Hurricanes Irma and Jose

[Lion Heart 15,041]

31 minutes ago, calmar said:

Update: Irma is making landfall in Cuba at the moment as a Cat. 5 storm. Jose has 1-minute sustained wind speeds of 155mph, two mph below a Cat. 5, and is barreling towards the same islands annihilated by Irma less than a week ago - Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, Barbuda, St. Barts and Anguilla. 

 

[AmberARTPOP 118]

7 hours ago, Whispering said:

She's in one of the worst areas. She has twenty four hours to get to an inland evacuation center. If her parents won't leave, she should leave them. 

I know  she wants to be with her family

[PeterPan 0]

6 hours ago, PartySick said:

People are losing their minds. There was literally a fist fight in our parking lot today over a loaf of bread

Thanks

We should still be fine. It's just going to be a pain having a gimpy car until I can get it sorted.

well when there was the beginning of the gas shortage here in TX people were fighting each other at pumps to get gas.  People go mad crazy pretty easy 

[PeterPan 0]

7 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

Katia is a category 2 now. Will make landfall tonight, I believe. 

That one will hit Mexico?

[PeterPan 0]

So where is Hurricane Irma expected to impact........I just hear Fl but not where in FL 

[homomo 23,883]

21 minutes ago, PeterPan said:

So where is Hurricane Irma expected to impact........I just hear Fl but not where in FL 

West coast of Florida. A direct hit over the lower keys and Tampa.

[Whispering 18,865]

24 minutes ago, PeterPan said:

So where is Hurricane Irma expected to impact........I just hear Fl but not where in FL 

There are reports on several pages of this thread. Turn on any news site. Look at any news site. The information is everywhere. 

[PartySick 172,602]

The last day of "calm"

If I understand correctly, my area will begin to get outer bands around 8PM then it'll get progressively worse until tomorrow night. By Monday morning we should be in the clear. Thanks to this newest shift, we're expecting a lot more rain than before which makes flooding a real concern. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not but my part of town was built so that water drains from neighborhoods to main streets and then off into the nearby river, lake, and drainage ditches. Though that saving grace will only help if we don't get a thousand feet of water or something

Oh lordy...The neeerves

[PartySick 172,602]

5 hours ago, calmar said:

Update: Irma is making landfall in Cuba at the moment as a Cat. 5 storm. Jose has 1-minute sustained wind speeds of 155mph, two mph below a Cat. 5, and is barreling towards the same islands annihilated by Irma less than a week ago - Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, Barbuda, St. Barts and Anguilla. 

Anyone know if they've rescinded the idea that Jose won't make landfall in the U.S.?

Regardless, this is so unfortunate. Those islands will be uninhabitable for years, decades even

[JustaMonster 4,909]

I was watching a youtube video about the storm and the people in the comments are saying that the hurricane "Is a liberal geo-engineered storm to push the global warming agenda" 

There is this thing called HAARP that was a research program set up by the US government in the 90's and they claim that it has been used to weaponize weather...

HOW ARE PEOPLE SO STUPID 

[Morphine Prince 109,684]

Honestly the storm is so huge that no matter where you are there is high danger. 

Irma is category 4 again, but it is expected to strengthen again. 

[PartySick 172,602]

I know this is serious and people have already lost their lives or lost everything they had but...honestly, it's things like this that get me through these situations

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So stupid but hilarious 

It needs to be updated with Jose though since Harvey hit Texas, not us 

So who else is in the path of this thing? Or has already lived through it?

[Chuckles 2,549]

Harvey at U.S. (Texas)

Irma at the Carribean and U.S. (Florida)

José looks like it is going for Carribean too and no further path has been defined

Katia at the Gulf of Mexico going for east Mexico

Lee is forming west of Africa, 5th storm in the Atlantic

Can we call this the day after tomorrow already?

 

[Robagaga 9,345]

Hurricane IRMA 09/09/17 Update 

Impacts

The storm is currently battering the northern coast of Cuba, thankfully the coast is not very populated but the population centers that are there are expected to receive catastrophic damage. 

The Turks and Caicos still have not restored communications so damage is difficult to asses but it is expected to be quite severe.

Thankfully the DR and Haiti were largely spared by the storm with no casualties reported but with still substantial damage on the coast. 

On the rest of the islands damage control is continuing, we should get more info as it comes in

The death toll unfortunately stands at 21 but is expected to rise. 

Forecast 

The storm made landfall in Cuba about 12 hours ago as a powerful cat 5 hurricane, it has now weakened to a cat 4 and sustained winds have decreased to 130 mph. The storm's weakening continues as it interacts with Cuba's mountainous terrain, however once the eye of the storm leaves the island the storm could go through explosive intensification over the warm waters of the Florida strait. The extent of that intensification is yet to be seen. 

Irma still has not begun its sharp north turn and the exact moment of that turn will determine the location of impact. 

The tracks consensus however has shifted and it now seems that the Miami area and the east coast of florida will be mostly spared of the most intense winds. The same cannot be said of the west coast. 

There is now about a 60% chance of a Florida landfall and if it happens it will most likely make a direct hit on Naples Florida. This will be catastrophic for the city which is even more lowlying than Miami. 

The cities that would be the most affected are: 

Naples

Fort Myers

Key West 

Tampa

Homestead

However, the track is still extremely volatile and can still change, I am still hoping that the storm will stay of land like Matthew did. 

Also if the storm makes landfall around the Naples area this does not mean that Miami and the west coast are out of the woodworks, due to the size of the storm the storm surge will still be significant in the area, also this is expected to be a quite large rain event for the west coast of florida.

Upto to 20 inches of rain can be expected in some areas of Miami Dade county. 

It is still to early to say what the impacts in Georgia/Alabama and the Carolinas will be but some impacts are to be expected, the strength of these impacts is yet to be seen. 

It is now too late to evacuate for most people in the keys and southern Florida, if you are still there, just huddle down and stay safe, don't put yourself at risk

This is crunch time!!!!

STAY SAFE AND UPDATE US IF YOU OR ANY CLOSE PERSON OF YOURS IS IN THE DANGER ZONE

I will update if necessary

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[Nick1495 991]

My area is out of the cone. We're expecting only Category 1 strength winds. Thankfully we're avoiding the worst part of the storm, but we're still at risk for tornados. Praying for West Florida.