Hurricane Dean Live Thread [Now Cat 4]

NOAA/NWS ^ | August 16 2007 | NOAA/NWS

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane warnings have been issued for Dominica and St. Lucia as Hurricane Dean races westward into the Caribbean Sea at 24mph. This motion should bring the center of Dean near the Lesser Antilles on Friday. The increased forward speed of the storm has lessened preparation time for Caribbean Islands in its path. Hurricane Dean has favorable conditions to develop into a major hurricane over the next several days.

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Category	Wind Speed	Barometric Pressure	Storm Surge	Damage Potential
Tropical Depression	< 39 mph < 34 kts			Minimal
Tropical Storm	39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts			Minimal
Hurricane 1 (Weak)	74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts	28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more	4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m	Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2 (Moderate)	96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts	28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb	6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m	Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3 (Strong)	111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts	27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb	9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m	Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4 (Very strong)	131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts	27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb	13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m	Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5 (Devastating)	Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts	Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb	Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m	Catastrophic building failures possible

[prairiebreeze]

freepmail a’waiting for ya

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning gal. We are getting any and all trucks ready for flood duty today.

[HollyB]

Wow that’s alot of rain. Thanks for the heads up on Bandara, I’ll pass that info along to my friend.

[jpsb]

Houston should be ok, if you are at higher elavations, just STAY AWAY FROM DOWN TOWN (tall glass buildings)! Falling glass was a real problem during Alica and Alica was a baby huricane.

[eastforker]

Yes, Alicia was a baby cane but she stalled for over 12 hours, thats why she did so much damage.

[Rte66]

Oh, my - the Guadalupe is a killer. I can remember seeing big old concrete picnic benches from the park in New Braunfels up in the tops of very tall trees, weeks after a particularly bad flood.

But traveling River Road is one of the great pleasures of life. And it doesn’t get any better than a meandering Saturday or Sunday afternoon from about Dripping Springs to Blanco to Devils Backbone to Wimberley to Luckenbach to Fredericksburg to Kerrville and all points in between, with no particular place to be or time to be there.

That’s heaven!

[I got the rope]

Oh man I miss Texas.

[Rte66]

Yeah, I didn’t live here then. In fact, I am the anti-hurricane “charm.” *more famous last words* I’ve lived here off and on most of my life and have missed the hurricanes.

However, I did get the pants scared off of me in Allison and Rita.

[jpsb]

Also a direct eye wall hit on Houston/Galveston too I think. I was in Seabrook for Alicia, Seabrook was a mess.

[jpsb]

"I am the anti-hurricane “charm.” .

Good, stay here. LOL.

[Abigail Adams]

I’m watching the space walk on NASA TV, and they showed the astronauts’ view of the hurricane. Pretty spectacular!

[eastforker]

If anyone needs gas cans in Houston you better go get em now, the first 2 stores I stopped at today(walmart and Lowes) were already sold out. Then I thought of a brand new walmart that just opened, one that people are not used to going to and got their last 6. While at Lowes it looked like plywood sales were at a brisk pace.

[rwfromkansas]

Looks like the U.S. is going to make it out of this one just fine.

I normally would wait to be so confident, but this storm is tracking great...

It should be one the NHC nails spot-on, and it is a Mexico storm, though S. Texas could have bad flooding.

[Rte66]

Yeah, I lived in OK at that time, but my parents lived here and had a little roof damage - but my dad sent pix of the broken skyscraper windows downtown. *a real hurricane*

But did I ever send any tornado pix to him? Nooooo.

The scariest thing to me was in Allison when all the bayous were full and the rivers were running upstream. I had 36” of rain at my house in that 4-day period, about 14” of it that last morning, starting about 4:30AM, after we thought it was all gone. *wrong!*

I’ve also seen the bayou (Brays) over-top, in Oct ‘93. I’m a block from that in both directions, so that would be the only worry - and it’s the best controlled bayou in the city, so not worried at all.

Oops, hearing raindrops on front window now as I type.

[eastforker]

I believe that was october of ‘94, the big flood.

[Red Badger]

That ONE model seems bound and determined top get US!........(and from the discussion at the NHC, IT is a most reliable model!)...........

[Laverne]

They are just getting ready to replay that video of the direct overflight of Hurrican Dean.

[Red Badger]

...and the trees that fell, fell away.

I used to have a lovely shaded back yard, cool and breezy in the evenings. Ivan took all my trees and now I have a hot sweltering yard dying from lack of water, even though we run the lawn pump.................

[Rte66]

That’s right. I didn’t move into that house until Aug ‘94, so it had to be ‘94. I was “in it” then flew out over it, going to Santa Fe, so saw it from both views.

[eastforker]

I got a lot of funny looks from people when filling all my gas cans this morning.When Rita was getting close 2 years ago gas stations sold out and there was none to buy, no matter how much money you had.Both cars full, also the boat plus 55 in cans, no one and I mean no one, not even the NHC can be for sure where this one is going, all they have is an educated guess.