I went through Andrew It was said Tornadoes caused the most severe damage. Monkeys everywhere.

Update: 7:04PM Eastern.

Had up to seven power blips between 4:30 to 5:00pm, not actual power outages but rather 1-2 second delays just long enough to mess up the clock on the microwave and shut off the TV. Just had our first major rain a few minutes ago, the first we've had here all day and the winds are still getting stonger. Now there's a couple of concerns for fellow Subsimmers up in North Carolina and Virginia, with Matthew moving up the Florida coast there is also hurricane Nicole, a Cat 1 which is moving NNW at 7 mph and is to the south of Bermuda, so be warned there's the chance, it might be a slim chance however of getting hit with two hurricanes in that region although NOAA is forecasting that hurricane Nicole is expected to slow down and meander. There is also a system to the northeast of Venezuela and NOAA is giving that system a less then 40% chance of becoming a tropical depression and/or storm.

Sorry, it is true storm surge can be significant. However when I said it may not. I was thinking it would be negligable in the area where my parents live in Florida. Carolinas will probably get hammered, again, I was up there for Hugo doesnt take much for house to suddenly be on waterfront property

Looking pretty scary down there in the southeast. Hopefully Matthew won't turn out to be Katrina's bigger and meaner brother. :o

Not a good day for Haiti: http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=42613700

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...ate_poten.html

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How you doing, Kptlt. Neuerburg? Still connected? You should be getting a bit of wind now. Man, it looks ugly as hell,the models are showing the eyeholding H-force winds and riding right up the coast all the way to SC. When Cat 3 Ike rode into Galveston it was a direct hit and dissipated fairly quickly. Florida is going to get hit hard.

Welp, it was for the most part a non event in Palm Bay.

Thank god. Appears the storm is staying a nice distance offshore.:D

For the Carolinas it looks like 15 inches of rain with the surge!

This is a huge help. Still moving supplies though!

When I lived in Charleston the tourist industry commonly referred to anything in South Carolina near the ocean as "The Low Country". Which was to anyone living there just a romantic name for 'swamp". Doesnt take much.

Heard reports that Haiti death toll is now in the 800 area, not entirely surprised, they'd barely recovered from the quake six years ago and there was a cholera epidemic underway too. Poor sods.

Latest forecasts have Matthew spinning out to sea and possibly meeting up with Nicole who is just pottering around at the moment, the interaction between the two could make for an interesting study of the Fujiwhara effect. :yep:

Haiti you can expect nothing but the worst there. I remember visting in the 81 and 82 when Baby Doc was the president. Wether we entered Port au Prince, Cap Haitian or patrolled off shore the hills where thick with trees and vegetation, really a beautiful sight

Just a few short years later, 93 I think, we entered Port au Prince I was taken aback by what I saw. The landscape was barren and damn near every tree was gone. I can only imagine how many mudslides were caused by the hurricane, must have carried away whole villages.

I got news today that several fire dept friends who retired to Florida have weathered the storm in Orlando and all are safe.

Some good news. :up: