Hurricane Matthew

NOAA/NHC ^ | 1 October 2016 | NOAA/NHC

[Guenevere]

I’m not far from Cocoa Beach.......
......We had a hurricane stall off our coast in ‘79
only a Cat 1

I truly wished we had evacuated when the power of this off shore Cat 1 hit.
It spawned tornadoes, high winds, broken power lines, torn roofs, etc

[rodguy911]

Federal govt. owns and operates these buoys need i say more?
Barometer is plummeting,but looking good for the keys not for my friends in NC.

[rodguy911]

Jamacia will be on the clean side of the storm haiti will not they will get hammered.Thanks to the clinton foundation they will have no money or any infrastructure to withstand the storm since the clinton’s stole all their money.

[chimera]

IIRC Camille was a very compact storm. The satellite imagery back then wasn't as good as it is today, but I seem to recall it didn't have the areal extent that this storm has. Matt seems to be a widely dispersed hurricane.

Similarly, Andrew was a small but ferocious storm. I guess winding all that energy up in a small package really causes problems.

[NautiNurse]

Stalled storms are the worst! (especially nighttime howlers)

Even the best construction shows wear and tear from constant beating by prolonged winds, projectiles and horizontal rain. The flooding from stalled storms is devastating. The best hope for Haiti would be if Matthew picks up forward speed.

"But it is only a weak tropical storm," said by a yahoo from Kansas...

[NautiNurse]

Godspeed to the people of Haiti...

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Could get a bit breezy here over the next couple of days. I’ll know Wednesday. Business trip to West Palm.

[NautiNurse]

NHC: Matthew is expected to produce total rain accumulations
of 15 to 25 inches across southern Haiti...

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

When I was a little girl, I was fascinated by the church without a steeple on East Broad in Richmond. It was damaged during Hazel and removed in 1955, although my grandfather always said Hazel blew it off. :-)

My mind remembers the steeple laying on the ground next to the church, but honestly, I am not sure if that is a real memory or my mind playing tricks.

I do know every time we passed it, I would get excited. “There's the church without a steeple!” Didn't take much to entertain me, LOL!

[goosie]

Hazel was devastating. It came in to Durham. No power for a long time.

[tutstar]

NHC twitter account said it took a direct hit and survived.

[tutstar]

Oh! I didn’t notice the T. 42058 is the one that took a direct hit.

[dfwgator]

Godspeed to the people of Haiti...

And save them from the Clintons.

[NautiNurse]

Thanks for the report. Great info.

[tutstar]

I grew up in west Texas and remember seeing tv reports about Camille and thinking to myself “I will never live in a place where hurricanes can go.”

Here I sit in Florida many years after riding out Hugo in SC. rofl

Never say never.....

[NautiNurse]

Wowser!

[AppyPappy]

It’s hard to compare them because they are dependent on the current weather situation.

[GregB]

He’ll be indoors with a fan machine blowing him all over

[Pilgrim's Progress]

They probably have a studio set up to look like an out-of-doors street corner complete with a stop sign bending 90 degrees.

Glad you added “machine” to your description . . . with Ms.Shepherd there is no end of imagination.

[NautiNurse]

Other than similar strength and geographic forecast track, there is really no similarity at all.