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Posted By: WangoTango

Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/23/22 03:24 AM



If you don't know Frankie MacDonald, he is a famous weatherman from Sidney Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also an author.
He has 280,00 adoring YouTube followers.
Posted By: WangoTango

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/23/22 03:29 AM

Frankie's book LINK
He also has a bobblehead and action figure available.
Posted By: Wigean

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/23/22 10:57 AM

The situation.
Also , pay attention to "Gaston". Strangly enough it has taken a 180 over the Azores and is heading west.
What is "Gaston" up to?

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Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/23/22 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Wigean
The situation.
Also , pay attention to "Gaston". Strangly enough it has taken a 180 over the Azores and is heading west.
What is "Gaston" up to?

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Hopefully Gaston will remain a tropical storm. Fiona is the big problem. It currently has sustained winds of 125 mph.
Posted By: No105_Archie

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/24/22 10:00 PM

Port aux Basques , on our SW coast had 12-15M storm surge ad 180+ kph winds
Posted By: Nixer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/25/22 03:01 PM

Bad news there Archie.

Say some vids of damage including one house washing/blowing away!
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/25/22 03:17 PM

Latest track from the NOAA has tropical storm IAN going into the Gulf of Mexico and then entering the panhandle area of Florida. Hopefully it stays a tropical storm.
Posted By: Haggart

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/25/22 06:42 PM

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Maybe building a house on the rocks where the ocean collides with them is not such a good idea
Posted By: Haggart

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/25/22 06:44 PM

Panzer ... "Latest track from the NOAA has tropical storm IAN going into the Gulf of Mexico and then entering the panhandle area of Florida. Hopefully it stays a tropical storm"
More then likely it will be a Cat 4 (maybe 3 at landfall)
Posted By: Turbo

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/26/22 04:10 PM

Maybe a brick, better yet, a stone house would have faired better than this wooden home…
Posted By: Wigean

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/26/22 04:28 PM

Seems IAN is moving close to Oldgrognard onThursday.
Are you moving your Cardinal or is a hangar safe?

I still have my eyes on GASTON.
It is moving toward warmer seatemperatures.
Not saying it will feed and grow, but it I believe it is worth paying attention.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/26/22 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by Wigean
Seems IAN is moving close to Oldgrognard onThursday.
Are you moving your Cardinal or is a hangar safe?



https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?start#contents

Indeed that seems to be the case. Looks like the storm will hit land around the Tampa area and then head north into the panhandle. Assuming the current track doesn't change, it looks like my area will be getting lots of rain but minimal winds.
Posted By: Nixer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 01:47 AM

First off, I am not on the coast, but if it wasn't for the luck/foresight of my good friend, I'd be hauling butt oughta here. At this point you probably have to get to the east coast/Jax area to get gas.

I am moving approx 10 miles west to...

THE BUNKER! Nestled inside a little pole barn is a nice solid Conex, anchored to the cement slab, 2 Generators, a freezer, A/C and fridge available, set up to run on another genset and numerous gas, wood and propane cooking appliances. If you are in Sarasota, Tampa Bay and north along the west coast of Florida, AND are not prepared for at LEAST two weeks (maybe a month) without power, you may be in for a real bummer...a life altering bummer experience. If it's a CAT 3 or Cat 4 slamming into Tampa Bay with a 10'+ storm surge and you are still there...well you will wish you weren't...as may your heirs. LEAVE! GTFO!

Oh, the Bunker.

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Posted By: CyBerkut

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 03:09 AM

If you guys are closing that container door, you should consider having some escape tools inside, in case that door gets blocked/jammed.
Posted By: NoFlyBoy

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 03:42 AM

ask God to watch over Tampa and Florida, first hurricane to hit Tampa in 101 years

https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/vulnerable-tampa-bay-braces-for-storm-not-seen-in-a-century/

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/...istoric-catastrophe-takes-aim-tampa-bay/

mandatory evacuations

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/n...rdered-for-zone-a-in-hillsborough-county
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 10:36 AM

Ian is right on top of Havana right now with 110 mph sustained winds.
Posted By: oldgrognard

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 11:15 AM

I am in the path. On the the west coast north of Tampa. Today I am boarding up the house with plywood sheets. Have done all my other prep work. Filled cars. I’m expecting a pretty strong blow.

I’ll keep you all posted.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 11:32 AM

Thanks for the update OG. Stay safe!
Posted By: Nixer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by CyBerkut
If you guys are closing that container door, you should consider having some escape tools inside, in case that door gets blocked/jammed.


Big breaker bar, chain saws (3) and hopefully a little help from the big guy, no not that one, the one upstairs. Are you leaving CyBer? I am moving to the bunker later today.
Posted By: Nixer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by oldgrognard
I am in the path. On the the west coast north of Tampa. Today I am boarding up the house with plywood sheets. Have done all my other prep work. Filled cars. I’m expecting a pretty strong blow.

I’ll keep you all posted.


I am about 25 or 30 miles to the NE of OG and some 15 ish miles ENE of CyBer, close anyway.

Best of luck my friend. CAT III now, just coming across west end of Cuba with a fully formed eye now. I am expecting a sadly epic disaster for the Tampa Bay area. Off to find some ice I hope, then trashing everything in my fridge that I am not taking with me. Expecting no power at my place for at LEAST 10 days, if it still exists.

I spent yesterday afternoon making two adorable young ladies I know leave their home in Homosassa, by telling them the stories of an acquaintance fishing bodies out of the Mississippi river post Katrina, and they are now enroute to a relatives in WV. CAT 2 or 3 eyewalls full of Tornadoes KILL, even CAT I. Storm surges KILL, and are maybe the scariest natural force I have ever witnessed. Luckily I am too far inland to worry about that.

Probably at least a week without cell service.

I truly hope to God I am wrong. I have been there and done this too many times and I had hoped I was done. I guess not.
Posted By: CyBerkut

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 12:26 PM

As of now, we still plan to stay put. Current predictions look like it being Category 1 by the time it passes to our east (based on the centerline of the current cone of uncertainty). Obviously, it could turn further north and nail us harder, but I think we will be OK. Not looking forward to a prolonged loss of electrical power though. That always sucks.
Posted By: Haggart

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 01:32 PM

I've been thinking about having a whole house generator installed but need to make sure we're going to stay in this house first. We might move from here once we get out and start looking around beginning around December.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by Haggart
We might move from here once we get out and start looking around beginning around December.



Wow so you'll be one of the very few who would be leaving Texas instead of moving there!
Posted By: Haggart

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 01:40 PM

Hehe, Panzer you right on that one ..... we've been in Texas most of our lives ..... who knows maybe there are areas of Florida we might like if i can find enough shade. I love our big trees over the greenbelt trails that wind through the pine and oak forest we live in. I spent too much time in the sun as a kid and dermatologist reminds me of it when i go see her every year Panzer so i can't be out in late morning or afternoon sun.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Haggart
Hehe, Panzer you right on that one ..... we've been in Texas most of our lives ..... who knows maybe there are areas of Florida we might like if i can find enough shade. I love our big trees over the greenbelt trails that wind through the pine and oak forest we live in. I spent too much time in the sun as a kid and dermatologist reminds me of it when i go see her every year Panzer so i can't be out in late morning or afternoon sun.



Between being retired and your doctor's recommendation I would highly recommend moving to somewhere in northern Florida. The cost of living is a LOT less compared to South Florida and the solar intensity is also a bit lower.
Posted By: Nixer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by CyBerkut
As of now, we still plan to stay put. Current predictions look like it being Category 1 by the time it passes to our east (based on the centerline of the current cone of uncertainty). Obviously, it could turn further north and nail us harder, but I think we will be OK. Not looking forward to a prolonged loss of electrical power though. That always sucks.


Just looking at the 11 AM track on MyRadar on my phone (much better scale than NHC website. Much better than yesterday evening for sure. Yeah, tons of rain coming and just tropical storm winds blew the roof off part of my porch in Irma, so not staying here tonight.

Surge looking better too. Still gonna mess up Homosassa and CR west of 19.
Posted By: Haggart

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 04:14 PM

Panzer .... "Between being retired and your doctor's recommendation I would highly recommend moving to somewhere in northern Florida. The cost of living is a LOT less compared to South Florida and the solar intensity is also a bit lower"


Thanks Panzer I'll keep that in mind if we decide to move out there. My wife's sister might move from Colorado to FL in the next few years.

OG, Nixer and all you guys anywhere near the impact areas stay safe out there.
Posted By: Nixer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 04:36 PM

The whole dang country is moving to FL!

FWIW I am about 25 miles SW of Ocala and the sun is still very intense here. Hot as heck in the summer and no seabreeze like I grew up with.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Nova Scotia, be prepared - 09/27/22 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Nixer
The whole dang country is moving to FL!



Between people escaping their crap hole dictatorships in Latin America and Northeasterners escaping their high tax burden States, it’s no surprise that FL is busting at the seams.
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