Hey Fellow Floridians - Year 2 - Page 127

Barb_FL · October 6, 2016

Nothing much going on here. Marsha - what kind of wind are you experiencing?

Looks like the bad stuff will happen here between 1AM-6AM.

We have all our shutters up. Will back the cars up to the garage door (with just a pillow between the car and the door) to keep the door from being compromised.

Started watching TV and the City of Cocoa is turning off the water at 6PM until after the storm passes. City of Melbourne is our source; but just to be safe, I filled 18 gallons of water in my tomato water buckets. This is for toilets not drinking.

We brought mattresses from upstairs to our living room. It should be less scary on the first floor besides being cooler once we lose power.

Ginny - Are you at your moms/sisters?

I will keep posting until we lose power.

Stay safe.

GrowingCoastal · October 6, 2016

Yes, but how are your tomatoes going to fare in all this?

Just kidding - do be safe in this monster storm.

efisakov · October 6, 2016

Barb, I am not sure you should stay.

Barb_FL · October 6, 2016

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrowingCoastal

Yes, but how are your tomatoes going to fare in all this?

Just kidding - do be safe in this monster storm.

Here you go: They would just be projectiles anyway; might as well try to save them.

Also a view of my pool deck from inside; it is only this empty during a hurricane.

I sacrificed all of my mature hot pepper plants, most of the others, and my cucumber plant.

AlittleSalt · October 6, 2016

Our local DFW, Texas weathercast is showing the expected track of the storm. I don't remember ever seeing a hurricane circling back like they're saying might happen.

All of you be very careful and stay safe.

Barb_FL · October 6, 2016

Quote:

Originally Posted by ginger2778

Barb, we are fine so far. 7pm tonight might be another story. I really don't like hearing that you are going to ride it out, thus one could be a category 4 and an almost firestorm hit to you. I hope you are evacuating.

7:24 now; how are you?

kayrobbins · October 6, 2016

I have been watching trying to see how all of you further south are doing. For us the bad part will be tomorrow. I have done everything I can to secure stuff and moved in all the plants I could. I don't know how my outside tomatoes will fare so I am glad I have the micro tomatoes inside.

I am in an evacuation zone but am staying. I hope I made the right choice. I have never had any flooding even though I am in a flood zone. My biggest worry is the falling trees from my neighbors. It seems like when we have strong winds their trees never fall on their property but do on mine.

Zone9b · October 6, 2016

The national hurricane center had Matthew in the Atlantic quite a ways off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale and almost directly South of Freeport at 5 pm today, at least if I’m reading this right. 12 Hours later, at approximately 5 am Friday morning they appear to project hurricane to be off the coast of Vero Beach, but much closer to the coast than it was 12 hours earlier. Yet another 12 hours later, at 5 pm Friday it appears they have the potential position of the storm off the coast of Palm Coast.
If one were to draw a straight line between the offshore Vero Beach position and the offshore Palm Coast position the eye wouldn’t probably be off shore all the way but maybe it wouldn’t be too bad, but it would appear the line would more likely be somewhat curved. Given the curved nature of the line, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see at least a portion of the hurricane eye to be West of I95 say in the Rockledge, Palm Shores area.
That is my guess anyway. I hope my guesstimation is wrong and the storm moves further off shore soon, but we probably aren't going to be that lucky.
Larry

efisakov · October 6, 2016

How is everyone doing?

maxjohnson · October 6, 2016

I am in Pompano Beach area so we're getting off lucky, and West Palm Beach should not be too terrible, but I fear for anyone further north will absolutely get a big hit.

https://www.wunderground.com/wunderm...&hur=1&radar=1

twillis2252 · October 6, 2016

Good website without the hype...Be Safe!

http://hurricanetrack.com/

Barb_FL · October 6, 2016

It's 10:20 PM and we still have power but the gusts are getting really powerful.

I'm located in Indialantic, a barrier island off of Melbourne.

I will post again around 11 if we still have power at that time.

It looks like the worst of the weather will now be at 2AM-8AM.

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ETA - Just watched the 11 PM update and track info. Now they are saying that the center of the storm will stay slightly off shore. (GOOD NEWS)
The really strong winds (sustained 135 now), are on the east side so having the storm center just move a little more east will mean a lot less destruction.

ETA #2 - 2 AM now; the wind woke me up BUT we still have power for now.
Going to check on TV, checked the path on weather.com and the store is 50 mile SE of Vero Beach. It is pretty close.

ginger2778 · October 7, 2016

We had total damage of exactly two pepper pots tipping over. We never lost power, all that work was basically not necessary. It is just our luck though if we hadn't done the work we would have gotten the full force of the storm.

Fiishergurl · October 7, 2016

Barb and Kay,

Please report in.

Marsha, glad you are ok and no damage.

Ginny

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ginger2778 · October 7, 2016

Thanks Ginny.
Larry, Max, Douglas, all the other Floridans that might have been affected, please let us know how you did/are doing.

October 6, 2016	#1898
Zone9b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Central Florida Posts: 620	The national hurricane center had Matthew in the Atlantic quite a ways off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale and almost directly South of Freeport at 5 pm today, at least if I’m reading this right. 12 Hours later, at approximately 5 am Friday morning they appear to project hurricane to be off the coast of Vero Beach, but much closer to the coast than it was 12 hours earlier. Yet another 12 hours later, at 5 pm Friday it appears they have the potential position of the storm off the coast of Palm Coast. If one were to draw a straight line between the offshore Vero Beach position and the offshore Palm Coast position the eye wouldn’t probably be off shore all the way but maybe it wouldn’t be too bad, but it would appear the line would more likely be somewhat curved. Given the curved nature of the line, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see at least a portion of the hurricane eye to be West of I95 say in the Rockledge, Palm Shores area. That is my guess anyway. I hope my guesstimation is wrong and the storm moves further off shore soon, but we probably aren't going to be that lucky. Larry Last edited by Zone9b; October 6, 2016 at 08:25 PM.

October 6, 2016	#1899
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	How is everyone doing? __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”

October 6, 2016	#1900
maxjohnson Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: OH 6a Posts: 592	I am in Pompano Beach area so we're getting off lucky, and West Palm Beach should not be too terrible, but I fear for anyone further north will absolutely get a big hit. https://www.wunderground.com/wunderm...&hur=1&radar=1 Last edited by maxjohnson; October 6, 2016 at 08:51 PM.

October 6, 2016	#1902
Barb_FL Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Indialantic, Florida Posts: 2,000	It's 10:20 PM and we still have power but the gusts are getting really powerful. I'm located in Indialantic, a barrier island off of Melbourne. I will post again around 11 if we still have power at that time. It looks like the worst of the weather will now be at 2AM-8AM. -- ETA - Just watched the 11 PM update and track info. Now they are saying that the center of the storm will stay slightly off shore. (GOOD NEWS) The really strong winds (sustained 135 now), are on the east side so having the storm center just move a little more east will mean a lot less destruction. ETA #2 - 2 AM now; the wind woke me up BUT we still have power for now. Going to check on TV, checked the path on weather.com and the store is 50 mile SE of Vero Beach. It is pretty close. Last edited by Barb_FL; October 7, 2016 at 02:03 AM.

October 6, 2016	#1891
Barb_FL Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Indialantic, Florida Posts: 2,000	Nothing much going on here. Marsha - what kind of wind are you experiencing? Looks like the bad stuff will happen here between 1AM-6AM. We have all our shutters up. Will back the cars up to the garage door (with just a pillow between the car and the door) to keep the door from being compromised. Started watching TV and the City of Cocoa is turning off the water at 6PM until after the storm passes. City of Melbourne is our source; but just to be safe, I filled 18 gallons of water in my tomato water buckets. This is for toilets not drinking. We brought mattresses from upstairs to our living room. It should be less scary on the first floor besides being cooler once we lose power. Ginny - Are you at your moms/sisters? I will keep posting until we lose power. Stay safe.

October 6, 2016	#1892
GrowingCoastal Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Vancouver Island Canada BC Posts: 1,253	Yes, but how are your tomatoes going to fare in all this? Just kidding - do be safe in this monster storm.

October 6, 2016	#1895
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	Our local DFW, Texas weathercast is showing the expected track of the storm. I don't remember ever seeing a hurricane circling back like they're saying might happen. All of you be very careful and stay safe.

October 6, 2016	#1897
kayrobbins Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Jacksonville, Fl Posts: 820	I have been watching trying to see how all of you further south are doing. For us the bad part will be tomorrow. I have done everything I can to secure stuff and moved in all the plants I could. I don't know how my outside tomatoes will fare so I am glad I have the micro tomatoes inside. I am in an evacuation zone but am staying. I hope I made the right choice. I have never had any flooding even though I am in a flood zone. My biggest worry is the falling trees from my neighbors. It seems like when we have strong winds their trees never fall on their property but do on mine.

October 6, 2016	#1901
twillis2252 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: SC & NC Posts: 258	Good website without the hype...Be Safe! http://hurricanetrack.com/

October 7, 2016	#1903
ginger2778 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10 Posts: 9,283	We had total damage of exactly two pepper pots tipping over. We never lost power, all that work was basically not necessary. It is just our luck though if we hadn't done the work we would have gotten the full force of the storm.

October 7, 2016	#1904
Fiishergurl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Oak Hill, Florida Posts: 1,781	Barb and Kay, Please report in. Marsha, glad you are ok and no damage. Ginny Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

October 7, 2016	#1905
ginger2778 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10 Posts: 9,283	Thanks Ginny. Larry, Max, Douglas, all the other Floridans that might have been affected, please let us know how you did/are doing.