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Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation
(Post 4848007)
I applaud his efforts! That had to be insane to move it 4 miles in a storm!
Question though, why didn't he flee to the Tampa area or further north to avoid the storm completely? He had a good dock in the lee of fort myers beach , he could have ran it up the coloosahatchee but you need to be above the locks to escape the surge and that would have been a 5 hour run. Lacked the crew and fuel as everything closed down Tuesday morning. Current quote we have for getting my buddies uninsured 40 foot sailboat craned off the mangroves is $250-300 a foot . Uninsured because it was a named storm. Hatteras was uninsured also as old big boats have become nearly impossible to insure down in Florida anymore. |
When a storm with such a large circulation approaches at a shallow angle it only takes a few degrees of wobble to move the landfall 50 miles. I just go inland a few miles and hunker down. I75’s no bueno unless you bug out way early, it’s clogged up with all the people south of you who got the head fake the day before.
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Two weeks after the hurricane. Sanibel Island bridges are passable. Great video
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contr...land-causeway/ |
Just Unreal carnage. The size of some of those boats and where they landed. Dont fuk w Mother Nature. she Always wins.
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https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...650fb13cc.jpeg
Cape Haze, Florida Near my home, this is repairable https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...423ba5289.jpeg Cape Haze https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...20937d85c.jpeg Cape Haze, the rest of Storage Sheds at this marina in Cape Haze held up well (not pictured) |
Member OldSchool aka Craig was hit pretty hard. They have a canal home in Cape Coral.
He reported in on FB that they have a lot of home damage including flooding and roof, lost 2 motorcycles and a truck due to flooding; and the Cigarette appears to be OK. His Chevelle was moved inland and was fine. I'm sure he'll chime in here at some point. https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...qg&oe=634CA974 |
On the leaving part as many said north was not a option because of not knowing where it was going to land.
the friends I know that decided to leave went across to the east coast. |
Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix
(Post 4848074)
On the leaving part as many said north was not a option because of not knowing where it was going to land.
the friends I know that decided to leave went across to the east coast. |
Originally Posted by Smarty
(Post 4848079)
I explored that option (Tuesday)but could not find any hotels that had vacancy, and there were concerns about the roads getting there being way too crowded, based on experience from prior hurricanes. Too many people and not enough vacancies. Now if I had left Sunday and went to Alabama like some of my colleagues then I would not have been in harms way.
they went to a hotel right by MIA airport. Not the best place around for sure. |
Originally Posted by tommymonza
(Post 4847977)
Thats my buddy Tracy in his 58 Hatteras he had docked on the backside of Fort Myers beach.
The dock broke up and he kept control of it for five hours and headed about four miles south until he lost an engine. He said he parked it in the mangroves to hold it to keep it from drifting into some barges that were anchored up there. Shows some video of him struggling to control it here. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/b6KzfGRuCbc https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...53de1e8a7.jpeg I think this is the ~80 footer that was referred to up above. |
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