Posted on 09/09/2017 2:08:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula and points north are poised to experience Hurricane Irma after the storm hugged Cuba's northern coastline. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Hurricane Irma's prolonged interaction with Cuba diminished its strength to Category 3.
Irma is forecast to increase in strength as it crosses the FL Straits. The Florida Keys experienced strong outer bands while Irma grazed the N Cuba coastline.
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Excellent post. Especially your points about the vast numbers of elderly who live in Florida, particularly those who can’t easily just pack up and go.
I had to look it up.
My father in law was a preacher. I am well versed in Preacher Stories. Haha.
Husband was researching something and came across a story about the Roosevelt prayer. He then had to look it up in multiple newspapers from the time. The stories are all very moving. They weren’t fake news. They were real stories by real citizens of small towns and big towns across the country.
lolol
No, but now that I think about it, it should! Ha!
Looks like I am wrong about it going west. I am so happy that I was wrong.
Amazing their homes were not very sturdy to begin with but all driving newer cars and notice widescreened Tv in the yard.
Jose may run into a wall, may smack Schumers house.
You were completely irresponsible in making that forecast. It was based on nothing more than your own uninformed opinion, to the level that you thought your uninformed opinion was worthy of its own vanity thread. I hope you learn from this and stick to stuff you know something about, because it’s clear you don’t know squat about hurricanes and their forecasting and history.
Not what I am referring too. Remember how Jose was tracked to go east of US and do a circular path ? That is what the Irma Eye just did on a smaller scale. Two in a row along direction of travel axis. Just using Jose’s path to describe the Irma Eye path. Picture a old school loop track for hot wheel toy cars. A loop along axis of travel. Or two opposite and synchronized wobbles. Kind of like and unbalanced washing machine spinning.
It didn’t turn. It wobbled right, left and it’s full right, now.
Corkscrewing into a turn.
Is it done turning yet?
Done corkscrewing yet?
Drove it with two buddies in 72'. The Jack Kerouac experience we were seeking. Instead three people quickly learned how ill prepared they and their equipment were.
Yeah, the wobbles seem to have been left behind now that the trof is driving her. And recon now has the pressure down to 926.1 mb. Not good.
Can you splice this gif and the last one end to end?
Go easy on that. I could name 20 on this board that missed it.
Just watch it.
I do know that the Carolinas are at 100% capacity and they love that. Might as well cancel and go to the beach.
Heck, GA and TN is booked up but that I-40 back to I-26 will be disastrous. Might even get a mudslide or two.
Thanks NHC.
I will not go easy. The poster in question has been obnoxious in making uninformed claims, as I said, he made a vanity post about such. And now he slithers in here and says, glad I was wrong. No, walk in here and say, I won’t pull that s*** again.
Right, well it kicked Cuba out from under it.
I see some advantage to it getting across the channel, back to shallow water before tomorrow’s heat.
Yes. Corkscrewing. That describes it better. Wad synchronized with that large dense red mass.
“I cringe for those foolhardy souls who chose to ride out Irma in Key West.The’re about to experience the unimaginable.”
Agreed. I was watching a Duval Street live webcam last night and obviously, it was really quiet compared to a typical Friday night in Key West. But I was surprised at the number of people I saw walking or driving around. Someone rode down the street on their bike and I thought to myself “Dead Man Biking”.
I hope these people are each wearing five lifejackets and have tied themselves to the highest possible point they can.
The Key West webcams all died about two hours ago. That means no electricity for anyone staying there - unless you have a generator. So it’s really really dark, the streets are starting to flood and the wind is causing your place of refuge to make weird noises.
I wonder about the Naval Air Station and Coast Guard base in Key West. Both a big facilities. I wonder if everyone was evac’d from those places or whether they have a few people (security) on hand.
Nonetheless, what a mess. Key West is not where I’d want to be right now.
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