Posted on 09/23/2022 2:32:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
The late-blooming 2022 Atlantic Tropical Storm season is making up for lost time. A tropical system has developed in the Central Caribbean Sea. This storm system is forecast to threaten continental U.S. interests next week. While the tropical wave passed south of a key geographic area known as Hebert's Box #1, it will very likely pass through Hebert's Box #2. These boxes are useful as predictors of hurricanes that will strike South Florida. For more information about Hebert's Boxes, see Hebert Box. See graphic below which illustrated the Hebert's Boxes.
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Here’s the question: what will be the effect on the Orlando area, especially at Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando? The wind and very heavy rain could cause significant damage to both theme parks, and it could be months before they re-open again.
“So the eye just passed over Ft Myers. And still at 155 mph. Not good.”
Just made landfall. Has not passed over yet.
A decade or more ago, not sure which storm, a reporter gets hammered with a coconut on live TV. I’ve been looking for that video for years, can’t find. If anyone knows where it’s at, let me know.
There are a many places in the country that were heaven back in the 1950s and early 60s. I grew up in the Kansas City suburbs in Johnson County, Kansas and my buddies and I still talk about how fortunate we were at that time.
Ryan Hall is very good. I had that link in a tab but I didn’t know who was reporting
He just showed a resident’s video in Ft Meyers on the second story of a boating passing by.
Now showing houses floating off foundations (in Ft Meyers).
He said storm literally sitting in one spot.
Tornado warnings reported.
Prayers!
I will let you know in February as a son has us booked there.
Where did it make landfall? Englewood maybe?
So true. Probably all over the country. Every neat old place has grown up, and not much for the better.
Ryan also showed a shark swimming in a residential area. Another reason to stay indoors.
I read earlier today the officially Landfall is where the center of the eye passes over as the whole storm moves on-shore. That is just about to occur south of Port Charlotte Harbor on the Barrier Islands south of the bridge I mentioned above.
It’s moving at like 7mph. VERY BAD.
The videos today are frightening, and the stats. A surge of 18 feet...that’s over the top of many houses. Plus 24 inches of rain. Sounds like another Katrina.
Prayers up for everyone on the Gulf Coast and in the interior.
I hope they evacuate the nursing homes and assisted living places in time.
I’m just watching a report that said the eye didn’t pass OVER Ft. Myers. Storm surge bad.
I just turned Ryan on during lunch.
Wasn’t aware of him ‘til today.
He and his crew have better coverage that TWC.
Yes, that bridge will go, but...but...but...
Barrier island bridge builders know their business. They use modular construction, deep, cylindrical piers (low wave impedance) and “light” weight span sections, easily repaired... once heavy lift equipment can access the site. Barge or low boy trailer, they can handle either.
The downside will be the approaches to the bridge. Much lower in elevation than the crest of the span, and with only so much money available in the budget, you have to draw the line somewhere, so at some point the foundation under the pavement changes from “bridge quality” piers or mats, to standard compacted gravel. That ends up on lawns over in Punta Gorda.
You can easily end up with a pretty bridge, including abutments, dissociated, by itself, an island, 50 or 100 feet away from either end of the road. Now you have to get dredges on barges, or dozers on lowboys in to haul up muck from the new pass, then dry it enough to get gravel dumps and compacting equipment over the top before you can resurface the bridge approaches.
You have to zoom out to assess the lead time to do this. Did the causeway to Ft Myers survive? Or does everything have to come over on barges? Including food and water, coffee, hydraulic fluid, and duct tape?
How close does the remaining part of Periwinkle Way get to the site? Howe much of it has to be rebuilt to get those lowboys and heavies in?
Pine Island near Ft. Meyers
I am sick of all the coverage on TV of the Florida storm— “The Mother of All Storms” with reporters in the rain and wind, roofs coming off, trees down, palm trees being whipped by the wind. Its all the same. My Questions are: What is Trump doing in Mira-a-Lago? Is he moving out? Will he ride out the storm? What about Disney World in Orlando? What about that rocket they were to launch at the Cape? How hard did this storm hit Cuba? Its just Ron DiSantis, Florida, and the wind and rain—FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS! Other things are happening in the world—we are about to engage Russia in a war that could slip into a world wide conflagration but all that is on TV is a guy in the rain telling us its windy and raining.
Thank you, I see that now.
Has not yet been called, center of eye needs to cross
It’s been “imminent” for the last hour!
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