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They don't tend to intensify once they start rubbing against land, no.

Michael apparently is doing it anyway :V

E: Hey, the howling's started! Yaaay. Intermittent, but still. We're not supposed to hit peak for another... five, six hours? If we have power for much longer imma be hella surprised.

Well, 4 am, rain's started. Wind's picking up. Tallahassee gov't weather site is noting the amount of times a cat 4 has made landfall in this area since we've started tracking this sort of thing is a big fat Zero. We're making history lads and lasses.

E: Gods know how much longer we'll have power, heh. Actually have a generator, but it won't be being used for internet, to say the least. Estimates look like tropical storm force winds start sustaining for my area in about three or four hours and leaving around two o'clock tomorrow morning, with the wind enfuckening happening somewhere in between.

... definitely kinda' wish I had noticed this thing coming earlier than I did, and that there was more warning it was going to be, y'know, historically ass-kicking. Probably would have just convinced folks to get up and leave town for a day or two

E2: House pictures get. Forgot to do that yesterday, but the rain's let up enough that with the sun coming up it was doable. Incidentally, any of y'all in the path of the hellstorm might want to get pictures of your pre-storm building or whatever conditions. Can be significant help with insurance/assistance claims afterwards.

E3: TV weather guy had words of comfort for remaining panama city residents: "Tornadoes, well, on the bright side with this storm if there's any tornadoes you won't be able to tell."

Because the rain and non-tornado winds will be too loud to tell the difference.

... incidentally, I'm now seeing occasional mention of worry this motherfucker will breach cat 5 in the next few hours. The coast is going to be hyperfucked today. Dunno how much less the rest of us will be

Yeah... saw that on TV, sorta'. They were caveating it with a note they're not entirely sure which side of that indian pass joint it's going to be landing on. Basically could be panama getting the 8-12 (I.e. panama is fuuuuucked) or the area south of tallahassee. Apparently the storm's still wobbly or somethin'.

Going to be interesting, I guess. Family's been renting out a place in Panama within walking distance of one of the harbor bitsies. It might not be there this time tomorrow afternoon

E: They're now regularly mentioning the possibility of it being cat 4 before it hits land. Ahaha. Give it a week or two of silence before y'all morn my passing, heh. _{they're also regularly mentioning potential week+ power outages, see. because if there's anything this is going to need it's more dead old people...}

I'm just hoping the power stays on, or at least doesn't go off for long, tbh. Yard flamingos we don't have can fly all they want if the AC stays running and the 80+ degree weather stays outside with the deathwind.

E: Man, what. Radio, Bad Moon Rising is a little too on point for the day before a hurricane hits. Just. Just saying.

Boarding up isn't really on the table (even if we had the materials the chance I could convince the home owners to do it is zero), but I've took off work for tomorrow to spend some time shuffling potential projectiles around the yard so they're less likely to starting believing they can fly.

We're far enough inland it probably won't be that bad, but better safe than sorry when the sky decides it's attempted murder day, et al.

... yeeeup, that's coming right at me. There's... quite a few more potential projectiles in the yard this time, too. Fucknuggets.

The first angel-thing that shows up in the webcomic seemed to have something very similar, yeah. You can go back and check it out if you're interested.