Posted on 09/08/2017 12:14:08 AM PDT by oxcart
DEVELOPING News Hurricane Irma Sep 8 2017, 2:54 am ET Hurricane Irma Pummels Turks & Caicos as Bahamas Braces
by Rehema Ellis, Adam Reiss and Erik Ortiz
The eye of Hurricane Irma grazed the low-lying Turks & Caicos Islands on Thursday, rattling buildings after it smashed a string of Caribbean islands on its way to Florida.
With winds of around 185 mph, the storm the size of France has ravaged small islands in the northeast Caribbean in recent days, including Barbuda, St. Martin and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, ripping down trees and flattening homes and hospitals.
Winds dipped on Thursday to 165 mph as Irma soaked the northern coasts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti and brought hurricane-force winds to the Turks & Caicos Islands.
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Yes, there are options, but ORDERING is a step too far. If people are too stupid and live in unsafe locations and die, that is their problem. The government stepping in and telling them, ends up them telling others, more responsible, what they must do. Not government’s role.
Another problem is if those people suffer a health emergency, first responders can not get to them due to flooding. That is the situation in those hundreds of ocean front high rise buildings in Miami Beach area.
The current government does not think like you and me. They insist on the role of mother for all residents. That trend has been in the making for 50 years and I see no reversal coming.
Yeah, people build homes near rivers prone to flooding, on hills with soft soil subject to land slides, inside forests with danger of forest fires, and then expect to be compensated when disaster strikes.
Family members also went through Matthew but little damage to their property and none to their home...but it showed them the weak spots of what they now are protecting better....so ti was like a trial run.
They are hunkered down in Florida now and thus far no evacuations in their location....which is elevated higher than others.
In a strong wind, there is pressure on the windward side and suction on the lee side. If there are adequately designed frames for wind pressure, the same may not hold true for the lee side.
Also, although the frames may be designed for resisting the deflection, if there are inadequately fastened to the structure, the whole frame, glass and all can be moved. That is to few or too small attachment fasteners will allow failure.
Storm moving west, everybody that evacuated wasted their time based on the over hype and fearmongering. Embarrassing. Looks like Irma might miss east Florida entirely. Oops!
That is a beast! My relatives in Orlando have battened down the hatches, and the parties have begun!
Per Breitbart, the models now have it bypassing Miami/South FL and into SW FL. That means it’s going to go into the Gulf!
It’s looking more that way. It might slam right into Cuba.
NO Then it turns north and up the FLA coast
NO predictions show it going into the gulf
You've been lied to by the Weather Channel and other fear-mongerers. Even the initial tracking shown it blowing out to the North Atlantic. Who decided that it was going to go up the gut of FL, like some horror movie?
wow, Orlando is many miles inland, so it is amazing everyone in Florida is affected by Irma. Hoping power does not go out for too long!
The European model has been more accurate all along. It has been predicting North-West direction all along. What makes the hurricane change direction on water is low & high pressure regions it encounters. But you are correct in that every moving body has momentum, and it will want to keep moving in the same direction it is moving. This storm is so huge in diameter, which means it also has a huge momentum and inertia.
That link displays nice maps!
Every moving body has momentum, and it will want to keep moving in the same direction it is moving. This storm is so huge in diameter, which means it also has a huge momentum and inertia. It can not suddenly make a 90 deg turn.
You are wrong.
Whoa the 5-day from Monday verified?! Left turn into Cuba!
yes! Keep it as far away as possible from Jacksonville....
That said, hurricanes can, and do, make sharp direction changes. Here is a link to Hurricane Betsy, which made a loop and then a near 90 degree turn in 1965 just so she could pass over my (not the same, but nearby) house....
Lots of other storms have done crazy turns: StormHistory
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