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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Hurricane Irma Live Thread I
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Thanks for all you excellent posts, DB.
Many thanks to NautiNurse too...what would we do without you NN?
Thanks. Folks like you are the reason why I do this. I hang at the Wunderground website so you don’t have to. Good graphics but bad forecasting abounds, ya gotta pull the wheat out of a mountain of chaff.
And last count I heard in the middle of the storm was 59 tornadoes.
Yeah, real overhyped.
Thanks, FRiend!
Let’s let this tread carry on with reporting.Many non-members reading.Great job everyone.
“Reasonably accurate”
How condescending.
Is anything good enough for you?
What are you expecting?
Perfection???
Go,do it yourself and get back to us on how it can be and should be done better.
There you go again, getting personal. Can you keep your own thread on a professional, informational level when hurling insults at people with whom you disagree?
Are YOU claiming to be a meteorologist?
Reasonably accurate is about as good as it gets in forecasting a storm, it’s not condescending in the least. I have no idea why you’re being so angry about the reality of this storm, that it was thankfully not nearly so severe as forecast. I know you from the Religion Forum. Shouldn’t you be giving thanks to God for a better outcome than feared, rather than arguing that it really, really is every bit as bad as the MSM said it would be? I just don’t grasp where you’re coming from, unless it’s pure emotion.
No, I am not. Are YOU, lol?
It happened in Mobile also and the local news paper is falling all over itself (with two articles so far) saying that it happens all the time at low tide and in the winter.
I'm not from Mobile, but I've been there several times and try and keep up with local news, and I'm not remembering it being reported that the entire bay dried out like it is now.
It might have happened during Fredrick? But it's weird how the newspaper is bound and determined that this is just a normal occurrence.
Blam, any input?
There was NOTHING amiss with the data collected.
The data was the data. It is what it is.
And the rest of your post displays an abyssmal ignorance of ANYTHING connected with weather.
You ought to be able to figure out why low tide would be a benefit to areas experiencing storm surge. Just think about it a little bit.
And here you are pontificating about it being overhyped and you can’t even answer the questions you asked?
You don’t know what you are talking about.
I can offer you no help, just an experience.
When my town was flooded with Irene, we were without electricity. By day two people were worried about their food stock. A cook out was set up. For a week we had breakfast lunch and dinner supplied by the local home refrigerators and stock up freezers. We ate fantastic, venison lobster,home made sausages, even pets received great meals. These meals were ice breakers, new friends made and many helped each other with either clean up or moral support. People in nearby towns would bring us ice which they made.
One thing I learned after the flood is to just do as much is possible with what one has. Trying to get any gov help will only slow down getting back to 'normal' and time will be wasted with all the paperwork only to be denied later.
All I can do right now is keep your family in prayer.
YES.
Think about the screen name for a bit.
Well, then, maybe you'd like to share your highly specialized knowledge regarding this matter with NautiNurse, who appears to be under the impression that it's not a positive thing.
Well bless your heart, I thought it was just short for metro.
We did the same thing when Fran hit. no power for weeks. neighbors came together.
I’m not arguing that it was as bad as it was forecast to be.
And if you read my posts I have been telling people to be thankful that it wasn’t and I myself am.
The storm was not overhyped.
The fact that it did not end up playing out as it very well could have been but did not does not mean it was overhyped because there is no way to know until after the fact how bad it was going to be. The NWS HAS to give the worst case scenario. This storm had the potential to be everything they had forecast and there’s no way of knowing if it reached that until it’s over.
GReat map...would like a couple more colors for hurricane intensity differentiation
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