Hurricane Irma

abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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Unclebaldrick said:
Incidentally, 29 years ago next week the eye of a class five hurricane passed directly over me. It was arguably more powerful than Irma. If you judge by minimum barometric pressure, the one I went through was more than 20 mb lower - though it seems Irma's wind is just as strong. Despite what Limbaugh says, the strom was hella awesome and very awful for the people who lived there and could not fly home five days later as I did.
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I remember in 2004 when Charlie, Francis, Ivan and Jean all hit southern Florida. Reading about it certainly left me with the impression that it was one of the worst hurricane seasons for the region. The weakest of those storms actually did the most damage too, it actually dumped the most water. It hit the region the most directly and they were already in recovery mode from the prior storms. Even combined the 4 were not as powerful as Andrew in 1992 but the devastation was pretty widespread. I shudder to imagine more than one category 5 in a season much less several "one-every-century" storms.
 
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schuylaar

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Bugeye said:
And you have to wait in long lines just for the experience. Ugh. Total suck fest.

I hope the shift west helps you stay safe.
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I waited until the lines were gone to get gas and a few things. It's the preparation everyone despises then to not be directly hit. They feel it was a waste of time. Some are even checking out of their hotel rooms today before the eye hits the peninsula..yet we still have a 3PM travel ban west of federal. you should just stay put. it's hugging the cuban coast here much more than anticipated because of a low coming from the north; the bands are getting swept which is keeping the eye buried south. typically storms are not this large and band to eye is so much less. those bands may even keep it from going up the west coast of florida and throw it into the gulf of mexico and actually follow the gulf path. to me it doesn't look as if it's in no hurry to make a turn which it was supposed to have done by 8AM. It's the turn that's going to be significant and tell us where it's going to go.

I'm really happy there will be no clean-up and we can go back to work. we've spent since tuesday getting ready; customers cancel appointments etc.
 
Fogdog

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schuylaar said:
I waited until the lines were gone to get gas and a few things. It's the preparation everyone despises then to not be directly hit. They feel it was a waste of time. Some are even checking out of their hotel rooms today before the eye hits the peninsula..yet we still have a 3PM travel ban west of federal. you should just stay put. it's hugging the cuban coast here much more than anticipated because of a low coming from the north; the bands are getting swept which is keeping the eye buried south. typically storms are not this large and band to eye is so much less. those bands may even keep it from going up the west coast of florida and throw it into the gulf of mexico and actually follow the gulf path. to me it doesn't look as if it's in no hurry to make a turn which it was supposed to have done by 8AM. It's the turn that's going to be significant and tell us where it's going to go.

I'm really happy there will be no clean-up and we can go back to work. we've spent since tuesday getting ready; customers cancel appointments etc.
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It's a good problem to have.

I have a brother in Tampa, it seems he's going to get some of Irma.
 
Corso312

Corso312

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This is what happens when you treat the planet like a baby treat a diaper, 3 maybe 4 hurricanes in a row.. SMH... The reefs are shot, the oceans are warm... I feel terrible for the people who are going to have to deal with this shot in 50 years .
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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Watched a guy without any pants run by a CNN reporter on the street somewhere in Florida screaming "fuck her in the pussy." Anyone else catch that? I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
 
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schuylaar

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transformer just exploded; power off, generator on; power back on all within 10 seconds thank you FPL infrastructure upgrade:clap:

sadly, donald trump wishes to relax our building codes in order builders cut corners and pocket cash, all in the name of pretend jobs!
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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All week long I've watched Chris Cuomo and other CNN anchors mock locals that are sheltering in place. Now these same anchors are all standing out in the storm reporting!

As a public service, I'm now rooting to see one of these reporters get taken out at the knees with some flying debris. Something we can loop over and over again like Nancy Kerrigan taking her knee hit.
 
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