Hurricane Harvey AAR

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Those folks have ridden out so many storms they do not even consider leaving for anything less than a Cat 4. I don't think they even take off from work if it is not at least a category 3. It is too late to leave now even if the storm draws more power. Last night they were saying the roads were completely gridlocked.

The people that waited until now to "bugg out" are having some real problems. Fuel supplies have been depleted and if you look at a map of Florida you will see that if you leave Miami in the south and drive north you will run out of gas before you get out of Florida and there is no fuel available along the road! Florida is about 1000km south to north.

Every time they do one of these evacuations they learn anew that it is a completely impossible feat unless they start a full week ahead of time. That was why the administrators in Texas did not try to evacuate Houston.

Good luck with that BOB and hoofing it concept thing. You are going to have to be a really fast walker!

Everyone that has a relative they could stay with anywhere else and could afford a plane ticket was taking that route.

At this point the projected path of the storm has changed and it is expected to run straight up the middle of the state, then across the state of Georgia where it will still be a strong tropical depression when it reaches Atlanta, GA. By the time it gets that far it will probably downgrade to "tropical storm" status. After about three days journey it will get to me as a cold miserable two day rain storm.

The real push was to get as many people out of the south Florida area as was possible. That entire area from Miami south is less than 50 feet above sea level and most of it is right at sea level. Many of the "keys" (small island chain along the south coast) are less than 6 feet above seal level at high tide. They will be completely submerged by any significant storm surge. If you tried to stay down there your death was assured.

Florida is really only a big sand bar and its continued existence is a direct contradiction to the theory of global warming! According to Al Gore's first book half the place should already be gone.

BTW, Florida is provided with power by several nuke plants spaced up and down the state. Those stations have been powered down and are off line at this point. They are all built to withstand these events and the proper precautions have been taken.

That means that much of the state has been taken off grid on purpose for safety reasons.