Hurricane Dorian....

Brace for Impact!

 

Yea it's looking kinda crappy lol.

 

Hurricane Dorian, scheduled to be a Cat 4 with 140 affecting Miami sometime sunday and landfall at or near Miami into Monday night with the eye.

NASA is already closing up the pads. VAB is specifically built to take any storm and maybe some nuclear.

FDOT is fixing to clear out the tolls.

DOT wants to toss Logs and HOS for fuel trucks and certain others.

Louisiana is opening up fuel and fixing to run east with them. (Hammond is responsible for about 28% to 32% of all Natgas and all fuels burned in America)

Atlanta Motor Speedway will be designated refugee campgrounds.

Don't know when they will flip the interstates to outbound only. But that will come in it's own time.

If you have a semi loaded or empty in that area of the storm from the Keys all the way to Jacksonville and across to Tampa etc and cannot get dispatched out. Abandon your truck and trailer and get a strong concrete hotel preferably second floor. Or fly out via Tampa. Come back for the rig later. There is really no place you can ride this out in a 18 wheeler.

If you had to. Point the truck into the wind around the corner of a major shopping center building square. As the storm passes turn a corner where necessary to keep pointing into some of the wind flow. But make sure the building gets the worst of it. Stay a little away from the walls. if it falls on you you are going to get chopped up or mashed. Write your SSN on your left arm with marker pen. That way they know what you were.

That's all for now. Hopefully others will keep filling this until landfall.

 

Im running hos exempt currently. Ran 16.5 and taking a break now so they can get a few more trailers ready and I'll be back at it again.

 

is FEMA coming down and being on guard for this one??
looks like it might track the same way Andrew did

 

I understand there is a few million meals and so on supposidely being pulled from pre existing FEMA stocks But only FEMA knows for sure.

You cannot rely on them in a storm like this. It will come through in due time. You are either on good ground and ride or out of there probably by saturday AM.

All of that will come along in it's own time. Herding a million people out of Florida is a task that has not been done since Andrew and other storms. What I worry about is Miami. There is a cruise ship berthing with maybe room for 4. If they stay there the dock ropes etc will not hold them in those winds and all of them will be pushed across to take out one of the main routes of escape and beached in what would be the biggest shipwreck since Titanic and ww2. They will need to scram and get to open sea today.

 

well at least we're learning slowly after Andrew after Katrina taking some time and Puerto Rico .
too much relying on the haves and they forget about the have nots

 

The have nots are usually forgotten. If Maralago was flattened, Trump can snap fingers and get to work building a replacement or have people do it. It's bad but not that bad you follow me?