To Eric, Imex and all Florida
10-06-2016, 12:36 PM
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To Erik, Imex and all Florida
I pray that Erik and his family, all the folks at Imex and all the people of Florida will weather the coming storm. I am sure that all your fans at the Tank Forum have you in their thoughts. jot
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10-06-2016, 03:38 PM
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I was down there for Andrew.
We were meeting up in Key Largo with a group of friends from all over the country, driving against the evacuation. Being stupid New Yorkers, we were planning on staying until Civil Defense asked for our SSN's so they could list us as dead. Message received.
We stopped overnight in Homestead at a Comfort Inn that as on US 1 at an intersection with a gas station, bar and dive shop. We were invited to a Hurricane Party at the bar, but decided to head to Daytona in the morning, jumping on the tail end of the evacuation after watching it parade by the whole day and night.
Homestead was where it hit, I was reading a dive magazine 6 months later and there was a story about the drive shop at the intersection since it was the only structure that survived for a wide stretch. I was back down there years after and it was still pretty empty.
We were meeting up in Key Largo with a group of friends from all over the country, driving against the evacuation. Being stupid New Yorkers, we were planning on staying until Civil Defense asked for our SSN's so they could list us as dead. Message received.
We stopped overnight in Homestead at a Comfort Inn that as on US 1 at an intersection with a gas station, bar and dive shop. We were invited to a Hurricane Party at the bar, but decided to head to Daytona in the morning, jumping on the tail end of the evacuation after watching it parade by the whole day and night.
Homestead was where it hit, I was reading a dive magazine 6 months later and there was a story about the drive shop at the intersection since it was the only structure that survived for a wide stretch. I was back down there years after and it was still pretty empty.
10-07-2016, 05:52 AM
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Thanks guys! We are pretty lucky in the fact it is just missing us. We are about an hour north of Tampa and the storm's path is a NE direction. It rained at my house a bit last night and is sprinkling a bit now but the forecast is bright and sunny for the rest of the weekend starting this afternoon 
High winds will give me some fun flight time that is for sure!
I appreciate the thoughts guys! I just hope the second hurricane steers clear as well... I've yet to have the chance to experience a hurricane since I've lived here but have seen plenty of tropical storms. Once I even had to piggyback the gf through about a meter of water to get to my house once. My friend's property even flooded over his mailbox during the last tropical storm (his property is on a hill, they were lucky and only the garage flooded) so I'm always helping him sandbag when it gets close. I'll see if I can find one of the pictures of it, it is quite funny as the water retention pond across the street has less water than his front yard.
High winds will give me some fun flight time that is for sure! I appreciate the thoughts guys! I just hope the second hurricane steers clear as well... I've yet to have the chance to experience a hurricane since I've lived here but have seen plenty of tropical storms. Once I even had to piggyback the gf through about a meter of water to get to my house once. My friend's property even flooded over his mailbox during the last tropical storm (his property is on a hill, they were lucky and only the garage flooded) so I'm always helping him sandbag when it gets close. I'll see if I can find one of the pictures of it, it is quite funny as the water retention pond across the street has less water than his front yard.
10-07-2016, 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by pcsguy88
Good to hear Erik!
10-07-2016, 06:53 AM
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You win the internet today if you get video of you playing with an RC boat on a flooded street in the middle of a hurricane. Might just confirm what the rest of the country thinks about Floridians. 
10-07-2016, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by pcsguy88
You win the internet today if you get video of you playing with an RC boat on a flooded street in the middle of a hurricane. Might just confirm what the rest of the country thinks about Floridians.
The first one is of my buddy's house right before the final night of rain (it did eventually cover the mailbox and run a bit into the garage. The second is one half of my street, it actually goes pretty far down but you cant see much due to the water reflections but it is about 100 or so meters back. Also yes, those are turkeys. It isn't bow season quite yet
When it rains a bit more my whole street gets flooded and I can sit on the front porch and play with boats and waterproof stuff. My house is elevated a few feet from the road so I dont worry about flooding but access to and from my house is difficult during heavy storms.
10-07-2016, 07:46 AM
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Best of both worlds
Time to start work on a DUKW (Duck). You could drive from your porch to the beach (street), do the boat test and then drive back. They could almost qualify as a tank since the army did put some 75 mm guns in Ducks that could be fired.
10-07-2016, 08:11 AM
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Well the picture of my street isn't the worst I've seen, I've had it get very close to our car on the driveway. Luckily my house and property are elevated about 6-8ft from the road so I've yet to have too much issue. The beach is only 150 or so meters from my house anyways so it would be fun. There are people near me with airboats though, if I had one I would be ripping around the neighborhood for sure!
10-07-2016, 08:55 AM
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Thats funny, I did that too. A couple years ago here in san diego we had a super heavy bought lf rain for a couple hours that flooded streets. Our streets storm drain clogged and the street flooded a couple feet deep all the way up to garage doors. I got out my pt boat and ran it around as soon as the rain stopped, my neighbor was kyacking down the street. Good times.
10-07-2016, 09:18 PM
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For anyone interested we have other tankers in Florida. Marty Porvaznik and his wife of Jax are fine but we don't know about his house. They were ordered to evacuate late Wednesday evening and are in central Georgia. It is possible they will be allowed to return Sunday after noon.
10-08-2016, 08:21 PM
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Bob, thanks for the info on Marty. Got a buddy here in PA that's a line man and he had to roll out Thurs morning to head down to the area.
Already hearing he may be down there for 4-6 weeks easy to help with lines.
Already hearing he may be down there for 4-6 weeks easy to help with lines.
10-08-2016, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBennyB
Bob, thanks for the info on Marty. Got a buddy here in PA that's a line man and he had to roll out Thurs morning to head down to the area.
Already hearing he may be down there for 4-6 weeks easy to help with lines.
Already hearing he may be down there for 4-6 weeks easy to help with lines.
10-08-2016, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by sevoblast
Commo with Marty around midnight his time, he's home and the house and grounds are unscathed. My other two friends in FL, one just south of the space center on the coast and one not far below Daytona, are thankfully also damage free.
