Wilma!!!!!

[Eclpz314]

Good luck to both of you and all other Florida residents on these boards who live in the projected path.

 

[D3K]

Having survived Andrew, I am hoping and praying that by some miracle this storm just disappears and does not effect anyone!! But just in case yesterday we ran out to Publix and bought water, ice, tolit paper,burgers and hotdogs (we can put the burgers and hot dogs in the cooler and make them on the BBQ if we lose power), When Katrina passed by in Aug we were w/ out electricty for 4 days, I know it's nothing compared to what happened in New Orleans but it was still hard. Lets hope and pray that everyone stays safe and that proper precautions are taken.

 

[TheDuffers]

I just got the mandatory evacuation notice. A majority of the models and FEMA have Naples as the target. It won't hit until 6 p.m. Sunday and it will last for 8 hours. Storm surge is projected to be 16 feet. My first floor elevation is 7.5' above sea level. The wind speed will be about 115 MPH sustained. I better get to chipping the hole! Every hurricane they have projected landfall incorrectly. The damn thing is still heading west. Could they be wrong this time? They are saying to evac to north of Sarasota.
These hurricanes really blow!

This is going to sound totally irrelevent compared to those of you who live in Florida, but we're scheduled to land in Orlando at 5pm on Monday??? What do we do? I guess I'll have to make a decision by Saturday at the latest....we're supposed to be at the HRH until the 29th and then head out on the Eastern Caribbean Disney cruise. I need a vacation REALLY bad and it looks like this one might get grounded?!#%#!?

 

[Foladar]

Closed on Friday? May be a bit overreacting, since according to the latest projections we won't see the storm until Sunday. I can definitely understand schools being closed on Monday though.

Schools will probably be closed due to the mandatory evacuation in some areas .. And it's suppose to hit us at a category 1, not a TS in the SE. I live north of the Keys, hoping we don't have to evacuate.

 

[Foladar]

I just got the mandatory evacuation notice. A majority of the models and FEMA have Naples as the target. It won't hit until 6 p.m. Sunday and it will last for 8 hours. Storm surge is projected to be 16 feet. My first floor elevation is 7.5' above sea level. The wind speed will be about 115 MPH sustained. I better get to chipping the hole! Every hurricane they have projected landfall incorrectly. The damn thing is still heading west. Could they be wrong this time? They are saying to evac to north of Sarasota.
These hurricanes really blow!

It's going NW now, so it is making -some- of a turn, I'd either hunker down (that's what we intend to do, whether we are told to leave or not) or get out, soon.

 

[Motherfletcher]

Good news- I received a letter yesterday from my flood insurance carrier showing the additional $100k in coverage that I just bought. Woohoo! Yesterday I received a 3.9% raise and a merit bonus. Woohoo! I purchased a generator so we can at least run the fans and the fridge after the power goes out. I can get a room at RPR for $159 a night for the week. We have plastic tubs in which we can pack the essence of our lives.
The bad news-
As Paula Zahn put it "Naples is the bull's eye." The mandatory evacuation begins at noon today. By noon Saturday they want us gone. My DW is anxious to the point of tears one minute to yelling the next. She doesn't want to lose her job but wants to evacuate with the family. I told her to call her Doctor and ask for a prescription saying we should leave. If the hospital would write her up after that we should have legal recourse. The damn hospital is 6 blocks from the Gulf of Mexico in the mandatory evacuation zone. It is located in a high hazard area. Any flood surge means water on the first and maybe second floors of the building. How can they, as employers, require their employees to venture into to harms way or chance losing their job? She has worked every other hurricane and tropical storm for 20 years.
Questions-
We need to take our dogs if we go to RPR. I can't locate the vet papers that say they have been serviced within the last year. Does RPR require those documents to let the pets stay? If so would they let us keep them in the van in the parking lot?
BTW-
Thanks for all of your prayers. I know that it makes a difference. We attended a prayer meeting on the beach prior to Charley and our County was spared.
I gave up on chipping the whole in the roof. Everyone on the block is boarding their windows except us. When we evac I'm going to leave the door cracked so Wilma can come in and make herself at home.

 

[Eclpz314]

Motherfletcher, your sense of humor through these hurricanes has been truly amazing. Hopefully Wilma veers away enough or weakens enough not to damage a lot. From reading these boards over the past few years, it sounds like you all have been through so much. I can understand the hospital making your wife stay......my daughter's a nurse and has had a couple of experiences where the hospital would send someone out to drive her in and she'd be stuck there until the crisis was over. I hope it doesn't come to you and your wife having to make a decision over your own safety or keeping her job. Good luck. Can't believe we're still probably moving down to the central Fl. area in the summer.....are we nuts?

 

[Motherfletcher]

Florida is a great place to live! As long as you get a home build after Andrew and far enough away from the beach you are in good shape. I'd hunker down if storm surge was not predicted.

 

[macraven]

thinking about all of you and hoping we have a miracle and florida is spared from destruction.

if i was there, i would help you with the hole to the roof..........
came back last week from a 14.5 day stay in orlando, i can never get enough of that place.

about rph, call them. i stayed at hrh and all was needed for the dogs was a vet statement that shots were current.
i doubt they would allow you to house your dogs in the van. they patrol the parking lot at hrh and it wouldn't be a good thing if they found them in the van without you or knowledge of it. give a call and see if they will bend the rules if you can't get a vet statement.

i am glued to the tv watching wilma............i always liked betty better.

 

[granmaz]

Thinking about you all over there who may be affected. Keep safe.

 

[Eclpz314]

Florida is a great place to live! As long as you get a home build after Andrew and far enough away from the beach you are in good shape. I'd hunker down if storm surge was not predicted.

See Motherfletcher.....you STILL remain upbeat! Glad to hear you can still have such a high opinion of Florida even after all of the hurricane mess you've been through. Space Coast, racing, amusement parks, nature (airboating twice so far)....everything my family's interested in. Might get just a little more use out of our US PAPs when we actually live there too! We're coming down in the spring to concentrate on locating an area. Hopefully we can fit in some US/IOA time too....geez, I don't think we could be that close and not do a quick run through!! Again, hoping Wilma stays her distance.

 

[Motherfletcher]

I got an email from a friend in Key West. They are supposed to have Fantasy Fest (HHN meets porn) this week. They have already run all of the tourists out and now Wilma is stalling in Cancun. He said that they are suffering from Premature Evacuation Syndrome.
A buddy of mine is a Sarg. with the Sheriff's Office and I was asking him how it was going at the gas stations. He said that he received a call from a woman who said that another lady cut in front of her in the gas line. When I asked, he said he told her to "Shoot her." So its frontier justice here in Naples. And I'm trying to find the list for just what is justifiable homicide. I told my buddy that he needs to come with us to HHN!
DW isn't doing well through this. I made her go to her Doctor and he wrote her a prescription for bed rest until 10/31. If the hospital fires her we're fixing to sue! She was packing photographs and started crying when she packed the one of us at an outdoor bar in Cancun. They are getting their butt kicked without mercy.
We tied cables to the trees that we have left after the other storms. Katrina wiped out about as many as Charley. When they show after pictures of this storm our lot is the one with the trees! We used heavy cables and poured concrete for the tie-down anchors.
We are packing up everything we own, the livestock and heading out early (like 3 a.m.)Monday morning and hope the traffic is not too bad. I'll call FHP first because it might be better to drive up the middle of the State instead of I-75. We will arrive at RPR looking like Oklahoma share croppers in the dust bowl. They'll think we're moving there. I should pull up to valet and tell them to unload it all.
I need to plastic wrap this computer and secure the office. Talk to ya'll from RPR.

 

[palmbeachguy]

Actually that person could shoot and kill the other person who cut in front of them if they felt threatened. We have a new law that says we can use deadly force if we feel threatened. AKA Shoot first ask questions later!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...ndication=rss&source=nationworld.xml&items=32

I'm in West Palm hunkering down for a long day ahead. Shutters going up today, final food preps getting bought today. here we go again!! I read that Florida has gotten 7 hurricanes in the past 14 months! CRAZY! But you know what....that's the price we pay to live in PARADISE!!!!

 

[damo]

You guys, please, take care of yourselves and don't take any unnecessary risks with this hurricane!!!

 

[thedisneymom]

Thinking of all of you in Florida-particularly those friends in Naples. Stay in touch!

 

[Foladar]

Well, Wilma will be here in less than 24 hours (atleast her effects will be) .. hope you enjoy Universal Motherfletcher, think positive, we'll be sitting here watching a hurricane while your riding Shrek!

 

[macraven]

hoping wilma changes course and goes out to sea.

take care my friends

 

[lovetheparks]

MotherFletcher I hope you don't have to take advantage of that new flood insurance! ITA with the others, your attitude is great.

We just got word that since the path has changed more northernly, that there's no work tomorrow here. All Brevard schools are closed, etc. I'm glad I had my hurricane supplies all ready so I didn't have to go fight the masses.

GL everyone!

 

[the Dark Marauder]

The parks are closed tomorrow. Citywalk will open at 4pm.

 

[macraven]

wilma suxs....................

i can't remember a hurricane season like this before.
and, this late in the season.