Posted on 10/06/2016 4:10:09 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Matthew is big, bad and just downright scary, with iminent and sustained impacts to U.S. mainland. Florida Governor Rick Scott issued a state of emergency for all of Florida and disaster operations are activated. More than 1.5 million Floridians reside in current evacuation zones. Governor Scott has spoken with utilities across the state to ensure utilities are pre-positioned and there are no unmet needs. Multiple coastal hospitals have been evacuated. Meanwhile, feckless President Barack Hussein Obama is personally monitoring the progress of the storm.
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At most it will go purple in sections of that state. The northern part is pretty much fire truck red. Going southwards there will be blue sections, others will be a conbination of both colors, meaning purple.
AMEN. Second it.
Oy! What everyone fears, Andrew type bombing out. A Cat 5 even brushing the coast is bad news, very bad news. Huge storm surge, basically everything the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway under water. Massive structural damage to most structures according to the Safir\Simpson scale. I was down in Kendall\Miami Gardens after Andrew. Think Dresden in WWII. Katrina was bad, but that damage in NO was due to flooding not so much the winds.
Wow a drop of 24 is huge,dont know what tiat is in barometer numbers could be low 28’s or high 27’s i would guess.
He is 3 miles north of Sebastian Inlet on Indian River side. One of the narrowest parts of that area.
This is superb from DirecTV.
AT&T Launches Severe Weather Mix Channel on DIRECTV Dedicated to Coverage of Hurricane Matthew
Channel 361-2
baro has been dropping like a rock no telling where this thing will wind up.
I’m here, and it’s a great area. We get funky weather from time to time, but if - if - this thing makes a direct hit, it’ll be the first time it’s happened since 1964.
Think of an EF3 tornado with a diameter of 40-60 miles and you have a Cat 4 Hurricane. The wind speeds diminish outward from the eye of the storm so you can imagine EF 2, 1 & 0 force winds radiating outward from the inner core for a wind circle of hundreds of miles.
Photos of Hurricane Matthew destruction in Cuba:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article106110412.html
Bastardi (17 min. ago): “We have strong cat 4 at landfall, crossing the gulf stream could see this go sub 920 and cat 5. Tom Downs here at weatherbell same concern”
https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi
BUMP....weather
Ever drive up or down I-95 between Savannah and Brunswick Georgia?
You are crossing tidal creeks/marshes.
The projected tidal surge along there is going to be 10-15 ft.
I won’t be surprised if parts of I-95 are washed away.
This could be catastrophic. S. Fla. had a strict building code (was relaxed some during Jimmie’s reign to make housing more affordable) but farther north in Fla.and esp.Jacksonville, S. Ga. not likely.
here’s a cool earth wind map (I have it focused on Matthew)
The building codes were crap, the housing boom in So Florida brought in shady plan style builders who threw up pink stucco sh*t boxes wherever they saw a bald patch of land and sold them for 200k a piece. They could not even weather a minor hurricane
One thing with this storm is insurers will once again leave the state and you will be forced to buy Gubbmint insurance from the JUA at 5k-10k a year.
Being a weather bug, I recall watching the coverage of Andrew a day or two out from landfall. While a major hurricane, for a time it appeared to be weakening. Then within 24 hours it rapidly intensified, atmospheric pressure dropped by 47 mbar to a minimum of 922 mbar. The only “good” thing about Andrew was that while very intense, a Cat 4/5 when it hit south Florida, it was a small storm and a very fast moving storm and didn’t have all that much of a storm surge ahead of it, nor all that much rain. It was the winds and embedded tornadoes that did the most damage.
Matthew is bigger and so far moving more slowly.
It seems Andrew was considered minimal. And then it hit the Gulf Stream and exploded. Had it been a bigger storm, like this one, and had that explosive growth, it is hard to imagine the damage.
If Matthew intensifies and follows the coast, there will be significant damage, if only to the barrier islands. Best for everyone would be if it bounced off and stayed off shore.
That said, the previous hyping of every storm generates disregard by the residents. They see no reason to leave when the media is yelling loudly again.
That map looks to be a day old and I think they are showing the storm a bit weaker.
Hey NN,
It’s been a long time since I checked in on a Hurricane thread. Looks like we’re dodging a bullet on this coast.
Hope the rain stays away or we’ll have more sewage in the Bay.
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