Everyone in Florida! Stay safe!!!

Phil (pnightingale), Dan (updegraft) and everyone else in Florida, hope you and everyone close to you stays safe during hurricane Irma.

Myeackle too ! Yes hope all are well !

Yes. The storm has been dragging along the coast of Cuba, so it has lessened in intensity. No word on Cuba yet, so hopefully the hurricane continues to weaken.

I hope everything turns out well and everyone is safe, and that everyone's coin collection is safe too.
I heard that you can store things in your closed/locked dishwasher, and it should keep the water out.

Well, what Florida got was nothing compared to what Antigua and Barbuda and Sint Maarten/Saint Martin got. But no one seems to care about our Caribbean brothers and sisters who almost lost their entire islands.
Florida got loads of time to evacuate - at least they had the possibility to evacuate, compared to those "trapped" on their islands.

With that said, of course I hope that all of you, and your collections, stayed safe!

Hi ngdawa,
I think everyone does care about the people in the Caribbean, it is just that when this thread was started, Irma had already hit that area and moved on to start at Florida. That meant we could take action to help the Caribbean areas but all we could do for Florida is send our concern and wait.
I like to think that part of collecting coins is a genuine interest in the cultures and people of the world.
Everyone in Georgia, I hope (the revised to this lower level) Tropical Storm Irma does as little damage as possible.

Quote: "ngdawa"​Well, what Florida got was nothing compared to what Antigua and Barbuda and Sint Maarten/Saint Martin got. But no one seems to care about our Caribbean brothers and sisters who almost lost their entire islands.
​Florida got loads of time to evacuate - at least they had the possibility to evacuate, compared to those "trapped" on their islands.
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​With that said, of course I hope that all of you, and your collections, stayed safe!

​terrible what happened but I don't know anyone in the Carib but I know there's a few members from Florida so I can see why this was posted. I wouldn't say nobody cares...

In my original post I've addressed 2 specific members that I know personally. Everyone here knows Phil and I met Dan in February in Miami for an in-person swap. As for the Caribbean islands, for the past few days one of the headlines in Canadian news (as part of pretty much 24/7 Irma coverage) is that we have sent a few planes full of humanitarian goods and help there. Canadians always help those in need!

Grab your coins and run for higher ground!

Thank you gentlemen, we are safe and well.

Our power was restored by linesmen from Canada late yesterday. We have had assistance from 30 other states plus our friends and neighbors to the North. These linesmen have been working long hours in temperatures in the high 90's, humidity like a sauna and a biblical plague of bugs and insects. It's bad enough when you are used to a sub tropical climate but for a linesman from Minnesota working 12 hour shifts it must have been a nightmare. Those fellows are heroes.

We lost power for over a week and for reasons we have yet to pay to discover, our POS generator failed. We still have no phone service until October 2nd and internet access has been limited until today (Sunday) but we did keep our water supply. Cold showers are really quite invigorating.

It's very fortunate that the storm paused right over the North Cuba mountains and spent itself there before tracking the coastline instead of making landfall. Had it gone just five miles North of Cuba and just 10 miles out into the Gulf where it would have regained strength and we would have had a Cat 5 landfall on Tampa Bay as was predicted right up until Friday. To put that into perspective, Hurricane Katrina which wiped out New Orleans was a Cat 3 with a span of less than 50 miles, Irma at one time was large enough to cover the entire state of Florida from the Keys to the Panhandle. Here's a simulation produced by the government of a Cat 5 storm hitting Tampa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jFGEzYam40&feature=share

We've been through several Hurricanes and more Tropical Storms than I can count but this was by far the worst. Normally they last for a pretty intense four hours, this one battered us for a little over 20 hours. The eye reached us at 3 am which gives you a window of perfect calm for about 45 minutes, just long enough to check your neighbors are safe. Eventually there's a handful of blokes gathered at the t junction in the center of the neighborhood passing a flask of Jack Daniels, smoking a last peaceful cigarette already making plans to clear the roads. Everybody has at least one tree down, the guy next door has one on his roof, we lost one large one and two small ones. Everyone wishes good luck and shakes hands before returning to shelter for another ten hours. Within 24 hours of the winds calming, we had every road passable, all the larger trees cut up and the smaller ones dragged out. We don't sit around waiting for FEMA to save us.

The Tennessee mountains are calling, I hope this will be our last hurricane.

Quote: "pnightingale"​Thank you gentlemen, we are safe and well.
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​Our power was restored by linesmen from Canada late yesterday. We have had assistance from 30 other states plus our friends and neighbors to the North. These linesmen have been working long hours in temperatures in the high 90's, humidity like a sauna and a biblical plague of bugs and insects. It's bad enough when you are used to a sub tropical climate but for a linesman from Minnesota working 12 hour shifts it must have been a nightmare. Those fellows are heroes.
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​We lost power for over a week and for reasons we have yet to pay to discover, our POS generator failed. We still have no phone service until October 2nd and internet access has been limited until today (Sunday) but we did keep our water supply. Cold showers are really quite invigorating.
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​It's very fortunate that the storm paused right over the North Cuba mountains and spent itself there before tracking the coastline instead of making landfall. Had it gone just five miles North of Cuba and just 10 miles out into the Gulf where it would have regained strength and we would have had a Cat 5 landfall on Tampa Bay as was predicted right up until Friday. To put that into perspective, Hurricane Katrina which wiped out New Orleans was a Cat 3 with a span of less than 50 miles, Irma at one time was large enough to cover the entire state of Florida from the Keys to the Panhandle. Here's a simulation produced by the government of a Cat 5 storm hitting Tampa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jFGEzYam40&feature=share
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​We've been through several Hurricanes and more Tropical Storms than I can count but this was by far the worst. Normally they last for a pretty intense four hours, this one battered us for a little over 20 hours. The eye reached us at 3 am which gives you a window of perfect calm for about 45 minutes, just long enough to check your neighbors are safe. Eventually there's a handful of blokes gathered at the t junction in the center of the neighborhood passing a flask of Jack Daniels, smoking a last peaceful cigarette already making plans to clear the roads. Everybody has at least one tree down, the guy next door has one on his roof, we lost one large one and two small ones. Everyone wishes good luck and shakes hands before returning to shelter for another ten hours. Within 24 hours of the winds calming, we had every road passable, all the larger trees cut up and the smaller ones dragged out. We don't sit around waiting for FEMA to save us.
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​The Tennessee mountains are calling, I hope this will be our last hurricane.
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​I was glad to see your post on fb mate. Seems like you got off lightly even though it doesn't look it !

Hoping yoh do realise your your dream in the Mountains sounds like bliss. Or the hills have eyes, yet to decide. Hopefully there won't be a sawng bean thing going on haha !

Oh my friend good to hear from you. And you and wife are fine. Stay safe