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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
[Re: onlymedication]
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09/05/2017 10:12 AM
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I've been watching Irma over the last few days with growing fears for our beloved BVI. I've seen firsthand the effects from Camille (a Cat 5, 1969) and Katrina. The destruction was unimaginable - buildings, swaths of trees, etc., just gone, mostly from the storm surge, plus the wind.
For you folks there, don't take anything for granted. Get to high ground. My thoughts are with you.
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 10:15 AM
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Good luck everyone - stay safe and don't go out -
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 10:45 AM
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Tuesday am and its just gone 175mph
Nick Willis "Mine Host" Leverick Bay Resort & Marina
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 10:49 AM
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NickR said: Tuesday am and its just gone 175mph Donna, Sydney and I are thinking about you guys, good luck and stay safe! by the way, saw your guys working hard around the construction site, are you all secured up now?
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 10:52 AM
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Dirichlet
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NickR said: Tuesday am and its just gone 175mph That thing is a monster. Stay safe, Nick. At this point all I can do is offer my thoughts and prayer to you and Monzi. What are your plans? Is there somewhere with a stoutly-built place in which you can shelter?
... DIF all the time...
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 11:38 AM
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CGB said: Anegada's highest point - is less than 30 feet above sea level Not where I'd want to be riding out any storm, much less this one The reef to the North and the Island itself has a long history of protecting those in the Settlement from anything from the North. The real risk is anything sustained from the South. Sustained massive seas from the South at likely not in the cards from this one. At least those on Anegada are safe from mud and rock slides and the sudden torrent of a mass flood.
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 11:41 AM
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GlennA
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Latest projectons keep moving the track south so it could pass between Anegada and North Sound. North and east shores will catch the worst. North Shore from Joshia's to Smuggler's will catch it full in the face with 100kn+ winds. Looking a 10-12' surge over a 1.4' high tide and 10 to 12' waves on top
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 11:44 AM
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Twanger said: Saw on facebook that residents of Anegada were told to evacuate. Hoping and praying that all our friends in the BVI and USVI stay safe. I just read this AP release, hopefully it's a quote from a couple days ago and she's changed her mind... "Vivian Wheatley, proprietor of the Anegada Reef Hotel, planned to stay behind. She said she would stay in one of the hotel rooms and take advantage of the generator since there were no guests "We know it's a very powerful (storm), and we know it's going to be very close," she said. "Let's hope for the best."
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 11:52 AM
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GlennA
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Peter of Wonky Dog plans to ride it out too.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 11:55 AM
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GlennA
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I believe Walker and Nancy bailed this morning. I hear their house in Houston came through OK but still, two hurricanes in 10 days??? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" />
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 12:45 PM
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Hope everyone stays safe.
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 12:47 PM
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Good morning, I hope you are safe first and foremost!!! We are to be heading to BVI's on the 15th. What are your thoughts? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Hurricane Watch now and Warning shortly
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09/05/2017 01:09 PM
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ScarJo said: Good morning, I hope you are safe first and foremost!!! We are to be heading to BVI's on the 15th. What are your thoughts? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> Unless the path miraculously moves you really don't want to visit on the 15th. It will be better described as devastation than storm damage if a full on hit by a cat 5. Recovery will take a long time.
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