Hurricane Milton

[HypnoticBlue]

Hope everybody comes through it unscathed, must be terrifying.

 

[Bill Walker]

Thanks for the reply, I hope you all come through it safely and with as little damage as possible.

I was in Tampa in the early eighties and actually went to a football game. The Tampa Bay Rowdies v the Jacksonville Teamen. It ended up a draw and Archie Gemmill played for the Teamen.

Isn't that where Rodney Marsh went?

I remember him saying English football is a grey game played by grey people in grey weather.... something like that.

 

[rickmcfc]

Looks like the damage from storm surge and wind has been minimal in comparison to the warnings originally stated upon approach. Whilst this is great in terms of reduced casualties and financial damage, it does raise the question many Floridians ask as to whether the mass evacuation was necessary and required.


I guess until daylight the extent won’t be an accurate picture, but I’ve not seen anything to suggest a large storm surge along the coastline. The only flooding seems to be from the large quantities of rainfall.

 

[ob]

Hope everyone with friends or family there stays safe. My mate on holiday there with his wife and kids. He's sent me few videos from during the night

 

[york away to this!]

Looks less wet and windy than the top row of the Gene Kelly...

 

[tommybooth]

Surfs up.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

Hope all Floridian Blues are safe and suffered minimal damage if any.

 

[BlueHammer85]

TikTok star Joe Malinowski, better known as Lieutenant Dan, appears to have survived the worst of the storm.

He has attracted viral fame for his continued defiance of orders from officials to evacuate, insisting he would be staying on his 20ft boat in Tampa Bay despite the devastating incoming hurricane.

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He'll be on tv shows and could get a social media deal etc, millionaire for life if he chooses.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Hope everyone with friends or family there stays safe. My mate on holiday there with his wife and kids. He's sent me few videos from during the night

My daughter flew from Manchester to Orlando on Tuesday esday. Said the plane was full of folk in Sisney shirts and mouse ears lol

 

[youngbob]

Seems like it's not been too bad, which is a relief. Not heard off my family members yet but I imagine that's because they've lost power, which they were expecting to happen anyway. They live right on the edge of Lake Tohopekaliga and they were most worried about flooding, which doesn't seem to have happened based on the storm chasers I've been watching who are driving around Osceola County and Polk County.