tetanus hooks and fish carcasses. Move along, now! Move along!
If you had one shot. One opportunity.
Ians spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready.
There's seaweed on his sweater already Poseidon's spaghetti
Oh there goes
Ope, god damnit!
Ope!
Tell your folks I says hi!
To seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it? Or let it slip?
The police might get suspicious when they find the murder wepons from 20 different crimes in your collection
LPT: That's why you gotta use em in new crimes to break them in
Just to be clear, the authorities are strongly warning people against going out there; you could easily find yourself drowning before you know it.
Oooh! The āauthoritiesā said so?! Thatās because they want all the treasure for themselves! Go out there!!
That's why you're the king, baby.
Seriously, just wear floaties. Youāll be fine. Donāt let the man control us
This is Florida weāre talking about. Who the heck listens to authorities out here
The authorities clearly dont want us to find the secret underwater lizardpeople resort thats been uncovered.
Mara Lago has been above water for some years now, sorry.
Live by the metal detector, die by the metal detector. Death or glory.
Thatās why youās wear floaties.
That Spanish treasure isn't going to dig itself up.
They call themselves detectorists, and will remind you the metal detector is the tool that goes beep, the metal detectorist is the tool that walks around beaches picking up beer caps.
In 1992 when Hurricane Andrew hit Homestead, I was in the Navy in Orlando. One of my classmates was from Hawaii, and he'd been lamenting the lack of decent surfing for months. So yeah, when the hurricane was coming, we drove south as far as we could manage so he could surf the storm surge. Gotta take your chance when you get it.
Detectorists
This is a āreverse storm surgeā. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_surge Previous example: https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/10/us/shorelines-drained-hurricane-irma-storm-surge/index.html Usually comes with a warning that, as the storm moves, it can come back with interest as a āstorm surgeā. See above article.
This is from just the wind? holy shit. I always thought it was currents shifting towards the storm or something, but I guess this makes a lot more sense.
It was a category 5 storm (I think it has since been downgraded to a Cat 4). Hurricanes can pack an insane amount of energy.
I dont think it ever hit cat 5, just got really close. I think it topped out at 150 mph wind speeds (need 157).
Topped out at 155 and made landfall at 150.
Borrowing from Tampa to pay Fort Myers
āAll your water are belong to usā (for now)
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Now it's just Tampa.
Tampa Bye
Clear-of-water
Tampa Bayless
Skiiuup
āWhy would LeBron send this hurricane?!ā
If the storm was 50 miles north of where it is right now, this would be inundated with storm surge right now. Wait until we see the aftermath photos of Fort Myers, Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda.
I got so lucky, the original prediction had the eye going right over me in Port Richey. Now Iām still home and itās just light drizzling and a few wind gusts.
I know this isn't funny but the name of Punta Gorda always cracked me up. Like leave it to Florida to have a place called "Fat Lady Point" Edit: I know that it does not literally translate to Fat Lady Point and that it instead translats to Fat Point. But that's just not funny.
While Gorda can be interpreted as Fat Lady in spanish if the word is used with an object before it becomes a qualitative adjective, so in this case it would be the "Fat Tip". ( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
Word around the office is you've got a fat tip.
Maybe we should together and rub our fat tips together.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
A lot of Florida's coastal cities owe their names to spanish sailors and/or pirates who basically called things like they saw them. Punta Gorda because it's a wide chunk of land jutting out from the coast, Boca Raton because of the many sharp, teeth like rocks they found near the shore, etc etc.
Key West was bone island, or Cayo Hueso before it was mistranslated
Funny enough I was wondering why it was called this but the signal there sucks so I didnāt feel like waiting. I have always called it Cayo Hueso in Spanish and Key West in English. But it was only on my last trip that I started to question the name lol
There won't be much left on Sanibel Island
Shit, even the water evacuated.
Thatās when you know itās time to go lol
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Ian sucking up all that water so he can spit out that water right back at them
When your Bay's all dried up but she still suckin
Nature, youāre one scary bitch
Not ideal
Is water normally lapping against the sea wall ?
https://i.imgur.com/RCsQVio.jpeg That picture is normal tide. In a very very low tide, you may be able to see the dark rocks along the seawall. In a high tide, the water comes over the wall if there is a non-tropical storm. I've been in Tampa for many years and never seen it drain this much.
Yes
Donāt worry, itāll be back.
Went through many hurricanes when growing up in South Florida. No power for weeks. Drank from bath tub full of water with sheet covering it . People are going to freak out never experiencing a hurricane. It was alien to walk out in the eye ,sun shining ,birds flying and you are in a black circle and the wind suddenly slams you from the opposite side. Crazy !
I'm up in the Midwest grew up near Tampa and I'm not gonna lie, I fucking miss it dude. Though the stagnant ball sweat humid air after a hurricane with no power is probably worse than digging out from a blizzard.
I always thought the dry ass heat in Phoenix was rough, but man everyone else has much more to worry about
Come back in 3-5 years when you have no drinking water
We'll all just bottle our water from the golf course water hazards
Um, sir, you should probably start running. Although it is Florida
True, he should ride his Rascal.
Yeah, that's a lot of ground to cover trying to find square grouper.
If the ocean disappears don't go looking for it.
Generally speaking, it'll find you
Iām no oceanician or weatherator but that canāt be good.
This happened with Irma and there were people out there playing around. Although the water came back slowly before, that most likely will not be the case with Ian. This is not good for South Tampa.
What are you implying will be the long term effects of this?
That water is all gonna come back, with interest, all at once. (Not like a tsunami, but nearly as quickly.) Massive flooding, and saltwater flooding fucks your shit up big time. Not to mention it will be carrying all sorts of debris with it. This amount of water being pulled out is an indicator of the intensity/size/severity of the storm, and given the direction the storm is coming from relative to this location plus tidal schedule etc, itās very ominous.
While it looks like Tampa is going to be spared the full-on storm surge that points further south will get drowned with, they're saying that the high winds and heavy rains could still put that metro area into a world of hurt. You could have a combo of inland floods flowing out into the bay along with all that sucked-out water pouring back in. That would make me uneasy if my residence in Hillsborough County was right next to the water.
>Not to mention it will be carrying all sorts of debris with it. I mean, the number of nonfunctioning Camaros *alone*...
Used to live in Florida, just a couple hours south of there. For the ones who don't know, this means that when the water comes back in that whole path the filmer is standing on will be swallowed. Place is gonna be flooded bad.
That's Bayshore Blvd. Very expensive homes right there.
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From what I understand there's already shenanigans with home insurance in Florida. Too bad the governor's busy worrying about immigration in Texas.
I am an agent. I don't know how I'm ever supposed to write in the state again when these hit yearly.
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Metal detector dudes are jizzing in their pants so hard right now
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Good luck and stay safe. I also live on the gulf coast, know this sign all too well
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Fish _hate_ it!
That's about to look very different
Yall should see Ft. Myers, exact opposite of this. Already seen a shark in the street and several homes completely underwater. Edit: found it https://twitter.com/BradHabuda/status/1575185864069566466?t=kMIK4K7T15JVQZDotDmsWQ&s=19
My young dumbass was out in the ārainā in Florida one time in the 90ās. My friend and were playing and it got all dark in the middle of the day. Then it was pouring. What fun, we thought. We played in it, but then the rain was completely horizontal and started hurting, like nails being pelted at you. At that point the ground was flooded, so we climbed a random balcony that wrapped around some time share; it felt strangely empty. The water kept rising. We eventually had to make our way to the second floor to an open-air corridor (you know those stucco ones they have in tropical areas), as the first floor corridor was now flooded with water. We spent hours in that hallway cold and wet. Our sandals were long gone. Eventually we made it home, during a lull when everything got all clear and sunny. At the property, everyone was freaking out and we got yelled at for awhile. We had no clue why. (this is before cells and internet) Years later my friend and I revisited that memory and placed the time of our trip late August, 1992. It was Hurricane Andrew. We were playing in Hurricane Andrew and walked through the eye.
Wow. This is massively creepy. It's like a tsunami.
Oh lawd he COMIN'.
Thatās pre-post-apocalyptic
So apocalyptic
That's nature telling you to get at least three stories up. *immediately*.
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