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Watching this one close - could be up to a CAT 3 or even 4 by tomorrow afternoon/evening.
Hopefully everyone stays safe.
Been getting alerts on my phone since yesterday... Surge could be bad. Should be interesting to see what this thing does and where it makes landfall.
Watching it as well.... I'm on the east coast, so not too worried for myself, but for folks in the big bend area, it could get pretty bad. Poor Cedar Key looks to be in the path of another direct hit. Prayers for all affected.
Yeah Cedar Key may get inundated.
I'm on the gulf coast about 130 miles south of Cedar key very close to where Chizz & Ferry live (Pinellas County).
Just hoping that this one doesnt turn East sooner than expected like with what happened with Ian in 2022.
Hope everyone remains safe. Man to think as a kid we used to chase hurricanes to surf not realizing the danger to having head high water in my living room in Ian 30 years later is nuts. This hurricane looks like it's jogging more east at this very moment and I hate that people in the path are about to have life turned upside down again.
We are already getting hammered with rain now in western NC. Can’t imagine how bad it is down on the FL coast. Hope all of you down there stay safe. Heard yesterday that Atlanta may have an experience similar to what we had here with Hugo back in ‘89. That sucked!
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Thanks. And yeah I remember seeing the photos from 2022 of what happened to you. Hoipefully you recovered fully. You still fishing much these days?
And yeah it does look like the track moved East some. My area shouldn't see any major affects until late afternoon / early evening and then its gonna be a rough night.
Thanks.
Yeah I've seen some reports saying that this thing is causing 50FT waves off shore in the gulf. Hopefully we don't see them that large inshore.
No fishing in a while and half my neighborhood is still rebuilding to this day. Quite a few homes are still gutted but I'm pretty much done and moving inland to farm full time very soon and house going up for sale. Going to miss being near beach but still on water just fresh water instead of salt. Be safe and if you need any help at any time I'm not far.
Praying for all you people in the path.
Thanks. appreciate it.
Blue Skies and windy here in North Port. Looks to be changing fast.
Stay safe, you guys.
This thing just reached CAT 4 status....145 MPH winds local news just said.
Some are saying it could be a CAT-5 (157+ MPH winds) by time it makes landfall in the Big Bend/PanHandle later tonight.
You Florida people are built different.
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Hurricane Helene is headling all our news and radio here in South Africa. It's sounds insane. I mean, 145mph winds? Geezuz.
My local radio channel was talking about the Hurricane. The co host (a woman) asks, why are all the Hurricanes named after a woman, Darrin Simpson, the main radio dude who is also a comedian replies, Hurricanes are named after woman because they take everything....the house, the car...lol.
Seriously ya all, if you are in the path of this thing, take care and stay safe. Prayers sent to you all.
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Same here.
Normally we don't get hit by much coming out of the gulf.
The mountains usually stop them.
But we had that huge rain system this week, that actually merged with the low pressure of that storm, right over the smokies.
Gonna be a very wet 3-4 days.
The waterfalls, springs, creeks, and rivers in the park are, no doubt, roaring at the moment.
Hardcore kayaker's will be carrying their boats on their backs, hiking up along big creek.
We've seen them do that before when that river is over it's banks.
Some very intense whitewater.
Beaches/Islands in my area (Tampa Gulf Coast) flooded really bad. Where my house is on the other side of the inter-coastal just downed trees and fences. We lost power for maybe 30 minutes last night -thats it. They're starting to clean up stuff already this morning to get things back to normal.
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Glad to hear you're going to be OK.
So they were predicting a massive storm surge. Any word on what it really was?
Half of my neighborhoods homes flooded from surge and most had just finished or still restoring from last hurricane. The storm was pretty far from us yet still serious surge. 2nd time probably ever we had a surge. I have lived there 20 years. My house was spared by 4 inches, it was to my door but my house is a few feet higher grade than most here. My neighbor across the street called from up north to ask how bad it was. His house he just put almost 2 mil in remodel/addition is about 3 feet lower than mine and definitely flooded badly. His response was " time to move to a condo in the sky" .
Farm was fine as it is so far inland. Really feel bad for how many were affected and lives turned upside down. I saw a model Forcast and it has 2 identical storms coming through in next few weeks. Hope it's wrong.
Glad your house dodged this one! Do you know how much your house is above sea level? Are you closer to Tampa or closer to Cape Coral or beyond?
Thank you. About 10'. South of Cape Coral. My sailboat was docked at a Cape Coral Marina Tarpon Pointe for many years.
Along the beaches where I live I believe they got about a 6ft to 8ft surge.
Not sure what the surge number was up in the Big Bend area ,but I do know they got hit the hardest,
Damn, the surge wasn't supposed to be that much that far south. I think it was 4-7ft for Cape Coral and less the further south you were. Did your boat survive Ian?
Yea im on a peninsula with gulf water only a few hundred yards away. No unfortunately boat was totaled.
Damn!
Do you still got your tower boat? The one you took Paul Elias out fishing in years back?
Yes I do. Paul is such a Legend and awesome human. He called multiple times during Ian and offered his house to us many times. Appreciate that guy so much.
Wow that is crazy stuff, glad you are ok Flmxer
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/helene-coastal-storm-surge
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