Posted on 09/07/2017 8:09:47 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma had a devastating impact on islands in the Caribbean.
Hurricane and Storm surge watches were issued Thursday morning for South Florida. The Florida Keys began evacuating visitors and residents, followed by flood zones in Miami and Miami Beach. Sarasota FL declared a local state of emergency Thursday morning.
Polk County FL Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday that law enforcement authorities would check the identities of people who turn up at shelters--and take to jail anyone found to have an active arrest warrant. “If you go to a shelter for Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail... “If you have a warrant, turn yourself in to the jail — it’s a secure shelter.” Judd also posted that sex offenders and sex predators would not be admitted to the shelters. "We cannot and we will not have innocent children in a shelter with sexual offenders & predators. Period." Judd's statements unleashed a liberal firestorm via Twitter.
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How many models predicted an almost due west turn into Cuba?
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The Euro model showed it since day 1.
They seem to be much better at forecasting further out than us.
And Joe Bastardi got both of ‘em right...and the ones in between too.
Thanks for saying this. I have a daughter who is a junior in college studying meteorology and it is not a sociological study of “climate change”, it is calculus, physics, computer programming, radar and thermodynamics. Hardly a fluffy liberal major. People criticizing college educated meteorologists should take a couple college level meteorology courses and see like how much of a genius they feel like.
I predicted it at 6:33pm tonight. ;)
And here I thought you were nibbling dark chocolate bon-bons while looking wistfully across the Gulf:)
Amen!
It’s that NASCAR thingy!!
Joe Bastardi is supposed to be on Hannity this hour.
Hey!
Get that red line off of Indianapolis!
Eye is definitely going slightly south.
Irma hits Cuba, state run TV broadcasts Fidel special:
https://twitter.com/CBSMiami/status/906334090353418240
By the time it gets that far it will just be rain.
Then I picked up 60lbs of ice.
Then we put up the hurricane screens.
I need to prune a few wilting palm fronds tomorrow morning.
If this thing hits Havana and they aren’t prepared for it, that would be a game-changer.
https://twitter.com/ISH8/status/906336102390403078
John Morales Verified account @JohnMoralesNBC6 7m7 minutes ago
John Morales Retweeted Ian H.
Not until tomorrow evening.
Replying to @JohnMoralesNBC6
so when is the turn actually projected, when tomorrow exactly?
We're watching baseball.
But that was still away from FLA and not turn north up either coast or the gut
BTW Like I said I would hope that would be the case as it would weaken as soon as it hit the gulf coast
Better than up either FLA coast or the gut
But none of the NHC predictions show that SO FAR
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