Posted on 08/26/2011 9:40:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Approximately 65 million people are likely to be directly impacted by Hurricane Irene as the storm takes aim at the densely populated Eastern Seaboard. Evacuations are underway for high flood risk areas.
Mass transit cancellations, schedule changes and road/bridge closures are occurring throughout the storm warning areas. Please check with local news and Emergency Management Operations to determine the recommendations for your immediate area.
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2 p.m. from EOC: winds increasing now avg. 45. Rain is now 7 inches on Main Base. Still no overwash on the Island
Central Park in Manhattan just recorded its 5th highest all-time rainfall, at 8” I think it was, less than two weeks ago. It’s been a very wet August up here, so the ground is already saturated.
He’s right ...
It’s disgusting, I refuse to watch TWC. I don’t need TWC to tell me anything about hurricanes...they hide from the worst area being hit, then stand on the beach where winds are 20MPH and pretend they are being blown over. I’ve lived in Florida all of my life and I sure as heck don’t care what Ohomo says or does. I watch the satellites, radar, water vapor and NOAA computer models. I don’t need those Obongo butt kissers telling me what I already know.
I remember a few years ago there was a big Cat 3 on a direct path to hit South Florida. Later that afternoon while it was near the northern coast of Puerto Rico I saw something happening to it by watching the satellites and taking screen shots.
NOAA mentioned no changes. I watched Bryan Norcross(the so called hero weatherman of Hurricane Andrew) and he saw it too, but said he would wait to hear from the NHC. They came on with him and said they weren’t sure, he might be right but at that time they didn’t want to say. I thought that was weird, he was obviously right. The storm had encountered strong westerly shear and dry air entrainment and it was blowing the top off of the hurricane. You could clearly see it on the satellite loops. Within hours it was torn apart from the shear. By the next morning it not only was not a hurricane, it was gone, barely detectable on the radar.
I often wondered how NOAA could not have seen that when I saw it and what a local meteroligist saw. NOAA is wrong a lot of the time and I think they are making a HUGE deal over this storm when it isn’t a big deal. Time will tell. I think surge will be an issue in some areas, winds not so much.
They keep saying all hurricanes have flooding rains, well that is not always the case. Sometimes hurricanes are surprisingly dry, others, not so much. The rain bands move so fast that sometimes you will get a lot, other times not much at all. Hurricane Georges was a very wet storm because South Florida was getting the E and NE quadrant of the storm and the feeder bands were coming over as the storm slowed down, nearly stalled and grew from a cat 1 to a cat 2.
Wilma did damage that was never really reported on the news. Once it hit & passed Miami all you heard or saw was news about Miami. TWC, all Miami. Not much mention of the fact that when all that water was pushed into Florida Bay, once Wilma moved ashore that water all rushed back and flooded the entire Gulf side of the Florida Keys all the way from around Islamorada to Key West and ran across US1 and flooded many on the ocean side as well. Devastating floods down there. There is a video called Wilma the Witch made by a local attorney. You never saw any of this on the news or TWC, they were too busy showing downed traffic lights and roof tiles in Miami. But maybe the Tourist Development Committee in the Florida Keys was more than happy to not have that plastered all over the news.
If you live in a hurricane area all of your life, you watch, worry when you need to worry and don’t stress over things that might never be. They went into panic mode on the South Florida news stations when Irene was way out there.... get’s more viewers. I don’t care what the spaghetti stings say when the darn storm is over the Lesser Antilles. I care what they are showing when it nears Haiti and Cuba because almost always the track changes, the cones move, and they don’t have a clue where it will end up when it is so far out there. It’s just an educated guess at best.
Just read an article about it and they are on stand by. According to the laws of this land..Obama and his feds can’t do a thing unless asked to by the states. I’ve also noticed that Obama is picking winners and losers already by declaring the dem states disaster areas ahead of time. Haven’t heard him say anything about the republican run states though. Very strange.
I don’t trust Obama and his government at all!
Most NYers are here in the city, hunkered down in their apts. We only got word late yesterday afternoon that mass transit, Amtrak and the airports were shutting today at noon. That didn’t give many people a chance to flee—and as Shep pointed out we are without cars.
The looters are thanking them.
Bravo!
Knock it off.
NautiNurse has been providing Free Republic with invaluable hurricane threads for years- way before you came here with your attitude of superiority.
Lots of us use these threads to catch up with each other we’ve not “seen” for months - the service NN gives is actually appreciated by FReepers and require much time and effort on her part to post and update. It might also interest you to know that during Katrina and its aftermath there were several media people and some emergency management people who READ FR’s live ongoing threads for information before, during and after Katrina.
Besides- watching the media hype itself into hysteria is half the fun of being a citizen.
They said if salt water gets in the lines when the power is on the damage will be extreme. If it gets in the lines when power is not on it can be cleaned and power restored more quickly.
The overblown hype continues:
Memory lane from Katrina Threads:
What’s that, 75mph? We had thunderstorms with 60mph winds yesterday. I am so sick of everyone wetting their pants for weather that we’ve had how many hundreds of years of?
Andrew, Betsy, Camille, big suckers over 150mph- ok. But, honestly, getting into panic mode over every tropical thing with a name is sad.
Hard to believe we are descended from people who braved the elements in shacks- and survived. Now we sit in modern cities and get panic attacks over 75mph wind.
Good grief- why not just permanently force everyone from their homes within-say-100 miles of the Gulf Coast and be done with it?
61 posted on 08/23/2005 8:58:59 PM by ClearBlueSky (
63 posted on 08/23/2005 10:12:00 PM by dogbyte12
Another storm for the media to hype.
6 posted on 08/24/2005 9:32:39 AM by bluebeak
bttt
Posters at WeatherUnderground have noted that the live wind speeds shown there have a history of being significantly low.
Best way to do it, imho, is right click the 'post reply' link in a thread you wanna post to, and then click 'open in new window' (or similar, depending on your browser).
Then after you've typed your reply in the new window/tab, hit 'post' once and return to the original thread (in the other window/tab) while the cogs are turning on your new post.
Clear ?
/.02 
A little different imho. Katrina was a Cat 5 storm churning in the gulf for days and nowhere for the water to go but into the gulf. This storm hasn’t been above a Cat 2 since it came on the radar in the US. It also is not in a total bowl like the gulf. We also have an incompetent POTUS trying to make it all about himself now.
I wouldn’t comment on the media hysteria, it’s heresy here. ;)
Turns out I need a receiver that'll p/u sideband, as my current one isn't geared for such.
Thanks for that reminder - I used to do that all the time on the hurricane threads and I guess being away as long as I was I totally forgot. Thanks, again!
Yes he did. And before the storm hit, he also deployed US Navy support ships from the East Coast down to the Gulf of Mexico, so they could follow the storm into the Gulf, in order to be of assistance at the earliest opportunity. The media never shared that bit of info with the public.
FEMA reserved whole cruise ships to be used as emergency housing, and the residents of NOLA refused to go aboard to live there. They were not only stranded in New Orleans but picky as to their new digs. So the govt ate the cost of three months or so of entire cruise ship rentals.
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