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[Victoria Watcher]

How common is it for a hurricane to move West to East in that region? They usually go the other direction, don't they?

But part of Milton’s origin story lies in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The hurricane formed when the remnants of a tropical depression in the Pacific barreled east across the Yucatán Peninsula and met a stalled front in the Gulf of Mexico. The most recent storm that struck Florida after having formed in the same area — Mexico’s Bay of Campeche — did so in 1867.

https://www.nbcnews..../amp/rcna174609

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 October 2024 - 03:17 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Eye just landed here.

 

 

120mph winds.   

 

Maybe this won't be so bad.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 October 2024 - 04:42 PM.

[LJ]

I have friends in Fort Myer and Sarasota, I await damage reports.

[dasmo]

So do I. It’s passed them with a few trees down and that’s it.

[Victoria Watcher]

• Hurricane Milton has weakened further and is now a Category 1 hurricane, according to the US National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) latest advisory.

 

https://www.aljazeer...to-slam-florida

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 October 2024 - 09:41 PM.

[Matt R.]

Is this the one I read that was the storm of the century?

[Sparky]

Might have been Helene.

https://www.tampabay...-storm-century/

[Victoria Watcher]

There is lots of damage for sure but it really did calm down at landfall.

[dasmo]

Ya, my other friend said it was BAD but did less damage than the one last time. The cats slept. The street is flooded. The house shook all night. Stuff everywhere outside.

[Mike K.]

Then goodness if true that this was much weaker than expected.

[dasmo]

From cat 5 to 3

[dasmo]

Which would make all of us hobbits crap our drawers. My friend is a Florida cat lady. She doesn’t leave her cats. The last big one did some serious damage to her house though. So bad I made a go fund me for her.

[dasmo]

She posted a video of the lights flickering on and off during crazy wind in the middle of the night…. Horror movie stuff!

[Victoria Watcher]

There is lots of damage for sure but it really did calm down at landfall.

 

 

 

 

Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after cutting a destructive path across Florida that spawned tornados, killed at least 10 people and left millions without power, but the storm did not trigger the catastrophic surge of seawater that was feared.

 

Governor Ron DeSantis said the state had avoided the "worst-case scenario," though he cautioned the damage was still significant. The Tampa Bay area appeared to sidestep the storm surge that had prompted the most dire warnings.

 

https://www.reuters....yed-2024-10-10/

[dasmo]

It was probably the worst, most insane reporting to date though. That must be a record. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Nearly 3.38 million homes and businesses in Florida were without power late Thursday morning, almost 29% of the state. Gov. Ron DeSantis said an unprecedented force of 50,000 linemen from as far away as California were helping to restore electricity as the state recovers.

 

https://www.tallahas...na/75604302007/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 October 2024 - 11:13 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://poweroutage....a/state/florida

 

[Victoria Watcher]

https://poweroutage....a/state/florida

 

[Victoria Watcher]

https://poweroutage....a/state/florida

 

[Mike K.]

EV sales are going to take a hit. Can’t store electricity as easily as a few canisters of fuel.