Hurricane Isabel Is Falling Apart/But Could Re-Gain Strength-Live Thread

NHC | 9-16-03 | my favorite headache

[Recovering_Democrat]

Honey, I'm a little older, but I'm doin' just as good as I ever was!

[Recovering_Democrat]

I think this is a great product, if it works.

[Gabz]

Thank you for your kind wishes and words.

I've heard stories of people sinking their boats rather than trying to 'weather' out a storm.

While we were driving onto Chincoteague earlier today, the majority of the traffic heading off were either hauling boats or camping trailers.

[MEG33]

Hope everyone stays safe.

[Orion78]

One of the biggest problems is, however, that it would take a LOT of the stuff to even hope to have an impact. 2 cm of rain falling over 1 square kilometer of surface deposits 20,000 metric tons (tons) of water. At the 2000-to-one ratio that the Dyn-O-Gel folks advertise, each square km would require 10 tons of goop. If we take the eye to be 20 km in diameter surrounded by a 20km thick eyewall, that's 3,769.91 square kilometers, requiring 37,699.1 tons of Dyn-O-Gel. A C-5A heavy-lift transport airplane can carry a 100 ton payload. So that treating the eyewall would require 377 sorties. A typical average reflectivity in the eyewall is about 40 dB(Z), which works out to 1.3 cm/h rain rate. Thus to keep the eyewall doped up, you'd need to deliver this much Dyn-O-Gel every hour-and-a-half or so. If you crank the reflectivity up to 43 dB(Z) you need to do it every hour. (If the eyewall is only 10 km thick, you can get by with 157 sorties every hour-and-a-half at the lower reflectivity.)"

[Interesting Times]

LOL! Stay safe, IT.

Thanks, Molly.

We'll be fine. All these big trees will block the wind...

[U S Army EOD]

Something interesting to try if you have Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. Set up actual weather with the 15 min auto updates. Set the time to day light so you can see what is happening. Grab you a Cessna 172 in Wilmington, NC, then fly South East toward Issie. You may have to speed up the flight a bit to get there, but the storm is actually there on the simulation. It is nice and clear when you take off but soon you have to climb to over 15,000 feet to be able to get over the muck. Sure is a wonder what they can do with a $50.00 program now days. This also gives you an idea what the hurricane hunter aircraft have to face.

[GretchenEE]

Someone is doing a lot of praying...

Indeed they are ... and how very fortunate.

[Geritol]

At risk of displaying just how borderline computer literate I really am, could someone explain in easy to follow language how to follow all these related but timeliness-differentiated threads and find the latest stuff without spending half an hour in the search engine?

[GretchenEE]

You can type in "Isabel" in the search engine and click the option to "sort by title", then go toward the end of the thread (the article and its responses) to find the most recent information;

or,

look over a recent Isabel thread and see if anyone is pinging (sending alerts to others' "My Comments" page) other FReepers (Free Republic users), and ask them on the thread if they will ping (alert) you.

Your My Comments page is available by clicking the link called "My Comments" when you log onto Free Republic's Latest Posts page: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/browse?ao=0

You can also Post Reply to a thread that is keeping track of things and that way the specific thread of interest will show up on YOUR My Comments page.

If that isn't clear, holler, k?