Posted on 09/20/2019 11:27:20 AM PDT by bgill
Hurricane Lorena neared Mexico's resort-studded Los Cabos area Friday as owners pulled their boats from the water, tourists hunkered down in hotels, and police and soldiers went through low-lying, low-income neighborhoods urging people to evacuate.
Lorena was forecast to pass over or near the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula Friday afternoon with heavy winds and soaking rains, and locals who have been through past hurricanes were taking no chances.
"If we don't get the yacht out, the waves can damage it," said Juan Hernández, who rents his craft to foreign visitors. It's "a preventative measure for when a cyclone threatens."
Authorities in Los Cabos said 787 people have taken refuge at 18 storm shelters. Local security forces urged people in low-lying areas to evacuate even as some tourists continued to stroll along the streets under cloudy skies in Cabo San Lucas. Others returned to their hotels.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded Lorena to a Category 1 hurricane early Friday.
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“First guy from any storm I’ve heard say he’s moving his boat out. “
You must not know any boat owners.
I hope Lorena doesn’t ‘bobb it’.
Beat me to it.
Well, on a good note, it'll probably keep the murders down for a bit. Soooo, there's that.
IF Lorena is anything like most of those storms in that area this time of year we will get serious humidity, and welcomed lower temperatures here in the Inland Empire of California, and the rain, wind, etc. that normally accompany such events will head through Arizona to Texas adding to their woes.
I seriously hope not. Texas doesn’t need this on top of what they are already being hit with.
There is no such word as “preventative.” The word is “pre-VENT-ive.” No need for the extra syllable.
This year may be special. Hurricanes are typically fended off from California because of its cold current. But this year, at least parts of that current are as much as 7 degrees warmer than normal.
While this likely still wouldn’t cause a landfall, southern California could get seriously wooshed from rainwater.
I live 150 miles north of Houston and we got jack squat. A half an inch. First rain in three months.
Only hurricane I’ve been in was in Los Cabos.
Nora back in ‘97.
Two days stuck in the hotel watching CNN.
Had some great fishing before the storm hit.
Don’t need to do another hurricane!
Preventative is accepted by dictionary.com as an “also ran”.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/preventative?s=t
Phoenix is supposed to get a lot of rain out of this on Monday thru Tuesday. I have seen reports online which say anything from 1/2 to 4 inches depending on location.
Only because of usage. It’s in the same league as “irregardless.”
Most don’t say it, they just move them....if you’re ever in a coastal region when a hurricane is threatening, you will see rank after rank of boats heading for safer waters - if there’s drawbridges around, it’s best to avoid them because they spend a lot of time open for the boats to pass.
I had to look that up. All of the internet articles came to a similar conclusion as the following:
“The one clear difference between the two words is that the shorter one, preventive, is used much more frequently than preventative, possibly three or four times as much, depending on which sources you check.
The bottom line is, you should feel free to use either one of these words to describe something that stops something bad from happening. However, be aware that you may encounter writers, editors, and grammarians who believe that preventive is better, older, and more correct than preventative. None of this is true, but if you want to avoid any conflict, use preventive.”
So, supposably, preventative is a real word irregardless. /s
(Hmm. FR spell check says “irregardless” doesn’t need correcting! Okay - it seems that the dictionary DOES allow it. I always thought it was a conflation of ‘irrespective’ and ‘regardless’)
I learnt TWO things on this thread!
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