Irma Peas

I know you don't know me, but if you get trapped near north Tampa, you are more than welcome to hunker down with us.  It's not the Taj Mahal, but we've boarded our windows and feel pretty secure.  

My Son is stationed in North Carolina and lives in the dorms on base. I'm very worried as they are doing hurricane preperations. We live where there are no natural disasters and I'm kinda wigging out! What does he need for his room? What should he expect!

Edited to add: never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I'd be posting to a hurricane thread!! 🤤

I just received voluntary evacuation orders.

I have a plane outta Tampa Saturday morning.

I live in a flood prone area. PLEASE pray for me and my neighbors!

Prayers!!  Where did you hear about the evacuation?  I am SO overwhelmed that I don't know which place to believe or listen to!!!  We're on 52, near Little.  Not sure of how safe we'd be.
How'd you find a plane so quickly??  And, are they allowing pets (in the right cages)??  TIA!  (It's a better option!)

If you grab only the things you most need and get in your car and go, you can make it. I know it's hard, but you've gotta do what you've gotta do.



Put that number in every phone you'll be taking. Write it down and stick it in your glove compartment and also put it in your purse.

Believe me, I understand. I know what it's like to leave it all behind to save your life and I understand the anxiety.

YOU.CAN.DO.IT.

Welcome. None of us want to be here, either.


If he's in the service, you can believe that the government has run through endless "what-if" scenarios already. I wouldn't worry about what he needs for his room if I were you. (Honest.)  It depends where he is and what he will be doing to know what to expect.

Normally, if you're in your house and you've boarded up all the windows before a big storm - Cat 1 or 2 for example - it gets very dark inside your house. When the wind starts howling, it gets a little creepy. When you start to hear tree limbs creaking, you swear that there can't be a single limb on a single tree left (there will be). You may lose electricity, and then it may begin to get pretty warm. If the eye of the storm goes directly over your house, the rain stops and you can go outside and look straight up into a beautiful sky. When the eye passes, the rain and wind take on full force again.

Afterwards, broken limbs and fallen trees will have taken out power lines. Streets will be covered with debris. Windows on tall buildings may have been shattered and glass may have fallen all over the streets below. There will be standing water in spots, and rushing water in others. Snakes and depending how far south you are, alligators and fire ants will be out looking for dry land. In SE Tx after Harvey, cattle were up on the highways trying to get out of the water. (Harvey didn't move, so for most of SE Tx, it was a rain event more than a wind event. Irma will be different since it is expected to keep moving.)

No, I live in town but not even two miles from ben T davis beach. Very close to the veterans, the Courtney Campbell, and the Howard franklind. Near TPA.

I don't care if the winds rip my roof off. I had over $1,000 worth of damage to my car after a four hour rain storm three years ago. Water got waist deep. My car will be in the airport parking garage; but my townhouse 😢

Please pray the rain stays away!

You bet! Stay safe.

Oh, wow.  You are in the crosshairs for flooding if we get major rain in that area.  Will absolutely keep you and your neighbors in my thoughts that you get little to no rain. Keep safe. 

It's unreal for me to fathom the enormity of this storm. our city in west central Georgia is 100% booked on hotel rooms already and a news article today said that the entire state was almost at capacity as far as hotels go.
My cousin went to walmart yesterday for regular groceries and they were completely wiped out of water. Our Home Depot is bare of anything used for hurricane preparedness... Our local news is saying we will have winds of about 60mph based on the current model. We don't get crazy weather here. Like we shut down as a city if we get a snow flurry. 60mph is nuts for us, nothing near what you guys will be getting though.

I am praying for all of you guys in Florida and anywhere in the path. I can't stop looking at the news and fretting about all my pea friends, not to mention my niece in Tampa and friends around Jacksonville, and family on the Georgia coast. 

Thank you! I'm composing a list for him of what he will need. I will add these things. I'm from Arizona so this is all so very new to us!

He can stock up now on water from the tap. Many people fill their bathtub just before a storm hits so they'll have something to use to wash with and maybe even drink if it hasn't been sitting too long. (Take the water out of the tub. Don't get into the water.)

He can use all kinds of containers to hold tap water and refill the bottles so he can carry it with him.

Governor Scott just ordered a mandatory closing of all public K-12 schools in the state for Friday and Monday. I suppose this is partially to allow people to get out and partially because many schools are evacuation shelters.

In my part of Florida, though, it doesn't make much sense (unless evacuees are going to start heading west on I-10) as Pensacola is completely out of the uncertainty cone for Irma. In fact, my son has already evacuated up here from UCF. DH is pissed because all his school stuff is AT school and he won't be able to get to it so that he can do work while he's off.