HURRICANE JEANNE Weekend thread - LIVE - and freeper check-in

NHC/Naval Hurricanes/etc.. | 09.25.04

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thought a thread in Breaking News for the weekend covering Hurricane Jeanne would be a good thing. Post your link, pics, updates and freeper check-in's here

[spectre]

Ed Rappaport from NOAA is on MSNBC, and he thinks there is "some chance" that it strenghtens to the Cat 4 you warned of.

Ed compares this to Frances in terms of intensity, but says it is stronger than Frances with effects much the same, perhaps even worse.

This is awful.

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[GummyIII]

LOL...love it...

I just think how VA has been affected already this year (which has been NO FUN), and multiply that by about a zillion for these FL folks...sheesh...

BTW...howdy!

[Gabz]

have a good afternoon.

[Letitring]

I agree and think we'll need a thread concerning insurance concerns, later on. (if we don't already have one)

[Letitring]

Take care of you.

[Dog Gone]

I think it's a slam dunk that Jeanne hits Florida. There is no chance at all of a miss at this point. She's moving too fast and too west to make a sudden turn at this point.

She'll begin to turn northwest and then north after landfall, and there's a slight chance that she could briefly enter the Gulf near Tallahassee before moving toward the Carolinas (at least that is what the Canadian model is showing), but the other models all show Jeanne staying onshore Florida before heading north.

I think Jeanne is strengthening right now. She'll make landfall as at least a strong Category 2 storm, and potentially as a 4. Very dangerous storm.

[Cheetah1]

Indications are that Jeanne is getting stronger.

A Category four hurricane is definately possible.

[libtoken]

Here is a link to the NWS local offices that put out statements regarding specific towns and counties;

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/fl/allwarnings.html

By the way, the NWS in Miami thinks the storm will hit around midnight just north of Palm Beach County, but does not rule out a PBC hit.

For a further list of towns and cities on the official projected track, click onto the map at the Skeeterbite website:

http://www.skeetobite.com/weather/

[Letitring]

Good grief!

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the pictures, and stay safe.

[shield]

Oh Yuck...time to start praying...

Thanks for your analysis. Glad your here on the thread. Hope people have not gotten complacent since this is their 4th. Let's see TS Bonnie, Charley, Frances, Ivan, now Jeannie. How very strange....this is!!!

[Gabz]

Howdy back atcha!!!!

You're right, some parts of VA have taken some pretty bad hits this year, but you're right not like the poor folks in Florida. We have been very fortunate over here.

I'm not as concerned about hubby going out of town for the week as I was at this time last year, we had only been here a couple of months and knew practically no one. But lots of things change in a year!!!

Just last week we discovered that a long time friend has an RV campsite on the water just 15 miles from us. We told him last night that if this thing seems to be heading this way he's to bring the RV, boat, dog, and himself over here to us. His wife is home in Ohio and he really appreciated the offer. Knowing he will be here with me if the weather turns for the worst makes both his wife and my husband much more comfortable about not being around.

[weatherFrEaK]

Word is that many are not leaving this time, probably because of evac burnout. Yikes...

[benice]

They announced about an hour ago that she's back to a cat 3....? Could be a 4.....
I have a bad feeling that the up-and-coming insurance rates is what will bring down florida....not the hurricanes ;(

[Gabz]

After this is all over, a thread about insurance concerns would be a really good idea. I don't think there has been one, just various comments within the hurricane threads themselves.

[Ax]

I'm in Boynton Beach. Our house is three years old and of CBC. Downstairs shutters are up, and the Rhino-Shield treatment of the upstairs windows we had installed last spring are about to get their baptism of fire. They guarantee the treatment against winds up to 212MPH. The boat is still lashed down in the marina. Generator is gassed up and ready to roll.

Siblings down here are similarly battened down. Keep us in your prayers, fellow freepers.

[snakeoil]

Are you sure they said it is or could become- God I don't think we can handle a 3.

[Dog Gone]

I wouldn't rule out a hit as far north as Melbourne. It's going to making a turn to the northwest before landfall. It's just not going to be soon enough to avoid landfall.

[Cheetah1]

It IS a Category Three at this time

[Cheetah1]

BULLETIN
HURRICANE JEANNE ADVISORY NUMBER 48
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
11 AM EDT SAT SEP 25 2004

...JEANNE BECOMES A DANGEROUS CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE ON THE
SAFFIR/SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE...BATTERING THE NORTHWEST BAHAMAS...