Hurricane Matthew

Holy cow! Unreal series of events past week has me believing in fate. Mom lives on Merritt island right off the water / alone. Younger brother in law enforcement and swamped.I Was able to secure the house to our best ability / get up all the metal shutters, packed up mom and the pets and got out of Dodge. Most of the family now packed into my Clermont house. I fear her house is going to take it badly.

I picked a hell of a week to leave the restoration field ........... but now I can devote myself to her needs over the coming weeks.

The lord works in mysterious ways.

Be safe my friends.

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Originally Posted by SlowRideStu

Holy cow! Unreal series of events past week has me believing in fate. Mom lives on Merritt island right off the water / alone. Younger brother in law enforcement and swamped.I Was able to secure the house to our best ability / get up all the metal shutters, packed up mom and the pets and got out of Dodge. Most of the family now packed into my Clermont house. I fear her house is going to take it badly.

I picked a hell of a week to leave the restoration field ........... but now I can devote myself to her needs over the coming weeks.

The lord works in mysterious ways.

Be safe my friends.

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Glad to hear that everyone is safe. FAMILY FIRST!!!!!

I called several places yesterday morning and found a site on west coast. Went picked up mom and we packed and ran ahead of the traffic. Could not convince my kids to come but gave stepdaughter with grandson no choice. Waiting it out over here in camper and hoping for the best. But can replace items. Hope and pray everyone comes through safely. See yall on the flip side. Prayers for everyone.

My friends I pray for you all. Please be safe and take care of yourselves. God bless you all and please get back on here asap to let us know you are okay when it's over. Will continue holding you all in my thoughts. I know we are a long ways away, but if you need a place to come stay, we will welcome you. Stay C.c strong. Danny

Predicting 120mph gusts by day break here .......
Still rather calm here right now (7:47pm), saying SHTF around 3am ..........

Cool site = https://www.windytv.com/?28.531,-80.852,6

Good lookin rig Danny. I had a few friends that had those in the 80's. I was an outlaw running the freq's above what we were allowed and below what I was told were military. Had an absolute ball and made friends everywhere I spoke. I changed and times changed and I moved away from the tech that kept me running and gradually drifted away from it for several reasons. Miss it sometimes, met some exceptional people,and as you see, that part continues.

Yep Skeet, is a good hobby....
I got a CB in my truck for highway travel = don't hear many folks at all talking
anymore going down the road = died out for sure.
But hams are still alive and well....
When I got the FT101E it was rigged up to talk on freq's just above the CB freq's but couldn't
get my 10 meter freq's, popped in different crystal and got her back legal etc, etc........
When ya retire and find yourself bored to death, consider getting back into it.

We're monitoring the emergency shelters tonight (TARC = Titusville amateur radio club),
reporting to net control every couple hours as to head counts/conditions at each shelter.
So, gives one something significant to engage in once in awhile ......

Actually, I'm sitting here on my duff just listening because wife isn't into community service/ham
stuff .......

Here in Tutusville (10:15pm) all is still quite and relative calm.
Little bit of rain and light wind, I think we're lucking out and getting in between the rain bands.
I see New Smyrna and Daytona is getting quite a lot of blow and rain.

Oh, another thing, I got "Antenna" and getting all local TV stations perfectly. I see where they're
saying "Direct TV" and "Dish TV" folks are not getting good reception cause for the rain/clouds = LOL ! ! ! !
Still waiting for SHTF ..............................

12:00am..............
Getting pretty bad wind gusts now, very little rain .....
Scary standing in back yard seeing tree tops bending over double...
Had big oak tree limb (8") break off neighbor's tree and land on trellis.
Neighbor behind us has tree slapping h*ll out of my power line connections....
Still have power ....
And the bad stuff hasn't even started yet ........................

Be safe Danny...The worst is yet to come...Just looked at the hourly for you on the Weather Channel.



2:00 am

. Fri, Oct 7.

Light Rain/Wind
77° 77°  95% 91% NNE 68 mph
3:00 am

. Fri, Oct 7.

Rain/Wind
78° 78°  85% 90% NNE 69 mph
4:00 am

. Fri, Oct 7.

Rain/Wind
79° 85°  100% 89% NNE 72 mph
5:00 am 

. Fri, Oct 7.

Heavy Rain/Wind
80° 87°  100% 86% NNE 75 mph
6:00 am 

. Fri, Oct 7.

Heavy Rain/Wind
85° 95°  100% 79% N 88 mph
7:00 am 

. Fri, Oct 7.

Heavy Rain/Wind
84° 94°  100% 79% N 92 mph
8:00 am 

. Fri, Oct 7.

Squalls
84° 95°  100% 79% NNW 83 mph

I talked with 65pontiac earlier and offered him a Retreat. He's gonna hang in there and ride it out but at least he is about 30-40 inland and TWC is calling for 12 hours of 70-80 mph winds Friday at his place. My cousin lives in Port St. Lucie and she left Tuesday and headed to Tallahassee. Nasty Nasty Nasty storm....And some computer models show it circling around and possibly giving yall a 2nd round.:mad:


Thinking about and saying a prayer for all my friends down that way!!!

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Originally Posted by Phantom309

Predicting 120mph gusts by day break here .......
Still rather calm here right now (7:47pm), saying SHTF around 3am ..........

Cool site = https://www.windytv.com/?28.531,-80.852,6

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Danny, I have been playing with this site...Pretty darn cool!!!!