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[DJ Sl4m]

I posted this:



I was fucking right. Ivan is STRENGTHING! Some newscasters a few days ago had Ivan reduced to a Category 2 at the time of landfall.

They said that Ivan was moving into "cooler water."

Cooler water?! Where was it before? In lava?!

No doubt, some news reports have no idea what they're talking about at times.

 

[Miguel]

"It's gonna turn north and hit florida"
"It's gonna go north then east and hit florida"
"It's gonna go north, then east, then south, and hit florida"
"It's gonna go south, west, across the eastern hemisphere, and then come and hit Florida"
"Uh...it's not gonna hit anything, it's gonna hit a force field on the gulf coast, then the excess rain will be pooled to florida"

 

[DJ Sl4m]

"It's gonna turn north and hit florida"
"It's gonna go north then east and hit florida"
"It's gonna go north, then east, then south, and hit florida"
"It's gonna go south, west, across the eastern hemisphere, and then come and hit Florida"
"Uh...it's not gonna hit anything, it's gonna hit a force field on the gulf coast, then the excess rain will be pooled to florida"

Texas and Louisiana get our fair share of these damn things, it's about time Florida takes it up the shoot for a change.

Even exchange for us having to put up with watching that whiny ass, cry baby, Steve Spurrier for so many years.

 

[Lonestar]

we'll be under Tornado watch/warnings here in Columbus within the next hour or so.

Heard from both Alabama Power and Georgia Power, they expect LARGE areas to be without power once it goes through, with downtime in the 5-7 day range.

My workplaces policy come tomorrow and Friday? We can wear casual clothes! It's not just for Fridays anymore!!!! (85% of the workforce already wears blue jeans and t-shirts daily...)

 

[Willco]

Well now that Ivan is almost here, TWC says Jeanne will strengthen into a hurricane and that there is another tropical storm brewing in the Atlantic that will probably form in the next couple of days.

GODDAMN. WHEN WILL THIS SHIT STOP?

 

[Incognito]

newsweek - 'into the eye'

Sept. 15 - As the Hurricane Hunter flew toward the fierce eye wall of Ivan on Tuesday afternoon, crew members snapped on their seat belts. “It’s probably going to get a little bumpy here very shortly,” said one of the pilots over the radio. Battered by 145mph winds, the plane dropped and heaved with stomach-churning force. Outside, clouds lost their contours, darkening into a menacing murk. Far below, the ocean occasionally came into view, its surface marbled with white streaks as the wind pulverized it into foam and mist. “Forty-foot waves down there,” said Ed Walsh, a NASA scientist testing a new device that provides a topographical map of the ocean’s surface. “Missing a swell of a lifetime,” came the reply. Closer still to the eye, the plane tossed more aggressively, its four propellers droning implacably. “One hundred forty-plus knots,” or 161mph, declared a crew member measuring wind speed. The plane became engulfed in mist.

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Then the churning suddenly calmed. The clouds brightened and parted. A new topography bared itself, with distinct cloud formations arrayed in spectacular peaks and canyons. High above, patches of azure sky opened to the heavens. The Hurricane Hunter had entered the eye. Crew members stood up, walked around, shot pictures through the windows. The tranquility only lasted a few minutes, until the plane re-entered the opposing eye wall, succumbing once again to a steady beating. “Those are good hurricane conditions,” said Jim McFadden, chief of the programs staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Aircraft Operations Center. The jovial response over the radio: “You mean bad hurricane conditions.”

It was the beginning of another long day for the sleep-deprived crew, which has been working without pause during the past month of unremitting hurricanes. Its plane, a nearly 30-year-old WP-3D Orion nicknamed “Miss Piggy,” is one of two (the other is “Kermit”) Hurricane Hunters housed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. Every hurricane season, from August to November, they are pressed into duty, along with the NOAA’s Gulfstream jet (which gauges the currents that steer hurricanes) and Air Force C-130 planes. NOAA’s pilots, engineers and scientists use high-tech equipment to take key measurements and transmit them to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Without such data, forecasters would have to rely far more on guesswork to predict a hurricane’s path and intensity. This season, the crews have been getting a workout. “It’s been so crazy,” says Michael Black, a research meteorologist for NOAA. “We’re giving everything we’ve got to this storm.”


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The Hurricane Hunter was specially designed for just this sort of duty. It bristles with radars and other gizmos. A Doppler radar renders a three-dimensional view of a hurricane by slicing it every six seconds the way a CAT scan might. That provides forecasters with a structure of a storm’s rainfall and winds. A device called a step frequency microwave radiometer, or “smurf,” measures wind speeds on the surface of the ocean. Contraptions called dropsondes—foot-and-a-half long tubes—are ejected from the plane in particular sections of a hurricane. As they fall, slowed by a parachute, they transmit data on air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction every half-second until they’re swallowed by the sea. The result: a real-time portrait of a hurricane’s unique character, the ferocity of its eye walls, the breadth of its hurricane-force winds. “No two hurricanes are alike,” says flight director Tom Shepherd. “They’re like fingerprints.”

For its part, Ivan “is really holding its own,” said meteorologist Black aboard the Hurricane Hunter on Tuesday night. “It’s a mature storm now that has reached a relaxed state,” added McFadden, the chief of programs staff. “What makes [Ivan] spectacular is its size and wind speed” as it bears down on the Gulf Coast. All week, it has strengthened and waned, vacillating between Category 4 and Category 5, the most powerful class of hurricane, with winds greater than 155mph. The barometric pressure readings were rising on Tuesday, suggesting that the storm was weakening. But that could change: a warm eddy lurked in the gulf that could fuel Ivan to a boil once again. “A hurricane is a heat engine,” Black explained, transferring energy from the ocean into the upper atmosphere, where it powers the tempest’s churning.

Ivan’s eye has also been erratic. Rather than twisting around one starkly defined tight eye, it has numerous eyes, arrayed in concentric circles, one collapsing as another spirals out of the muck. The result: a so-called “dirty eye,” one that’s indistinct and cluttered with clouds. While that’s preferable for the unfortunate souls in Ivan’s path (a messy 40-mile-wide eye isn’t as fearsome as a well-defined vortex 10 miles across), it’s less beautiful to behold. The crew aboard Miss Piggy lamented the lack of a “stadium” effect—a dramatic view from inside the eye of soaring and sloping walls framing a gleaming blue sky.

Riding aboard the Hurricane Hunter can at times be harrowing. McFadden recalls the time in 1989 when he ventured into Hurricane Hugo and lost an engine as the plane hit an unexpectedly violent eye wall. Equipment ricocheted off the walls of the fuselage and a loosened life raft nearly squashed McFadden. The crew ended up dumping its excess fuel and climbing its way out of the eye in a tight spiral. On Tuesday’s flight, the ride wasn’t nearly as terrifying, but it was certainly turbulent. At one point, when the plane took an unexpected dip, this reporter, who was standing, levitated briefly, while clinging onto a ceiling rail.

Back on secure ground, the crew members celebrated a momentous occasion: McFadden, alone among his peers, had penetrated his 500th hurricane on the just-completed flight. His crewmates presented him with a gold patch and regaled him over champagne and beer. But the partying didn’t last long. There was another mission to fly the following evening—the last chance to size up Ivan before it hit land. And beyond Ivan, another tropical storm lurked in the Caribbean, gathering force and threatening untold destruction.

that plane ride would kill me.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Well now that Ivan is almost here, TWC says Jeanne will strengthen into a hurricane and that there is another tropical storm brewing in the Atlantic that will probably form in the next couple of days.

GODDAMN. WHEN WILL THIS SHIT STOP?

My flight is at 10:15am to JFK in the morning
So with my bad luck it will all end by 11am

 

[doncale]

so Ivan is making landfall at Gulf Shores.

 

[GDGF]

All these dumbasses from Florida are coming to Columbus, GA and taking up space at my favorite chill places

Take your asses back home!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

 

[doncale]

now a strong Cat-3, the very worst is over.... well, technically

 

[Phoenix]

All these dumbasses from Florida are coming to Columbus, GA and taking up space at my favorite chill places

Take your asses back home!

And instead of looking at this as an opportunity to 'get some' from a Florida girl, you complain? Only on GAF

 

[MIMIC]

OK. It's over.

MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News can leave the rest to The Weather Channel.

 

[AniHawk]

That is creepy and cool at the same time.

 

[Phoenix]

OK. It's over.

MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News can leave the rest to The Weather Channel.

Its not over yet - this one looks to be delivering a smackdown up the bama/georgia border and will (unfortunately) hit Atlanta tonight

 

[Lonestar]

We've had a few Funnel's appear around the Columbus area, but no word on if they touched down. They sent us home around 11:45, due to lack of power (yay, I have power at home though!!!)

 

[Brannon]

Then I reckon I'd better mosey on down to the mall and pick up my Gradius eh?

*moseys...... RUNZ*

I'LL BEAT THE HURRICANE!!! (time is now 1:26 PM; can he make it?)

 

[Phoenix]

Huge spans of interstate 10 are missing - washed away by Ivan.

And here is some footage from downtown mobile.

 

[CajoleJuice]

Holy crap...that's ridiculous. It looks like an earthquake hit that interstate.

 

[Incognito]

haha. i've driven on that stretch of highway many, many times.

 

[Phoenix]

"It has flooded the streets and part of the interstate,
I have my umbrella but it won't hold out for long.
The ground shakes. Thunder, thunder in the sky.
I cannot get out. A tornado moves in the dark.
I cannot get out....


It is coming...."

 

[Brannon]

And Gradius is mine.

"The End"

 

[GDGF]

And instead of looking at this as an opportunity to 'get some' from a Florida girl, you complain? Only on GAF

If there were any 'hot Florida girls' to get some from I wouldn't be complaining. It's all old people, fat people, and hic people

 

[Ripclawe]

http://www.w3.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=0803wc

Closer to home, the upper-air carcass of hard-to-kill Ivan is plowing westward over the Florida Peninsula today. A small surface low has formed off the southeast coast of the peninsula in response to the disturbance aloft, and is scattering downpours and thunderstorms over much of the state. It's not out of the realm of possibility the low could develop further once it crosses the peninsula and moves into the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow.

I AM BACK BITCHES!!! IVAN THE TERRIBLE WILL NEVER DIE!!!!

 

[KingV]

My parents live in Pensacola, unsure if their house is still standing on the Navy base there, which was hit HARD. Apparently 80-90% of the buildings were damaged, some old old buildings were literally washed away. Apparently there was a very large storm surge that hit right at the base destroying tons of military and personal property. The rest of Pensacola did not fare much better.

My parents have said that they heard their house has no damage, but are going back this evening and will then know for sure.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

So I am back in Connecticut and had to attend a walk to raise money for a non-profit group and the Rains from IVAN made it to CT just in time to cancel the walk and soak us all

my luck

 

[Scalemail Ted]

Red Cross makes a statement that anything above a Category 2 hurricane for New Orleans is deemed 'too dangerous' and they will not man shelters.

I know...living near N.O.'s that doesn't instill alot of respect for the red cross. The city is responisble for providing all the shelters for the people. The thing is...if NO gets a strong hurricane that comes up the mouth of the river it would push water into the lake (located north of the city) and if enough water builds up to breech or surpass the 15ft levee system (with the hurricane pushing 30 foot wave surges inland...its very possible). There would be no where for the water to go but over the levee into the city; the water would collect into our soup bowl shaped basin and collect (we are about 30 feet under sea level.) The problem is our pumps take the water out of the city and dump it back into the lake, a bit counter productive in this scenario (because any rain water gets added to the lake). It is predicted that if this occurs it would flood the entire city and result in tens of thousands of deaths.

 

[Ripclawe]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040922/D858SQA00.html

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The remnants of Hurricane Ivan swung back into the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to develop into a tropical storm on a path westward toward southwest Louisiana and Texas.

A hurricane hunter airplane was flying into the storm Wednesday to gather data on the possibility of strengthening, said Krissy Williams, a meteorologist with National Hurricane Center in Miami.

"Right now it's not very well organized," Williams said.

By Wednesday, the remnants of the storm kicked seas up several feet, posing a new threat to fragile barrier islands and their beaches on the Louisiana coast, and forced some offshore crews to head home. Three dozen petroleum producing platforms and drilling rigs, idled since Sept. 13 because of Ivan, remain shut in.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I like the Weather.com quotes

A poltergeisty offshoot of Ivan bears watching in the Gulf of Mexico. Not that it will spin up into a hurricane (or even tropical storm), but depression status seems attainable as it churns toward the upper Texas/Louisiana Gulf Coast bearing squally bands of rain. Tides may come up a bit, too, and a coastal flood watch has been issued for parts of the northwest and north-central Gulf Coast. Showers from Ivan's distant relative may punch inland Thursday over far eastern Texas, Louisiana and northward up the lower Mississippi Valley.

 

[MetatronM]

How in the blue hell did Ivan get back into the Gulf of Mexico?!

Regardless, I just saw on the news a minute ago that they are saying that Ivan will regain tropical storm status and hit Texas as early as Friday.

EDIT: It is already reclassified as a Tropical Storm apparently.

http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm9/index_large.html

 

[GigaDrive]

That's fucking insane! :lol

 

[Culex]

FEAR ME FOR I AM IVAN!

LOL

 

[Willco]

HE CANNOT BE KILLED. HE WILL TRAVEL THE SEAS, WAITING FOR THE TIME TO STRIKE. AGAIN.

 

[duderon]

FEAR ME FOR I AM IVAN!

LOL

SHIT

Has this ever happened before?

There's a lot of weird natural stuff happening. Armageddon anyone?

 

[Ripclawe]

SHIT

Has this ever happened before?

There's a lot of weird natural stuff happening. Armageddon anyone?

It happens with Typhoons sometimes.

 

[Phoenix]

Its a zombie hurricane! I guess it figured that it didn't do enough damage the last time and is back for vengence.

 

[Willco]

IVAN IS A DEMOCRAT. FIRST, HE HITS FLORIDA. NOW HE'S GOING TO HIT TEXAS.

THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL.

 

[DarienA]

THE REVENGE OF IVAN!

 

[Miguel]

WHOEVER WINS, WE LOSE.



:lol


I fucking called it. I KNEW it was gonna hit Texas.

 

[teiresias]

Its a zombie hurricane!

Yeah, but is is it a new-fangled running zombie or one of the older lumbering zombies?

 

[MIMIC]

I'm still kinda getting myself situated in college, and I saw this in the paper the other day.

I literally had no fucking clue what to think when I read that "it was back in the Gulf of Mexico."

I was like, "What the fuck?! How the hell did it do THAT?!"

 

[GaimeGuy]

After it hit land, and headed northward, it then turned towards the east coast, went into the atlantic, then headed DOWN the east coast, and then continued to move further clockwise back into the gulf of mexico.


Owned.

 

[marsomega]

344 post and 7,369 views?

It is official. This should of had a sticky a long time ago. We've even surpassed all the sticky threads already.

 

[Ferrio]

344 post and 7,369 views?

It is official. This should of had a sticky a long time ago. We've even surpassed all the sticky threads already.

The point of sticky threads is too keep threads bumped that won't have terribly high post counts. What's the point of sticking a thread if it doesn't drop further than the second page?

 

[Brannon]

Its a zombie hurricane!

HEY I COPYRIGHTED THIS! You should pay me 80 quadillion in cold hard small unmarked bills to make amends

 

[pestul]

INITIAL
INTENSITY HAS BEEN INCREASED TO 100 KNOTS. THIS MAKES JEANNE A
CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR/SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE.
THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THE HURRICANE COULD BECOME A CATEGORY FOUR
BEFORE LANDFALL IN FLORIDA.

Oh crap.. not again.

 

[Phoenix]

HEY I COPYRIGHTED THIS! You should pay me 80 quadillion in cold hard small unmarked bills to make amends

Fine, lets settle this out of court. PM me your address and I will send it to you in yen at 1 yen per year.

 

[marsomega]

The point of sticky threads is too keep threads bumped that won't have terribly high post counts. What's the point of sticking a thread if it doesn't drop further than the second page?

To just have one main hurricane thread. This is the second large hurricane thread. Sticky would help keep this as one big party Floridians are forced to attend....

Nevermind I'm actually quite tired of ivan...lets move on to Jeanne...yay...I think.

 

[Brannon]

Fine, lets settle this out of court. PM me your address and I will send it to you in yen at 1 yen per year.

So theoretically if I live long and prosper, I could end up with 70 yen! With the compounded interest I'd be kickin' nipples in no time. But I must not think of myself, but of others who are without. So if you could donate it to the 419 Club in Nigeria, that'd be best. I hear tell they need help getting their funds back from the government.

Then again, that scoop of popcorn-flavored ice cream in the distant future does sound rather tempting...