Glad to hear everything turned out well for you. Hurricane parties are a must for this turn of fortune.
Next trick is to decide when to head home and how much traffic we'll run into. My wife's cousin and husband live right around the corner from us and evacuated about 50 miles south of us. We'll probably caravan back. The have their 3 gas cans and our 3 gas cans so we should be OK if stations are closed and traffic is backed up.
It’s still too dangerous to rescue people. Really hope no casualties. This is long from over too. Parts of the state could get 2’ of rain and it could strengthen again when it crosses state and enters the Atlantic
Well.... so far, this is the only damage I can see on my cameras. This fence will be coming down soon anyway as we are expanding our seawall. (And it would probably cost $20 to fix).
Man, this is bringing back terrible memories from Harvey. Prayers to the whole state. It is amazing how time passes and you recover even in the worst of scenarios.
This hurricane is what I think of when most people say "a hurricane", albeit a strong one. Stuff like Katrina and Harvey seemed different to me - like the entire city is about to go bye-bye. They seemed cataclysmic. Katrina because everything was failing right and left and you were praying another levy wouldn't bust and Harvey because "when will this thing finally move"? I mean 40-60" of rain in many places is incredible. It didn't help that I have a lot of friends and relatives living in the Houston area. I'm hoping Ian will just be a bunch of damage that can be recovered from rather than a bunch of lives lost.
Storms like these always made me wonder what Native Americans did to protect themselves or did they just get wiped out.
Reports of Sanibel causeway has sections washed away. I believe this is the only road on and off of the island.
Lee County sheriff said this morning "hundreds of fatalities" and has walked that back kind of. He later said on another network that were definitely "multiple" but didn't want to speculate on number.
Certainly many of them died but there were far fewer of them and they didn't live in such concentrations like people do now. Also they likely moved to higher ground when they saw a storm coming. Ancient people around the World figured out ways to survive natural disasters otherwise we wouldn't be here.
Coincidentally this day 11 years ago I went through Typhoon / Hurricane Nesat in Hong Kong. This was far weaker than Ian and Hong Kong didn't get hit directly.
It really makes you wonder. I know most probably lived inland but then there are the seminole Indians who lived in Florida not far from the beach. It probably was a similar situation to the 1900 hurricane in Galveston. Total devastation.
