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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Brad Panovich Verified account @wxbrad 32m32 minutes ago
Hurricane hunters will not fly over land so might not get as much data tonight with eye near the Cuba coast. #Irma
Isn’t that the truth!
How sad. I hope he'll be the only one.
By the way saw tons of bucket trucks (tree trimmers, electric trucks) heading east on Hwy 24 east of Paducah Ky presumably convoying down south...
So they have seen this exact same scenario played out before ?
I want to see that!
I saw that and said “gotta try to post that”. But, I actually mis-identified the location of part of the low pressure area — looking more carefully, there’s a swirl of low pressure already entering Arkansas & heading SE fast.
That last image to me, and call me what you like, but to me it looks kinda like an embryo in
a placental fluid. Maybe revenge for all those innocent lives taken through planned parenthood.
its late. i’m tired.
Bastardi was just on Hannity...talking about the storm weakening over Cuba...he looked rattled....like “ut oh, did we blow this?”....
Prayers for all in Irma’s path. And celebrating my return to FR!
NOAA-NASA satellite GOES-16 captured this 'geo-color image of Hurricane Irma' passing the eastern end of Cuba at about 8:00 a.m. EDT on Sept. 8, 2017.
Imagery enhancement shown here displays geostationary satellite data in different ways depending on whether it is day or night. ....This image, captured as daylight moves into the area, offers a blend of both, with nighttime features on the left side of the image and daytime on the right. .....In nighttime imagery, liquid water clouds appear in shades of blue, ice clouds are grayish-white, water looks black, and land appears gray...... (The city lights are a static background created with VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery. It does not show any existing power outages.)... In daytime imagery, land and shallow-water features appear as they do in true-color imagery.
Where you been for 3 years?
My niece took that route and it worked well for her family.
Busy as a one legged man in a butt kicking contest. Working, back to college full time....
the left will blame globull warming for making weather unpredictable.
“Exact”, no. That’s one reason the “cones” in these events are as wide as they are. But even to my “weather buff” eye, it looks likely (likely!) that Irma will turn NNW, by about this time tomorrow, with the timing a bit uncertain.
At any rate, NHC knows a lot more about it than we do.
Irma just veered SW into Cuba. No influence at all from trough and now moving away from trough region.
Okay...I’m really getting tired of the TV folks saying ALL of Florida is going to get hit and then showing a map that leaves off my Emerald Coast. It’s bad enough to always be the “on the other side of the map” insert, but are we not Florida too? Pensacola? Navarre? Destin? Ft. Walton? The color hurricane cones don’t include us, so why not say “MOST of Florida will be affected, but not those lucky ducks in the Panhandle.”?
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