Hurricane Matthew and the damage it can cause.

[SuperDave78]

not only homes will be destroyed, but the businesses, especially most of the comic book/sports card stores. anyone in Daytona, melbourne, etc know of any comic book stores there? Jacksonville is next and so is Georgia and SC.

 

[terry78]

You seem to know an awful lot about where it's going to hit next.

 

[SuperDave78]

You seem to know an awful lot about where it's going to hit next.

CNN Hurricane Matthew tracker

 

[O_B_Juan]

What about the gators? Can gators swim in salt water or will they just migrate westward toward the panhandle?

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Nothing on this (Gulf) side of the state, but I've been following it on Accuweather all week. This is a weird storm that has wobbled east and west quite a bit. Hurricanes are very rare in northeastern Florida. If Matthew makes landfall it will be the first since Dora in 1964.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Straight up, this is me and everyone else I know that lives over here.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Which is stupid. Matthew is/was a monster. Way stronger than a typical hurricane. It had the potential to be an Andrew/Katrina-level disaster. Inland, by all means wait it out, but if I lived at Titusville, Daytona, Ormond Beach, Flagler Beach, St. Augustine, etc. I would have been long gone.

 

[Greens]

Which is stupid. Matthew is/was a monster. Way stronger than a typical hurricane. It had the potential to be an Andrew/Katrina-level disaster. Inland, by all means wait it out, but if I lived at Titusville, Daytona, Ormond Beach, Flagler Beach, St. Augustine, etc. I would have been long gone.

Exactly. If they tell you to evacuate, ****ing evacuate. You have your chance to be smug and say "I told you so!" when you return alive and well.

Here's a pretty cool graphic of the storm's movements. The eye is right off the Florida coast. https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-77.70,23.11,1104

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I'm worried about St. Augustine. A ton of priceless irreplaceable history there that can't just be rebuilt.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Which is stupid. Matthew is/was a monster. Way stronger than a typical hurricane. It had the potential to be an Andrew/Katrina-level disaster. Inland, by all means wait it out, but if I lived at Titusville, Daytona, Ormond Beach, Flagler Beach, St. Augustine, etc. I would have been long gone.

Um, no it's not. I live on the west coast so it's basically just a cloud covered day over here. barely had any rain.

 

[Greens]

Um, no it's not. I live on the west coast so it's basically just a cloud covered day over here. barely had any rain.

So because you're safe, it's not a monster? lol

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Um, no it's not. I live on the west coast so it's basically just a cloud covered day over here. barely had any rain.

I don't mean you. I see that your location is listed as Clearwater which isn't far from me. No reason for us to evacuate. I'm referring to those right on the Atlantic Coast that are in the direct path of this storm.

 

[Erzengel]

We need Batman and Superman to murder Hurricane Matthew.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So because you're safe, it's not a monster? lol

Yup, that's exactly what I mean Greens. Nail on the head my friend.

 

[Morg]

What about the gators? Can gators swim in salt water or will they just migrate westward toward the panhandle?

they dive and stay in the bottom for awhile

 

[Marvolo]

A person I know of has an 8 year old son that has a brain tumor in his brain stem and the boy is currently in the middle of radiation treatments in Florida. They had to halt his radiation treatments and evacuate him to Tallahassee. How the halt of the radiation will effect his condition is unknown. Poor boy must feel like life is kicking him when he is down.

 

[terry78]

They don't have other centers as alternates if something like this comes up?

 

[Marvolo]

They don't have other centers as alternates if something like this comes up?

He is undergoing an experimental form of radiation. Proton therapy. Its only available at two hospitals in Florida. In Jacksonville and Orlando. Mathew is effecting both.

 

[Slushy]

I was just in Orlando recently. Yikes!