The Atlantic Hates Everyone! - Hurricane megathread

[Hirota]

Soooo...are a minority of idiots still trying to gloat over the suffering of a bunch of people for their ideology or have have they gone quiet since they realised people of lots of ideologies are suffering??

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NHC's 11 AM update:

-- Hurricane warnings now for the entire coastal area of south Florida.

-- Storm surge warnings as far north as Venice on the gulf coast and up to Sebastian Inlet (Melbourne) on the Atlantic.

-- The projected track has once again shifted west, splitting the keys between Marathon and Plantation and making landfall in the western Everglades Sunday morning as a Cat 4, then proceeding north through Immokalee (Cat 3?), Bartow (Cat 2?) and Lakeland (Cat 2?) by Monday.

List of evacuations in SW Florida (Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry, and Glades counties)

List of evacuations in Greater Miami area (Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties)

There are more evacuations in Palm Beach, Martin and Indian River counties, mostly of the intercoastal areas.

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Soooo...are a minority of idiots still trying to gloat over the suffering of a bunch of people for their ideology or have have they gone quiet since they realised people of lots of ideologies are suffering??

Mod intervention.

[Thermodolia]

NHC's 11 AM update:

-- Hurricane warnings now for the entire coastal area of south Florida.

-- Storm surge warnings as far north as Venice on the gulf coast and up to Sebastian Inlet (Melbourne) on the Atlantic.

-- The projected track has once again shifted west, splitting the keys between Marathon and Plantation and making landfall in the western Everglades Sunday morning as a Cat 4, then proceeding north through Immokalee (Cat 3?), Bartow (Cat 2?) and Lakeland (Cat 2?) by Monday.

List of evacuations in SW Florida (Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry, and Glades counties)

List of evacuations in Greater Miami area (Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties)

There are more evacuations in Palm Beach, Martin and Indian River counties, mostly of the intercoastal areas.

Apparently the damn thing is still supposed to have 75-110 MPH winds when it hits mid Georgia

[Eol Sha]

NHC's 11 AM update:

-- Hurricane warnings now for the entire coastal area of south Florida.

-- Storm surge warnings as far north as Venice on the gulf coast and up to Sebastian Inlet (Melbourne) on the Atlantic.

-- The projected track has once again shifted west, splitting the keys between Marathon and Plantation and making landfall in the western Everglades Sunday morning as a Cat 4, then proceeding north through Immokalee (Cat 3?), Bartow (Cat 2?) and Lakeland (Cat 2?) by Monday.

List of evacuations in SW Florida (Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry, and Glades counties)

List of evacuations in Greater Miami area (Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties)

There are more evacuations in Palm Beach, Martin and Indian River counties, mostly of the intercoastal areas.

Apparently the damn thing is still supposed to have 75-110 MPH winds when it hits mid Georgia

My professor said my school is considering a shutdown on Monday.

[Seangoli]

Irma is now a Category 4.

At least Miami will get spared a little? Not too much.

No, not really. Seriously, at Cat 4 you can expect serious if not complete destruction of most structures. While a Cat 5 is stronger, the honest truth is that the destructive potential of a Cat 4 is massive.

As I said earlu, its the difference between "royally fucmed" and "totally fucked".

[San Lumen]

As of the 2pm advisory from the national hurricane center its back to 155. There is a strong possibility it goes back to category 5 status before landfall. That would Irma only the fourth Category 5 storm to make landfall in the United States. the others are the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, Camile in 1969, and Andrew in 1992.

[West Esung]

Seminole and Marion County have closed schools and government buildings on Tuesday as well.
There goes my Thanksgiving break...

[Major-Tom]

The fact that the storm is passing to the West of Miami is actually more concerning than if it passed East from what I've heard. Miami and Broward County have reason to be extremely concerned.

Make no mistake, this will be worse than Andrew.

[Galloism]

The fact that the storm is passing to the West of Miami is actually more concerning than if it passed East from what I've heard. Miami and Broward County have reason to be extremely concerned.

Make no mistake, this will be worse than Andrew.

Of note, Florida is better prepared than it was when Andrew hit. They spent a lot of time (and money) creating very efficient water drainage and control systems in the event of hurricanes.

I mean, let's not kid ourselves, this will test their preparations possibly beyond their limit, but they won't be caught with their pants utterly around their ankles like Andrew.

[Major-Tom]

The fact that the storm is passing to the West of Miami is actually more concerning than if it passed East from what I've heard. Miami and Broward County have reason to be extremely concerned.

Make no mistake, this will be worse than Andrew.

Of note, Florida is better prepared than it was when Andrew hit. They spent a lot of time (and money) creating very efficient water drainage and control systems in the event of hurricanes.

I mean, let's not kid ourselves, this will test their preparations possibly beyond their limit, but they won't be caught with their pants utterly around their ankles like Andrew.

Well - that's certainly true (and certainly a major positive). I wasn't alive for Andrew, but I've heard that, yes, they were underprepared as all hell.

[Skylus]

Anyone else watching the Weather Channel?

I think their cameras are messing up...

Also is the "Caibarien" word (the 255 MI E of Caibarien Cuba thing on the far right) misspelled for "Caribbean"?

[Salandriagado]

The Dutch Ministry of Defence have released aerial footage of Sint Maarten. Maho Beach is no more.

A few things to note for scale: those trashed boats half way through were each set into 5 concrete wells specifically designed to survive storms like this and tied down with everything modern technology can provide before the storm: note how about half of them managed to survive. Shifting *any* of them is pretty scary. Unsurprisingly, the numpties who neither hauled their boats out nor headed for the mangroves got annihilated (shown at the end).

[Seangoli]

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/08/media/r ... index.html

Jesus, what a fucker. He very well could have convinced people to stay longer than they should have by saying that Irma's severity was being up-played for media attention. Meanwhile, he has the money and resources to get out immediately, unlike I imagine a lot of his listeners in Florida. While I may have very strong opinions about said people, I would rather they not risk dying because a blow-hard attention whore decided to run his mouth off on shit just because it speaks to his audience's politics.

[Seangoli]

The Dutch Ministry of Defence have released aerial footage of Sint Maarten. Maho Beach is no more.

A few things to note for scale: those trashed boats half way through were each set into 5 concrete wells specifically designed to survive storms like this and tied down with everything modern technology can provide before the storm: note how about half of them managed to survive. Shifting *any* of them is pretty scary. Unsurprisingly, the numpties who neither hauled their boats out nor headed for the mangroves got annihilated (shown at the end).

And the sad part is that if the images coming from Barbuda are even worse. There is damn near nothing left on the island, and I am utterly shocked more people didn't die there.

Edit: Good fucking god, I just looked at how big Irma is now. The storm could completely engulf the entire state of Florida with some room left over.

[Corrian]

This article I saw says expectations are it will hit as a 5 in Florida now

[Uxupox]

This article I saw says expectations are it will hit as a 5 in Florida now

Hopefully el niño works its magic and makes the hurricane veer off as it did in Puerto Rico.

[Maineiacs]

This article I saw says expectations are it will hit as a 5 in Florida now

Actually, only the headline says that. The article itself makes no mention of re-strengthening.

[Corrian]

This article I saw says expectations are it will hit as a 5 in Florida now

Actually, only the headline says that. The article itself makes no mention of re-strengthening.

I kinda noticed that after I read it further.

[Victores]

Well, looks like I'm gonna have to deal with 80mph winds. So thats annoying.

[Vassenor]

Anyone else watching the Weather Channel?

I think their cameras are messing up...

Also is the "Caibarien" word (the 255 MI E of Caibarien Cuba thing on the far right) misspelled for "Caribbean"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caibarien

No.

...apparently the URL mark up doesn't like diacritics.

[Corrian]

Well, looks like I'm gonna have to deal with 80mph winds. So thats annoying.

Be glad you're not getting hit with twice that.

[Genivaria]

This article I saw says expectations are it will hit as a 5 in Florida now

My step-dad has family in the Florida Keys.
So he's not happy right now.

[Corrian]

This article I saw says expectations are it will hit as a 5 in Florida now

My step-dad has family in the Florida Keys.
So he's not happy right now.

Did they leave like anyone logically should on that strip of land?

[Costa Fierro]

The Dutch Ministry of Defence have released aerial footage of Sint Maarten. Maho Beach is no more.

I dunno; it just looked like the tide was in.

The beach isn't there anymore. All of the sand is now on the airport next door.