Hurricane Matthew

NOAA/NHC ^ | 1 October 2016 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Matthew is big, bad and just downright scary, and we await the long anticipated sharp turn northward. Jamaica is completing final storm preparations. All interests in the Eastern U.S. and Bahamas should be carefully watching the track of Mighty Matthew.

Ripped straight from the NHC Discussion page:

Matthew remains south of a low-to mid-level ridge over
the western Atlantic. The dynamical models forecast this ridge to
weaken over the next 72 hours as a mid- to upper-level trough develops
over the Gulf of Mexico. This evolution should cause Matthew to turn
northwestward after 24 hours and northward by 48-72 hours. The guidance
generally agrees with this scenario. However, there is a spread between
the GFS forecast of landfall in Jamaica and eastern Cuba and the ECMWF
forecast landfall in southwestern Haiti. The guidance becomes more
divergent after 72 hours.

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Public Advisories
NHC Discussions
Buoy 42058 Central Caribbean (in storm path)
Florida & Eastern Gulf Buoy Locations
SE Atlantic Coast Buoy Locations

SE U.S. Radar Sector
Gitmo Radar (primitive)
Jamaica Radar Loop (primitive)

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[who knows what evil?]

True, dat...

[Black Agnes]

https://www.ourstate.com/hazel/

Sobering read.

Especially the part about the surge.

It’s the surge that kills the most people in these.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=katrina+surge

Anyone who is staying on any of those FL barrier islands should have to watch some of those videos. So they know what to do (leave beforehand! duh!)

https://www.wunderground.com/education/Katrinas_surge_part13.asp (long read, but good. 911 operators would get a call that would just be a scream and the silence...during the surge)

[rodguy911]

Usually people who are uninformed.Lets hope they are not depending on this govt. to save them as well. Jury may be out on all that.

We have a govt. in place that is run by the NWO,the Soros', Buffets, Bush cabal that want to see nothing but destruction come to the US to bring it down. Hard to tel what political decisions will rule for val/jars decision making.

Will she throw lots of money at Fla. Ga. and N.C. in hopes of Hillary votes which preserve zeros legacy? Or will she be content with the destruction of some of the Southeast coast? Hard to tell but depending on this govt. is a crap shoot at best.

[who knows what evil?]

Hazel took out a large silo on my grandfather’s farm...we could see the wreckage out the kitchen window for years afterward...

[rodguy911]

Thanks for that.Yes we do get our share of ups and downs with the storm world. Yes an aerial would be really something,don’t know if something like that will google earth or not.

[Islander7]

When I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, we had to watch ‘A lady called Camille’ every year in a general assembly. We were further south than your kin in Jxn though.

I was in Laurel, my brothers and older sister were in Pascagoula. I was 17. Camille weren't no lady!

[novemberslady]

prayers & bttt Dr.

[NautiNurse]

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[N. Theknow]

My family visited a friend's house at Myrtle Beach a month before Hazel hit. Went back after Hazel to see only a cement slab with black cast iron pipe sticking out of it with a cast iron bathtub hanging on the pipe 10-12 feet in the air.

Insurance company denied claim saying it was destroyed by flood and not covered.

Fortunately, friend's father personalized his shirts with name and address label sewn into shirtails. Farmer in Conway, at least 20 miles inland called and asked him to come pick up his laundry.

Insurance company wound up paying claim because of proof of wind damage.

[MD Expat in PA]

I have such great respect for all you medical folks, doctors and nurses and vital support staff and also the 1st responders at such a time as this. Many will be working very long hours and without much sleep over the next few days and many not getting back home for days, if they have a home to go back to or without serious damage. Same with the utility workers, some who will come in from out of state and who will be working many long hours restoring power after the storm has passed.

FWIW my mother was in ICU and in very critical condition at Johns Hopkins Bayview hospital in Baltimore during the blizzard of ’96. January 7th was her birthday and despite the blizzard, I was not going to not be there with her. My husband and I dug out his 4-wheel drive truck and got to the hospital the day before, before it got too bad. We stayed at the hospital for the next two days.

My husband volunteered to go out in the middle of the blizzard to pick up doctors and nurses and other vital hospital workers so they could come into work, and also took a few home over the next two days, some of whom had been working some 36 hours straight or more, only catching a bit of sleep on cots when they could.

And I was so grateful for them. Imagine having a loved one in an ICU or a loved one needing life saving surgery and no one showed up for work.

My job? I can call out if the weather gets really bad and not come to work as what I do for a living doesn’t mean life or death. Yes. Processing PR is important but not life or death.

Thank you. Stay safe and check in when you can.

[fatima]

Stay safe.Our storm chaser left last night for parts unknown.Have to talk to my daughter to find out.On going prayers for everyone.

[blam]

"Camille cured my hurricane riding out"

That was a bad one, a number of 'riders' didn't make it.

I missed it completely. I was living in San Jose then. I came here after Frederick to help my parents though.

[wardamneagle]

She can crawl back into the hole she crawled out of.
And she’s paying for ads on the Weather Channel over
the next five days. Disgusting.

[blam]

Brevard County = Melbourne area.

[randita]

Bastardi predicted late last night that he thinks this will hit Jupiter, FL as a Cat 4, then weaken as it heads up the coast.

[randita]

Bastardi is seconding the Euro model.

[wardaddy]

My first management job was for my dad repairing the 36-48 inch ductile iron sewer running from spring hill rd to the plant near Northside downtown by the state docks after Frederick wiped it out

Cottonmouth nests like you never seen in those bogs and sloughs

My girlfriend was in Nashville so we drove a lot

Wednesday night get together in Birmingham to make it easier for her

I was 12 on and 5 off

Brutal when young and in horny

[wardaddy]

I was visiting just north of old pass rd in long beach my French side from my moms side by marriage cousins at their camp house

Nobody knew it was gonna be what it was

It spawned tornadoes in its path to the Alleghenies and flooded hell out of them

It was a Porsche turbo hurricane

[randita]

Clinton will be content to throw pot shots from afar at all the GOP governors in the affected states.

Trump will probably be down there distributing supplies and picking up debris.

[wardaddy]

I remember big telephone pole pines down all up 49

Even into north Jackson

I think waveland or pass Christian got worst of it both higher slightly than most of the coast

Woulda been far worse if not

The surge ran inland miles where nothing could stop it

Pass Christian had more structure surviving on 90 than anywhere with Katrina due to that extra 10 feet on the knoll with all the old homes

From ocean springs to waveland is pretty much gone on the beach in a couple blocks

It took 20 years to recover from Camille

I don’t about Katrina

11 years

Maybe 10% rebuilt and on stilts per codes I guess