Florida Taco Owners stay safe

I know like the rest of the Florida Taco owners here we go again another Hurricane.
Stay safe out there and put the Taco in the garage!!

 

"Thoughts and prayers. (Don't forget about me.)"

 

Made the round trip to Miami from Tampa yesterday. On way back stopped at exit 101(Collier) for break and gas at Shell. Hurricane craze had started. It caused me to reach down and pat my personal protection friend. Riled up people jibbering in non-english and lines at the pumps, half pumps shutdown with only premium available, dudes filling all sorts of non fuel containers with gas. I got my full tank and headed home to Odessa where I found it had started here to but much more friendly folks.

 

I just moved back to "the sunshine state" 2 years ago after living in Albuquerque for 25 years and what a welcome back from Mother Nature! Irma, then Michael, and now the Lovely Dorian! WTF??
Y'all be safe.

 

Gonna make for some good muddin’....

Edit: obligatory PSA to not go out in the storm and require emergency services to save your ass when they need to tend to actual unavoidable emergencies

 

I got gas at 301 & MLK at 5:45 this morning and it was quite busy...it will only get worse...

 

It's crazy out there, 0715 this morning for last two cases H2o I needed, it was like a July 4th weekend. (Limit two per visit please) Normally I would be all done but my wife broke her arm and is basically helpless after surgery. I do sleep good tho

Stay safe Taco-ites

 

So, as a life long Floriduh resident.... Why TF does every dingdong think they need to have a 60 pack of little plastic bottles of water? If you have a well, go buy a generator. Have municipal water? Well, that's probably still going to work just like it always has.....

Filling gas tanks 5 days before landfall?? There haven't even been evacuation orders. Either get gas and leave, or stay put and stay out of gas lines.

Mob mentality.

 

TV inspired. Even more so if you watch the drama queens (Jim Cantori) on the Weather Channel.

 

Hurricanes are just Native Floridians' way of telling you carpet baggers to go home.

 

I got the water covered since I work for the local Water and Sewer Utility. We get so many new folks down here and then they go into panic mode at the first sign of a storm. I plan on using this weekend to install my front camera.

 

We stay one month a year in Arcadia where my inlaws own a home. I have personally have never gone through a hurricane but arrived a month after Charlie went through. I was absolutley amazed at the amount of distraction. Charlie had ripped the carport clean off the house along with the front porch. There is a set of french doors off the patio and the hurricane had managed to suck the drapes through the closed door and were hanging outside. If it was me, I'd just pack up and leave and return when things are normal.

 

Three already for me I am not ready for a fourth. When you work for the Utility Company there is no time to rest and its round the clock work. Go away Dorian!!

 

As a native Floridian in the Tampa area we ha

As a native Floridian myself it's not mob mentality for all...some of us actually have to commute to work and I was simply making my normal fuel stop this morning. Believe you me, I've been through quite a few hurricanes over the years. I've lost property more than once and this one will probably be no different. Been without commercial power for stretches as long as 18 days. I'll run my generator (chained so it doesn't get stolen) as long as my 175 gallons of gas holds out...Withlacoochie is terribly slow to restore commercial power...

 

Hey @golfindia, agree with everything you said.

 

Another Floridian here... miami... I’m waiting until tomorrow or Sunday to put my shutters and park my 3 months old taco on a public garage in Coral Gables so my wife’s lease (rav4) takes the hit and not my truck... will see how it goes...

 

From a guy in the claims world, y'all be safe, it's the power lines that you think are dead and the water that you think isn't too deep that will surprise you.

 

Lets hope the track keeps moving and Florida may be spared a direct hit.

 

I'm ready for the looters.

 

My business flooded in 2016 and 2017. Moreover, my home was damaged and got close to flooding both times too. Yea, “mob mentality” is the reason I do what I do.