Irma Brings Record Flooding to Jacksonville, Cuts Power to More Than 7 Million

[malaise]

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/irma-brings-record-flooding-jacksonville-cuts-power-more-5-million
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Hurricane Irma continued to plague residents of the Southeast U.S. even after being downgraded to a tropical storm on Monday. High-water rescues were in progress Monday afternoon in Jacksonville, Florida, where the highest storm surge on record pushed the St. Johns River to heights not seen since 1846. The shallow, concave coastline from far northeast Florida to southern South Carolina is highly vulnerable to storm surge. Persistent onshore winds—gusting to 60 mph at Jacksonville’s Naval Air Station at 10 am EDT Monday—converged on the region at midday Monday, pushing water toward the coast as a weakening Irma moved closer to the latitude of the region.

[mcar]

1. This is not over

River in my area is to flood tonight.

[malaise]

2. Indeed

Check the photos at link

Stay safe

[mcar]

5. I'm in NC

We managed to find gas Saturday morning and hubby convinced me to leave with our older dog. Staying with a cousin in Asheville.

Husband and son stayed behind. We're not near the river but I expect lots of flooding. It'll hamper efforts to restore power.

[gratuitous]

3. I wonder if Ann Coulter is still bored?

You know, because Irma didn't crack Florida off the continental plate and sink it next to Atlantis. It was all so ho-hum for her.

Seven million people without electricity! That means they can't watch Ann's interviews on Fox! This is serious.

[malaise]

4. Check out the comments at the Weather Underground link (above)

The trolls have disappeared. WU had to add a threat of banning them.

[Lucinda]

6. KNR

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Any chance Irma took that big ugly Rebel flag ? nt

[malaise]

8. Ha

We can hope

[mnhtnbb]

9. I have a friend in Jacksonville who was in a mandatory evacuation area

but she and her husband boarded up the windows and stayed in their house anyway.

She posted a photo of a dry neighborhood yesterday and indicated they were "safe" around 2 pm yesterday. I hope
the storm surge hasn't gotten to them since then.