Gulf Coasters beware, and be alert -Mike is currently being forecast to strengthen thru Cat 1 to Cat 2 on arrival at the central Gulf Coast by sometime around the weekend. Keep a weather eye out, and prepare to batten down the hatches -and cockpit covers, strap the boats down, and prep your homes… And evacuate if you’re in a flood zone, please…! We all want want y’all to come thru safe and sound, and hopefully, homes, cars, and boats as well, so all can continue, after Michael passes, to
Key Largo just had the strongest little squall we’ve seen in a while. 20 to 30 mph winds for the next few days.
Looks like lousy weather for the west coast.
Canoe Race in Lumberton cancelled last month due to hurricane flooding.
Race on the Suwannee River on Saturday looks like good weather, but trying to get from here in NC to there in Florida on Thursday, with a light weight canoe on the roof looks like a bummer and another no go.
Seems like we are wasting a lot of good race training when we could be lilly dipping !
No, friend, NOT ‘Rowed’
But indeed RODE!
As in ’ Will Mike have ridden them ashore’
As done in Harvey and Florence before?
But that’s just semantics
Diminishing Mike’s possible antics
Here’s to surviving dusk to dawn
To still solvently, healthfully, and happily
Current forecasts call for a Cat 3 Michael coming ashore mid-panhandle, crossing into south Georgia, then heading back up to the eastern Carolinas, Wednesday-Thursday, before heading back to where Florence just visited.
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To our paddling friends in the Carolinas, and our own friends and family, we send our wishes for the most minimal of impacts . Plan ahead, prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
And check in from time to time -and circumstances allow! -to let us know how you all are doing, and how soon you expect to get past Michael to
The Big Bend and the Panhandle are two of my favorite wintertime destinations
I worry for all the small businesses there and the residents
It is old time FL
Looks like Michael will be rolling over Port St Joe. The only good thing is the people that bought my house over there will have a reason to use the storm shutters my wife made me install on the house.
OK guys, time to get serious and buckle up. This looks bad for our Florida panhandle and Big Bend areas with winds and surge, but all you folks in Georgia and the Carolinas also watch for flash flooding. Be smart and be safe and we’ll see you on the other side, post-storm, ready to
Twelve-plus foot perfectly formed waves rolling into the Panama City Pier… Roofs torn up, and some lifted off and cartwheeling away… Walls ripped off buildings… Power poles and lines pretzled…
Mexico City Beach, Panama City less so, and apparently St. Joe all hit hard by powerfully destructive winds, and seaside roads, homes, stores, and low bridges innundated…
And it’s still a powerful, hurricane-force storm heading inland towards Georgia…
Hang in there and hang on Georgia and the Carolinas…
It’s likely going to be a while before many of the Florida Panhandlers and other friends in Big Mike’s path get out to