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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There was a late storm in 1985 but I’m not sure what year you were talking about.
BTW I have everybody going 64. If they want to do the ferry system they can but many have 10 hours on the road.
I’m a few years older than wardaddy, and I remember Camille well. In 1970 I was stationed at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, and even then, a year later, US Hwy 90 along the coast hadn’t been completely repaired.
I’ve been a storm junkie all my life.
I remember watching coverage for Carla, in 1961, and sleeping through Audry’s remnants in North Louisiana in 1957.
What wardaddy is alluding to, and I totally agree with him, is that the media coverage is completely over-hyped relative to the seriousness of the event.
Used to, a storm was just news, along with other events of the day. Newspaper headlines for a few days, along with maybe 10 minutes of the evening news’s 25 minute total.
The wall/wall coverage we just witnessed with Irma is a relatively new event.
And like jocks who start believing their own press clippings, the “journalists” have begun to believe their own storm hype.
Yes
In the mountains near Charlottesville
Prolly cause all those alt right around there
Even then
Waves moving across Africa, no major ones, but we could see slow development once they get into the Atlantic, but that's a ways off:
I drove down in my Sube turbo wagon so it would have been after 2010. Irene, I guess.
I was at Keesler much later but it was known that the waves were breaking over the RR tracks.
That is one hell of a storm surge.
I’m fixated on the fact I was in Camille with 170 mph sustained winds and a mid 20s foot surge
I was 11
As we say down here
Hell no we are forgettin
This was a mild storm but it did affect many folks
Katrina was about wind too actually
That wind which it had till right before landfall made that surge what it was
I stand by the notion thus storm like so many others on cable was uyoed
AT&T just broadcast on Zello Hurricane Irma Rescue and Recovery that they are dispatching deployment teams to the coast of Florida for cell tower recovery.
They are showing about a 75% capacity.
22% showing lag of service.
3% showing no service.
That’s what I am praying for. Thanks
It doesn’t save much time if any to ferry over but it does save wear and tear on you and your passengers, being able to get out and about, out of the car, passenger lounge, restrooms, the view, breeze and seagulls. Disturbs some people that it gets out of sight of land, though.
Oh, I agree about the media. But it was not hype from the NHC. It could have been really bad - a cross between Andrew (wind) and Ike (flooding and surge) - if Irma had stayed offshore from Cuba and then came north as a Cat 5 instead of a marginal Cat 4, or taken a different path northwards. Even in a weakened state, Irma is going to cause a lot of flooding damage in Florida and other states.
Downtown Jacksonville is flooded.
I will be leaving that way thru Swan Quarter. During my stay I will probably do Ocracoke a couple of times and go out to Shelly island for a day and rummage around.
May go up to Kitty Hawk as well. Looking forward to a week of adventure. :^)
Katrina’s winds were down to Cat 3 at landfall. But it sent Cat 5 surge, well in excess of Camille’s, over a much broader stretch of coastline. And that did the vast majority of the killing and damage.
Yeah, that part of Florida is much more prone to surge, and the storm was well-aligned to bring it onshore.
Help. Does anyone know about Ponte Vedra ? Or any of the beaches off St.Augustine?
"First the squalls, then the swelter.
"Nearly a million Miami-area residents lacking electricity and air conditioning are bracing for oppressively hot weather on the heels of Hurricane Irma.
"Almost three-quarters of Florida Power and Light’s 1.1 million customers in Miami-Dade County have no power, and officials are warning it could be weeks before electricity is restored, according to a Sun-Sentinel report.
"And temperatures are set to soar: Sweltering air and humidity are expected to broil Miami with a heat index as high as 108 degrees over the next four days, according to AccuWeather..."
I remember when they showed this one in school....
A Lady Called “Camille”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF4MA321zrQ
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