Hurricane Irma

Water shortage here. Jen`s out trying to find... Only got 1 case. She said at Costco gas had 12 cars deep at each isle.
 
512detail said:
people drove their CARS into Costco? you crazy Floridians
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Daily occurrence here

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Scary stuff for sure. Stay safe and leave if the evacuation order is given... heck leave now and beat the rush!
 
Ronkh said:
Water shortage here. Jen`s out trying to find... Only got 1 case. She said at Costco gas had 12 cars deep at each isle.
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Not sure if you have them in your area, but we have Primo water filling stations, its Reverse Osmosis water with minerals added back in, pretty much just like Desani, etc. You can bring your own containers in and it never really runs out, though I imagine there might be lines.

https://primowater.com/find-shop-location
 
Yea water has been impossible to find since Friday evening. Luckily we got about a dozen gallons in addition to a bunch of empty gallon jugs I can fill up at the house with filtered tap water - better than nothing. Too early to say for certain yet but I`ll probably head North Friday evening.
 
I got several cases of water and 5 gallons of ethanol-free gas back in July, so we are set. We will start dumping the ice maker ice into ziploc bags tonight.
I went to the store at lunch to pick up weekly lunch supplies (and get a mojo pork sandwich! mmmm), and they were already out of water, and low on soup.....
 
I am concerned on how Irma MAY impact the people who run and work for this forum and the Autopian store. We can only let the storm work its way where it will. I hope those of you may be impacted personally by this historic and life-threating hurricane will take the necessary precautions to be safe. If it means no Autopia forum or store for a while, so be it. Yes, it will be "inconvenient" to this entire detailing community who frequent this forum and utilize the store for their detailing business or hobby, BUT to be uncompassionate and disconcerted about those individuals who make this forum and store possible is inhuman and just plain morally wrong.
I know I sometimes have a difficult time understanding WHY individuals choose to live in areas that are hurricane-prone and the effects that go with such weather. Just as those that jokingly laugh at someone living in the vicinity of the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field, were winters are 4-months long, dark, and sometimes VERY cold and snowy. In both places it`s an easy answer: it`s the place we call HOME.

By the way, there is no such thing as a "Category 6" rating for a hurricane. Category 5 is any hurricane with wind speeds measured or analytically computed to be 157 MPH or greater. And the last Category 5 storm to actually make landfall on the continental USA was Andrew in 1992. Before that it was Camille in 1969. Some remember Hugo in 1989 as a low Category 5 or a very strong Category 4. Why the meteorological and history lesson? Because there are many who have never gone through such a storm. For those who have (or will), the term "hurricane survivor" is fortunate, to say the least.
 
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