Hurricane Matthew

[spuwho]

FDOT has closed I-95 from Ft Pierce to Daytona.

I-4 is now closed EB from Deland to Daytona.  US92 is closed as well.

The Florida Turnpike NB is now closed from Yeehaw Junction to St Cloud.

[thelakelander]

I made a last minute decision to spend a few days in New Orleans. I-10 West was a mess yesterday. It took me around 4 hours to get to Tallahassee. Felt like half of that time was spent going around I-10 backups between I-295 and Baker County.

[spuwho]

Power outages are starting to come in across the JEA footprint.

Cecil Commerce Center
Nocatee
Tamaya (Beach and Kernan)
Pablo Bay (San Pablo and JTB))

Farther south, FPL is reporting no power as follows

Brevard County - 186,000
Indian River County - 38,000
St Lucie County - 41,000
Martin County - 44,000
Palm Beach County - 43,000
Volusia County - 157,000
Flagler County - 39,000
St Johns County - 28,000

[spuwho]

I-95 is now closed from Mims to New Smyrna and at Ormond Beach. Closed at Rockledge as well.

FL528 (Beachline Tollway) is closed east of Orlando.

Traffic is backing up at Bunnell at the US1 exit.

I-4 is still closed from Deland to Daytona, but US92 has reopened.

Dames Point Bridge and the JTB bridge over the Intercoastal are closed.  Beach Blvd. bridge is also closed.

The news was saying the Fuller Warren was closed, but I still see traffic on it as well as the Buckman.

Traffic over the Shands Bridge is down to a crawl.

The Florida Turnpike is open again from Orlando to Miami.

[Know Growth]

Ortega River water level 11:30 am up but not unusual,level typically seen with fall tide/Nor'easter events.Expecting rise.
Around 10:30 am Channel Four news person posted downtown exclaimed she had never seen the river so high....

Ortega River Entrance High Tide around 1 pm. Fishweir creek flow going the other way as if low tide mode due to rain water runoff. Typical slugs of trash from roadway swales.

[marksjax]

Stephen, thank you for these updates. Very helpful to get this kind of detail!

[acme54321]

Waves are already crashing over the top of the pier. and Atlantic Beach is aiready flooding.  Ocean 1 (the old Sea Turtle) is surrounded by water.

Crashing over the pier?

http://www.jaxpiercam.com

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Waves are already crashing over the top of the pier. and Atlantic Beach is aiready flooding.  Ocean 1 (the old Sea Turtle) is surrounded by water.

Crashing over the pier?

http://www.jaxpiercam.com

Strange.  I'm watching Ch4 live shots and those aren't even remotely the same.  Like Stephen said, the shots of the pier has waves crashing over it.

[Kerry]

The news was saying the Fuller Warren was closed, but I still see traffic on it as well as the Buckman.

Just looked out the window and traffic still going across the Fuller Warren.

[acme54321]

Waves are already crashing over the top of the pier. and Atlantic Beach is aiready flooding.  Ocean 1 (the old Sea Turtle) is surrounded by water.

Crashing over the pier?

http://www.jaxpiercam.com

Strange.  I'm watching Ch4 live shots and those aren't even remotely the same.  Like Stephen said, the shots of the pier has waves crashing over it.

Must be a huge delay on the cam then?  Unless they are breaking over it way up at the beach

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Waves are already crashing over the top of the pier. and Atlantic Beach is aiready flooding.  Ocean 1 (the old Sea Turtle) is surrounded by water.

Crashing over the pier?

http://www.jaxpiercam.com

Strange.  I'm watching Ch4 live shots and those aren't even remotely the same.  Like Stephen said, the shots of the pier has waves crashing over it.

Must be a huge delay on the cam then?  Unless they are breaking over it way up at the beach

You're probably spot on about the delay.

[spuwho]

84mph gust just reported in South Ponte Vedra. It's here!

[acme54321]

Just saw a video from a high condo on Jax beach, surge pushing a lot of water through the dune breaks.  Lots of water on the streets, not good.

[spuwho]

Just watched a lovely vista of downtown Jax on CNN, featuring the shell of Berkman II.

Maybe if they show it enough, the owner can convince the insurance company it isn't salvageable and should be torn down due to the hurricane.

[Tacachale]

Things still ok in San Marco. Minor street flooding from rain but so far as I can tell no flooding over the bulkheads yet.