~~**-- The Weather Thread --**~~

[Orchid PE]

 

[Violator]

Keep them on the Atlantic side, the water is cooler!

 

[Orchid PE]

Well Sally has shifted and is now going directly over Pensacola. The eye is about to pass over my parents house. Hopefully it starts to die down soon.

 

[Orchid PE]

Looks like flood is going to be a major issue. One of my Aunts shared a video and her neighbors across the street are flooded. She isn't yet, so I guess she's on the higher side of the road. However, she about 12mi inland. People on the beach are underwater.

Seeing an overturned semi on I10 bridge over mobile bay. Always ends up happening, trucks get blown over on the bridges.

 

[Orchid PE]

My mom got lucky with her car:



My SIL, not so lucky:

 

[Orchid PE]

Now they're saying that even though it was only a cat 2, they are equating the amount of damage to Ivan (2004).

I'm seeing a lot of photos from people down there and it looks like a lot of flooding.

 

[Orchid PE]

In addition, the brand new Pensacola Bay Bridge connecting Pensacola to Gulf Breeze was closed down yesterday because a barge ran into it, then a crane fell on it this morning, and now a piece is missing. Really? They didn't design it to handle a cat 2 hurricane?

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[Road Guy]

probably not designed to withstand the impact of the barge

Im totally out of the loop didnt even know these were happening- hope your family is okay, guess I should check on my folks in Dunedin?

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

YAY

 

[Orchid PE]

probably not designed to withstand the impact of the barge

Im totally out of the loop didnt even know these were happening- hope your family is okay, guess I should check on my folks in Dunedin?

I think they should be ok.

Storm has passed now. A lot more damage and flooding than was expected for a cat 2 hurricane. It caught a lot of people off guard and many people were not prepared. The neighborhoods behind my parents house got flooded from a creek that overflowed and they had to rescue people from around 260 houses.

 

[Supe]

Beautiful here today.  77F, we've had the windows open all day for the first time this year.

 

[Orchid PE]

Bridge pics.





 

[Orchid PE]

Idk if FB links will work, but I'll try. Due the unsecured 7+ barges that were used for the Pensacola bay bridge construction floating around and damaging 3-4 main bridges, people have started making memes:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10101995543337452&id=50103913&sfnsn=mo&extid=pGpw6sx1Pj4550eB

 

[MA_PE]

My son is at Pensacola NAS.  He made out ok with the major issue being power loss and maybe not getting service for a week or two.  No real flooding at his house or where he was on base.  His car didn’t drown.  Mostly just tree debris and not major limbs/trees for him.  He got lucky.  
 

chat: sorry for your SIL.  Hope the rest of your family made out well.

 

[Orchid PE]

My son is at Pensacola NAS.  He made out ok with the major issue being power loss and maybe not getting service for a week or two.  No real flooding at his house or where he was on base.  His car didn’t drown.  Mostly just tree debris and not major limbs/trees for him.  He got lucky.  

That's good to hear!

 

[Road Guy]

I wonder if they wil go after skanska to pay for rebuilding them?

lets see, barges in the gulf, hurricane season, maybe we should have some big as cables laying around?

 

[Orchid PE]

I wonder if they wil go after skanska to pay for rebuilding them?

lets see, barges in the gulf, hurricane season, maybe we should have some big as cables laying around?

I imagine they will. Some people are saying they were required to secure the barges in bayous after a named storm is in the gulf. But they didn't do that.

The weather here was a nice 47°F this morning!

 

[Road Guy]

I know we were looking at a job in Canada and we had to have everything out of the Avalanche zone by October 31st or first accumulated snowfall. Id like to think Florida has their shit together in terms of contracting requirements.

 

[Orchid PE]

https://weartv.com/news/local/lawsuit-underway-against-skanska-southeast-after-their-barges-damaged-three-mile-bridge

 

[tj_PE]

https://weartv.com/news/local/lawsuit-underway-against-skanska-southeast-after-their-barges-damaged-three-mile-bridge

geez i hate reporting. those quotes aren't even complete thoughts.