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Is all our Florida hunters ok after Hurricane Ian….???

10essee said:
Nassau county didn’t get much at all. Be in the woods tomorrow evening. Going let the last of the winds lay down and get in a tree.
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Duval and St John’s got it a little worse. Last count in Jax there were only 3000 people without power. That’s pretty good considering all the areas with tree cover
 
Praying for you Floridians, I have an 80 year old Uncle and his wife who live in Clermont. He texted me yesterday he's A OK. He said they had Cat1 winds and a lot of rain. He said the community cleans out the ditches yearly to keep the stuff moving along. He's from WNY but hated the weather up here and has never moved back. He worked for NASA during the Apollo missions in the late 60' early 70's. Then Martin-Marietta. cool dude. Graduated from HS when he was 16.
 
I've got a few buddies in ft. Myers as those are my old stomping grounds... ft myers Beach is totalled. The Sanibel causeway went down as did the bridge going from Matlacha to Pine island... the hospital which is a few miles Inland had 2 ft of standing water in the parking lot. My buddies sister actually gave birth there right before the storm and they were like NOPE...and waded through shin high water to get out of there... good thing they did... that area has some work to do
 
We've never been so undersold on a storm in my life. We were outside the cone for the last 3 days and all the talk was were on the peninsula it was going to hit. There was no evacuation for the keys and everyone acted like it was just going to slide by like we would never see it. It blew 70 for 6 - 8 hours and gusted up to 100 mph. It rocked us pretty good for basically being a big nothing burger to the NHC.

Not that it caused much structural damage but the clean up looks like it's close to hurricane Irma. There are boats ashore everywhere, docks destroyed, missing vessels that were moored, etc. Water came up the Atlantic side of the island 1,000 feet. Big trees are down everywhere. Power was out for 13 hours. The second surge came after the storm got into Florida bay and our tide water flooded low laying houses all over. Highest tide I've ever seen that wasn't during a direct hit of a hurricane.

This thing was a couple degrees of a turn from being very serious here.
 
Castronova said:
We've never been so undersold on a storm in my life. We were outside the cone for the last 3 days and all the talk was were on the peninsula it was going to hit. There was no evacuation for the keys and everyone acted like it was just going to slide by like we would never see it. It blew 70 for 6 - 8 hours and gusted up to 100 mph. It rocked us pretty good for basically being a big nothing burger to the NHC.

Not that it caused much structural damage but the clean up looks like it's close to hurricane Irma. There are boats ashore everywhere, docks destroyed, missing vessels that were moored, etc. Water came up the Atlantic side of the island 1,000 feet. Big trees are down everywhere. Power was out for 13 hours. The second surge came after the storm got into Florida bay and our tide water flooded low laying houses all over. Highest tide I've ever seen that wasn't during a direct hit of a hurricane.

This thing was a couple degrees of a turn from being very serious here.
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Wow… that’s crazy… I’m in NW Florida close to Alabama…. That happened last year with Sally…instead of sliding by us after land fall. It pivoted and came right over us…. 24 hours and 30 inches of rain… never know until it’s gone…
 
NWFBowhunter said:
Wow… that’s crazy… I’m in NW Florida close to Alabama…. That happened last year with Sally…instead of sliding by us after land fall. It pivoted and came right over us…. 24 hours and 30 inches of rain… never know until it’s gone…
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Yep, I hate the dramatic coverage and over reacting but this was just ...meh! Nothing to see here.

I think part of too is that the evacuations cost the hotel industry so much money here the local authorities get tons of pressure. But doubling the population causes tons of strain on the first responders and infrastructure when things go south.
 
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