Neighbor,
Listening to ham radio:
9:30pm ET
I75 North, out of TampaBay, stop and go traffic. All the way to the state line. Average speed 4 MPH. Folks are running out of gas. Cars blocking emergency vehicles.
This is bad folks.
@corlin indeed.
This is one factor that is often overlooked when people ask “why didn’t you evacuate?”
Evacuating a city/region/state is….. challenging, at best.
Especially when you don’t really know how bad it will be, until you do.
Yes !
And that is if you’re lucky enough to have a car, and money for gas.
@JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin sure. But I had a friend in… was it Irma? In 16 or 17?
Anyway, I’m pretty sure she said it was a 20 hour evac driving.
I didn’t ask, but all of so. Florida was evaccing. And 20 hours is many tanks of gas.
How many of those gas stations still had gas, with the whole so fl leaving?
@Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin
I've heard emergency management agencies placed gas at intervals along the highways for exactly this reason. Don't know how long it will last.
@Beanc @AlphaCentauri @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin If I lived there I would move to another state, honestly, hurricanes are getting stronger , all the money they have to spend every time they evacuate.
@Jorro @Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin
There have always been hurricanes, but the rising sea levels means property purchased there will have zero value in 50 years. Someone in the succession of property owners gets stuck holding the hot potato where there are no longer any willing buyers.
@AlphaCentauri @Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin yep!! It is now or never .
@AlphaCentauri @Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin I live in Southern California, we had an earthquake Sunday morning at 2:51 am , it was of 4.0 , since I live in this area I have an app for that , we are prepared for an emergency, we have the important documents in a backpack in case we have to go out running, we have considered almost everything but eventually we will have to move , one of my sons wants to move to Missouri or a place like that and he wants us to go with him ,if we can we will.
@Jorro @Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin
lol, Missouri is long overdue for a Big One.
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/new-madrid-seismic-zone
@AlphaCentauri @Beanc @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin holy crap !! I didn’t know that !! We have to see , it was an option, another one of my sons lives in Colorado, we might try that but I don’t know for sure .
@AlphaCentauri @JanetZumba_FalPals @corlin that’s helpful