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IMPORTANT Hurricane Milton

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by oragator1, Oct 5, 2024.

  1. tec68

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    Wonder where we can find a comprehensive list because the Wellington/Loxahatchee tornado is not on here and it was a really bad one.

    I saw it about a mile behind my house and spoke to a Firefighter afterwards. He told me they were finding people in fields that were ripped from their homes. Said they trauma-hawked 25 people out but that was the people they could find….
     
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  2. gator_lawyer

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    I saw some pictures of it. Looked really bad. Car smashed up against a house. Construction dumpster sticking through the roof of a home.
     
  3. oragator1

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    SW FL is cursed.
     
  4. 96Gatorcise

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    It wasn't my fence. It was a large tree that took out my power pole
     
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  5. gator_lawyer

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    Is Cantore going to live in that parking garage for a day or two?
     
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    I'm at my sister's in Northdale. Rain has been ridiculous. Water soaking into the house on east side of house despite not being in a flood area. Been playing whack a mole with towels in multiple rooms to keep it at bay. Power went out a couple hours ago so no we cannot dry the damn towels.
     
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  7. OklahomaGator

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    Did you lose power? You are posting so I assume not
     
  8. oragator1

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    Stay safe with electricity in the house. When it comes back on who knows where the water is.
     
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    Tampa and in particular St. Pete are under an emergency flash flood warning. Between 10 and 14 (16 in St. Pete) inches of rain have fallen in a little over 3 hours. That's about 3 months of rainfall. They are saying to go to higher ground now because the flash floods will start with the water having nowhere to go.
     
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  10. oragator1

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  12. G8trGr8t

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  14. channingcrowderhungry

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    Bottom of a pint glass
    I saw the pic of that WM dumpster on the roof. That thing probably weighs 4000 lbs empty. That's wild
     
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  15. G8trGr8t

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    most areas are too flat to cause flash flooding through accumulation, at least they got that going for them
     
  16. 96Gatorcise

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    On my phone. Best I can tell is the tree ripped the power line off the pole.
     
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    Here is one of 50 angles from videos uploaded to social media. All look fake they are so scary.

    TikTok - Make Your Day
     
  19. G8trGr8t

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    Has to go to an underground parking garage to get the b clip footage...pretty sad
     
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