Sven Roeder 11:51 Wed Sep 6
Hurricane Irma
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Why do tv reporters stand out in pouring rain to tell us that it is raining?
Looks like a bit of a storm coming to Florida
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Replies - In Chronological Order ( Show Newest Messages First)
WSM Hammer
12:03 Thu Sep 7
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Just watched the report on news at 10 - does look like there will be cleaning up to do in the coming days
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Pee Wee
12:22 Thu Sep 7
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dont suppose there is any chance Texas Iron decided to get over hurricane Harvey by taking a break in Barbuda?
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VirginiaHam
12:37 Thu Sep 7
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Sven,
because Americans are stupid?
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Sven Roeder
12:42 Thu Sep 7
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They are but its a world wide thing.
Its a bit like the reporters on News at 10 talking about any big announcement by the Prime Minister which was at 11am who stand outside Downing St in the dark at 10.15pm. With no one around.
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violator
12:58 Thu Sep 7
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I'm flying out to Miami next Wednesday for 3 nights and then on a 7 night cruise. Hopefully it will be long gone but the itinerary will definitely change to go western Caribbean. Was looking forward to the planes in St maarten as well
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Sven Roeder
1:03 Thu Sep 7
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Thought I read they are expecting it to hit Florida about Monday
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violator
1:09 Thu Sep 7
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Meant to be heading to Georgia by late Monday, so hopefully we'll be able to fly on Wednesday, fucking hope so cos I blagged business class for nothing as well
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BRANDED
1:10 Thu Sep 7
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SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU EXPLAIN WHY CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX OVER THE SOUND OF THIS HURRICANE EXCEEDING THE HIGHEST CATEGORY RANKING!!!
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joe blob
1:32 Thu Sep 7
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I was planning to go to St Maarten this and next week. I chose to go somewhere else next month.
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VirginiaHam
1:34 Thu Sep 7
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BRANDED 1:10 Thu Sep 7
Donald Trump thinks climate change doesn't exist, so he must be right.
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Northern Sold
2:21 Thu Sep 7
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Saw the reports of it brewing when we out in FLA last week... the thing is the same size as France....sounds as bad as they were predicting....
"Barbuda is literally rubble," Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda told an interviewer with ABS TV/Radio Antigua.
"The entire housing stock was damaged," Browne said after visiting the island. "It is just a total devastation."
Charles Fernandez, minister of foreign affairs and international trade for Antigua and Barbuda, told ABS that destruction on Barbuda was "upwards of 90%."
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zico
2:22 Thu Sep 7
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Mate of mines daughter works on Necker Island for one of Branson's places and about 30 of them were sheltering in a steel bunker last I heard. Obviously hope she an others are all ok as it hit about 7 o clock our time earlier this evening.
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Northern Sold
2:45 Thu Sep 7
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Been in the US when a Hurricane got downgraded to a tropical storm that was bad enough.... and was in Miami 6 weeks after Andrew (last cat 5) hit in 92... lot of work been done since then with building regs etc but still would not want to be nowhere near this one...
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zico
3:06 Thu Sep 7
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What amazed me was when Katrina hit New Orleans I was in Florida and can honestly say when you watched TV there was a little bit here and there but not a lot. It was only when I returned to the UK I saw the devastation on the TV. I guess the Yanks learned a bit from that one!!
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Tomsdad
4:39 Thu Sep 7
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Going down to Florida the week after next, so I'm hoping this is all blown out and it is all cleaned up!
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Crassus
5:06 Thu Sep 7
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Watcha chaps - one up on Def as I am beneath the fucker, or at least about 100 miles from the eye in a a few hours, around half ten here now
We were on Cayo Laventado, a small island about half a mile long and 200 yards wide, 15 minutes by fast boat from Samana province in the northern Dom Rep - total paradise the gaffe and I have seen some beautiful places - anyway Irma is scheduled to go right over so they have shifted us 100 miles south and we are on hotel lock down in the room
Update that, just seen on CNN it is now running marginally north of that
Been absolutely calm all day but the rain has just started with occasional lightening, breeze getting up a little, might get lively here but we will be ok, the poor sods up north in absolute shacks are going to get wasted here, totally wasted, locals are genuinely top fellas too - Tin roofed wooden shacks cut out of steep hills without shuttering, wind, massive rains, landslides and sea swell
All very humbling and incredibly sad knowing the outcome
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lab
7:49 Thu Sep 7
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Crassus,yeah definitely humbling. They are such lovely easy going people.
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Sven Roeder
8:05 Thu Sep 7
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Keep safe Crassus
Just seeing pictures of Barbuda totally flattened.
Seems Hurricane Jose is following on close behind Irma
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Westham67
8:59 Thu Sep 7
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Crassus 5:06 Thu Sep 7
Scary as fuck, was in Patong when Tsunami hit in 2004, nature can sometimes make you feel its power
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Northern Sold
12:29 Thu Sep 7
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Reply Tomsdad 4:39 Thu Sep 7
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Going down to Florida the week after next, so I'm hoping this is all blown out and it is all cleaned up!
Depends where it hits and where you are going... central florida is geared up and copes remarkably well... I can only remember 1 or 2 days that the attraction parks shut down otherwise it's business as usual... coastal not so much... however Floridians talk about Hurricanes on pre Andrew and Post Andrew levels... I don't think you can build a new house in the state without Hurricane regulations coming into effect... now what will happen if this beast hits a trailer park is anyone's guess...
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