If you or your homes are anywhere near the path of Ian, let us know how you’re doing.
If you have family and friends who are impacted, let us know what’s happening there, too. Millions without power, phone lines are down, and a whole lot of us are waiting to hear from family and friends. And some of you are waiting to hear about your homes.
In a few hours, President Biden will tell us how the federal response is going, so I’ve added that to this check-in thread, too.
JPL
I feel so bad for those that have property on Sanibel/Captiva. It’s impossible at this time to even return.
HinTN
@JPL: I imagine Doc Ford’s stilt house got swamped.
Seriously, BIL and wife retired to Cape Coral. They evacuated to Georgia but there’s no telling what sort of mess they will face when they return
Edited to fix stupid autocorrect
cope
No power, internet or cable here north of Orlando and cell service is wonky but, fortunately, no major damage. Plenty of food and water so nothing compared to other places.
the pale scot @ gmail
Alive and well in Punta Gorda. Ian breezed thru between high tides like Charlie did.
I’m now running a car to charge all the gadgets. Main gripe is when we moved here 30 yrs ago all the the neighbors were WW2, Korea and Vietnam vets who came here for the peace and quiet, hurricanes? No Worries. Now their inheritors are here, they all have generators roaring 24 hrs. Fuckin’ wussies
jonas
I know the property insurance market in FL has been a real mess lately, with a lot of firms canceling policies, making customers pay for expensive re-roofing, or pulling out of the state entirely. I can only imagine all that is going to get much, much worse in the wake of this storm.
I’m sure more bills banning critical race theory and gender-neutral bathrooms will help, though.
WaterGirl
Thanks for checking in, you guys!
Sanibel / Captiva sounds bad.
Steeplejack
My greatest concern is for Kattails’s 93-year-old mother, who was going to ride out the storm at home with her husband in Port Charlotte. Would really like to see a (positive) update on that.
Scout211
Sister and BIL in suburban Orlando (northeast) lucked out in a big way. Only a few windows that leaked overnight in the big winds but they still have power and no local flooding, so far.
Mike in NC
As hard as it is to pick out one thing that was utterly despicable about Trump, every time he showed his bloated ugly face at some scene of a natural disaster he seemed to be angry, as if the victims were somehow to blame for what had happened, and the Fat Bastard was having to personally pay for providing them with some modicum of relief. I’ve never hated anyone in my life as much as that sack of shit.
Shakti
I’m in Pinellas County. I begged the people I live with to evacuate to a shelter or to friends who lived in higher ground mid state (we were under an mandatory order), but they refused. I had a bug out bag and water packed, but nobody else did.
We didn’t lose power although it flickered a couple of times. We got very lucky. I think I want to check out the damage? Our friends in Sarasota sustained a lot of damage and lost power. Just glad my father isn’t working in Fort Myers during the week anymore.
EarthWindFire
One of my workmates is east of Orlando and has power out but no flooding. BIL and SIL have a place in Fort Myers but are in VA now so are safe. What will be will be when they get down there next.
MomSense
My stepmom sent me a photo their Naples neighbor sent. Luckily they sold their Florida car because the carport is submerged. The first floor condos must be totally flooded. Their roof held so their condo is ok. It can’t be good for a building to be submerged like that, though.
My sister’s place in Captiva is on stilts. Not sure how it fared, but the island was hammered.
WaterGirl
@Shakti: So the people you live with stayed, but they are okay? Not smart, but apparently very lucky.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Kattails posted at 8:51 EDT last night:
WaterGirl
Is there any word on The Villages?
lowtechcyclist
My father-in-law and brother-in-law in Plant City both came through unscathed, along with their houses. And apparently my wife’s late grandmother’s house, which we’re trying to sell, also is unharmed.
leeleeFL
Okay, so far, in Brevard. Not expecting much, more rain for sure, but not sure when I have to work at 3PM, because, reasons! Apparently a restaurant is essential. How’s Adam and Betty, anybody hear?
cain
@jonas: The people left will be maga through and through – but hopefully the census comes in and florida doesn’t get as much electoral votes. :P
Ksmiami
@MomSense: water damage esp if it takes a lot of time before restoration is absolutely the worst for a home. I hope insurers are compassionate but I have a feeling that claims alone will result in abandonment of properties
Shakti
@WaterGirl: Yes, that’s the shape of it. What gets me is that I kept arguing with them that it wasn’t just about the cone but about the possible flooding and they alternated between denial and just cockamamie ideas that shouldn’t come out of adults.
It wasn’t their first hurricane and we’ve actually had to drive through flood waters to safety before. They’ve dealt with water damage before (from other things).
My cousins from other states were in disbelief.
raven
My friends bought a house in Brevard, NC last year and are up there and don’t yet know how the house in Cape Coral is. There is a mile or so of mangrove between the river and their house and they hope it helped.
WaterGirl
@Shakti: It must make sense to them, but it’s inexplicable to the rest of us. Just mind boggling.
Steeplejack
@Shakti:
I tried to stop myself, but I have to ask: why did you stay with them?
Cameron
Lot of wind and rain plus a brief power outage where I live in southern Manatee County. Not fun, but no real problems. I’m more worried about what my friend who lives on Siesta Key will find when she returns home on Saturday. I hope her house is still there.
rikyrah
Praying for all Florida jackals.
Almost Retired
@Cameron: Just heard from my wife’s sister and BIL in Manatee County. Just got their power and wifi back. tree limbs and such, but no other damage.
Ken
You probably know this, but that is never a good idea.
Though not as fundamentally bad as sending a reporter and film crew to report that, yes indeed, there is a hurricane making landfall right where they’re standing.
Tenar Arha
My cousins in Sarasota County made it thru, miraculously no home damage including trees, or even power outages. Did lose their cable.
Unfortunately though, I haven’t heard back from a friend in Naples since ~ 2PM yesterday. I think the most worrying part is she hasn’t responded to my “R u okay” message this morning plus my iMessages are now going out to her as SMS texts. And that wasn’t happening with her # before ~4 PM yesterday.
Shalimar
DeSantis is already playing games with numbers, saying the hundreds of deaths the Lee county sheriff expects are just people who need a welfare check. It’s going to be Covid all over again, where the large death surge in that area can’t officially be attributed to the hurricane.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@jonas: My understanding is that Dollar Tree Fat Bastard took a half-assed run at this but whatever he did won’t take effect in time for this storm.
Thinking good thoughts for the FL Jackalteriat contingent.
Andrew
Just heard that my apartment is undamaged and has power, in Sarasota. I will spend one more night in Gainesville, then drive home tomorrow.
Shalimar
@Tenar Arha: Probably just means her phone is out of power with no way to recharge. Keep faith this soon after the storm. It is too early to assume the worst.
Betty Cracker
@Tenar Arha: I hope your friend is okay. It’s likely that cell towers were knocked out, so that could explain why you haven’t heard back/are getting SMS format.
zhena gogolia
@Shalimar: That’s what I was thinking.
Shakti
@Ken: It was non hurricane related. And terrifying. It was either that or drowning.
Soprano2
I know where my SIL and my niece and her husband who work for a damage recovery company will be going very soon. :-(
Soprano2
@Shakti: Sometimes you don’t have a choice, or you don’t know the water is so high because it’s dark. That happened to my husband – he drove right into chest-high water because it was 2 a.m. and he was in a part of the county he was unfamiliar with. Luckily he was able to get towed out. It happened while I was gone on a trip with my mother and sister. I kidded him that I couldn’t even leave him alone for a week without him getting into trouble!
Major Major Major Major
Fingers crossed for all Floridians, especially the ones here, and especially the stray cats!
cain
@Shalimar: He doesn’t give a shit about the people in the cities – his power base are all rural MAGA who aren’t near any water. They’ll just hum along – he’s already trained them because of COVID.
He’ll go after anyone who says otherwise. Any mis-management he will blame the feds and on Biden.
Joy in FL
In west Pasco county, I am lucky. I watched MSNBC coverage yesterday until midnight, so I saw what might have been here.
Lots of power out around me, but mine stayed on.
My heart, and tomorrow when I get paid, some of my money are with those who have true disaster to deal with.
Chef Andre and World Central Kitchen already have people in place to help, so tomorrow I’ll be using our thermometer to donate.
Shakti
@Steeplejack: Sense goes out the window with family and I’m not good at planning. I was pretty much the only person who was getting food, water, filling up the tank, packing the car, looking for accommodations and I could not do it all alone. I wasted valuable time arguing with them.
One has high functioning autism and is in their own world, another has bad diabetes (think crashes) and the third has other health conditions.
Yes, I know, I warn everyone and die in the horror movie.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
You know who is doing okay now because of an awesome man? THIS CAT. The headline is “‘He is everyone’s boyfriend now’: Man saves cat as Ian’s floodwaters rise around him” – talk about clickbait. And yes, there is video. Kitty looked so relived to be saved!!
Steeplejack
@Tenar Arha:
I got an email at 9:00 this morning from my friend in Naples. She is in Zone C about five miles from the bay and the coast. It was short and a little cryptic, so I don’t know if she was conserving phone battery or what.
The Moar You Know
@Mike in NC: It’s not “seemed”. He was angry. One of the more horrendous aspects of the narcissist’s personality is the extent they go to blame any victim of anything for their misfortunes, as those misfortunes take attention, resources and sympathy that justly belong to the narcissist.
You wanna find out how a murder victim was responsible for their own murder, ask a narcissist. They’ll have a full explanation for you in seconds.
Steeplejack
@Shakti:
Thanks for your detailed answer to my awkward question. I was trying not to sound judgmental, but I was interested in the group psychology. I have been in a couple of situations where I (wrongly) ended up thinking, “Am I the crazy one?” A group, even a small one, can have a strong gravitational pull.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
Welcome to Balloon Juice.
NorthLeft
@Mike in NC: I think that is his slumlord upbringing kicking in.
Besides the fact that he is a horrid human being without a shred of empathy or kindness.
MomSense
@Ksmiami:
My parents’ unit is on the 3rd floor. I’m just wondering if the structural integrity of the whole building will be affected by flooding. I just can’t imagine that it wouldn’t damage the foundation.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ken: There’s a Dave Barry novel with a grim ongoing joke about that, starting with a reporter standing in the flood waters to report on a downed live power line (ZAP!) and followed by reporter after reporter standing in the same flood water to report the tragic death of (ZAP!)
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Touché.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@The Moar You Know: Yeah, agreed. It was his extreme annoyance at him not being the center of the conversation. He is like that old Birds Rights Activist tweet, “I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?” Except replace “uncomfortable” with “anger”
WaterGirl
It’s a relief to be hearing so many (mostly) positive outcomes. Not hit too badly, still have power, power will be back on soon.
I wonder if this might be kind of similar to the phenomenon we see with early voting results vs. same day voting?
The folks who weren’t hit too badly still have power and thus are able to let us know how they are doing. The ones who have been really badly hit probably are not able to communicate because power lines are down.
Not wanting to borrow trouble. Just wondering if that’s a reasonable way of thinking about this. Of course, it helps that Ian went from nearly 5, to Cat 4, to Cat 3, to Cat 2 and now to tropical storm. Thank goodness for that.
NorthLeft
@cain: I assume your comment is directed at DeSantis.
Yeah, don’t forget all those big city (read Democrat) Mayors who he can also demonize and belittle.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: 30 minutes until President Biden reports – video embed up top – so we will surely know more soon.
Paul in KY
@JPL: Can you go by boat or jetski or are they barred by law from returning at present time?
Gravenstone
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Every time I see this, I think he’s incredibly well intentioned, but damned lucky that surge sweeping in behind him didn’t wash him off his feet and down the street to whothefuckknowswhere.
Steeplejack
As I said above, I got a somewhat cryptic email this morning from my 84-year-old friend in Naples. Apparently she’s okay, but no details were given. In fact, she asked me for details about where Ian is. So maybe that means she doesn’t have power? Dunno.
My underlying concern is that she has seemed a little “off” mentally since moving to Naples back in April. It was a major uprooting of her life (from Alaska), and I know she experienced stress on many levels. There started to be inconsistencies and little gaps in our interactions (texts, email, phone calls) that started to give me concern, which has continued. We have a mutual friend who also lives in Naples, which I am thankful for, but I don’t know how much contact they have on an everyday basis. This hurricane has no doubt been an additional big stressor. She doesn’t have a car at the moment, so I am worried about her getting provisions, etc.
eclare
@Gravenstone: And he passes all of those electricity meters with the cat with the waves lapping at them…
Overjoyed that he saved the kitty, maybe the kitty gave one of her nine lives to him.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Gravenstone: HE WOULD HAVE DIED A HERO
eclare
@Steeplejack: How did she get groceries, etc before?
Tenar Arha
@Shalimar:
@Betty Cracker:
@Steeplejack:
Thanks guys this helps.
Steeplejack
@eclare:
I think she had them delivered occasionally, and she also had a “helper” from some agency who came a few days a week to drive her on errands and to generally help out. But the last I heard (a week or two ago) the helper wasn’t going to be available and a new one was being arranged. And even that story was kind of confused. Part of my ongoing concern.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gravenstone:
Where he would presumably have met up with SteveInThe.
EDITED for more pompously correct grammar.
Ken
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I think I read that one. Doesn’t it escalate, so by the end of the novel it’s News Helicopter 2 going out to report how News Helicopter 1 went down while reporting the crash of News Van 3 as it was racing to report on the death of On-the-Scene Reporter 4 who was…
eclare
@Steeplejack: Gotcha. Is there any way you can sign her up long distance for a welfare check, saying she’s older, no car, etc? Someone’s (I think Trapped Lurker) SIL was doing that last night for his elderly parents in Cape Coral.
Andrew
I can’t believe my good fortune. My apartment in Sarasota is undamaged and has power. I’ll be leaving Gainesville tomorrow morning to give the road/electrical crews more time to ensure a safe drive.
Baud
@Andrew: Good news.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ken: Yes, I’d forgotten that part.
eclare
@Andrew: Yay! Safe travels.
Ksmiami
@MomSense: the water rot will likely have devastating effects on the structural integrity plus foundations actually move during events like this… best of luck to your parents and I hope the association has added riders for hurricanes etc.
raven
Sanibel is fucked.
Paul in KY
@Steeplejack: Moving from Alaska to Naples, FL would be disorienting for someone of any age, I would think. Sorta like going to a human colony on another planet. I hope she is OK.
HinTN
@raven: Randy Wayne White taught me a lot about the virtues if mangrove. It won’t help against general water rise but it takes the energy right out of surge.
SiubhanDuinne
Biden up!
Steeplejack
@eclare:
Good idea, but I’m not that worried yet. Like I said, she’s five miles in from the coast, and she was able to email me this morning, if not to my satisfaction. From what I have read, Collier County (Naples) response teams are slammed—and are even getting overflow calls from neighboring Lee County (Fort Myers)—so an “ordinary” welfare check is probably a low priority. Guess I’ll wait with fingers crossed.
WaterGirl
Biden is speaking, if anyone wants to catch it.
Steeplejack
Biden is speaking now.
JPL
@Paul in KY: You would think that emergency personnel can go by boat and helicopter.
Just checked in with friends that have a condo in Naples. They are in Maine at the present time, so they are safe. Their unit is on the seventh floor, so probably didn’t sustain damage, but the lower-level parking garage and entrance were all under water. That’s all they found out so far. She’s concerned.
Baud
Jesus. Biden is just giving aid away and not asking for anything in return.
eclare
@Steeplejack: Oh if they are helping Lee, most definitely. Good you know she’s safe.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@Baud: Also, he’s not throwing paper towels at anyone.
Also also, he WARNED the oil companies about gouging.
The Moar You Know
@Baud: is he at least participating in the traditional throwing of the paper towels? What kind of man have we elected?
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Such a pinko commie squish.
CaseyL
@Andrew: That is great news! Hoping your drive home is safe and uneventful.
Steeplejack
@BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️:
This far-left radical Communist agenda must be stopped!
Ken
@Baud: I would at least have required DeSantis to sit next to me looking uncomfortable.
Oh wait, he did that already.
MazeDancer
Shorter Mr. Biden:
Who got the big guns? Feds got the big guns!
Totally obliterating DeSantis pretending to be in charge of everything, while being utterly gracious to Ron. Also, the FL Mayors
JPL
@Baud: yup More money to ship the immigrants to blue states.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@Ken: Loved that pic so much I almost set it as my wallpaper. DeathSantis is such a little punk.
Ken
@HinTN: Sounds like the setup for a scam to get research dollars. “We will genetically engineer a tree that can live in a wide range of water salinity, and can be planted along vulnerable coastlines to protect them from storm surge.”
Five years and sixty million dollars later, you deliver a packet of mangrove seeds. (Which, google tells me, germinate on the tree! And are also in Minecraft — which I’ve avoided, because I have the personality type that could easily become obsessed with that game.)
Calouste
@Ken: Throw in a few more buzzwords and you could get $600 million out of some venture capitalists.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
“It’s totally irrelevant, but I’ll answer it.”
That’s Uncle Joe – no malarkey, press corpse!
Gravenstone
@Ken: I’d love it if he took DeSantis aside and said , “cut the political bullshit. this isn’t about you and your Presidential aspirations. now, what help do the citizens of Florida need from us?”
I’d like it even more if that were actually caught on a live mic.
Joy in FL
I love that the President shut down that stuff at the end and kept the focus on the topic. He explicitly said this is about people’s lives and homes and businesses. He kept the political differences separate, not that they don’t exist, but they are not the point when there is a disaster to respond to.
JPL
Who was the asshole at the end? I was listening but not watching.
Steeplejack
@Ken:
Can’t remember if somebody posted this already.
Ken
@Calouste: “We will synergistically genetically engineer and reinvent a holistic tree that can efficiently live in a wide range of intrinsic water salinity, and can be strategically planted along empowered vulnerable coastlines to proactively, transformationally, and seamlessly protect them from open-sourced storm surge.”
zhena gogolia
@Andrew: Great news!
zhena gogolia
@Baud: You mean he didn’t say, “We’d like you to do us a favor, though”?
zhena gogolia
@BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️: What was the question?
zhena gogolia
@Ken: And it won’t be siloed.
WaterGirl
@Ken:
Buzzword. Overdose.
WaterGirl
It will be interesting to see Charlie Crist’s actions/comments/response to the state emergency.
Dorothy A. Winsor
The woman speaker should fire her speech writers.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@cain: Census adjustments of electoral votes won’t happen for 8 long years.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Really? What makes you say that?
CarolPW
Anybody seen news about Paul Wartenberg?
Matt McIrvin
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: The 2020 census’s official reference date happened at the best possible moment for the Republicans–exactly when COVID was transitioning from being primarily a killer of Democrats to primarily a killer of Republicans. So most Democratic COVID dead weren’t counted but most of the Republican ones were.
raven
@WaterGirl: He was pretty measured yesterday. They asked if he had advice for DeSantis and he said “Do the best you can and hold the people in your heart”. I’m not thrilled about nitpicking every statement these people make right now.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: She went on too long with the praise, even though it’s deserved. She also used a lot of stock phrases: my heart aches, lives forever changed. She buried the information about the phone number to call for a specific kind of help. She repeated information we already had. And she used phrases like “submerged under water” as opposed to just submerged
ETA: Raven, I hear you on nitpicking. You’re right.
WaterGirl
@CarolPW: Just what he wrote last night around 8 pm.
WaterGirl
@raven: Thanks. Keeping it non-political, which seems smart.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@zhena gogolia: Blah blah what about your differences with DeSantis? Blah blah whatabout other things going on on the planet?
The usual bullshit.
Ken
@Matt McIrvin: Now I’m wondering if that really is good news for
John McCainRepublicans. It sounds like there could be a number of census tracts with an overcount of Republicans, since they died post-census. If someone then said “We will cut Blue City in four, and add a bunch of these Republican tracts to each chunk”, their gerrymander might not be as good as they thought.WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I was cutting up cantaloupe as I listened, and I didn’t have the same reaction you did, though I can’t disagree with any of your criticisms.
zhena gogolia
@BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️: Fuck ’em.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@zhena gogolia: Agreed, wholeheartedly.
oatler
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
“submerged under water” might be a necessary redundancy as in the case of “inflammable” evolving to “flammable” BEACAUSE WE’RE STUPID, DUMMY
scav
@oatler: Homo sapiens sapiens loves repetitive redundancy?
Go figure.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@oatler: Sigh. I know. You’re right, of course.
Belafon
@jonas:
Ten or fifteen years ago, there was a show on tv that speculated about the great earthquake in California happening and how it would affect the whole country. One of the points was that the insurance industry would go under trying to pay for the damage.
Sounds like climate change is going to be the big one.
Omnes Omnibus
@oatler: Submerged under raw sewage. Submerged in malmsey wine. Submerged in cake batter. And so on.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@oatler: I’m told that at night, if the skies are clear enough, you can see the collective intelligence of the country evaporating into the atmosphere.
topclimber
@Baud: I believe DeSantis is leading a chant of Let’s Go Brandon in appreciation.
trollhattan
My new favorite on-scene hurricane reporter.
https://twitter.com/domislivenews/status/1575265917147152391?cxt=HHwWjoCwpa2AvNwrAAAA
trollhattan
@Belafon: Is Florida now the #3 state in population? That’s a lot of housing and infrastructure available to blow into the Gulf of Mexico.
Not that #2 is immune to the same treatment.
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: Actually, depending on what was in their cupboards, all of which are currently true, alas.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@trollhattan: Maybe mics will replace bananas in health class now.
Anotherlurker
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Condoms are very useful in TV Audio. They are also used to protect RF mic transmitters and IFB belt pack receivers, in wet conditions.
Baud
@topclimber:
Didn’t DeSantis go to Brandon, FL to sign some law, just to troll?
Baud
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Yes. Yes, he did.
trollhattan
@Baud: What an odd target for espionage.
To all Vlad’s recent sins, we now add “violates HIPAA”?
trollhattan
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Heh. The “Sorry, can you speak up?” jokes will just write themselves.
PaulWartenberg
Living off my phone data at the moment.
Duplex home is okay, power is out and waiting for Tampa Electric to get South Lakeland back up.
Used a battery backup last night for my cpap, which was nice. But the solar panel recharge is taking soooooooo long.
Hope everyone else in FLA is safe.
eclare
@trollhattan: Saw that! Brilliant.
eclare
@PaulWartenberg: Good to hear from you!
Ken
@Baud: I don’t suppose there’s any town in Florida named DeSatan.
zhena gogolia
@PaulWartenberg: Glad to hear you’re okay.
kalakal
Bit late for a check in.
All well here on the commanding heights of Pinellas. Fair bit of light debris which I’ve been clearing up. Pleasantly surprised not to have lost power
WaterGirl
So glad to be hearing from folks.
Bumper
@trollhattan: Probably more like the patients were highly placed and their medical information is therefore more sensitive.
raven
From our friends
Dan B
@PaulWartenberg: Glad to hear that you’re okay!
Captain C
@trollhattan:
Perhaps looking for people who might be in debt and thus susceptible to cash incentives? Or people who might be vulnerable in other ways, either for espionage or pressure purposes?
Tenar Arha
@Shalimar:
@Betty Cracker:
@Steeplejack:
Hey, so I heard from my friend. She’s okay, no flooding & no damage to her house but, yes, her power was out.
C Stars
@Baud: Someone needs to make a supercut lining up DeSantis’s stupid sniveling demeanor with scenes of stereotypical high school bullies from teen movies. There’s quite a resemblance.
trollhattan
@C Stars: Like it. They could clone him into “Mean Girls.”
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Tenar Arha: When Ida hit near my niece’s house in Houma LA, last summer it took out a LOT of the cell towers. Will as bad as the wind was with Ian I am thinking this situation is similar. I am hoping your friend just has no cell service and has her phone off so it doesn’t waste battery power constantly Roaming for a signal.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
I really hope people stay OUT of the flood waters.. There is going to be some nasty stuff in there. Plus snakes, gators and broke debris.
C Stars
@trollhattan: If only I had the After Effects skillz…
trollhattan
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: +1. Also think: “hot wires.”
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Omnes Omnibus: Nice George, Duke of Clarence reference :-)
JaneE
@Belafon: Earthquake coverage is a separate rider. It is expensive and the deductible is outrageous, I think 25% of the coverage. Most of the time the damage is a broken figurine or picture glass or maybe a crack in the plaster a coat of paint will fill in. If you have a 200,000 house, it may never get 50,000 in damages.
Fires are going to be the problem for insurers and floods, long before earthquakes.
J R in WV
Glad so many folks are checking in and OK down south.
In the long ago my folks had a sweet condo in Osprey, between Venice and Sarasota. The entrance was off the rad over to Casey Key. We would bike over, stop at the Intracoastal Waterway Oyster Shack for $0.25 oysters on the half-shell, then ride up and down Casey Key. Great restaurants up in Sarasota and on Siesta Key. Folks spent one winter renting a place out on Siesta Key, was too swanky for them I think.
I don’t know, but I would imagine all those barrier islands are swept clean of every man-made thing right now. You all stay dry down there, and keep an eye out for alligators and pythons.