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4 things you need to know about Hurricane Mathew.
The Weather Channel ^ | Oct 4, 2016 | The Weathe Channel

Posted on 10/04/2016 9:53:05 AM PDT by Capt. Tom

4 things you need to know about Hurricane Mathew

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To: SamAdams76

Will you post a link then?


21 posted on 10/04/2016 11:54:27 AM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: SamAdams76

Oh well. I got the link off this wiki page that I thought was his....it’s at the bottom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bastardi


22 posted on 10/04/2016 11:59:54 AM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Faith65

It comes over my phone. Not sure how to make a link out of that.


23 posted on 10/04/2016 12:21:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (It is a wise man who rules by the polls but it is a fool who is ruled by them)
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To: SamAdams76

Oh- But I have the wrong Joe and it’s not @BigJoeBastardi?


24 posted on 10/04/2016 12:26:43 PM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“If it hits New England it won’t be my first hurricane by a long shot.”


Nor mine.

I still remember the fearsome howling of the 1939 hurricane and 2 windows blowing in.

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25 posted on 10/04/2016 12:32:09 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Capt. Tom

Looks like our servicepeople at Gitmo are starting to get hit.

(Maybe they can leave the detainees outside for a “shower”?)

(Did I say that?)


26 posted on 10/04/2016 12:38:05 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone mad. Just the people in it.")
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To: Mears

Ooops,1938 !


27 posted on 10/04/2016 1:07:40 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Capt. Tom

““Bermuda is about 600 miles due east of Savanna Georgia and well out of the proposed track of hurricane Mathew. “”

I am in Savannah. We live on a 36ft sailboat in the ICW.

As of now, we’re staying put. We’ll put up some heavy lines across the slip and ride it out.

Unless the forecast changes again, and we may move the boat inland.


28 posted on 10/04/2016 1:07:43 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Mears
Hi Mears You must be an older Boston girl,(probably from the Dorchster section at that time, not to far from me.

I can remember the unforcasted 38 Hurricane,while I was living on the top floor of a three decker in the Dorchester section of Boston, and a brick chimney being toppled on the roof right over the room I was in, covering me with ceiling plaster.
Here is the latest proposed track.

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29 posted on 10/04/2016 1:12:07 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: mistfree
I hate to break this to you but about 6-7 years ago your homeowners insurance stopped covering damage caused by hurricanes.

Just did a little research and found that the typical homeowner's policy doesn't cover things like flooding which,of course,can happen during a hurricane.But my research seems to indicate that wind damage and a tree falling on your house would be covered.Given that my condo's on the 3rd floor I'm not likely to experience flooding so I suspect I'd be OK.

I think.

One thing I did find is that policies in Florida can be different from those in other areas.That's pretty understandable given how susceptible Florida is to hurricanes but I'm not in Florida.

30 posted on 10/04/2016 1:25:21 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: xzins
I think a Georgia to north carolina landfall looks very possible

I just got this e-mail from a North Carolina friend, who lurks on FR.

"I guess so!!!

I'm dead center in the path of the storm for Saturday afternoon if today's model holds true.

Thank goodness I'm on a little higher ground in a very sturdy complex. I also have an enclosed garage for my car, bike and kayak.

I will be taking my herbs and planter boxes off of the porch railing though.

Walmart's down here is already selling out of stuff.

Stay safe!"

31 posted on 10/04/2016 1:43:54 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

My God,we were top floor,3 decker also-—in Brighton. (Remember the dreadful summer heat we had under those flat rooves?)

We had just moved there 2 weeks earlier,my father had died 5 months earlier,and my mother knew few neighbors.

Tough times !

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32 posted on 10/04/2016 1:55:39 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Capt. Tom

We were on our way to Bermuda on the Norwegian Dawn during hurricane Fay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fay_(2014)

It was wild. I couldn’t walk across our room.


33 posted on 10/04/2016 2:07:01 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mears
My God,we were top floor,3 decker also-—in Brighton. (Remember the dreadful summer heat we had under those flat rooves?)

I certainly do remember the heat, and no one mentioned global warming then.
Some very hot summer nights people went down to the beaches to sleep.
It was hot all right.
Those hot nights made it seem impossible to believe that in a few months you would be facing winter northeast snowstorms and then getting blasted with cold NW air after they passed.

Those days you didn't get a few days notice that disaster was heading your way as we do now. Weather forecasting is big business today.
Undoubtably saving lives.-Tom

34 posted on 10/04/2016 2:14:45 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

I’ve got family in South Carolina, one in Savannah. Their governor just announced that coastal residents should evacuate.


35 posted on 10/04/2016 2:17:38 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: trisham
We were on our way to Bermuda on the Norwegian Dawn during hurricane Fay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fay_(2014)
It was wild. I couldn’t walk across our room.

No matter how big those cruise ships are they can get tossed around.

If I remember correctly one of the larger ones tried to push through some bad weather and faced 100 mph winds and big seas and beat up the passengers.
I believe it was a trip from NY to the Bahamas. -Tom

36 posted on 10/04/2016 2:33:50 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

That must have been really scary. The ocean is incredibly powerful.


37 posted on 10/04/2016 3:00:13 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Gay State Conservative; Mears; trisham
From Weather Underground-
"After its closest approach to the coast of North Carolina, we have a number of reliable models predicting that Matthew will continue north-northeast and hit New England on Sunday, with eastern Massachusetts being at greatest risk. Landfall in New England would very likely not be at hurricane strength, due to the potential for Matthew to pass over a lot of land before getting there.

Although I expect to safely arrive in Bermuda Sunday AM, my family and friends and my house and 3 boats that I operate are still in the water here on the coast in eastern Mass."

I'm off to bed now and will check Mathew out in the AM.-Tom

38 posted on 10/04/2016 7:40:35 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

My grandmother once told me the same year NYC got hit by the blizzard of 1947, the worst of the 20th century, they had one of the hottest summers on record. From one extreme to another in a matter of months. Other than a few mansions in Riverdale and the then brand new postwar luxury high rises built on Park Av, even most well-to-do people didn’t have AC yet. People who suffered in those old walk-up apartment buildings were sleeping on the roofs and fire escapes.


39 posted on 10/04/2016 7:45:28 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa
My grandmother once told me the same year NYC got hit by the blizzard of 1947, the worst of the 20th century, they had one of the hottest summers on record. From one extreme to another in a matter of months. Other than a few mansions in Riverdale and the then brand new postwar luxury high rises built on Park Av, even most well-to-do people didn’t have AC yet. People who suffered in those old walk-up apartment buildings were sleeping on the roofs and fire escapes.

I was 12 years old in 1947 and remember that wild weather year in Boston.

I will have to check on the latest Mathew track as it seemed to have changed from last nights proposed racking prediction.
It looks like eastern coastal Florida is going to be hit hard.

If Mathew stays close to Florida in the warm Gulf Stream it probably won't weaken.

Let face it Mathew is an unpredictable Hurricane beyond 2 days of proposed tracking models. -Tom

40 posted on 10/05/2016 7:54:14 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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