Posted on 09/07/2017 8:09:47 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma had a devastating impact on islands in the Caribbean.
Hurricane and Storm surge watches were issued Thursday morning for South Florida. The Florida Keys began evacuating visitors and residents, followed by flood zones in Miami and Miami Beach. Sarasota FL declared a local state of emergency Thursday morning.
Polk County FL Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday that law enforcement authorities would check the identities of people who turn up at shelters--and take to jail anyone found to have an active arrest warrant. “If you go to a shelter for Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail... “If you have a warrant, turn yourself in to the jail — it’s a secure shelter.” Judd also posted that sex offenders and sex predators would not be admitted to the shelters. "We cannot and we will not have innocent children in a shelter with sexual offenders & predators. Period." Judd's statements unleashed a liberal firestorm via Twitter.
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Ha, ha. I just saw that.
Possible. But we were told if it got over Cuba all bets were off. She just veered SW into Cuba.
Nifty image!
fingers crossed..but this could be the biggest blown call ever.....hoo boy.
It looks like it is still moving west.
I’ve never been so happy with a blown call in my life.
I’m beginning to wonder...
The awful thing is that if this does prove to be a big miss, then no one is going to evacuate for the next one.
back to Cat 5....
Everybody is going to get the wind and otherwise from this ....
It’s a Cat five again
Which is why so many people stayed in NO for Katrina. They’d had 3 or 4 false alarms over the previous 10 years or so. Figured it would just be another false alarm.
Initial call may not matter. What if the trough pulls it up after Cuba weakens Irma ? It could be sitting at Katrina’s build up spot. The point where she ramped up.
Did the eye go into Cuba? I saw it was hugging the shoreline....
Yep:
11:00 PM EDT Fri Sep 8
Location: 22.1°N 77.7°W
Moving: W at 13 mph
Min pressure: 924 mb
Max sustained: 160 mph
Okay, I know I’m coming in late. Much like my mother coming in 15 minutes before the movie is over and asking “what happened?” but I have been moving and TV-less for days. Could you update me on why you are saying this?
“fingers crossed..but this could be the biggest blown call ever.....hoo boy.”
man..this is so close to just falling apart....just a few miles bump to the south...cmon...Cuba deserves it.
Consider yourself fortunate that you are not in the cone of doom. Otherwise, the FL Panhandle gets forgotten during elections too—when the TV news folks report polls are closed while y’all are still voting. Welcome to FR and your fourth post.
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