Posted on 09/02/2019 7:50:54 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Catestrophic Hurricane Dorian was assigned Category 5 status by the NHC Sunday, September 1 at 0800. Since then Hurricane Dorian reached maximum sustained winds of 185 MPH, with gusts exceeding 220 MPH, and storm surge 18-23 feet above normal tide levels as it made landfall across Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. Dorian became the strongest hurricane in modern records for the Northwestern Bahamas.
Dorian has wrought extreme wind and flood damage to Abacos and Grand Bahama Island as it crawled slowly across the Northern Bahamas.
All interests along the Atlantic coast should continue monitoring conditions and forecasts as powerful Hurricane Dorian moves very close to the US coastline. Evacuation orders have been issued for many Atlantic coastal communities in the Southeast US. Evacuations include multiple hospitals and nursing homes along the coast with anticipated dangerous storm surge and battering waves.
Wind speed is expected to weaken and fluctuate in the coming days as the storm moves northward.
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A wind speed of 150 kts. or as was recorded yesterday during landfall at Marsh Bay of 185 kts, gust to 220 kts, is measured at essentially ground level. (The height of the anemometer above the ground may be 4 to a 100 feet.)
Ha! just noticed my typo in the body of the thread...Catestrophic...eeesh!
Think Hurricane Harvey two years ago.
Thanks
Hurricane Harvey was, unfortunately, a perfect example of a pokey ‘cane. Great suffering in Houston.
For better or worse, Governor McMaster doesn’t mess around declaring evacuations.
I’m sitting here in the Lowcountry of SC waiting.
Best documentary on that tornado I have seen. You are very lucky!
What made Dorian stall over the Bahamas?
By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist Sep 2, 2019 Updated 1
Hurricane Dorian’s movement has slowed to 1 mph, less than the speed at which most of us walk.
The slowdown means the island of Grand Bahama could be in Dorian’s eye for more than nine hours.
This snail’s pace is not unheard of with hurricanes.
Recent hurricanes Harvey and Florence also slowed significantly after making landfall.
But the landfall wasn’t what slowed down Dorian — it has to do with what is steering the storm.
A high-pressure system over the western Atlantic is blocking it from moving northward, and a weakness in the high-pressure system is slowing it down.
At some point over the next 24 hours, the system will weaken enough that the hurricane will move northwest.
Of the 259 fatalities from Camille, 124 of them were from a single county in Central Virginia. Catastrophic flooding occurred there when the remnants of the hurricane stalled over the Blue Ridge mountains.
Folks need to get over the idea that wind speed is all that matters. With this storm though, the most damage may occur from storm surge over a multiple state area.
Yeah, we definitely dodged a big bullet that day. Tore up a bunch of docks and boats on Lake Belton, damaged some homes, then receded just west of us and re-formed along I-35. Jarrell was pretty much flattened. That thing was massive.
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First video coming in from Bahamas after Dorian passed through and it’s complete devastation http://bit.ly/30QN7wp
On board for the continuation of this wild ride.
Jeeze, this guy is live streaming from Freeport. His house is 15’ above ground level and the water is 5’ below his deck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrSX9Q-ejY
Holy Crap.
Can’t imagine riding it out like that.
Of the 259 fatalities from Camille, 124 of them were from a single county in Central Virginia. Catastrophic flooding occurred there when the remnants of the hurricane stalled over the Blue Ridge mountains.
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I was old enough to remember Camille well - Nelson County is about an hour away from us. I’ve done a lot of hiking in Tye River basin, Rockfish area, etc. For those who want more info on Camille/Nelson County:
https://nelsonhistorical.org/cpage.php?pt=21
Lots of links/books, etc.
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This is the full video version of “A Portrait of a Disaster” as Chronicled by Edward Tinsley each day as the disaster relief effort unfolded. 30” of rain fell in Nelson County Virginia the night of August 19, 1969. This is Trooper Tinsley’s account of the rescue efforts recorded each day and put to video.
Hurricane Camille Remnants **GRAPHIC** - Flooding in Nelson County, Virginia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBTuFYwjlLw
K, he’s live streaming videos taken off FB pages. They’re from today tho.
Wind is certainly a factor, but water is the real killer in these storms.
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