OT: A long night ahead
For those who are willing, it's going to be a long night and day ahead for us in eastern and central Florida. We'd appreciate your thoughts and prayers as hurricane Matthew is bearing down on the area.
Looking forward to cheering on Harbaugh and co. once we get through this mess.
Thanks and go blue!
ed: thanks for the well wishes already. My family and I are in Orlando. So yes any further east and we'd have gotten the heck outta town.
6:30 AM update:
So far so good in southeast Orlando. There's some blowing and gusting, but overall it's been tamer than expected.
We've had power all night, so coffee's on. I got about four hours of sleep, and wife and son are still sleeping soundly.
We aren't out of the woods yet, but thanks for the prayers and positive thoughts.
8:30 AM Update:
Still raining and blowing here, but no visible damage other than a few small limbs down. Nothing worse than a summer thunderstorm as far as that goes. The Atlantic coast has taken it pretty hard and there are lots w/o power. Daytona Beach is getting hammered by wind and rain all morning. Praying for similar positive reports from other MGoFloridians.
October 6th, 2016 at 11:28 PM ^
Good luck, and get out of there if you can!!!!
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October 7th, 2016 at 12:19 AM ^
florida....... stay safe and "those who stay safe will be.....safe...."
GO BLUE!!!
October 6th, 2016 at 11:29 PM ^
Keep the midnight oil burning and stay safe my friend. Thoughts and prayers headed your way for you and yours!
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October 6th, 2016 at 11:35 PM ^
Spend $400 and get a hotel for 2 nights in Alabama.
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October 6th, 2016 at 11:39 PM ^
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I refuse to live in places where Mother Nature goes "fuck your house and everything you own."
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October 7th, 2016 at 12:26 AM ^
Most people die from deer for 2 reasons. They swerve and hit a tree or the deer ends up going through the windshield. I drive large trucks (Ram 1500 or 2500) so the windshield issue is null and I don't swerve. Maybe slow a bit but yea, I've pegged a few deer. They are rampant vermin in SW Michigan and I wish more people hunted them. They taste terrific.
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October 10th, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
Toyota Tundra is not a cheap truck by any means, not sure where you're getting that from.
October 7th, 2016 at 10:57 PM ^
I've put 226K on a 2007 Tundra - best vehicle ever. My first car was a 1991 Taurus SHO, which was also nice.
October 7th, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
I have had to replace ball joints on one car with 107,000 miles on it. My old truck had rotors and bearings (hub) replaced at something like 135,000 miles or so.
Both newer vehicles (a 2012 and a 2011) have had no problems whatsoever.
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October 7th, 2016 at 2:06 AM ^
Just wait until Gozira comes for you
October 7th, 2016 at 9:04 AM ^
Earthquakes never bothered me to be honest
I guess we won't feel bad for you when the San Andreas fault swallows you whole. Or maybe you'll drive right out of that big ol' crack in your Ram 1500?
EDIT: I see you no longer live in CA. So strike this message from the records.
October 7th, 2016 at 10:21 AM ^
...but you're more likely to be killed by a tornado in tornado alley than a deer in Michigan, and you're more likely to die from flooding in the Missippi flood plain than a deer in Michigan.
Hurricanes and earthquakes in the US don't kill too many folks.
October 7th, 2016 at 12:27 AM ^
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Obviously there is a chance for mother nature to hit anywhere. But there is a difference between living somewhere where natural disasters rarely happen and living somewhere where natural disasters happen every few years
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October 7th, 2016 at 1:11 AM ^
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I love winter.
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October 7th, 2016 at 2:48 AM ^
you enjoy your swampass
October 7th, 2016 at 11:20 AM ^
Kalamazoo? You're more likely to get run over on your bike by a mad man than die in these "common occurring hurricanes" in Florida.
Also, Kalamazoo is a shit hole, so enjoy your shit hole.
October 7th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
Also, pretty much no one who has ever lived in Kalamazoo thinks it sucks. Actually pretty sweet town for only having 75,000 residents.
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October 7th, 2016 at 4:26 AM ^
If you want to like someplace where mother nature can't get at you, you have very few options. Mother Nature can pretty much say that anywhere in the world. About your only option is to move to someplace like the Cheyenne Mountain Complex where you are insulated from just about anything.
Let's not pretend that anyplace is really safe from Mother Nature. Hell, Michigan gets tornadoes, it gets blizards, it gets floods, hell Michigan even gets earthquakes. That's pretty much every natural disaster that mother nature can throw out.