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Here she comes ...

#1 Postby siobhan222 » Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:51 am

Our power is flickering on and off here in Palm Beach Gardens. Winds are WILD out there and yet, somehow I'm sure we ain't seen nothing yet. Gosh, I'm so scared.

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#2 Postby mobilebay » Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:56 am

I see a gust to 25MPH at 2AM, Pressure 29.60. It (winds) are probably stronger now as you say..
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#3 Postby siobhan222 » Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:58 am

Where do you see that Mobile? It feels really strong here. I'm no good judge of course because I've never been through this before. I was just in the garage and the door is rocking. I'm really terrified. My husband is sleeping soundly and the cats and me are all huddled up feeling scared.
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#4 Postby mobilebay » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:04 am

siobhan222 wrote:Where do you see that Mobile? It feels really strong here. I'm no good judge of course because I've never been through this before. I was just in the garage and the door is rocking. I'm really terrified. My husband is sleeping soundly and the cats and me are all huddled up feeling scared.

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/fl/hourly.html

After that scroll down until you see southeast florida. This is the entire states obs. The 4AM obs should be updating now...
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#5 Postby siobhan222 » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:07 am

God bless your heart Mobile ... thank you.
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#6 Postby hurricane_lover » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:09 am

Hang in there, you will be fine.
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#7 Postby Jupiter » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:12 am

The picture is not working on the jupiter inlet cam, but the wind data is still there...right now it is at approx 50 knts....and they don't have a real clear shot where their equipment is, but remember that is right on the coast....Be safe !!
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#8 Postby siobhan222 » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:13 am

How do knots convert into miles? I guess I could just google that one.
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#9 Postby Jupiter » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:15 am

I use this page
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3607/tables.html
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#10 Postby Agua » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:16 am

knot = 1.15 miles per hour
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#11 Postby siobhan222 » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:18 am

Thank you both very much.
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#12 Postby Jupiter » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:19 am

I just looked agsin, it should be slowing down a little...
Where approximately are you in PBG ?
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#13 Postby Cookiely » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:24 am

Jupiter thanks for the conversion.
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#14 Postby siobhan222 » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:25 am

Just north of Blue Heron, off Military Trail .. does that help?
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#15 Postby Jupiter » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:26 am

More than welcome....my husband is sleeping...he usually does it for me, so I had to find a website to use until he wakes up!
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#16 Postby Jupiter » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:27 am

I was just wondering if you were near were I live (only 7 months of the year)
but I am in Jupiter Farms....
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#17 Postby siobhan222 » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:28 am

And I'm sorry for freaking so much. When the power went out and then came back, and then went out, and then came back and so on, I was really startled. Losing our cable TV today and hearing that bolt of lightning hit a house ... was frightening. Thinking of losing power for a long time is really scary to me. It makes us incommunicado ... I mean I know that can happen, but it doesn't make it any easier to think about.
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#18 Postby Jupiter » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:32 am

Where I LIVE IF WINDS ARE OVER 20MPH WE LOSE POWER...BUT SINCE NO ONE IS AT MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW, THE ONLY WAY i CAN TELL IF WE HAVE POWER IS TO CALL THE FAX LINE...WHICH i JUST DID...THE HOUSE STILL HAS PHONE AND ELECTRICITY..I AM IMPRESSED....Sorry for all caps...hit the wrong key and too tired to re-type it :-)
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#19 Postby FritzPaul » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:35 am

Power outages are a given. Hopefully the power in your neighborhood is on a large line (The more houses on a line the greater the priority is to repair). Where I live there's only about 50 houses on it and when it goes out we're usually the last to get it back.
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#20 Postby LadyStorm » Sat Sep 04, 2004 4:15 am

Don't apologize. We went thru Charley a few weeks back and while he was not as intense as Frances, when he hit Ormond Beach; I can relate.

Power failure sucks, we were without it for 5 days here. Not just inconvience sake, but you feel isolated from the rest of the world.

You take care and check in if you can to let us know how you are doing.

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siobhan222 wrote:And I'm sorry for freaking so much. When the power went out and then came back, and then went out, and then came back and so on, I was really startled. Losing our cable TV today and hearing that bolt of lightning hit a house ... was frightening. Thinking of losing power for a long time is really scary to me. It makes us incommunicado ... I mean I know that can happen, but it doesn't make it any easier to think about.
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