p.s. All of the graphics and and all of links (including the advisories) at the top of the thread are current with each new update.
I’m just gonna take my husband and move to Poland.
22 minutes ago this guy on the coast of Dominca Island writes....
North coast Dominica island, southerm Leeward Islands,15.5N. 8.30pm Monday .
.... Although we are only under Tropical Storm Warning and several hundred miles from the centre of Irma, I am looking out now at the first of the outer bands of the storm standing as a high wall of cloud glistening in the moonlight (full moon due on 6 Sept) Curling towards us across the channel over the French islands of Guadeloupe and Mariegalante. .
......... No wind or rain yet but the sea is beginning to surge against the cliffs below and is sweeping up over usual high water mark among the trees along the beach..
... Just came in from Douglas-Charles airport (formerly Melville Hall) with a passenger standing on the back of my pick-up truck who shouted “Go Through. Go for it!” as I pressed the excelerator and we got showered by waves hitting sea defence wall at the end of the runway.... This is just the gentle beginning way out on the periphery.