Hurricane Irma

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  • Cableguy GregCableguy Greg Member Posts: 5,077 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @JasonA, Good luck to you. You might want to throw some extra lines on the boat, along with some beefier lines. Here is a good read...

    http://www.boatingmag.com/how-to-secure-your-boat-for-hurricane#page-4

    2008 280 Express Cruiser, 6.2MPI, B3, Pittsburgh, PA "Blue Ayes" (Sold)
    2022 Cherokee 294GEBG Black Label land yacht. 
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  • Cableguy GregCableguy Greg Member Posts: 5,077 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is one from BoatU.S.
    http://www.boatus.com/magazine/2011/june/hurricaneprep.asp

    2008 280 Express Cruiser, 6.2MPI, B3, Pittsburgh, PA "Blue Ayes" (Sold)
    2022 Cherokee 294GEBG Black Label land yacht. 
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm afraid we will lose everything. 
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  • zaverin1zaverin1 Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭
    Handy it's ok
    you will always have your diesel 
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That will be gone too
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We will get trough this, if the tornadoes not get us. When they start up over the water and suck up the sharks and then they fall out of the sky and start eating everybody...
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  • Glassguy54Glassguy54 Member Posts: 588 ✭✭✭
    I just watched some video from Caribbean Buzz Helicopters of the devastation in the BVI's & St Thomas. Necker Island (Richard Branson's posh resort/residence) Saba Rock, Bitter End, Virgin Gorda, Tortola, Beef Island, Soper's Hole. Utter destruction. I've visited all these places, well except for Necker Island, and just cannot believe my eyes. We have friends with a second home in Sarasota. I hope everyone in Florida comes through this with minimal loss. Please heed all warnings to evacuate and stay safe. Things are replaceable, lives are not.
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,069 mod
    @Handymans342 - looks like a worst-case scenario for you.  Good luck, buddy.

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  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Prepare for the worst outcome.....but hope for the best.  Pulling for ya!
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had Cat5 windows and doors. I had a new roof. We are so depressed after all the remodeling I did and may be for naught and to top off losing a nice boat. I am second guessing moving down here. It was just a matter of time before we got hit. My wife wants to go back to living in a motor home so we can leave at a moments notice. 
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  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You still "have" them @Handymans342. Hasn't happened yet. I  realize it's easy for me to say try and stay positive sitting here safe in my house, but a lot can change in the next 12 hours. 
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wait for pictures. This storm is bigger than Andrew and we all know what happened with that one. 
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That thing could pick of a steering current and right back to miami- there just no way to know - the main reason I watch the news is to know where it is at...
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  • raybo3raybo3 Administrator Posts: 5,615 admin
    Stay positive Steve........

    2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com
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  • Cableguy GregCableguy Greg Member Posts: 5,077 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The good news is that it is now a Cat 3. The models are showing it going further west.
    2008 280 Express Cruiser, 6.2MPI, B3, Pittsburgh, PA "Blue Ayes" (Sold)
    2022 Cherokee 294GEBG Black Label land yacht. 
    Go Steelers!!!
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  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Prayers to all. Steve, I think this storm will be less destructive over Florida - certainly the Fort Meyers/Cape Coral - area than predicted. Your house and boat will be safe. Put the autotrader down for now and forget the motor home. Anyway those friggin' diesels are so heavy  Irma couldn't lift them!
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well..not any more.  Strong cat 4, direct hit  on Handy's place. Hoping you're out of there man.  Things can be replaced.  Sounds like an excuse to buy a motor home and hire a captain (like me) to move your boat wherever you want while you tour the country.. and while they rebuild your place!
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  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .....LOL @dmerit..(is that in demerit points....DUI LOL?) if so I bet there's a story in there! If  however your name is D. Merit I bet a few cops have still had a laugh when looking at your licence for a routine stop!
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  • dmeritdmerit Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
    Ha! Yes, D. Merit. Destined for a life of crime. Thanks Mom. 
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I appreciate all the well wishes. Hopefully I can get home Tuesday night
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  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @dmerit.....get on here more often. Your debut was awesome, truly Rinkeresque! :-)
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  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,946 mod

    After seeing the water get drawn out in Tampa bay, I'm curious if Jason's boat is still floating.  And that water has gotta come back as well.

    Handy, I'm glad you got out of there.  My father is in NC, deciding his place wasn't safe either.

    Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    News is saying ft Meyers handled it well...that's near you right @Handymans342
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  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    I guess the surge is still a problem
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  • DanD2DanD2 Member Posts: 848 ✭✭✭
    Jesus Handy, it sure doesn't look good. Hope everything works out for ya.....you certainly have a bunch of friends here praying for you and anyone else down there in Fla!!!!

    No longer a boat owner.....previous boat - 2005 Rinker Fiesta Vee 342
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think We dodged a nuclear bomb. Stay tuned 
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  • craigswardmtbcraigswardmtb Member Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭
    Good luck Handy. It seems the impact was much less than anticipated. Which hopefully bodes well for you. 
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think they exaggerate to scare people and get ratings
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  • craigswardmtbcraigswardmtb Member Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭
    Agree. Too bad it wasn't exaggerated for the USVI. I was thinking of heading to St John this year. I think ill wait a year.  I emailed the guy that we rented a house from this past February and haven't heard back yet. The house was at the highest point on the island on the eastern side. You literally had a panoramic view of the bvi's to the north and corral bay to the south. I can only imagine what that place looks like. My favorite bar up in Jost,  Soggy Dollar, is apparently devastated.  Poor people...
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