Posted on 09/10/2017 2:02:02 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula has begun to experience Hurricane Irma following landfall at Marco Island. 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. Prayers for all in the storm path.
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The ridge is forecast to shift north of the area late in the week as Tropical Cyclone Jose meanders well to our east. This system may cause storm struck Floridians much angst during this meandering process, but the models have been showing it starting to lift north around 75 longitude next weekend.
Geez, I hope so. Head for Greenland and DIE!
It’s overhyped by the media
No question about it
How are the orange groves?
Beeks has the report.
You don’t know what you are talking about. Media did not hype this. It weakened.
Lido Beach Resort.
Three Reasons Why Irma’s Florida Strike Wasn’t as Bad as Forecast
Valerie Bauerlein
Sept. 11, 2017 2:22 p.m. ET
Irma evacuee Frank Rizzo woke up in his hotel in South Carolina on Monday, bracing for the seemingly likely news that his 3,600 square-feet waterfront home in Cape Coral, Fla., was a total loss.
Instead, he learned from a neighbor that he didn’t lose a shingle. What happened?
Hurricane Irma was a powerful, sprawling storm that decimated parts of the Caribbean and as a weaker tropical storm, it continues to inundate northern Florida and the South Carolina coast. But the storm didn’t obliterate Miami, inundate the Gulf Coast with excessive storm surge or destroy thousands of homes on the west coast of Florida as feared.
First, Irma ran low on fuel.
Then, the winds changed.
A third reason was the weakening of the eyewall, the whirling vortex of intense wind and heavy rain at the center of a hurricane.
Do you have other options for Lido Key?
Is that a Charleston Bidet??
the storm was massive but it weakened and veered...
mother nature is NOT 100% predictable...she holds a few surprises...
it almost seems people are mad that Irma didn't become more of a catastrophe.. +
Florida got lucky because Irma ended up doing something different than forecast - but ‘lucky’ is relative, as Irma will still end up costing tens of billions of dollars in damages from flooding rains and surge. Texas wasn’t so lucky with Harvey. Anyone who follows hurricanes knows that wind is not the only significant problem - water typically is a bigger one, with Andrew being a notable exception.
They are still hyping it
“2 foot storm surge for Charleston”
Oh lord the sky is falling
The Keys took a decent hit
Folks in flood zones got flooded
Yep
But this ended up not being the storm of the century they kept hawking
I doubt the wind’s forceful enough there for the rain to be effective as a bidet, lol. That looks like The Battery, very old, historic section of Charleston. Note all the houses are on raised foundations. They were built the way they were for precisely what you see in that photo. They’ve seen far worse and survived, even the live oaks are very wind resistant, tough trees. Salt hardy, too. While it’s going to be more than just a nuisance, it’s highly unlikely to be a disaster. For Charleston in recent memory, that would be Hugo.
Pretty homes!
The irony is, of all the cities in Florida impacted by Irma, the one that may wind up being the most affected, is the one furthest from the storm center, Jacksonville.
” still a good amount of bad weather left with this system. Just ask Charleston:”
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..and GA and many parts of Fla. No, it certainly isn’t over.
You have become a quintessential meteorological editor-—posting the best comprehensible graphics and the most sober and reasonable comments.
I’ve lurked on many of NauitiNurse’s hurricane threads, but these Irma threads have provided me a hurricane education-—in no small part due to you. You have become the left hand to her right hand, and all we Freepers visiting these Irma threads owe a debt to you for your steadfast posts.
Charleston is flooded as well.
Yep. Dirtboy has some damn fine posts.
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