Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_N0Z_lp.shtml

Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 24 Oct 2005 04:58:34 -0700, wrote:


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_N0Z_lp.shtml


Wow - looks like Naples got smacked.

Hope NYOB is ok.

Didn't he bailout and head over to the East Coast?

Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

"Don White" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 24 Oct 2005 04:58:34 -0700, wrote:


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_N0Z_lp.shtml


Wow - looks like Naples got smacked.

Hope NYOB is ok.

Didn't he bailout and head over to the East Coast?

The east coast is getting pounded pretty bad also.

Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 24 Oct 2005 04:58:34 -0700, wrote:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_N0Z_lp.shtml

Wow - looks like Naples got smacked.

Hope NYOB is ok.

We're fine, thanks. In fact, I'm back home. Neighbor on either side lost
their pool cages. Ours is tilted about 5 degrees, but it's still standing.
No power, but the generator is running the refrigerators, a few lights, and
the DSL. Boat is in great shape. Storm surge never even got within 2 feet
of the top of my seawall. 15 miles south of me ("Old Naples") got a pretty
good storm surge...with calf high water running down Fifth Avenue. And of
course, Marco Island and Everglades City got smacked pretty hard.

We were riding the storm out in Sunrise, FL...about 100 miles to the east of
Naples. The eye went right over us in Sunrise, and knocked out power about
5 am. I knew we'd probably get hit over there, but at least I knew we
wouldn't have a storm surge. The wind damage in Sunrise was pretty darn
close to what we had in Naples. That damn storm didn't weaken a bit.


My biggest worry was that storm surge. Because the eye passed 25 miles
south of me, we didn't see a surge. Every thing that was even with the eye
and south of there got a pretty good surge though. The most expensive real
estate in Naples ("Port Royal") got hit pretty good I understand.

My hygienist's son is on Naples Police Dept. They started pulling over cars
with Dade and Broward County plates on Friday and Saturday...and ended up
detaining most of them until the storm passed. In fact, they were told that
they wouldn't even be arraigned until a day or two after Wilma passed. The
result? No looting. From what I understand, most of the detainees were
Haitians, and were armed.

Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

"Don White" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 24 Oct 2005 04:58:34 -0700, wrote:


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_N0Z_lp.shtml


Wow - looks like Naples got smacked.

Hope NYOB is ok.

Didn't he bailout and head over to the East Coast?

Yup. Choosing to got there was not one of my brightest moments. The damn
eye passed right over my head about 11:30am. Wind gusts were up to 90
knots, even on the East Coast. Trees were down, and power was out. Water
pressure in the hotel went so low that we couldn't flush a toilet...so I
left when the worst of the trailing edge of the storm had passed.

Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 24 Oct 2005 04:58:34 -0700, wrote:


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_N0Z_lp.shtml

Wow - looks like Naples got smacked.

Hope NYOB is ok.

Didn't he bailout and head over to the East Coast?


CNN is reporting some downed trees and some flooding in the Naples area,
with modest structural damage, but there are lots of areas of the town
where their crews have not been. Many parts of the Keys are under water.

I understand that all but 35% of Key West was under water.

Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 24 Oct 2005 04:58:34 -0700, wrote:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_N0Z_lp.shtml
Wow - looks like Naples got smacked.

Hope NYOB is ok.

We're fine, thanks. In fact, I'm back home. Neighbor on either side
lost their pool cages. Ours is tilted about 5 degrees, but it's still
standing. No power, but the generator is running the refrigerators, a few
lights, and the DSL. Boat is in great shape. Storm surge never even got
within 2 feet of the top of my seawall. 15 miles south of me ("Old
Naples") got a pretty good storm surge...with calf high water running
down Fifth Avenue. And of course, Marco Island and Everglades City got
smacked pretty hard.

We were riding the storm out in Sunrise, FL...about 100 miles to the east
of Naples. The eye went right over us in Sunrise, and knocked out power
about 5 am. I knew we'd probably get hit over there, but at least I knew
we wouldn't have a storm surge. The wind damage in Sunrise was pretty
darn close to what we had in Naples. That damn storm didn't weaken a
bit.


My biggest worry was that storm surge. Because the eye passed 25 miles
south of me, we didn't see a surge. Every thing that was even with the
eye and south of there got a pretty good surge though. The most
expensive real estate in Naples ("Port Royal") got hit pretty good I
understand.

My hygienist's son is on Naples Police Dept. They started pulling over
cars with Dade and Broward County plates on Friday and Saturday...and
ended up detaining most of them until the storm passed. In fact, they
were told that they wouldn't even be arraigned until a day or two after
Wilma passed. The result? No looting. From what I understand, most of
the detainees were Haitians, and were armed.


Glad to hear you are ok.

What is a pool cage?

It's the screening that goes all around the pool and lanai so that the
mosquitoes don't chew you alive in the Summer months. They don't have them
up north because the snow would cave them in.

Heres NOAA's live "eye view" of Wilma chewing on Florida...
 

Harry Krause wrote:
Glad to hear you are ok.

What is a pool cage?

Hopefully, it's something that protects the neighbours from having to
watch NOYB prance around in his Speedo.