Hurricane Ian Watch

[Coochie liquor]

Originally Posted by Spott

Damn, you are right there. Looks like the center is coming right towards that Madeira Beach area. That storm surge could be a bitch.

Yeah, 10 foot wall of water is what they keep saying on the Tv. We went through 2 in 2004 when I lived in Sebastian. The first one messed our house up. The second one left it standing but basically destroyed and uninhabitable. Still had to live there for about 4 more months until we had another option. No power for 2 weeks then got it back for 3 days and lost it for 17 more days with the next storm.

[Spott]

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor

Yeah, 10 foot wall of water is what they keep saying on the Tv. We went through 2 in 2004 when I lived in Sebastian. The first one messed our house up. The second one left it standing but basically destroyed and uninhabitable. Still had to live there for about 4 more months until we had another option. No power for 2 weeks then got it back for 3 days and lost it for 17 more days with the next storm.

That had to be brutal on that coast. I was living in Treasure Island back in 04-05 when Frances and Jean came through. IIRC, at least one of them was still a category 1 even after it crossed the state and got to us.

[Coochie liquor]

Originally Posted by Spott

That had to be brutal on that coast. I was living in Treasure Island back in 04-05 when Frances and Jean came through. IIRC, at least one of them was still a category 1 even after it crossed the state and got to us.

It was really really scary honestly. We were in a wood frame house. We were boarded up, but it sounded like a freight train was coming through. You would hear large objects just slamming into the house and roof. We had the kids on mattresses in the hallway cuz we didn’t have an interior room with no windows. I waited about a week and a half to remove my boards. The only reason I did was because they said Jean had turned and would t affect us. Then about a day later they said in typical South Parking fashion “ITS COMING RIGHT FOR US”. Had to re board mine and my bosses windows rapidly. Luckily we found a generator between the 2 storms. Cuz it’s impossible to get laid when you have no power and it’s like 100 degrees outside. There was a small empty lot in the middle of our block, and someone brought a big barrel with a grate to cook food on. As everyone’s food was thawing they would bring it to the pit and cook it and share it with the people from the block. It sucked, but there was also a lot of unity that wasn’t always prevalent in the neighborhood prior to that. We had lots of the neighborhood kids over watching cartoons with our kids in a window unit worth of AC because we happened to get a generator.