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A rotating live feed of Tampa Bay-area webcams

8 am Wednesday, Florida time. Things are eerily calm and quiet.

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These guys will go live around 3p ET today and have a great combined feed of many cameras and other authoritative weather sources. No commercials or corporate sponsors, just a bunch of passionate weather nerds:

https://www.youtube.com/@RyanHallYall
- Watching now and I added the link to the megathread. Thanks!
- Was going to post them too, love their stuff.
  
  They’ve turned me into a weather junkie.
  
  Also, my parents live on Siesta Key, so I do have some personal interest. Thankfully they’ve evacuated to Savannah for this one.
- It’s quiet today at work. So I tuned in. Holy moly some of these tornadoes look unpleasant.
Tonight is movie night in Tampa Bay! They are showing "Gone with the Wind" everywhere...
Looks a bit gusty already. Those surfers in Naples probably shouldn't be in the water much longer unless they plan on windsurfing to the stratosphere
- It's really ridiculous that I keep seeing people who haven't evacuated yet.
  
  Many people have no where to go, or no means to leave.
  
  I'm not in that region, but if a similar event happened here; there's only one place I could go besides just being homeless on the road, and that place would likely be impacted too.
  
  Even more ridiculous that people on the motorway still move in both directions.
When's the main event going to start?
- Early Thursday morning.
  
  Ah. I guess I'll try to remember to check tomorrow then.
I got a screenshot of these idiots just at it was fading out, but I felt the need to share:

Edit: Jesus, now they're bringing their kids down to the beach. In case you were weren't aware that there are some dumb fucking people in Florida...
- They don't believe in climate change.
  And they don't believe in hurricanes either.
  Trump's gonna protect them from the libs' HAARP attacks.
  
  I think I just saw a cop standing on the pier tell someone to get off the beach, so hopefully those kids are being taken somewhere else.
  
  Edit: Nope. Still people walking around. And there are pretty big waves at this point.
- I guess the kids and animals there are the only ones I really have any feelings of sympathies for at this point.
What's the likelihood these cameras even stay up?
- At what point? There's a long time between now and landfall. And probably not every camera is going to get destroyed at landfall. But the rain will probably be falling too hard to see anything for a while.
  
  But webcams have certainly lasted through other hurricanes. Remember that many of them are pretty firmly bolted down because they have to be ready for just regular old thunderstorm high winds.
- I think it was a storm in NY where I was watching a webcam where this happened: The image was shaking like mad for some time, and suddenly the road rapidly approached the camera...
- Low. Very low. Here's the feed right now:
thanks for posting this. sent the link in my friends group chat and now were all watching it together like some kind of morbid Nintendo Direct, but instead of new games we're just talking about all the people from the stream who seem to be pretending nothing is wrong

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