ATL: MATTHEW - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[SeaBrz_FL]

OBS from central FL - Evac'd from Cape Canaveral to east Orlando on Wed. Long and very loud early morning today at the "shelter house", but never lost power.

Initial reports from the brave (dumb?) people that stayed in my Cape Canaveral neighborhood: no power or water. Some large oak trees down blocking entry access gates, the main boulevard, and some cul-de-sacs. Best thing is no evidence of storm surge, no roofs off, and no visible structural damage.

Good luck to those north of me. Especially those of you in Nassau County and Jacksonville. Big concerns about storm surge moving north in the St John's River (one of the few rivers that runs south to north). All the rain drain off from the southern counties is accumulating.

[tolakram]

 https://twitter.com/WPLGLocal10/status/784424754958757888

[JaxGator]

WJXT 4 had to evacuate Downtown St. Augustine to a hotel near the train tracks by U.S. 1 (where the San- Sabastian River has overlapped the tracks).

[tolakram]

 https://twitter.com/WESH/status/784424240875507712




For those wondering about twitter for updated info, it is better to get info from people you follow rather than searching for #matthew, as i suggested earlier, which is full of false tweets.

Eric Blake (NHC) is a great place to start. https://twitter.com/EricBlake12

[dizzyfish]

I am almost ill thinking of what historic St. Augustine will look like after this.

[TheStormExpert]

I am almost ill thinking of what historic St. Augustine will look like after this.

Shouldn't look as bad as it could've.

[tigerz3030]

I am almost ill thinking of what historic St. Augustine will look like after this.

I can say looking at local news that it's not good already and we are 3 hours from the eye still plus high tide coming. Not going to be good for a long time

[PTrackerLA]

BREAKING: Hurricane Matthew death toll in Haiti rises to 842 - local officials.

Man this is terrible.

[sweetpea]

BREAKING: Hurricane Matthew death toll in Haiti rises to 842 - local officials.

Man this is terrible.

So terribly heart breaking. Those poor people

[ncweatherwizard]

Major flooding happening inland also along tidal St. Johns River inland from St. Augustine: http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrogra ... gage=rcyf1

Not sure how much of this is from rainfall.

[GCANE]

Looks like a mesovorticie on the eyewall just NE of Daytona Beach.

[Rail Dawg]

Just fueled truck in 100 mph using gas cans.

68 miles from Jacksonville

[Socalhurcnegirl227]

I have family in lake county any links to the local news out there or anyone in that area?

[delta lady]

Just got a wind gust to 53 mph here at my .home just in the past couple of minutes. Getting a very heavy rain squall currently.

My DIL's parents lost their power about an hour ago. St John's Bluff/Atlantic area. 32246 zip.

St Augustine underwater at least on the road next to the Castillo. It looked like river rapids swirling in and out of businesses on the street. Some guys doing a doc filmed it.

[CronkPSU]

I have family in lake county any links to the local news out there or anyone in that area?

They got spared the worst of it. No real damage reports have come in from Lake that I have seen

Of course it only takes one tree on your house to change your perspective of worst

[Blown Away]

 https://twitter.com/WPLGLocal10/status/784424754958757888

Street lights on, so looks like strong TS winds with maybe hurricane gusts... 80-100 mph gusts those lights are not on... So far seems like glancing blow for everybody along FL E coast...

[tolakram]

Heat content as Matthew works its way north.

[stephen23]

Looking at water vapor sat image of entire country I just don't see how the trough is going to have enough positive tilt to keep this from hitting the coast from somewhere between now and North Carolina. To my untrained eye appears the trough dug deeper into Texas the models were showing and the high to the East of Matt has dug much more south then models were showing causing the trough to look like it will be about neutral as it connects with MAtt. Could be wrong but that is what I see when I look at it

[HurrMark]

Frankly, this track is WORSE for north Florida and Georgia than had it actually made landfall. The north side, which is the dirty side, is pushing everything into the rivers and tributaries.

[terstorm1012]

I think high tide is now along N. Florida coast, exacerbating the surge.

also negative tilted trough would turn the storm more toward the NW I believe (look at Sandy).