So there's a possibly major hurricane headed my way...

@Wildfire:
@Totalanimefan:

I was driving around town yesterday and i honestly am surprised by how much flooding there is around here. Along i4 between Deltona and Sandford the side of the road is just flooded marshland. There's visible water up to about 3 feet away from the shoulder of the road in most areas, then in sanford, along the st john's river the apartment complexes are flooded, i don't even know what the zoo looks like over there. lots of neighborhoods in deltona have flooding up to i've heard 6 feet deep in some areas. I haven't really been anywhere in orlando, but at least the apartment complex i used to live at wasn't flooded. I know UCF had a lot of flooding. I can only imagine what other areas are like. I know that because ian moved so slowly it was really bad. I don't remember Katrina much (i was like... 12 when that happened, and in idaho and oblivious to the world outside of my metropolitan area) but i know it was really bad because it's below sea level. I imagine that Ian is comparable to Katrina though.

@Alorrena: I've been hearing stories about the flooding around UCF too. The more I hear, the more thankful I am that we dodged that storm (unfortunately for the folks who did get hit).

Katrina was bad not so much because the area of direct impact was below sea level (you're thinking of New Orleans, which IS below sea level, and has been devastated by storms a couple of times in recent years) but because the storm was a really big and strong one, a direct hit on the MS coast, and for some reason, the people in charge of the shipping ports decided to leave the shipping containers in the port (instead of moving them like is the usual protocol), so, of course the shipping containers broke loose from their wimpy tethers in the Gulf and were washed ashore with the unusually high storm surge, taking out entire neighborhoods in the process. Katrina would have been bad without the help of the floating shipping containers (etc.) but with them being pushed around by the storm, that area had no chance.

Looking at the photos from Ft.Myers/Naples area, it definitely reminds me of the devastation Katrina brought.

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