Mexico hunkers down for Patricia, 'the most dangerous storm in history'

cnn.com ^ | October 23, 2015 | Greg Botelho

[Berlin_Freeper]

Hurricane Patricia -- the strongest hurricane ever recorded -- weakened slightly as it barreled closer to Mexico's Pacific coast, with sustained winds decreasing to 190 mph and gusts to 235 mph on Friday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.

Residents are bracing for potentially catastrophic 200 mph sustained winds and torrential rains.

The excessive wind speeds, according to the head of the Mexican agency that includes its national weather service, "makes Patricia the most dangerous storm in history."

[VeniVidiVici]

With any luck maybe many illegals will move back to Mexico to help with the clean-up and reconstruction.

LOL! I kid myself sometimes.

[Cvengr]

Wilma dropped 100mb (982 to 882mb)in 24 hours and went from Tropical Storm to Cat IV in 24 hours, with peak winds of 185 mph and reduced to 150 mph at landfall at Cancun / Cozumel.

Still considered the worst hurricane in the Atlantic and lowest recorded barometric pressure, although Patricia reportedly hit 880mb.

[SE Mom]

This one’s a humdinger. From cat 1 to cat 5 in 24 hours.

[fr_freak]

With any luck maybe many illegals will move back to Mexico to help with the clean-up and reconstruction.

LOL! I kid myself sometimes.

Maybe they would if we paid them to do it. We'll throw a few million dollars in the affected areas and then close the gate tight behind them as they leave. Oh wait, we don't have a gate.

[GreyFriar]

I’be been having a bunch of sneezing fits this past week, with the lawn work, but otherwise, Yes it is a big storm but it is the hype, especially for political purposes.

[GreyFriar]

“If there was flooding, no big deal because nothing is ruined. Today if we have these hurricanes and flooding as bad as they say is coming, that is a HUGE difference then the medieval time”

You have realized the key item - the amount of damage depends upon what and who is in the area being damaged. in the past with no people or structures, or only a few random villages, big damage for the villagers, but no damage on the scale of a hurricane hitting a modern city or coast with our huge populations.

[GreyFriar]

“If there was flooding, no big deal because nothing is ruined. Today if we have these hurricanes and flooding as bad as they say is coming, that is a HUGE difference then the medieval time”

You have realized the key item - the amount of damage depends upon what and who is in the area being damaged. in the past with no people or structures, or only a few random villages, big damage for the villagers, but no damage on the scale of a hurricane hitting a modern city or coast with our huge populations.

[GreyFriar]

Whoops, double post,

But I have another ‘corollary’ to then vs now. We have much better ways to track storms and with more population more people are around to be affected by storms and to record their happening. I think that much of the HYPE of ‘blah, blah, blah’ causing more hurricanes, tornadoes, etc is based upon our advanced ways to find and track storms and more people/towns in the way of storms. I don’t think there are probably ‘more storms’ than in the past, we just now know every time a storm happens.

For example, if no one is in the middle of the ocean in the 1400s when a hurricane was formed, lived, and died, without ever hitting land, did that storm actually happen? In reality, yes it did, but based upon no one knowing about it, it didn’t.