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Mike Thomas
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NEW: Category 5 Hurricane #Irma moved into top 7 strongest all time in the Atlantic with winds of 180mph & gusts over 200mph reported. Wow.
No. No. Irma, you are not allowed to start expanding your wind field out that far!
You know someone is going to ask.(It is me)
Is A Category 6 Hurricane Possible?
"Last year, Hurricane Patricia reached maximum sustained winds of 215 mph in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, based on those 1-minute maximum sustained surface winds on Oct. 23, 2015."
Hurricane Donna was the last storm of this magnitude to hit the Keys and took out bridges.
The 1935 storm took out Flagler's railroad.
I wonder how well the current bridges and causeways will hold up?
This is going to be a horrible disaster for the Caribbean but hopefully interaction with the islands will weaken Irma significantly and then cooler than normal weather in the Gulf will weaken her before US landfall.
I am in Viera, between Melbourne and Rockledge. Scary situation, but I am almost fully prepared, as best as anyone can be with a Cat 5. I may be heading north, but it is too early to know for sure. Ironically, my son is in the Alabama National Guard and they have been put on alert. He may be heading to Florida, while I head north to his apartment.
Prayers for all.
They’re reporting top sustained winds of 185 MPH now..........my wife has a generator set back at work for us, in case this beast aims itself at the Florida panhandle. As the crow flies, we’re only about 250 miles due north of Apalachicola and Tallahassee.