Posted on 09/10/2017 2:02:02 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula has begun to experience Hurricane Irma following landfall at Marco Island. 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. Prayers for all in the storm path.
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Public Advisories
NHC Discussions
FL Radar Map with Irma Track Overlay
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Key West, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Tampa Bay, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Orlando, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Miami, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Melbourne, FL
NOAA Local Weather Statements/Radar Jacksonville, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Charleston, SC
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Wilmington, NC, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Morehead City, FL
NHC Local Weather Statements/Radar Norfolk, VA
Buoy Data SE US & GOM
Buoy Data NC/SC/GA
Hurricane Irma Live Thread I
Hurricane Irma Live Thread II
Hurricane Irma Live Thread III
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NautiNurse: See Bodelian_Girl's post #821 on this thread for link to a slideshow of catastrophic damage to oceanfront homes in Ponte Vedra. Horrible!
Does anyone have news about Amelia Island / Fernandina Beach, FL?
If you look on Instagram using the hashtags for the location you can see a lot of first hand reports.
Wow. I have not seen that. I really hope and pray the power in FL and GA comes back on VERY soon.
Ol’ Virginny is a lovely state but the populace can at times have a haughty way about them, especially when it comes to their own history. Rather authoritarian in that regard. That said, I do agree with them about Thomas Jefferson. His name was dishonored by those Sally Hemmings charges, which only arose to make Bill Clinton’s predations look less putrid.
Yes, I did, thanks.
This is an email I sent my son this morning.
I took Bubba [the dog] out to relieve himself around midnight. It was driving rain and the wind almost blew me over, but it was from the northwest and not the south. Luckily there was very little southerly wind and my shutters came through unscathed, only the lid blew off my little street lamp.
Naturally, Bubba didn’t want to take a leak, and was glad to get back inside.
Rain calmed down shortly after and he had a successful shot at relief.
I could tell from my electric clocks that there was a power outage during the night, but I had power and internet on continuously otherwise, to my great surprise.
I went to bed just after midnight and opened the bedroom window so I could hear the storm. Just from the sound of it, I’d estimate wind gusts 60-70 mph between midnight and 3:00 And with sustained wind of 35 mph.
One of my trees with branches over the roof made noise occasionally as the wind pushed the branches into the roof,
but no damage.
Some of my neighbor’s houses have damage, so I guess I lucked out.
Thanks. However I’m not on Instagram (or Twitter). Can’t see a thing unless I sign up...
Nooooo..... I was just starting to really like you again!
Nooooo..... I was just starting to really like you again!
What may be happening is that as the hurricane moves up on the western side of Florida, the wind to the north is blowing east to west and blowing ocean off to the west. Then as it circles around and comes back west to east below the eye, it blows the water back and creates the storm surge people worry about.
It seems the DNA evidence is pretty clear that Sally Hemmings did transmit some Thomas Jefferson DNA. Remember that as his beloved wife was dying she made him swear he would never marry another woman because she feared her children suffering from a “wicked stepmother.” Since Sally was half sister to his dead wife, there may have been additional attraction because of it. Somehow, I cannot imagine a viral man like Jefferson living the rest of his long life celibate, nor violating a promise to his dying wife.
Maybe my fundamental understanding of hurricane storm surge is dated or something, since any actual meteorological study I’ve done dates to high school and elective university courses several decades ago, but I’ve always understood it to be rather like a dome of water inward toward the eye, attributable more to low pressure but more or less contained by the stronger winds in the eye wall. Hurricane winds from outer bands driving water from shallow bays and sounds does occur, I’ve seen historic photos of such from storms here in NC, but any relation to surge depth is something I’m not able to speak to all that knowledgeably. However, it doesn’t appear to have increased surge into Tampa Bay, which is why I’ve kept insisting that this unusually low tide was actually a beneficial thing as far as storm damage from surge or overwash.
Well, that’s too bad since I’m not holding any scurrilous, Oprahfied version of history against you at all. Maybe you’ll reconsider.
Might want to revisit the actual thread to get into that in any detail since it’s very far afield from the topic, but to my knowledge there is no means of differentiating Jefferson Y chromosomes between Randolph and Thomas, and I’ve actually not seen any specific discussion relating to that, to the point that it appears to me as if it’s the X chromosome in question.
Hurricane Irma’s impact, from the air: Florida Keys a bit battered but mostly spared
By Joel Achenbach September 11 at 10:27 PM
ABOVE THE FLORIDA KEYS — The Conch Republic is still here, if dark, dirty, trashed, and weeks away from being what it was before Hurricane Irma blew in. It wasn’t devastated because, for some reason, this massive storm punched below its weight.
This was a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale as it rolled into the Keys. It brought a fair bit of destruction, and tossed boats onto lawns. It turned towns raggedy. But a tour of Southwest Florida and the Florida Keys on Monday afternoon by air suggests that this quirky storm spared the state the kind of direct, punishing violence that residents had dreaded.
A Coast Guard C-130 transport plane carrying two U.S. senators, a congressman and a handful of journalists left from the Coast Guard air station in Opa-Locka, just north of Miami, for the two-hour tour of hurricane damage.
At 2,000 feet, the journey offered no chance for a granular diagnosis, but the big picture was clear: Southwest Florida and its huge population of retirees emerged relatively unscathed. The storm severely battered some of the small and fragile Keys. Key West itself is generally intact, though without power, a water supply and a functional sewage system.
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Thank you.
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