Is anyone else experiencing EXTREMELY slow broadband service the past hour or so? I'm having alot of difficulty, which at first just attributed to the forums' bandwidth being stretched so thin with all the traffic tonight. But now it takes me forever to open pages on ANY web site.
Sorry for going off topic, but I don't have cable & have been getting my best info throughout this whole ordeal from here (with regular visits to the local official liks, of course). So the LAST thing I want happening right now is for my communication be cut off! Thanks guys
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FlaNativeMom
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My service has been kinda slow too..
An update from my area..
It's eerily still outside.. Only a slight hint of a breeze, and if you look close enough.. the few clouds we currently have are actually rotating around..
Sounds like things could get interesting soon..
Also.. I just noticed the inland hurricane warning has been downgraded to a TS.. shoot
j/k..
Oh well.. Stay safe tonight all.. I'll probably attempt to go to bed shortly after 12.. and probably try to get up just as our worst winds and weather approach
An update from my area..
It's eerily still outside.. Only a slight hint of a breeze, and if you look close enough.. the few clouds we currently have are actually rotating around..
Sounds like things could get interesting soon..
Also.. I just noticed the inland hurricane warning has been downgraded to a TS.. shoot
j/k..
Oh well.. Stay safe tonight all.. I'll probably attempt to go to bed shortly after 12.. and probably try to get up just as our worst winds and weather approach
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drudd1
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Wow, love that cool wind. Not the warm humid wind we experienced last year with the storms. Wind here is about 20mph sustained, with significantly higher gusts, and we have heard a few transformers pop in the distance. There has been a significant amount of rainfall, and I have no doubt there are going to be some flooding issues in many areas. The worst part thus far have been the tornadic cells passing through Eastern Orange, Eastern Seminole, and all of Brevard County. I think the poor folks in Brevard have been under the gun all night.
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Weather over here in Titusville is pretty nasty right now you can see transformers blowing in the distance lost power about 30 minutes ago but came back on not sure what the winds are gusting at but I'm having trouble keeping my patio door shut the wind keeps pulling it open (no lock) blowing rain our weather radio continuosly going of with Tornado warnings. I hope everyone else is doing ok stay safe.
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
850 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0735 AM TORNADO FLORIDANA BEACH 27.95N 80.50W
10/24/2005 BREVARD FL EMERGENCY MNGR
TORNADO REPORTED TO HAVE FLATTENED A HOME ON HIGHWAY A1A
IN FLORIDANA BEACH. HIGHWAY A1A BLOCKED BY DEBRIS.
0745 AM TORNADO MELBOURNE 28.11N 80.64W
10/24/2005 BREVARD FL EMERGENCY MNGR
DAMAGE TO APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY
192 AND JOHN RODES. POWER LINES ALSO REPORTED TO BE DOWN
IN THE AREA.
LSRMLB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
850 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0735 AM TORNADO FLORIDANA BEACH 27.95N 80.50W
10/24/2005 BREVARD FL EMERGENCY MNGR
TORNADO REPORTED TO HAVE FLATTENED A HOME ON HIGHWAY A1A
IN FLORIDANA BEACH. HIGHWAY A1A BLOCKED BY DEBRIS.
0745 AM TORNADO MELBOURNE 28.11N 80.64W
10/24/2005 BREVARD FL EMERGENCY MNGR
DAMAGE TO APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY
192 AND JOHN RODES. POWER LINES ALSO REPORTED TO BE DOWN
IN THE AREA.
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I stayed awake until the other half got up, so we could keep an eye on the tornado warnings. A couple small branches have thumped our house, broken from who knows where.
Probably 20-30mph sustained right now with the occasional 40-50 gust.
What's shocking is the 60-59 degree temperatures!
Brrrrr!
Nice early morning for sleeping!
Have seen quite a few traffic reports with cars blown off the roads.
Glad I didn't open my office, don't need a car wreck.
Ya know, Sea World opened normally this AM
Probably 20-30mph sustained right now with the occasional 40-50 gust.
What's shocking is the 60-59 degree temperatures!
Brrrrr!
Nice early morning for sleeping!
Have seen quite a few traffic reports with cars blown off the roads.
Glad I didn't open my office, don't need a car wreck.
Ya know, Sea World opened normally this AM
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Any news on Mulberry? I know they got smacked really bad with feeder bands and where under a tornado warning lastnight.
I would call my bestfriends that lives over there to see how she is doing but my phone isn't working. It got surged and killed lastnight when someone in a car ran into a power pole and my lights went off, then came back on at half power. (If that makes and sense) Before finally going off when the transformer blew.
I would call my bestfriends that lives over there to see how she is doing but my phone isn't working. It got surged and killed lastnight when someone in a car ran into a power pole and my lights went off, then came back on at half power. (If that makes and sense) Before finally going off when the transformer blew.
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Here in Cocoa Beach we;ve had sustained winds around 50knots for a few hours with some hurricane force gusts. We may have had about 10 minutes with susutained winds close to hurricane strength. All in all thre is just some weak tree limbs and little if any structual damage. It is almost high tide and Im about to see what the beach looks like, I dont expect much of a water rise b/c the winds are now NNW. Also the air temp has plummeted with it being below 70* outside.
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jrod wrote:Here in Cocoa Beach we;ve had sustained winds around 50knots for a few hours with some hurricane force gusts. We may have had about 10 minutes with susutained winds close to hurricane strength. All in all thre is just some weak tree limbs and little if any structual damage. It is almost high tide and Im about to see what the beach looks like, I dont expect much of a water rise b/c the winds are now NNW. Also the air temp has plummeted with it being below 70* outside.
Better wear your woolies to the beach today.
Glad you guys are alright out there. The tornado reports were getting crazy last night.
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Roxy wrote:Anymore reports about our friends at KSC?
I will answer my own question!
CAPE CANAVERAL, 12:22 p.m. NASA fares well
NASA's multi-billion-dollar space shuttle fleet, twin launch pads and other facilities at Kennedy Space Center appear to have survived Hurricane Wilma without suffering major damage, officials said today.
Nevertheless, heavy rain and high winds swept through the space center as the hurricane moved across the southern part of Florida and toward the Atlantic Ocean.
"We're in the Mary Poppins mode," said KSC spokesman George Diller. "We've getting hit pretty hard with sideways rain."
The rain at times was so heavy NASA's 36-story shuttle launch pads could not be seen from the KSC Launch Control Center three to four miles away, Diller said.
A tornado touched down briefly near the southern entrance to the space center on North Merritt Island about 10 a.m. And a funnel cloud was spotted near Haulover Canal an hour later, but did not touch down.
Initial reports indicated sustained winds reached about 57 mph around 10:30 a.m. with gusts up to 74 mph, Diller said.
NASA emergency-management officials planned to send a team out to assess damage early this afternoon. Preliminary reports indicate no major damage was done.
"We might have lost a couple of panels on the Vehicle Assembly Building, but overall, we don't see any obvious damage," Diller said. "It's turning out to be just about what we expected."
-- Todd Halvorson
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