Hurricane Dean Live Thread Part II

NOAA/NHC ^ | August 19, 2007 | NOAA/NWS

[Neville72]

After visiting the Caymans nine times over the last decade and a half, I feel like it’s somewhat of a second home and I know the island quite well. A Cat.5 storm carries with it an 18-25 ft. storm surge and there’s not much elevation on Grand Cayman and even less on little Cayman. A 20 foot surge would wash over much of Grand Cayman and I suspect over all of Little Cayman. The Brac should be OK.

Where do those people remaining on Grand Cayman and Little Cayman go to be safe?

Prayers out to all

[mutley]

The rest of us should not have to forgo the latest technology just because they can’t use it.

Perhaps someone should start a separate modern day hurricane thread.

[HollyB]

Was it Ivan? Just a guess...

archives of past hurricanes with maps:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml

[SkyPilot]

"I want to punch President Bush for these hurricanes!"

[sig226]

No chips? FEMA is going to get you.

[rodguy911]

Thanks NN, nice of you to do this!

[sig226]

Are you thinking of Hurricane Mitch in 1998?

[NautiNurse]

I understand, and I will explain. The storm threads and the graphics host sites experience extremely high traffic when landfall is imminent. The Katrina threads had over one million hits.

Besides rural people who do not have access to broadband, there are FReepers who lose their broadband connections during the storms (e.g. no electricity for modems). They are only left with dial up connections, running off laptops via batteries. I labor to maintain these threads for people who are potentially in the storm's path with life and property on the line.

Most problematic are the looped graphics that hang up the best broadband connection when the host sites are completely overwhelmed with traffic. Last, and the least, there are the stunning 4000 by 7200 pixel animations that inevitably get addressed to me, and hose up my window to the point I can't find posts addressed to me.

Links with colorful descriptions have worked well over the years.

[rodguy911]

The buoy data system needs to be privatized. It seems once they go out of service they seldom come back,it's a national disgrace.

I would love to know what is steering this thing, seems to have very strong steering currents.

[rodguy911]

I wish GW would tell the truth about who and what run La. Nothing but lib/dems who have zero mgmt. skills. Instead he skirts around what really happened, a failure to manage by the dems in charge.

[Miztiki]

Apparently not. I used to have Java but just did a check and it’s not showing, so I just downloaded the latest version but I’m still not getting it to work.

Can you help with that?

[rodguy911]

No one could run this as good as you do.

[eastforker]

Maybe your browser security is set to high, should be at medium.

[Rte66]

Try doing a disk cleanup, too.

[SE Mom]

NN is the hurricane queen of FR and beyond:)

Off topic- sorta..have you guys noticed this year we aren’t hearing from Joe what’s-his-name...the flamboyant know-it-all guy?

[eastforker]

Bastard, oops I mean Bastardi?

[Miztiki]

Security is at medium. I’ll try disk cleanup. I can see the latest Java that I just downloaded in my program files, so it’s there. It’s just not working.

[skimbell]

Plus, “women and children will undoubtedly be hit hardest!”

[eastforker]

You might have to reboot, sometimes that is necessary when installing new software

[NautiNurse]

If you are using Firefox, it isn’t the most friendly browser for Java.