Posted on 09/12/2018 9:45:20 AM PDT by gandalftb
Wave heights to 83 ft were measured early this morning by satellite altimeter under the northeast quadrant of Hurricane Florence. These enormous waves are produced by being trapped along with very strong winds moving in the same direction as the storm's motion.
Some strengthening is forecast through Wednesday night, drawing energy from the warm water. Its winds could approach Category 5 strength, which means winds of 157 mph or higher.
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Somebody ought to tell her about the folks who had decided to have a Hurricane Party in Galveston when Camille hit.
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Fake News started by the commie Walter Cronkite.
https://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2014/08/hurricane_camille_party_what_h.html
Hurricane plus deep waters equals large waves.
That idiot woman will get her children killed.....................
I should’a known some smart FReeper out there would have the exact info I was looking for.
Thank you so much for the right-on-the-nose facts about hummingbirds & hurricanes.
Bookmark
HAHA, I know that fear well. Was on a 180’ buoy tender off the coast of Miami in a hurricane, on 23’ bridge wing looking up at the crest of the wave hitting us directly from our port side. I too had my life jacket on and napped on the bridge. We took a 53 degree roll, time stood still for a moment and I thank God that it rolled back.:)
Pass Christian
Surfers that are sponsored, retired, construction workers, commercial fishermen or looking to get fired have already made it to Florida.
The deal is the best hurricane surf is behind the hurricane as it moves up the east coast. That is assuming a normal hurricane path.
We look for offshore winds, swells, tubes man!!!
Another option is to boogie up the coast to Long Island, RI, Block Island, etc....those beaches face S and SSE which receives a nice long swell in period and duration.
Surfers that are sponsored, retired, construction workers, commercial fishermen or looking to get fired have already made it to Florida.
The deal is the best hurricane surf is behind the hurricane as it moves up the east coast. That is assuming a normal hurricane path.
We look for offshore winds, swells, tubes man!!!
Another option is to boogie up the coast to Long Island, RI, Block Island, etc....those beaches face S and SSE which receives a nice long swell in period and duration.
West End ?
Spicolli owes me and about a thousand other surf punks royalties.
Yes, that is my theory. I was dead center of cross eyes in central NC yesterday morning before 10:30am update.
The images being posted from radar now, don’t even look like it is C4 anymore. I trust we are being told the truth on that.
But my bet is that this will not strike the US directly, maybe some bands will come over shore though. But it will end up back to sea and up the coast. And it won’t be C4, c3, or even c2 when it gets that close.
The hype from government and reporting changed after Katrina. Everything that gets close is now a total disaster. That. Will. Kill. Us. All.
This will motivate folks for a decade or so, but eventually it will make people complacent.
It also helps corporate profits (and I am not opposed to them making money, don’t get me wrong), and temporarily turbocharges the economy. Just be prepared for the slump after, and if there is no disaster, then there will not be the influx of insurance money to keep it rolling.
The lady with the kids should realize that those buildings are very likely to get obliterated.
I rode on a Greyhound through Gulfport, MS after Katrina.
Almost everything within about 1,000 feet of the Gulf of Mexico was gone. Bare lots with some trees remained.
I saw no trace of the multi-story hotel I once stayed in.
East New Orleans looked like Berlin in late 1945.
Water is the most dangerous part of a hurricane. The waves will batter floatsam against those buildings until they crumble, creating even more floatsam to batter buildings even better.
Inland, the flooding from the rain will be horrible.
A modest creek in the heavy rain area will become a highly dangerous torrent.
I was in a Florida hurricane with 80 mph winds and three of the trees in my backyard were partially blown over because of oversaturated soil.
Yes, West End.
Nope sitting off Shore of Cape Fear and then drifting, due to the loss of HighPressure to the North, down to Ga where it will head in
Oh my....
Thanks Buoy...always a good site to check ‘em brah....getting too hard to view wave webcams for free anymore....darn capitalists.
I was in a surf contest in Pensacola in 1969....got 1 day of perfect building swells until they cancelled the contest and we bugged out for Naples, FL.
Camille was on the way....driving back to TX after Camille hit was a chore, seems like we had to divert all the way to Vicksburg MS to go around the damage and missing roads.
Next summer our normal trip to Naples was interesting looking at the ships and shrimp boats all scattered miles inland. All of the tourist trap gift shops were gone too...but I think Waffle House was reopened...prolly never closed.
I think it will hit the US fairly hard.
Evacuation orders should be followed.
First responders don’t respond when the storm is raging.
I have no idea how big the waves were in Typhoon Tilda (September 1961), but the USS Princeton had to ride it out at sea. The fantail came out of the water and the screws cavitated. Huge waves broke over the flight deck. The air speed indicator on the flight deck was pegged at 100 knots.
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