re: Hurricane Milton - The Cleanup Begins...

I think you mean alligator alley??

75 runs north and south until it doesn’t.

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for Katrina, there had been a long enough gap prior to her that a lot of people didn't take it as seriously as they should have. for Rita, people got the message and got it quick because they saw what Katrina had just done.

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I don’t believe this to be the case. Hurricane Cindy hit NOLA in July 2005, 2 months before Katrina. They hyped the storm up and predicted catastrophic damage. People sat on the interstate for hours to get out of NOLA. It took us 6 hours to get to and through Baton Rouge. This was before contra-flow became a thing. Fortunately, Cindy wasn’t that bad, cat 1, but people became very dismissive of doomsday forecasting. That’s why some people didn’t take Katrina as seriously as they should have, we had just run through a false alarm

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I75 runs North-South, there is no 75E

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Hurricane Cindy hit NOLA in July 2005, 2 months before Katrina.

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yep, we did not leave for Cindy. A branch went through the roof of our house in Arabi. We got it fixed.

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I never said that. Man that post should be used as an IQ test.

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Or maybe there is something wrong with the wording of your question.

Alligator Alley is a stretch of I75 that runs perfectly east to west almost

Pretty much directly linking Naples and the outskirts of Ft Lauderdale

There is NOTHING on Alligator Alley.... except alligators

I think at the Eastern side when you are going west right at the beginning there is like an Indian Reservation gas station convenience store and that is IT.

I used to drive it all the time.

One time with my dad there was a guy stuck halfway with an oil leak and no oil in the middle of the night. Poor guy.

But yeah it is practically a desert highway through the middle of the everglades.

Wouldn't want to breakdown at night or run out of gas

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Or maybe there is something wrong with the wording of your question.

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Maybe so. I’m exhausted after handling Francine claims for the past three weeks so I apologize.

I’ll rephrase it: do y’all think the level of attention this storm has garnered and the extent of evacuation orders being heeded by the populace is being heavily influenced by Helene’s impacts in the Carolinas?

To which I find interesting because the wind/surge damage in Florida was not catastrophic but the flood damage from rainfall was in the Carolinas - which it’ll be the opposite for Milton.

frick, you guys should stop clutching your pearls at everything. I’m about to deploy out there. I already know how bad it’ll be.

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That 2005 Hurricane season will never be topped.

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You've got to group it with 2004. 4 Hurricanes drawing a big X over Florida/Orlando was bizarre. Until the video came out of NOLA, we were thankful the storms went somewhere else.