Posted on 10/24/2005 2:18:01 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Shiite!
Nap time. Can't stay awake long enough to type. You have some back-up?
..Is it true Wilma came in at 125 mph?
When I was up at 2AM, she was still 115.
Is that a move straight east between the 7 AM and 8 AM positions? Actual motion shift???
Wind gusts 92 mph by the Miami airport, per Fox.
They keep saying on Fox that "the back side of the storm is a little weaker". Is that true?
In Katrina, I'd say the back side of the storm here (Mobile) was perhaps 3 times as bad as the front side. Winds were sustained for long periods. When a calm hit, we figured it was the eye passing nearby and were relieved there wasn't much debris in the yard/street, etc. But then came the back end...what a mess.
Maybe that was an anomoly. But don't count on the back end being more tame.
Reporting temps in the 60s in Sarasota now. Looks like a nice Fall cold front day in store for us in a few hours.
I just read NN's excellent update, and she tells me exactly what I wanted to know.
Yes. The official sustained windspeed at 0600 EST was 120 mph, 24 miles inland.
If only the winds near the airport stay below a hundred, her old termite infested house may hold up.
Sure...everyone in Florida who still has electricity.
Actually I'm now dubious that it even drops to Cat 2 at all crossing Florida.
Prayers up to you for the difficult morning ahead!
CNN has been having some great coverage with their tilting radar system.
Anderson Cooper and John Zarella have been getting absolutely pummeled in Marco Island, incredible winds, and showing the sea coming up and swallowing the beach.
Miles O'Brien is in Naples, in about the same super nasty conditions as they all go through that back eyewall.
If this is all 90-100 mph winds, god I'm glad I evacuated from Rita here in Port Arthur! As I have read, we recorded 120.
The irony is the spectacular photogenic damage is about to occur in and around Ft. Lauderdale, with few national reporters there at all.
Really massive SE eyewall blowup (where the strongest winds were to begin with) about to arrive.
I don't have coordinates for 0800 EDT (0700 EST)yet.
Okay, I'm into the Halloween candy to try to stay awake here in California...
Ok, I'm out for a few.
Prayers for all FLFRs.
I bet many of those hotels in fort lauderdale have beach cams or web cams which are probably still working
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