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Hurricane Dorian Live Thread II
NHC/NOAA ^ | 2 September 2019 | NHC/NOAA

Posted on 09/02/2019 7:50:54 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Catestrophic Hurricane Dorian was assigned Category 5 status by the NHC Sunday, September 1 at 0800. Since then Hurricane Dorian reached maximum sustained winds of 185 MPH, with gusts exceeding 220 MPH, and storm surge 18-23 feet above normal tide levels as it made landfall across Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. Dorian became the strongest hurricane in modern records for the Northwestern Bahamas.

Dorian has wrought extreme wind and flood damage to Abacos and Grand Bahama Island as it crawled slowly across the Northern Bahamas.

All interests along the Atlantic coast should continue monitoring conditions and forecasts as powerful Hurricane Dorian moves very close to the US coastline. Evacuation orders have been issued for many Atlantic coastal communities in the Southeast US. Evacuations include multiple hospitals and nursing homes along the coast with anticipated dangerous storm surge and battering waves.

Wind speed is expected to weaken and fluctuate in the coming days as the storm moves northward.





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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: North Carolina; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bahamas; dorian; hurricane; hurricanedorian; livehurricanedorian; prepper; preppers; tropical
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To: NautiNurse
While it is a bit late for this storm, I want to post about some relatively easy window covers that I fabricated; once they are set up it is easy with subsequent storms to remount them.

The usual method of covering windows is to use plywood - effective but it blocks out all the light from a room. This method of covering - useful in relatively small windows, not large picture windows or sliding glass doors - is to use the plastic chair mats made for offices, available at places like Office Depot. They are available in a variety of sizes, they are flexible and light and they pass light through inside but they are tough - tough to cut, tough to high winds.

Home Depot sells some 1/4" 'studs' that have a coarse wood screw thread on one half and a 1/4" machine bolt thread on the other half. I space two or three of these on the wood frame on each side of the window. Screw two 1/4 nuts on to the bolt side of the stud and use a ratchet wrench {7/16} to screw the stud into a pre-drilled hole. Using two nuts when screwing in to the wood frame help to make the nuts easier to remove without unscrewing the stud from the wood.

Of course the holes in the plastic mat have to match the placement of the studs. I use a strip of angle aluminum - I guess about 3/4" with holes drilled to mount over the studs to hold the plastic mat in place. I place an aluminum strip on each side and on the top. If need be I cut a piece out of the plastic to cover around a window air conditioner - mark and cut carefully for a snug fit.

Wing nuts will not fit to spin on to the studs with the size of aluminum angle strip I use. There is a threaded mounting for wood made to tap into a piece of wood to allow a machine bolt to mount into the wood. It has 'teeth' to bite into the wood so it does not spin when screwing or unscrewing a bolt into the device. I simply mount these backwards onto the studs over the aluminum strips with the teeth pointing outwards which makes it work much like a wing nut. Of course regular 1/4" nuts will work

I have used these for a number of storms for at least 15 years. As I say, once the system is fabricated it is easy to erect the structure. I use a marker to label the plastic mats as to which window, outside surface, right/left, top for the aluminum strips for each window.

When I started working on this I found commercial structures that cost hundreds of dollars and you still have to engineer the mounting for each window. Also, the commercial device has to be sized for each window, custom made if the window is not standard. With this system you just cut the plastic to exactly what you need.

In saying that you 'cut' the plastic, don't figure to use scissors unless they are fairly large and sharp; this plastic is tough. Matte knives won't likely do the job either. I have used tin snips to cut the plastic.

I have found these very effective - and fairly cheap - storm covers.

181 posted on 09/02/2019 2:31:46 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Repeal The 17th

I thought Irma made it to hot’lanta?


182 posted on 09/02/2019 2:42:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Hurricane hunters are only finding winds as high as 100 mph now. The monster is dying. Interesting to see if the media is a quick to point out the diminishing risk as opposed to end of the world coverage.


183 posted on 09/02/2019 2:43:00 PM PDT by deanking
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To: justa-hairyape

I looked up the surface frontal maps and 36 hour forecast.

There is a large high pressure area over the United states that is apparently breaking in to two high pressure areas over the next 36 hours.

Having studied “Everyday Weather and How it Works” it appers the large high pressure area is causing Dorian to stqqll out and holding it off the mainland

Any way the highs appear responsible for dtlling out the hurricne low

WAG


184 posted on 09/02/2019 2:44:53 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: TomGuy

I fear it will be much greater. Stories of people washed away.


185 posted on 09/02/2019 2:45:53 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Will trans-Atlantic trains cross over or under the ocean?)
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To: Bob Ireland
Yes, but get the translucent PVC, not the transparent polycarbonate: https://www.americanchairmats.com/polycarbonate-chair-mats-vs-traditional-pvc-vinyl-chair-mats/ The polycarbonate will crack when it is hit with a flying object.
186 posted on 09/02/2019 2:48:25 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: deanking

Not a chance.


187 posted on 09/02/2019 2:48:28 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: Bob Ireland

Fascinating idea! Sure beats taping windows (don’t tape windows!). Love the idea that it allows light when the alternative is darkness with plywood and the crack house look.


188 posted on 09/02/2019 2:48:40 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Will trans-Atlantic trains cross over or under the ocean?)
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To: maggief

God Bless the United States Coast Guardsmen as they serve your flock throughout the northern Bahamas.


189 posted on 09/02/2019 2:50:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Bob Ireland

Brilliant.


190 posted on 09/02/2019 2:50:21 PM PDT by Chgogal (Trump: Make America Great Again. Democrat: Make America Mexico Again.)
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To: bert

Thanks. There has been almost too many explanations to count. But that makes the most sense.


191 posted on 09/02/2019 2:54:24 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: deanking
Weird--the NHC 600 PM update reports max sustained winds of 145 mph and gusts to 170 mph.

Hopefully, the media are following NHC updates, rather than interpreting hurricane hunter data dumps from various altitudes and translating km per hour to mph.

192 posted on 09/02/2019 2:55:33 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Will trans-Atlantic trains cross over or under the ocean?)
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To: deanking

Larger size, lower wind speeds. She cycled and got bigger. May not mean higher wind speeds, but larger volume wind fields. She is sitting over the Gulf Stream. Have no idea why people predict her energy input to diminish.


193 posted on 09/02/2019 2:58:22 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: NautiNurse

Per Tom Terry WFTV Brevard county is now out of the cone per the latest track. The eye of the storm will be 50 miles from the coast.


194 posted on 09/02/2019 2:59:40 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: pnz1

For those folks interested in Disney, many of my friends with Disney passes have taken advantage of the reduced attendance ahead of the storm to get out there. Apparently that is a thing - get to Disney right before a hurricane. I never knew.


195 posted on 09/02/2019 3:00:14 PM PDT by aberaussie
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To: NautiNurse

I was thinking same. They’ve been ON this with recon and updates.

Such a strange storm, odd. I can’t remember a hurricane stalling this way for so long, though Harvey hung over Houston forever it seemed.


196 posted on 09/02/2019 3:03:01 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: NautiNurse

I was thinking same. They’ve been ON this with recon and updates.

Such a strange storm, odd. I can’t remember a hurricane stalling this way for so long, though Harvey hung over Houston forever it seemed.


197 posted on 09/02/2019 3:03:01 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: SE Mom

You can say that again.


198 posted on 09/02/2019 3:08:39 PM PDT by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: NautiNurse

Bahama’s Press is reporting that bodies are being collected onto flatbed trucks throughout the Abaco area.

http://bahamaspress.com/


199 posted on 09/02/2019 3:13:39 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

Oh how incredibly sad.....my heart is breaking for those people


200 posted on 09/02/2019 3:20:20 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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