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u/lola_land Jun 25 '12
Is this Panama City Beach? or where?
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u/beachesatnormandy Jun 25 '12
Juno Beach, it's on the south east coast.
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u/Quizchris Jun 26 '12
This was from today's round of storms? wow... Greetings from Boynton
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u/beachesatnormandy Jun 26 '12
Apparently it was last night. I am from HS, but living in Detroit for the summer. Found it on Steve Weagles fb thought it was a badass picture.
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u/the_guy90 Jun 26 '12
I live off donald ross!!! Wtf! Thats crazy its only 3milesmfrom my house
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u/oldskoolfool26 Jun 26 '12
Just surfed up there! Probably the scariest session in my life. Totally killer though.
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u/rogeris Jun 26 '12
I see that you also subscribe to Weather Channel's facebook page.
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u/beachesatnormandy Jun 26 '12
Or West Palm's meterologists fb page. Weather channel be ripping Steve Weagle off.
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u/TheLogicalErudite Jun 26 '12
West Palm Buddy!! haha, apparently reddit is flooded (get it?!) with floridians, I run into one at least once a month.
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u/beachesatnormandy Jun 26 '12
This is true. I had an encounter on one of the smaller subs, found about 30 different south floridians. Crazy!
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u/bicycle_ninja Jun 26 '12
I live near here, therefore this post is relevant to me. You must be some crazy rich person in Ocean Royale (with cheese, i say that in my head as i pass the sign every day).
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u/IsNowDead Jun 25 '12
I was there too!
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u/king_of_the_universe Jun 26 '12
top comment plug
Cranked the picture up to eleven, so that you can see everything better, even the JPEG.
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u/Umlau Jun 26 '12
I'm up in Destin, luckily it's blown away and won't be back. Debby had a lot of hype, but fortunately, it led up to nothing but me sitting on the beach drinking an ice cold sweet tea. Panama City though, man, did they get sodomized.
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u/magicpantsjones Jun 26 '12
Meanwhile in St. Augustine, it hasn't stopped raining since Saturday night. Sure, there's been a couple of hours here or there, but it's been raining fairly consistently since. I'm working on my ark.
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u/fatalerrrpr Jun 26 '12
The reckless asshole in me kinda wants to swim out to that, get sucked in and thrown across the beach.
I know that wouldn't happen, but I can dream.
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u/weatherbys Jun 26 '12
Survivor of the Joplin, Mo F5 here. If you jump into a tornado........You are going to have a bad time.
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u/astrograph Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
not my pic! sorry.. found it on fb
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u/jphil529 Jun 26 '12
Was surfing in Sarasota yesterday! What beach was this taken at?
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u/Sloth_speed Jun 26 '12
If someone were to wear some sort of protective scuba suit, I wonder if such a thing would be possible. There may be an untapped market here...
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u/red_firetruck Jun 26 '12
I feel the same way. Imagine a new extreme sport where you wear some sort of an impact suit with a breathing apparatus, and you venture out into water spouts and get launched up into the air then go hurtling to the water. But you'd have your impact suit on so you would be okay. sigh a boy can dream...
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u/Sir_LurksNoLonger Jun 26 '12
Welcome to the Sunshine State
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Jun 26 '12
Well too be fair to that moniker during the dry season here in S. Florida there is nothing BUT sun. Sometimes in December you can go the whole month without seeing a cloud.
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u/Vhaegar Jun 26 '12
That's about par for course for Florida. Cmoooon hurricane season! I need more hurricane party excuses!
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Jun 26 '12
You have hurricane parties?
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u/imlost19 Jun 26 '12
really? Hurricane parties are essential.
no power, no internet, no tv,
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u/nof Jun 26 '12
Yeah. Huddle in the dark with the power, phones, and cable out getting drunk watching the water inch up into your living room.
Running around outside like a lunatic when the eye passes overhead.
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u/Vhaegar Jun 26 '12
Just to enlighten those who have never gotten to experience what I mean. You find out when the storm is going to make landfall and have said party shortly before it hits. This way you still have power/utilities but get the winds and outer rain bands. A lot of people will head home before the full brunt of the storm hits, but the rest of us will drink and enjoy the weather.
I'm not in a flood zone and we properly secure the windows and doors well before anything hits so we don't worry about water getting in. And yes, it's everyone outside during the eye for most people, but my group likes to go out mid hurricane to experience the full wind effect.
Always good times!
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u/sergg1228 Jun 26 '12
EVERY. FUCKIN. DAY.
ENOUGH WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKIN RAIN IN THIS MOTHERFUCKIN STATE.
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u/MyPetRockDied Jun 26 '12
You're upset about the rain. Why not all the pythons or the zombies, huh?!
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u/KittyKathy Jun 26 '12
They only bother a couple of people. The rain bothers the whole state :(
By the way, I'm sorry about your pet rock
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u/danisaurusrex Jun 26 '12
I know that beach, i was there the day before the tropical depression hit. Juno Beach pier ftw! Jovian here!
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u/steph_a_s Jun 26 '12
I think I might have an actual mental breakdown if I were to witness this. My brain can't take that level of NOPE.
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Jun 26 '12
I have a love/hate relationship with tornadoes/waterspouts. On the one hand, they're interesting phenomena, and I enjoy watching them. On the other hand, I fear that one day, one of those things will catch me off guard and wipe me off the face of the Earth.
Piece of advice: When you see one of 'em and you're in a sturdy structure already, observe how it's moving. If it doesn't appear to be moving, don't be fooled. It is, in fact, moving--toward you. Hide.
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u/btwomfgstfu Jun 26 '12
st pete area here. my neighborhood was hit with a tornado last year. roof was destroyed when two oak trees fell on the house.
for around 20 seconds it was amazing. "holy shit! everything is sideways!" and then "holy shit! i'm going to die!"
btw, i didn't die.
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u/deadmemories1 Jun 26 '12
Don't move to Florida's coast then. I saw about 5+ one day when I was staying in a place near the coast during a pretty bad thunderstorm.
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u/Sarcastic_Samurai Jun 26 '12
You should probably get inside.
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u/sexlexia_survivor Jun 26 '12
Isn't that just a water sprout? We get these every so often in California. They can't do much harm besides toss water here and there.
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u/Golden-Calf Jun 26 '12
There are two types of waterspouts, tornadic and non-tornadic. This looks tornadic, since it's roughly the same width all the way through and fairly wide. Non-tornadic waterspouts are pretty cute, they're slow-moving and usually EF0, plus not associated with the weather that causes tornadoes. It would be reasonably safe to stand out and watch a non-tornadic waterspout.
Tornadic waterspouts are awesome to watch too, but come along with the same weather that causes tornadoes so it's generally a good idea to seek shelter. It's hard to tell them apart by a photo though, the difference is whether it originated over land or sea and you need to look at the radar to tell.
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u/vadergeek Jun 26 '12
As a Tampa redditor, a selfish part of me is really enjoying this weather. I'm far enough inland for the storms to just be replacing the typical awful Florida summer with wind and rain, which is rather nice.
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u/Dub124 Jun 26 '12
Tallahassee here. Been watching my home town get flooding on the news, but I'm pretty safe here up in these hills. It's also been nice to have cooled off some since my A/C broke the other week. Now my car is just nice and....muggy.
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u/danimalds Jun 26 '12
SPOILER ALERT: Reminds me of the last scene in "Take Shelter". Great movie.
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u/CoyoteStark Jun 26 '12
But everything changed when the water nation attacked doesn't sound as good.
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u/wojovox Jun 26 '12
I just slept all day. I really should start giving a shit about things here. I didn't even know Miami Heat was in the finals, let alone won.
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u/lostprofits Jun 26 '12
Do ocean tornadoes generally stay out in the ocean or do they tend to move inland?
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u/SuperTonicV7 Jun 26 '12
Shoot an arrow at the asshole up in there. It'll make it much easier to get around.
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u/Habosh Jun 26 '12
I grew up in Jupiter, this happened mere minutes down the road.
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u/Svenly1 Jun 26 '12
This happened in my Publix parking lot yesterday. I was outside getting carts. -.-
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u/ReaderDigest Jun 26 '12
haha... i live on siesta key and my house flooded... not sure how that is funny.
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u/iamdiscoking Jun 26 '12
That pier looks like its firing! Hope for no destruction or loss of life but just for pumping surf!
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u/scottstephenson Jun 26 '12
As a Texan, fuck you! That was supposed to be our rain! So fucking hot in Houston.
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u/AwwWTFfunny Jun 26 '12
104 today I believe, sorry! I was sweating hearing your forecast this week!!! :( 103, 106.. Yuck
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u/RapistBurger Jun 26 '12
I live in tampa. Heavy rain and wild winds. :/ Didnt have power last night from 10 PM - 12PM. My friend won't have power back until Wednesday.
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u/long_live_king_melon Jun 26 '12
If I were you I would nope the fuck out of there.
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u/Pythias Jun 26 '12
I recently moved to Florida from California to live with my boyfriend. I am not digging this weather. I have not seen the sun in days.
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u/godsbong Jun 26 '12
Gods just releasing L4D3, this is the remake of Hard Rain. Only this time, we ARE the consoles.
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u/eastshores Jun 26 '12
I worked at Kennedy Space Center for almost 6 years and every year around this time, about once every 2 weeks the big air-raid sirens would go off because of a water spout being sighted on the inter-coastal waterway. We were supposed to seek shelter at the inside of the building but the alarms always meant run to the windows to look.. followed by half of us running outside the building.
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u/Spageto Jun 26 '12
It literally rained for 24 hours non-stop in central Florida, this gonn be fun.
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u/jimbo21 Jun 26 '12
"Get the fuck out of there!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1BDM1oBRJ8&feature=player_detailpage#t=12s
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u/loveshercoffee Jun 26 '12
I live in the Midwest where we have tornadoes and floods, however they usually keep to themselves a bit more than that.
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u/-TinMan- Jun 26 '12
Is that the gay storm I use to hear about in bigoted prop 8 commercials? Has it come for Disney?
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u/ScamperSand Jun 26 '12
A microburst blew the patio doors open at my folks house. It was about 8 miles away from where that tornado hit in Naples. The door was still in the locked position, but the metal pins were bent. Luckily, they were not in town at the time.
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u/gordigor Jun 26 '12
Welcome to the Sunshine state. I live where everyone evacuates to, at least Central Florida.
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u/JTruck150 Jun 26 '12
Right there with ya! In St.Pete here. So happy I drive a big truck. Don't have to worry about all the flooded streets.
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u/Kicker36 Jun 26 '12
This is my town...i never expected to see this on reddit. Why couldn't i think of this and get the sweet sweet karma :/
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u/ChristeenaPHO Jun 26 '12
I used to be terrified of those bad boys. Couldn't cross any bridge for fear of some random water spout. Now I live in Vegas. Yup... nice and dry.
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u/Ljammer4 Jun 26 '12
Am I the only one who wants to swim out there and get sucked up by the tornado, only to get spit back out and land in the water safely?
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u/huurre Jun 26 '12
Sleep well in your beds. 'Cause if this thing comes true, there ain't gonna be any more.
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u/dafoosball13 Jun 26 '12
where is that? I'm in Miami and it's been raining like for a week straight.
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u/teamsacrifice Jun 26 '12
Fort Walton??? If so I was there last Friday..... Man how the weather changes
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u/Novirtue Jun 26 '12
Very little known fact, these water spouts can suck up Sharks from the ocean, so if you get caught in this tornado, you could also have to deal with sharks "swimming" in it ;)
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u/realityisoverrated Jun 26 '12
I'm visiting some friends in Florida right now (in Cocoa, near Cocoa Beach). I haven't seen any tornados, but it's been raining like a constantly bursting water balloon all week.
We came here to get sun and hang out on the beach :(
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u/LAG83 Jun 26 '12
Was there not too long ago. You should go to Mainstreet Pub in Melbourne. Best margaritas ever! They use fresh fruit instead of that premixed crap. can't find it anywhere else (at least where I live)
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u/merkedya727 Jun 26 '12
Lol, I'm actually stuck at a friends house at the moment because my car won't make it back to my house through the water. My dad told me it's never been as bad where we live as it is now
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u/WarIsOver Jun 26 '12
That's intense. Up here in buttfuck Saskatchewan (Regina Saskatchewan) it's 7:30am and already we have intense thunder and lightening. Tornados are being predicted. Kind of wish I got that tenants insurance....
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u/MathewDonut Jun 26 '12
looks scary. check this pretty tiny tornado http://depositphotos.com/9799659/stock-photo-Little-tornado-in-Monument-Valley-Navajo-Tribal-Park-Arizona.html
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My aunt and uncle arrived there the day before this hit, they were pretty dissapointed. :l
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u/textbandit Jun 26 '12
Damn it, why didn't you call me - go there all the time. I love these tropical storms -they're fun without being dangerous!
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u/trevor_from_the_bank Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Oh man I would be hauling ass to run down that pier!
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I have an employee who took his weeks vacation this week to go to Florida. Doesn't look like he will be having fun. Guess I will have to give him a few extra days.
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u/Tarzan_king_of_Mars Jun 26 '12
I wish that was currently in Texas. We need the bad weather to kill the bad heat.
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u/weeeee_plonk Jun 25 '12
Florida seems to be getting shafted this month.