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This tree used to be straight (green line) and now it leans toward our house and even wrinkles the turf (red circle) due to the shift. The crown of that tree is nestled in the branches above the grill, and, somehow the fence is leaning the opposite way (pink line).

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This tree used to be straight (green line) and now it leans toward our house and even wrinkles the turf (red circle) due to the shift. The crown of that tree is nestled in the branches above the grill, and, somehow the fence is leaning the opposite way (pink line).
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We came back home today! Of all the places we crossed (Sarasota, Bradenton) on our way to St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg looked the worst. Caveat - the interstate is better maintained than the surface roads.

For reference we live about 12 city blocks from Tropicana Park that many of you have seen on the news and about 20 city blocks from that fallen crane if you saw that too.

Here are some pictures from our yard.

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A pile of branches over a walkway running toward the sidewalk. One limb hangs from a broken limb underneath it.
Looking toward the front of our house, a pile of limbs covers most of the street and the entire sidewalk in front of our house. A large limb hangs from the tree it broke from.
A neighbor waves as his wife takes a photo of a section of fencing that blew over into the alleyway behind our house.
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The Tampa Bay Times is running an article now on how to evacuate if you are still here. One of the ways being touted by the DeSantis administration is by Uber - Uber rides are free!

I have major problems with this approach, Who drives Uber? People with no health benefits from Uber drive for Uber, people who are underpaid drive for Uber, people who use their own cars drive for Uber. But doing this, the state need not give them shelter or provide benefits, but the "service" requires Uber drivers to be present. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of an evacuation? Keeping people in town so they can drive others out? And am I the only one who sees this is as stupid?

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It was nice to see, at 10 pm, that the mortal were continuing their shift southward. This 0Z 9 Oct 2024 run put Tampa Bay in the clear, with all models putting us on the better side of the eye with little threat if a huge surge isolating Pinellas county for days or weeks. Normally, given this news we would just stay and ride the storm out.

However, prior to the sustained southward shift in model guidance, we told my parents in Naples that they could probably stay put. They live 15 miles from the coast in a neighborhood with no big trees and buried power lines. They would be safe if the storm landed in or just a little south of Tampa Bay. When we saw this 0z run at 10pm, though, we felt they may be better off going to Miami or coming here to St. Petersburg.

The only problem was that we had told them we were coming late tonight and, at this point, they were asleep and our calls weren't waking them. In the morning they would still have time to go to Miami, but the traffic would be bad and they are getting go there in years. So after the 11pm official forecast came out and confirmed the models rune's southward shift, we left anyway.

We are here in Naples now, and that may ultimately be worse than St. Petersburg. But my parents have us, and our kids have their grandparents, and that all counts for something.

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Consolidated model runs from 0z 9 Oct 2024, visualized on Levi Cowan's www.tropicaltidbits.com website. Emanating from a single point in the Gulf of Mexico, several lines of different colors arc to the northeast and then to the east, growing further apart as they criss they the Florida Peninsula. All model tracks are south of Tampa Bay and north of Naples, but still closer to Tampa Bay.
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Friend sent me this from that other site. I dedicate it to Anna Paulina Luna, the congresswoman who represents the district here in St. Petersburg that just flooded and whose residents are frantically cleaning up after Helene as Milton approaches.

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Three panel cartoon. First panel shows person on bicycle with caption, "Republican congressman were hurricane coming." In the second panel, the person on to he bicycle is sticking a stick through the spokes of the front wheel. The captions says, "Votes against FEMA funding." The third panel shows the person lying on the ground holding their knee next to their toppled bicycle. The captions reads, ""Why did Biden do this?""
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OK, the forecast jumped back north overnight and into this morning. We are probably at the limits of precision for the track now, and we are certain that this will not hit Naples directly nor will it hit north of St. Petersburg. We are the red dot; we will have tropical storm force winds and that is about it.

But, it is a good thing we evacuated to here. My parents had told us they put up their shutters, but they only did one side of their house. I did two other sides this morning, and the fourth side (front) is all impact resistant windows.

There is a community aspect to this too. Hearing me put up hurricane shutters caused their neighbor to do the same. Putting up shutters is contagious!

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Screen shot of interactive hurricane warning cones and track from the national hurricane center. The map shows concentric circles around the current location of Hurricane Milton. The red circle (smallest) represent hurricane force winds, yellow is strong tropical storm force, and green is tropical storm force. A black line with some circles shows the predicted track with fixes at the dots. A blue are formed by a pair of lines nearly parallel to the track forecast create what is called the cone of uncertainty. We are located at the red south of the cine of uncertainty.
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Looks like it's time for another hurricane thread. Today we woke up to hurricane models realizing a storm they had been realizing when Helene hit us last week, but then in the beginning of this week the storm gradually disappeared from dynamic models. So, we weren't really paying attention anymore as it seemed to be becoming a rain maker but not a wind and surge event.

Now we are paying attention. The trend reversed and all of the models seem to be realizing a tropical cyclone ranging from Tropical Storm strength to Category 4 hurricane. Tracks are converging on central Florida's west coast. If it realizes full strength and hits slightly north of Tampa Bay, it will be an absolute disaster. It will kill many people and collapse Florida's weak, feeble insurance market (Thanks for that, Rick Scott and Republican kleptocrats!)

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I'll be talking about #HurricaneMilton and how climate change is amping up monster storms TODAY (Wed Oct 9) 3:28pm ET with @CNN's @ericarhill on @cnni: edition.cnn.com/?hpt=header_ed…
#hurricanemilton @CNN :press: @CNN International :press: @Erica Hill

Via John Morales / NBC6
8:46 PM · Oct 8, 2024

"I was interviewed by
Erin Burnett on @CNN about that unplanned breakdown on TV yesterday, and what led to it."

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If you have folks you know who plan to "hunker down and ride it out" in the Tampa area, show them the list of locations closing for Waffle House. #WaffleHouseIndex #WHIndex #FLwx #Milton #HurricaneMilton #hurricane
All Tampa Area and St. Petersburg Waffle House locations closed ahead of Milton
Fort Myers area waffle house locations closed
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#Trump won’t care about #HurricaneMilton unless #MarALago is in danger.

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Thanks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and your taxpayer dollars, we're getting strong advanced warnings about #HurricaneMilton. This is a potentially disastrous storm aimed right at Central Florida. Please do not ignore the warnings.
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