And end up in Davy Jones locker.

Orlando. What is the wind speed in Tampa?

Tampa St. Pete are going to get hit. Be glad they got out.

Finishing boarding up the house when its not raining. There's a shelter less than a 1/4 mile away. Not in a flood zone.

You can find hourly wind speeds for the next few days on weather sites such as weatherunderground.com or weatherchannel.com. Go to the city you are interested in, click on hourly forcasts.....

good luck to us both

but very tired

East Coast, Freemanville, one block from ICW. Dark, gray, blustery and wet.

Very tired it's been along week. 14 evacuees in the house. There is an open liquor store up the street, the only open place I have seen

Space coast?

It's an Historic designation. Free slaves moved here

Known by a different name now

Haven't been back in a while; historic area. Best of luck to you all.

Wind and rain but not hurricane strength. They lowered the lake behind us about a foot before the storm and when I ran out to walk the dog it looked to be back to normal levels.

Getting rain and wind gusts. Nothing like the West Coast. Biggest worries here (I think) will be tornadoes spinning off the winds and power outages.
For us so far so good, but portions of the county (Palm Beach) are already without power.

so the power company could do some work on the line ! Never waste a good crisis !

Just 20 hours left!

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I'm so worried.. Her husband works for power company. I'm sure he's essential personnel. He's a Florida native who's tough and as good as they come.

My inlaws live in Rotonda West, but luckily we're at a famous PT wedding in a Denver. Afraid to think what they'll have to go back to.

my mom and aunt grew up there. Aunt and uncle still lives in Venice. Hoping to hear from them soon.

who is, IMO, too old and feeble and should have evacuated, are in Nokomis with my other niece.. I'm scared.

wind picking up, not too bad though. raining a bit harder in bands, house is boarded up, generator is gassed and ready. We are the only family on the block that stayed. I do have to say we are a block of snowbirders. We are the old farts on the block having been here 37 years in the same house.

My biggest wish is that Duke energy would have come through and cut all the branches back from the lines prior to hurricane season.

A bit of maintenance would go a long way here.

AFTER we had our massive ice storm, back in 2013, Consumer's Energy finally got around to trimming trees and branches. Had that been done BEFORE the storm, as in routine maintenance type work, we might not have had a week long power outage.

on the edge of the Redland.

No power or Satellite TV.

Multiple trees down but house appears to be intact.

We have a 5 acre tropical fruit grove. Fruit trees appear to be ok...palms are as one would expect. Ornamental and ficus appear to be worst off.

Unable to check on workshop, tractor and other equip storage at this point.

Radio indicates hurricane force winds coming through here until noon...

As I still have power and cable and am surfing the local channels vigorously.
Just 8-10 more hours and we should settle down. Hold fast.

Seems to be getting worse. Was hoping for a let up...

The next two hours are supposed to be very bad as this big band moves over us

Will minimise the inconvenience.

House is really cracking right now.

20 miles east of the NHC forecast. Notice the radar imagery in relationship to the NHC forecast line in purple:

https://www.sfwmd.gov/weather-radar/current-weather-conditions

On edit: That site just moved the purple forecast line east to keep up with the latest forecast. I guess it changed based on the 11 AM update as I was typing. There was a sharp difference for hours.

Not good for me since it places Irma and specifically the "dirty side" closer to my home in southwest Miami.

But that should be okay. I'm hardly complaining considering the projected track of just a couple of days ago, basically covering my house.

I've been remote monitoring a security camera that is placed inside my front window in Miami. The neighbor across the street lost a couple of tree branches, one falling very close to his truck. I might lose some smaller trees that are bending near sideways. I'm happy I removed a very old and thinned out weeping bottlebrush tree from the front yard this spring. That tree would not have survived Irma. When I cut it down it had a 7 inch hollow ring in the center.

Now I need Irma to remain considerably east of my sister's home in Winter Garden, southwest of Orlando. That's where I am now. The track last night looked fine. I waited for the touted Euro model to report at 1:45 AM before grabbing some sleep. Unfortunately the Euro was most accurate of all during the track toward Florida but appears to be the worst of all forecasting the path after the northward turn. It had Irma quite a bit west of the NHC forecast. In reality it is east.

The champion model again appears to be UKMET. That will be one of the forecast stories coming out of this event. UKMET was the only track that nailed Matthew almost perfectly in the late going last year. This time UKMET has been running a close second to Euro across the Atlantic but they differed sharply in the final forecast after the northward turn. UKMET was notably east of the consensus line after the turn while Euro was west.

Construction crane on NE 3rd collapsed on building

It's a sympathetic place with none of the " if you didn't evacuate you're an idiot" sentiment.

The track last night put the eye around a mile or so west of my house as it passes. This is gonna suck.

Stay safe everyone!

Tampa hasn't gotten hit in a while

Been raining steadily for about the past hour, Power on, cable working and all is good. They say it should be a Cat 1 by the time it reaches this far north but the after storm surge is the concern with all the rain and wind.

Getting nervous that is moving more easterly. As long as we are 50-60 miles from the eye my food should be ok.

Did not board up but did lay down a big tree in my back yard that I felt threatened my house. Will have to clean it up after the storm passes.

Just lost power here. Winds about the same as you.

Considering ourselves lucky compared to our west coast friends, family and coworkers

Be safe out there

Just a few more hours.

i used to work in Oakland park so I know it well. Hope your home comes through ok

Yikes my parents and aunt in their 90s. Had plans to bring them to Orlando area until track shifted to Miami coming straight to Orlando. So due to recent surgery and likely discomfort on 4 hour car trip they chose to stay. They lost power two hours ago.
Building new construction and they have shutters so probably better off than at the shitshow in Estero arena. Building has generator for elevator and they are probably half mile back from ocean.
I will go get them on Tuesday if they have no power. Eye is coming...Think good thoughts!
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at my house we've had 4 power outages of short duration. Most likely due to branches on the lines and rain. For some reason they don't seem to play well together.

wind at 30 maybe, gusts to 45 sporadic rain.

I'm just down the street from Apopka. Power flickering and pretty sure I heard a transformer pop somewhere in the neighborhood.

Power still on.

And prepare to back any state candidate who mandates the burying of ALL power lines going forward.

They can be buried, but the planning must be well thought out and the buried lines must be leak tight. Imagine stepping on wet ground where a 1 megawatt line is leaking? Barbecue much?

Transformers are blowing. The power is out here. Lots of wind and the gusts are starting to get I think around 60-70. Some branches are falling.

On the bright side it's smaller and faster than it has been over the past 24 hours. Hang tight.

I'm in a concrete block home and the only trees I am concerned about are far enough away to not fall into the house. I think it will be fine.

But likely not for much longer. First major flicker a few minutes ago. This is likely my final post for days.

Winds whipping outside and sideways rain.

I was able to monitor my home in Miami until 6:43 PM when the security camera froze. Frankly, I was shocked. I thought I was home free in terms of not losing power.

Now I have been unable to contact any neighbors for an update. I just hope it was a normal outage in the late stages, and not something low percentage like a tornado.

I contacted my aunt about a mile away. She was very shook up. Trees down all over her property along with her fence. She estimated clean up at a month or longer. Her tenant drove to visit his mother and reported so many trees down that major roads were blocked so he had to maneuver around them. Now I understand the area is under curfew until 7 AM Monday.

Hard to believe the NFL games were played today.

Everyone in this household ate a big meal tonight and the air conditioning is turned very cold...brief compensation for the seemingly inevitable.

I can't imagine what this storm would have done to Florida if Cuba hadn't weakened it.

Reports my husband and son. They convinced me to leave yesterday with our older dog. So I'm with family in NC feeling worried and guilty.

waiting for the sun to come up or whatever this morning.

Thank gaud for generators.

Margate/Coconut Creek ?

I evacuated my elderly mother (plus a dog and two cats) to my home in Atlanta.

She is obviously anxious to get home.

I can't find any damage reports on line.

Power out? Streets clear?

Who has best Broward TV coverage I can stream from here?

I boarded my cat over there on Friday. Let me know, please if you hear anything

Must watch for later in the week.

At least one NHC model has it making possible landfall in South Florida by Friday.

Please pay attention as you're cleaning up' removing debris or unboarding your structures, you may be getting another storm within the week.

Just FYI

over the place, but otherwise most roads are open. He got back to his apt. and there was no damage. There is no power as of 8 a.m. (Monday).

Still now the winds are in the 20 - 25 mile range which can down further loosened branches and coconuts. County asks everyone to please stay out till initial work is completed for safety.

I found it by accident

We have power and minimal damage at our house in PSL. Most of West Palm Beach is out of power. Slowly coming on throughout the county.

Hope everyone is OK