According to the map, the eye passed to the east of my house about 5-10 miles. Took a quick survey just after the power went out at 6am. No damage, not much debris, either. Looks like power will be out for awhile, though.

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Hope Jim & Nicks BBQ is open! Bass Pro Shops also

I'm not up on my Bass Pro Shops. I've only been to the one in Ft Myers once. Is the one in Spanish Fort special? We stop at Cabelas in Dundee, MI every year on our way up north.

We're at Meaher State Park and are open to suggestions for places to eat.

Port St Lucie here, lost power at 5pm last night. Missing about 100 shingle tabs,already cleaned up the yard. No damage to the suburban, just filthy. Wind still blowing 20 to 30 from the south.

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Originally posted by trapper189:

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
Hope Jim & Nicks BBQ is open! Bass Pro Shops also

I'm not up on my Bass Pro Shops. I've only been to the one in Ft Myers once. Is the one in Spanish Fort special? We stop at Cabelas in Dundee, MI every year on our way up north.

We're at Meaher State Park and are open to suggestions for places to eat.

Cobalt in Orange Beach, there are a lots of good restaurants on the causeway. Felix's being one.

We drove past Felix's Fish Camp on our way in and it looked like our kind of place.

You and ZS called it: we just got the email and school been cancelled for the week. I figured it would be for a couple days. My oldest son's math teacher tried to get a spot here yesterday, but none were avaiable. They park people let them use the shower and dump station, then they headed for Mississippi.

Looks like she dun blew herself out by staying inland so long.

We were supposed to get 40-50kt winds later today in the Pandhandle, but now it's looking like 25-30kts and a sprinkling of rain.

We have kin in WPB, Stuart, Cape Coral, Port Charlotte and north of St. Augustine on the beach. Haven't heard from anyone since last night. Praying for ya'll, stay safe.

I've heard from TSM11 and Rotndad Jr. They are fine. I wasn't too worried about TSM11 as she was recalled to work and her building is fortified. I WAS worried about Rotndad Jr. He was in the PREDICITED path in Tampa, in an apartment on the second floor. The original storm surge estimates would've put water in or over his 2nd story. Thankfully, it turned more easterly and he too is fine.

I just got up here and haven't been outside yet. But, looking around with the surveillance cameras I don't see any damage.

I'm still praying everybody else is ok. My main concern is people wont take the mext one as seriously.

Still in Orlando waiting to go home to Naples. Hopefully will be able to leave tomorrow. All of Naples and 91% of Collier County are without power and Naples also lost water service. Uprooted trees apparently damaged a lot of the water mains.

The reports suggest that the storm surge was only about 4 ft rather than the 10-15ft worst-case predictions. This was due to the disintegration of the back end of the storm as it made landfall. I am expecting no significant damage to the inside of the house. Will likely have major landscaping damage but who cares about that?

Ian guessing we will be without water and power for at least a week so we will probably go home to check on the house and then go to my parents winter house in Palm Beach Gardens.

I know the media was hyping this relentlessly but the national hurricane center also got this one very wrong. It seems that the storms are just unpredictable.

My power went out around 9pm last night. I was able to stay on the internet by using my phone for awhile but the cell signal in my apartment isn't good. So I tried to just go to sleep. Took some melatonin around 2am and woke up around 10:30. Power is still out and the storm is gone. I came in to work to charge my phone and use the microwave for a hot meal. Hopefully I will have my power back on soon but TECO shows over 300,000 customers without power in Tampa. Don't know where I am on the list to get my service restored. Oh well, I still have running water and a cold shower this morning was very refreshing after the initial shock.

@ChicagoSigMan I live in Naples as well. I heard from our neighbors that we fared pretty well in our neighborhood. we're planning on hanging out in GA and SC until Saturday. I'd love to hear how the roads are heading South. Can I send an email to your email in your profile?

Heard from IronMike57 down in Hollywood, they made it through AOK.

We decided to stay in Jax instead of evacuating to Tallahassee as the track shifted west.

Winds in the 40/50s. Lost power around 1 am, still out so using the generator to run the fridge and things.

We came through in good shape. A lot of branches down, none of the sizable ones hit the house. A few trees down in the neighborhood. Have not gone anywhere today so I'm not sure how it looks out there.

My house and property is fine, we still have power, my dad is relaxing and reading! The wife and I are stranded in New Orleans instill the Orlando Airport reopens. We moved out of our room in the quarter to some new Marriott chain hotel called the Moxie (strange place). If anyone has inside Intel about MAO, pass it on!

Lots of debris when we got back to the house, but I'll take that any day over what was predicted.

Picked up and swept all the leaves, branches and getting to sleep on my own bed tonight is priceless.

I did not put up the shutters over my one very large window. Around 0100 I was really regretting the decision. All the forcasted tracks pointed to the storm going up the west coast 50-60 miles away. The wind was coming directly at the window. Luckily the window held (a lot of flexing though) even when the eye, such as it was passed through Windermere and Winter Garden. Next time.... I will not make an educated guess after listening to the meteorologists.

In my subdivision we never lost power; one of the very lucky ones. The only damage noticed so far are six or seven pool screen panels blown out.

All in all we were very lucky.

Checking in from West Broward county here. Everything is ok with us and our home thank God. We did have our large mango tree eventually fall over with the relentless pounding it was taking from the unobstructed wind coming from the east / south east across the lake bank since the back of our house faces South. We are hoping we can still salvage it. Irma was about 70 miles directly west of us at the closest and some reported winds up to 110mph in our area. Our lake behind the house looked like a choppy ocean and we did get a good amount of rain but no flooding. We did not lose power until the absolute worst of it was occuring and were only without power for 8 hours (2:30pm to 10:30pm last night) so everything in the fridge and freezer in the garage was fine. We had the A/C on cold the whole time so it stayed comfortable inside and were also prepared with multiple battery powered fans. Internet went down for a while but came back up when we checked this morning as well (we have Comcast TV and Internet).

This morning surveyed the exterior of the home and the neighborhood as far as we could see from around our property. We did not lose a single roof tile on our home and the most we saw or spoke to anyone about around here were a few tiles, trees, and fence damage. There were definitely trees down randomly throughout the neighborhood.

Our water pressure started to drop late this morning and went to zero for a while during mid-day due to some damage to three of the wells in our city water system and a couple of breakages reportedly due to lightning and / or tornado activity but they are slowly bringing the water pressure back up. Boil water is in effect but we have plenty set aside for consumption uses and at least the toilets will fill slowly and flush without help. City did advise of the issue over robo call and online/social media as well as news media.

Unfortunately others in other parts of South Florida and throughout Florida have not faired as well and it is going to require a lot of time and effort to recover from Irma. Some looters even broke in to some vehicles belonging to fire fighters and first responders during the storm in the North Miami area. Looting during a storm or any emergency situation takes a special kind of stupid and bad enough, but doing it to the people out there risking their lives for others in your own neighborhood takes a really low form of dirt bag.

The one complaint I have is that Verizon service in our area has been absolute crap from early on in the approach of Irma yesterday up until and including right now. Data has been virtually unusable and texting functionality hasn't been much better. This was most evident when our WiFi/Internet went down and were trying to use the Verizon network. The only thing we could get through on only a couple of occasions was a phone call with a bad connection. From what others have shared with me as well, there are a lot of unhappy Verizon customers out there right now. Those with AT&T wireless were reporting reduced but noticeably better service, again, at least in our area. If it wasn't for Internet and social media, it would be really hard to reliably communicate right now.

Thoughts and prayers for all affected that you and yours are all ok.

Got an email report from my property managers down in Naples (south Naples). Tons of debris, tons of downed trees, downed and bent light poles. Overall they feel we got really lucky. No mention of flooding which was a huge concern. Now if I can get somebody to check out my unit I will feel a lot better. If I have window damage I will likely head back down to at least get it sealed up tight until I can get windows. Fingers crossed.

Minor inconveniences here. Unfortunately, in circumstances like these, minor inconveniences for some turn into major issues for others.

All in all, it could have been worse, both for the east coast and the west coast. And if we listened to the media intently...we're all dead now.

Lost power at midnight last night.house okay,we are safe. Road is totally blocked with downed trees and power lines. GOD is good