Posted on 09/01/2019 12:15:36 PM PDT by 4Runner
The ‘catastrophic’ storm is gusting at 220 mph, prompting more Florida officials to issue mandatory evacuations, including President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
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Prayers.
Prayers for you and all in Florida. Stay safe Nothing is worth putting your life at risk.
The highest wind measurement for Michael at Tyndall AFB was 219 and someone said the equipment stopped functioning at that point. It was also a cat 2 storm right up to the last little bit. There was a band of warm water right on the beach that shot it right up to “5” as it came ashore. One of the shrimp boat captains here who had been on the Gulf and the Carribean for thirty+ years called it spot on when the storm was still SE of the tip of Florida. He told all the yacht owner that were around the marina where I work to get their boats the hell out of there and take their boats west. Only a couple of them did. The owners mostly said Pshaw, I’ve been through Eloise and Opel and Ivan and it was okay. Karl said this one will be different. It was.
NDBC Buoy:
Station SPGF1 - Settlement Point, GBI, Bahamas
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=spgf1
If it weren’t for the geniuses amongst us, we simpletons would all be washed away, wouldn’t we?
My cousin is in Lutz. They never leaves. I grew up in FL. We just boarded up. Only the beach got evacuated.
Trump should drop a 100 megaton nuke right down the eye.
Exactly.
Lay in your bathtub with something heavy on top.
Nothing wrong with Florida that covering the entire state with radioactive fallout wouldn’t cure?
I thought the storm had turned north? Has it turned to Florida again?
Not even your freedom, or your country? The well-being of your family?
Well you are not in the path of the storm not in the cone so it wouldn’t make sense for you to go anywhere.
The ‘catastrophic’ storm is gusting at 220 mph
Meanwhile a reporter will step out into the wind to report then WHAM! a stop sign hits them..... : )
When I was six we lived in Sumter, S.C., when Gracie went through us and destroyed our mobile home and we had to evacuate to the base, Shaw Field, for safety. We shipped out to Japan in September where we got a little house in the rice paddies that was SOP for USAF dependents. A Super Typhoon hit the main island named Vera and destroyed the little rice thatched house in which we lived and we rode out the storm in one bedroom with mattresses and towels against the remaining walls. It was at the age of six that I thought that storms like this were the normal and it was also normal to fight like hell. Now that I’m sixty years on, I am not going to retire and live anywhere near where a hurricane can get to me. I’ll take my chances on a tornado.
Satellite photo looks like a spiral galaxy with a back hole in the middle.
If it continues at that power it will destroy even well built structures.
I recall seeing an aerial view of a forest near Tyndall. Every single tree was either blown over or snapped. Not a single one still standing.
185 miles an hour is the terminal velocity of a sky diver. In other words winds at that speed will pick you up like a leaf and toss you around .
On Monday, October 8th 2018 a frantic guy walked into the convenience store here on Cape San Blas, due south of Mexico Beach. Like a mystic, he told the owner to shut down the store and get the heck out. At that time, Michael was Cat 1 off the western tip of Cuba.
We missed catastrophe by just a few miles. The pressure gradient between my home and the eastern eye wall as it passed only ten miles away was one inch of mercury.
People who slough off Cat 3+ storms don’t know WTF they’re doing.
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