Posted on 09/09/2017 2:08:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula and points north are poised to experience Hurricane Irma after the storm hugged Cuba's northern coastline. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Hurricane Irma's prolonged interaction with Cuba diminished its strength to Category 3.
Irma is forecast to increase in strength as it crosses the FL Straits. The Florida Keys experienced strong outer bands while Irma grazed the N Cuba coastline.
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Hurricane Irma Live Thread I
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I couldn't either, until it happened - which only took an instant.
Dad was away in Vietnam at the time, and we were living in base housing on Okinawa. Mom had everything under control during that typhoon, except one little thing. The screen door off the garage became unlatched, and it was banging back and forth something fierce. Mom thought that she and I (the eldest kid) could get it shut if I reached out and pulled it shut while she held on to my other arm.
Well, we opened the garage door and began to execute her plan, but when I got the door perpendicular to the outside wall, the wind force slapped it back to full open, and yanked right outside.
In the blink of an eye, I was thirty feet out in the back yard, on my face in the wind and rain. I'm sure my mom was screaming her head off, but I never heard a thing over the roar of the storm. It was brutal making that crawl back to the doorway, but I wanted to live.
When I finally made it back inside, we forgot all about that screen door ;-)
LSM still calling it Cat 3 but you’re right, the winds have cranked up..gaining strength.
All those links have lost signal now. Not a good sign for what’s going on there.
80mi out. 931mb 130mph
I would like it to target the Cuba and Venezuela government and their supporters if there was a way to do that. I know that most of their people have no way to take back their freedom and that is a real shame.
Get Zello!
Gosh. Things like that make us realize how really frail human beings are in the face of Nature.
I was really shocked, in that thunderstorm; that fierceness is something many of us have never really ‘thought about’ before finding ourselves in it.
Military ? Must have been from the Sperry Univac customer base. Burroughs was mainly banking.
I’m sorry, that is classified. :^)
It was no fun, let me tell you. That experience gave me a lifelong respect for major weather events.
It looks to me as if on average it is now moving in a more NW direction, but it is almost in a series of “squiggles”, reminiscent of one star in a dual sun solar system. I am guessing the overall vector is what NHC is showing at 6-7 mph?
Watch the infrared loop. Easier to see. Visible is almost impossible to tell.
Since 1792, approximately 2,000 large ships have sunk in and around the Columbia Bar, and because of the danger and the numerous shipwrecks the mouth of the Columbia River acquired a reputation worldwide as the Graveyard of the Pacific.[6]
“Is Mr Trump getting any blame for steering this storm away from Mar a Lago”
I think it would be an amazing sign from God if the wind and rain hit the east coast, but Mar-A-Lago stayed perfectly dry and stable. What would the libs do? How would/could they explain it?
Its easy. HAARP.
Get them rolling on it.
“My bride hates the mountain passes”
Moving to Alaska for my ex’s military assignment at Elmendorf, we drove the entire Al-Can Highway. That was in ‘71, and I still freak out just thinking about it.
We need that wind sheer Sunday.
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