Hurricane Alley Map @ 6:00 AM
Patton@Bastogne
Free Republic Member since 1998.
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Your graphic of the Saffir-Simpson scale is wrong. Go here for a better and more accurate explanation: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml. In fact, the only forecast web site I trust is the National Hurricane Center's. Here's the address: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov. (Just to keep this political, any moron who believes this agency should be privatized gets a figurative ball stomping by me).
Howdy Patton,
My daughter lives in Port St. Lucie,I'm just wondering if you could tell me where St. Lucie is in regards to the hurricane's projected path-I'd be much obliged.
I don't think she's taking this situation seriously enough,she's not an experienced Florida native and I'm starting to get concerned for her-thanx in advance for any advice or info you may give.
TongRat
The sharp right turn once it hits land is pretty interesting. I'm in Tampa Bay so I'm watching, but this one's going to be hard to predict it seems and also hard to predict impact to the west coast because of direction it takes once it hits land.
I think conventional wisdom is they lose strength quickly once they hit land, so even if it came across the state, its force would be greatly lessened once it got to Tampa.
But for those in the know, didn't Charley stay a pretty intense storm even after it made landfall?
Oh well, still got all our supplies on hand, but wondering about putting boards back on the picture windows if it's headed this way.
It's Thursday morning, are we continuing on this thread today. Walked the dogs at 6am and my neighbor was putting up his shutters in the dark. I have to go to work for a while, someone ping me with what thread we will be on today.
Stay safe and get prepared.