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Atlantic Hurricane season 2017 |OT|
- Thread starter perfectchaos007
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I'm aware of that. Them saying that it was a hurricane now would have meant that it was intensifying way faster than expected, which is why I was questioning what they said.
peppermints
Member
In Orlando till Saturday. Wondering if we'll be leaving too late then in terms of traffic going north.
I'd advise you to remain in Orlando at that point.
peppermints
Member
Based on the weather or traffic impacts?
Euro takes it north. West coast hit. Just another possibility. Nothing certain yet.
Hmmm... what's that hitting Nova Scotia? And when? That's my neighborhood...
Edit: Sept 11
At what point do we say "fuck it" and invent a Category 6?
The black makes it even more terrifying... :/
Actually, I take that back - leaving Orlando on Saturday should be OK.
peppermints
Member
Oh okay. Lol. Well. Still on edge. Not used to these being from Indiana.
mordecaii83
Member
Maybe not with traffic, most likely will be bumper to bumper
The question has been asked a few times, and the answer is usually "what would the difference in destruction be?", because the categories are meant to be measurements of how destructive a storm is.
what? That's just semantics. a "super typhoon" is characterized by 150mph winds like a Cat 4 Hurricane. The word "typhoon" is just what they refer to hurricanes as in the Northwest Pacific.
I know that. I'm more referring to a Super Typhoon like Haima or Tip. Storms that strong in the Atlantic are almost never seen.
perfectchaos007
Member
In Australia they call them by a real funny name. Like a Willy Willy or something
Time to go home sick id say. Tell them you have "the severe shits".
If a nuclear bomb was going to land within 100 miles of the office, they'd let you go, this IS basically that.
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
wtf @ Tip
That's a big mother fucker WTF
Welp. Just got off work - absolutely crazy day getting work permit extensions for people evacuating so that they'll be able to return to the islands once the storm is gone. Busiest day I've maybe ever had.
So I busted my ass all yesterday and today and get off an hour early and go to the hardware stores - they're all out of plywood. All of them. Sold out. The second strongest storm by wind speed in atlantic history is bearing down and I won't be able to board up my place. Not only that, but I'm the only house in my row without hurricane shutters so the strata corp has no one to do it / can't help.
Gonna have to make a lot of calls here as this isn't good for me. No panic (storm keeps heading on a south track!) but reason to worry all the same.
EDIT: Also my car is missing a window and there's no garage for me to park it in. Car is going to get wrecked...
So I busted my ass all yesterday and today and get off an hour early and go to the hardware stores - they're all out of plywood. All of them. Sold out. The second strongest storm by wind speed in atlantic history is bearing down and I won't be able to board up my place. Not only that, but I'm the only house in my row without hurricane shutters so the strata corp has no one to do it / can't help.
Gonna have to make a lot of calls here as this isn't good for me. No panic (storm keeps heading on a south track!) but reason to worry all the same.
EDIT: Also my car is missing a window and there's no garage for me to park it in. Car is going to get wrecked...
mordecaii83
Member
Welp. Just got off work - absolutely crazy day getting work permit extensions for people evacuating so that they'll be able to return to the islands once the storm is gone. Busiest day I've maybe ever had.
So I busted my ass all yesterday and today and get off an hour early and go to the hardware stores - they're all out of plywood. All of them. Sold out. The second strongest storm by wind speed in atlantic history is bearing down and I won't be able to board up my place. Not only that, but I'm the only house in my row without hurricane shutters so the strata corp has no one to do it / can't help.
Gonna have to make a lot of calls here as this isn't good for me. No panic (storm keeps heading on a south track!) but reason to worry all the same.
EDIT: Also my car is missing a window and there's no garage for me to park it in. Car is going to get wrecked...
Shit... Hope you manage to get your windows taken care of...
I actually just said fuck it and ordered water from Amazon. It gets here Thursday. Need to double check my pantry but might order some canned goods as well.
I'm a broken record but buy water storage containers and fill them with gallons of tap water, freeze some, it'll keep your food cold to
maquiladora
Member
NHC website is getting hammered.
5PM track :
5PM track :
That's probably what I would do in such a situation. No hassle.
BattleMonkey
Member
Several gas stations are out of gas already here in Davie FL
mordecaii83
Member
NHC website is getting hammered.
5PM track :
West coast looking like a bad place to be...
This, although it'll probably arrive, the closer it gets the less I'd trust Amazon to deliver in time.
NHC website is getting hammered.
5PM track :
So just like this morning, still have no clue what side of the goddamn state this thing will be on. Really need to know by Friday so that we have time to leave Orlando if we need to.
I did that last year for a 100 gallon bathtub water bag thing just a few days before matthew. It came in late by like 2 weeks.
AngmarsKing701
Member
It's gonna fuck up the whole state. The thing is wider than Florida.
Smiles and Cries
Member
wtf @ Tip
Yeah Tip is GOAT among storms
What I would like to see is a full Atlantic vs Pacific storms
it seems to me that the Pacific storms have us beat in terms of record breakers
I need to do a search.
aspiegamer
Member
You know it's bad when the NHC site is coughing and loading images like a 56k modem.
New plane about to enter. This might (hopefully) be its window of maximum intensity. Edit: To clarify, "hope" means it might only weaken slowly from here.
New plane about to enter. This might (hopefully) be its window of maximum intensity. Edit: To clarify, "hope" means it might only weaken slowly from here.
nillapuddin
Member
Live in Ft Myers, work in Naples
2 different Naples gas stations we went to at lunch were out of gas and water, they are shutting down the building from Thursday to Tuesday as of right now (Im working on a huge mega tower on Naples beach area)
2 different Naples gas stations we went to at lunch were out of gas and water, they are shutting down the building from Thursday to Tuesday as of right now (Im working on a huge mega tower on Naples beach area)
Really annoying when people go "whoa" or "omg!" And then post a twitter link without anything else, and the to compound it, the said link is broken!
Abstruse Moose
Member
Amazing photo.
Carpe Carnim
Member
Whoa. Davie was prone to flooding when it was a bunch of horse farms. Has it gotten any better with the pumps? Those roads are all really low, and so many canals...
CitizenVectron
Member
Also not a real photo. Looks like a composite of a real photo overlayed on another photo (or CGI Earth). You can't get clouds in direct sunlight to expose at the same brightness as city lights in the dark in the way the photo represents them. Still very cool, just not entirely real.
captjohnboyd
Member
Okay so my girlfriend and I live in New Orleans and even tho I've been through a bunch of hurricanes now I can't recall for the life of me how soon they ground flights. She wants to go back to NYC to stay with her parents while I would likely do Austin or Tennessee by car. How early should she leave if it ends up on the path to Nola? What do you have like two days max to leave? She's studying for her masters so can't leave super early just on the chance it could come and would have to wait till the last possible minute
fluffydelusions
Member
bruh....is that real? that gust at the end...
For posterity, this link is a Twitter video that claims to be early effects from Irma on Antigua, showing some cars driving while things blow in the end and a tree blows down.
mentallyinept
Banned
Edit: Apparently fake...
Zombie James
Banned
Well that's terrifying.
Previously posted and was fake