The Georgia / Alabama Irma Thread

9-11-17 | Eagles Field

[Eagles Field]

Power outage reports, request for assistance, tornado reports. Expecting peak winds up to 50MPH, 3-7 inches of rain. 8AM - 9/11, 40 miles NW of Atlanta, all is well and a little wet.

[wyowolf]

Here at the airport... just some rain and little breezy...

[backwoods-engineer]

What airport?

[RoosterRedux]

I'm down in south Georgia (Coffee County - blue dot on map). It is sporadically windy with some rain. Irma has been downgraded to Cat 1 and I am hoping it will weaken still more before arriving nearby.

[foundedonpurpose]

Yep. We will get a lot of rain. Winds will be picking up later this afternoon.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Sister-in-law reports overcast in Birmingham. Hashtag #instagramBham.

Photos of Jacksonville flooding, https://instagram.com/p/BY5gUscgf3V/. Hashtag #Igersjax.

[dfwgator]

Isn’t South Carolina impacted as well?

[real saxophonist]

Not that any of this is a laughing matter, but I read a couple of stories in the Americus Times-Recorder, that together are somewhat amusing:

1. The State of Georgia is releasing EBT SNAP(food stamps)funds early, so people who use them can stock up on needs.

2.The Walmart in Americus closed at 4 PM Sunday, and won't open again until Tuesday.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Meanwhile in Jacksonville, guy is blowing off his driveway!

https://instagram.com/p/BY5FN6JlDA8/

[yldstrk]

genius

[wyowolf]

sorry, lol... Atl Hartsfield..

[Bodleian_Girl]

From Mobile yesterday, near the USS Alabama. Water sucked out of Mobile Bay.

Photo from Spann's Twitter, by Skip Baumhower.

upload link direct

[cyclotic]

I was in a small lagoon on the Chesapeake Bay yesterday. One of the guys working there told me that the water levels have been very low on the Bay the last few days. I wonder if it’s related to the hurricanes sucking up water into the clouds to dump on land.

[Eagles Field]

We have hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, earthquakes and a tiger loose on I-75. Which one of you is playing Jumanji ?!

[OKSooner]

Well, that's got nothing to do with any hurricanes. It's obviously a sign of global warming.

All the ocean water is evaporating up into the atmosphere.

See?

[foundedonpurpose]

Here are power outage maps for FL, GA, AL & SC (As their coast is getting hammered)
https://poweroutage.us/Area/State/Florida

https://poweroutage.us/Area/State/Georgia

https://poweroutage.us/Area/State/Alabama

https://poweroutage.us/Area/State/South%20Carolina

[Bodleian_Girl]

That’s so interesting!

[foundedonpurpose]

Now thats funny!

[cyclotic]

They better hurry up and reprint all the science books to remove those pesky Water Cycle chapters then.

Cause Climate Change

[Alas Babylon!]

Central Southeast Alabama:

Well, my kids’ school cancelled for today and tomorrow...

I had a teaching job this week for a state agency in Montgomery, but the state offices are closed today, so class is canceled this week.

Nothing much to do until the weather gets better.

I think they over-reacted a bit here in Alabama... At least in the Montgomery-Auburn area. Not that I want anyone to be harmed by a hurricane—but it was never projected to be a hurricane here.