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fire up that smoke

all will be OK

Moving a boat, especially an over 20 footer is a job all in itself. Get your trailer, load it up and drive it 175 miles, find a place to store it and then travel another 175 miles back to continue what you were up to. Sounds like a day all by itself.

I evacuated with my boat in tow. It never hurts to have an extra 65 gallons of gas at your disposal. Granted, evacuating the central Gulf Coast is easier than evacuating South Florida.

I have spent a lot of time on the Fort Myers area and I recognize many of the places that are pictured. Very sad to see, as much Fort Myers is a beautiful town. Damn thing is headed this way now.

Browsing around I was looking for a group of guys, I believe out of Louisiana that travel to disasters and help out. Was thinking donation.

PaulBarnard? Any other LA guys familiar?

Comes with the territory. If you're going to build a house within 5 feet of high water line, your going to lose it on a direct hit. If you build it on stilts, you still lose it. Build it 5 miles back from the waters edge and 20 feet above mean tide and you'll probably be ok, unless a big live oak falls on it. There's a reason why larger vessels often prefer to take their chances offshore.

You're good if a tree falls on it. That's windstorm. You're f'cked if rising water gets you...that's flood. If you don't have insurance and live around Democrats, that's FEMA gold!

As far as ships are concerned...they just go somewhere else.

You can build a house that will withstand a direct hit from a cat 5. It’s going to be on concrete piers way up. The structure is going to be made of poured reinforced high strength concrete. Floors , walls , and roof all poured concrete. Windows and doors will be 150mph impact resistant and set in with steel shutters rated over 200mph resistant. Everything structural is built to 200mph+. A family friend built one in the keys. He said the engineer rated the structure to 300mph. Expensive to build !

Interesting interview this morning with a women that was in a damaged, flooded home in Ft.Myers with her family

After she described the devastation she had seen they asked her why she hadn't evacuated.

She said they did, they left their home in Tampa 100 miles north where the storm was predicted to make landfall.

As far as the boats go, it's much like anything else.
The media is trying hard to show the destruction but if you look closely you'll see boats that are sitting just fine and unharmed.

Some go a short ways offshore and anchor, but ya gotta have enough anchor and enough anchor line to keep it from dragging.

The boat will turn and keep itself pointed into the wind if done properly.

Boats can be secured by 4 point ties, they have to be good pilings driven deep with this purpose in mind. You have to have enough line to allow for the rise and fall and most important is having strong enough cleats on a boat to tie to that won't tear loose.

Suitable cleats aren't standard features, most are custom done with large metal plates or reinforced fiberglass inside a hull to bolt through.

If you have a suitable boat you can run it out into a bay and ride it out powered up. It's not unheard of.

I'm sure you'd find them on GoFundMe.com

https://www.gofundme.com/f/cajun-na...-fl?qid=b867b7b200bfb4d7d6304690e1fe5b51

A vessel usually stands a better chance at sea than on the bank in a hurricane.

99% of them are owned by someone who won't go near the water if it's raining

You would be supprised the insurance company won't cover their loss. they had time to keep the boats safely but didn't.
expecting money or a new one.

How would you know? Ever moved a 30 footer? Depends on the insurance you have also.

I don’t see any pics

All I see is a link

Another hit n run cut n paster

No courtesy to extract pics and do a batch upload???



Not taking my adblock down. Dont trust links. No sir

A former coworker of mine owned in whole or part several charter boats. I think it was the one she bought off See (of candy fame), that she had on the east coast - SC, IIRC. After dodging two hurricanes in one season, her hired skipper loaded the thing up and headed inland with the third storm on the way.

He didn't stop until Seattle.

Yepp... https://photos.app.goo.gl/4GKhn2FtjJWJJ4LD2

You can see the link with adblock, and ublock origin, running. There are a hundred photos.

I’m good

Just mocking the bobcat meat eating tin shed people.

I’ll open any link. ODB will take a leak right out in th skreet

I prefer pictures in a picture thread.