***BREAKING*** Hurricanes SUCK!

[titaniumsalute]

OK, enough with the "BREAKING."

Sending positive DU love to our Florida DUers.

[scheming daemons]

1. To be accurate, they don't suck. They blow.

[titaniumsalute]

2. Nice!!

[Patiod]

5. And remember: It's not THAT the wind is blowin, it's WHAT the wind is blowin

in the words of Ron White.

[beachbumbob]

3. I have a couple kids and 3 grandkids in palm beach county

They are hunkered down as the outer bands of Mathew are hitting them....

[titaniumsalute]

4. Yeah I just left there last year

A number of friends...mostly in the Boca/Delray Beach area and a co-worker's daughter in Wellington. Right now the track is showing more east which is good.

[Freddie]

6. Sure hope so

My son is in Lantana, half mile west of the mandatory evacuation zone. He's hunkering down with friends who live in the basement apartment of a (hopefully) sturdy building, windows boarded up. Has food, water and a full tank of gas. Say prayers.

[titaniumsalute]

8. Indeed

My Office Manager when I lived in FL is also in Lantana near I95. Again, I think they should be OK as long as this sucker stays a little east.

[Mika]

7. I'm in Ft Lauderdale. Still calm. Some rain, no squalls yet.

Spent the morning clearing the yard, putting up shutters.
Now cooking the perishables, getting coolers ready. 99.9% chance of power loss.

Stay safe fellow DUsers in the path.

[dmosh42]

9. If anyone lives along the east coast of Florida, it's important to know how hurricanes rotate.....

(counterclockwise) and the strongest winds will be towards the northeast quadrant. So if it's a cat 4 storm,
the winds might be 140mph in that quadrant, but on the coast side maybe 120mph. However, the real danger becomes the surge of water from the ocean as the storm approaches. Having lived on the west coast, we usually didn't get the surges as the wind was blowing towards the Gulf of Mexico, but we got the strongest winds as the storm moved north.