IMPORTANT Hurricane Milton - winds now 165MPH

Isn't that aqua barrier something like 9 feet? It may be at risk for over-topping....

 

The blue dot is my house

 

I believe its 15 ft

 

are the waffle houses closed yet?

 

Someone upthread posted about hospitals, ilfs, alfs being evacuated

 

Emergency Preparedness and Planning | Tampa General Hospital

Details on preparations at Tampa General include:

• Facility Support – Tampa General completed construction in 2022 on a 16,000-square-foot Central Energy Plant. Located 33 feet above sea level, this energy plant provides a reliable, protected power supply in the event of power disruption. The energy plant is built to withstand the impact and flooding of a Category 5 hurricane. It houses generators as well as boilers that have the ability to create steam and hot water.
• Patient Care – Tampa General health care providers and staff who are trained in emergency management will remain on site through the duration of the storm to care for patients. Additional food, water and supplies will also be on site for teams and patients during the storm. As soon as the storm has passed, and the roads are safe, additional providers and staff will return to work to relieve teams and continue supporting response and recovery efforts.
• AquaFence – At our Davis Islands campus, the AquaFence is already in place to protect vulnerable areas of the campus against storm surge and flooding. The AquaFence is a water-impermeable barrier that can withstand storm surge up to 15 feet above sea level.

 

Thanks 96Gatorcise.

 

Are you already gone?

 

In around Tampa out between the Cape and Daytona.

I’ll be getting some of the nasty on the east coast.

As of now.

 

We'll be getting something in Jacksonville. Not sure what, yet, of course.

 

Are you a Welch?

 

Is that an island or a sandbar? Hopefully just a sandbar. It's about to get clobbered.

 

That’s Scorpion Reef. I think it’s uninhabited except for some military on one island.

 

Looks to be uninhabited if it is indeed land.

 

Depending on the path power loss seems likely in Jax. Heading out into the fray to buy some gas. Wish me luck.

 

Wild how quickly it went from tropical storm to Cat 5. 24 hours to go from nothing to one of the strongest hurricanes we've seen.

Hope that wind shear is as good as advertised.

 

I may have missed it if someone posted it, but the lowest barometric pressure recorded in an Atlantic basin hurricane was Wilma in October 19th, 2005 at 882mb.