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Atlantic Hurricane season 2017 |OT|

not sure what I'm gonna do just yet Orlando-GAF.

Got my water and food on saturday so I'm prepared to hunker down. But not prepared to evac.
 
ladyluthien said:
Wow this thing just exploded almost over night. My family is preparing just in case. Most of the grocery stores have been cleaned out.
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Yup, my folks were still looking for bottled water this morning. I had to flock to Amazon to get them a weather radio, Naples area is all out apparently.
 
If you're in Orlando, my advice would be to stay put in your residence if you've managed to secure it with plywood or shutters, or go to a public shelter if you haven't.

There really is no "good" place to evacuate to if you're in the center of the state to begin with.
 
Dark_3nergy said:
Yup, my folks were still looking for bottled water this morning. I had to flock to Amazon to get them a weather radio, Naples area is all out apparently.
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Damn, I hope they find some. My Mom went back out looking at some other stores. A weather radio is a fantastic item to have.
 
sflufan said:
If you're in Orlando, my advice would be to stay put in your residence if you've managed to secure it with plywood or shutters, or go to a public shelter if you haven't.

There really is no "good" place to evacuate to if you're in the center of the state to begin with.
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The entire state might experience hurricane force winds the way it's looking. You're only safe at this point if you flee out of state.
 
Ephemeris said:
not sure what I'm gonna do just yet Orlando-GAF.

Got my water and food on saturday so I'm prepared to hunker down. But not prepared to evac.
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Don't look at it as evacuation, but as an excuse to go out of town for a couple of days. Few years ago during Irene we decided to take a trip to Pittsburgh instead of staying put and it worked out perfect for us.
 
ladyluthien said:
Damn, I hope they find some. My Mom went back out looking at some other stores. A weather radio is a fantastic item to have.
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Yeah, I reminded them to grab some tanks of gasoline and batteries since we don't know how bad gas prices will be after this thing goes over.

Speaking of the radio, as of writing this post Amazon was almost out of the $45 Midland radios with only ~7 left in stock. So if anyone was thinking of grabbing it online, might want to jump on it sooner.
 
FYI. Anyone who is in FL be sure to download Google maps and save an offline map as large as your phone's storage will allow. Cell towers will be down and/ or slammed during the storm. Have a paper map or book in case your phone dies. Fill your bathtubs this weekend, remember you will have some water in your toilet tank too in an absolute desperate emergency.

If you have animals get their shot records, most shelters won't even consider letting you in with them without their rabies vaccine tag. Also, keep a crowbar handy. You never know when you'll need to quickly open a locked or blocked door.
 
sflufan said:
If you're in Orlando, my advice would be to stay put in your residence if you've managed to secure it with plywood or shutters, or go to a public shelter if you haven't.

There really is no "good" place to evacuate to if you're in the center of the state to begin with.
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We are just leaving late Friday or middle of the night early Saturday morning and go to New Orleans at my dads. Not going to bring our dog to a shelter, he would be a mess and can't put up plywood in our house because we are renting. So I'll just ask the company if they're doing anything to it. Not worried about water there just wind damage and the power being out for a couple of weeks.
 
I have a friend in Hollywood, FL (Broward County) and I don't think he's taking it too seriously. I think he subscribes to some weird new-age psychic crap and I think he plans on making Irma go out to sea with willpower or something.
 
mentallyinept said:
180 sustained makes it tied for 3rd all time...

And it's still what... 4 days away from Florida?
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yeah Wikipedia is fast to update the list already

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The oceans and atmosphere are overwhelmed with heat. It's a matter of time until hurricanes started getting more frequent and more destructive, unfortunately.
 
maquiladora said:
927mb is quite high pressure for 180mph winds actually. You'd expect to see something closer to 900mb with 180mph winds.

180mph winds are what you'd expect in an EF-4 scale tornado.
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It is high for the pressure but that could indicate that there is such a huge amount of inflow into the storm that it's turbo charging the windspeed. Also worryingly indicates that the speed could increase quite a lot if the pressure continues to drop. I think 190mph is very likely now.
Anyway what is everyones estimates for the lowest pressure that will be recorded?
I'm going 910MB.
 
While the remnants of Matthew are still quite visible here in the Daytona Beach area, they seem small in comparison to what Charley caused, which is even more visible still than Matthew.

So many hotels and other beach properties were demolished after that storm. Many of those properties were only just picked up this year for redevelopment, and most have not yet broke ground. Irma will be far worse than Charley under the right circumstances, depending on the path of course.
 
At Puerto Rico right now. Kind of scary, I don't think we are prepared for an hurricane of this magnitude.

Center keeps inching closer and closer to us.
 
Error said:
At Puerto Rico right now. Kind of scary, I don't think we are prepared for an hurricane of this magnitude.

Center keeps inching closer and closer to us.
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Where are you at? I'm in San Juan right now. Honestly, I think this shit hit us at the worst time possible and we're still recovering from last year's blackout.
 
Zuly said:
Where are you at? I'm in San Juan right now. Honestly, I think this shit hit us at the worst time possible and we're still recovering from last year's blackout.
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My dad lives on the fourteenth floor in an apartment building next to the water in Condado.. I am very very concerned....
 
Aikidoka said:
I have a friend in Hollywood, FL (Broward County) and I don't think he's taking it too seriously. I think he subscribes to some weird new-age psychic crap and I think he plans on making Irma go out to sea with willpower or something.
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Ex friend right? Seriously, this is how people die in these things.
 
Vestal said:
My dad lives on the fourteenth floor in an apartment building next to the water in Condado.. I am very very concerned....
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I'm in Cupey Bajo. First time experiencing a hurricane in this house. I'm slightly nervous but I wouldn't know where to go as my family is all the way in Camuy.
 
Dead Prince said:
we got a wild tropical storm jose
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Yeah, it's something to keep an eye on, but current models have it staying in the Atlantic...

sflufan said:
Kinda "good news" for eastern Florida as well as that would mean that the eastern side of the hurricane (especially the right-front quadrant) would remain at sea.
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Less direct damage for sure... but that positioning should increase storm surge. But I'm willing to bet Floridians would trade flooding for heavy wind damage.
 
I was going to fly into Tampa on Friday and leave on Tuesday. Should I cancel that trip? How do I do that through Expedia? The trip insurance I got through them doesn't mention natural disasters...
 
mentallyinept said:
Yeah, it's something to keep an eye on, but current models have it staying in the Atlantic...



Less direct damage for sure... but that positioning should increase storm surge. But I'm willing to bet Floridians would trade flooding for heavy wind damage.
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I certainly would. Feel like the flooding wouldn't be as bad as Houston either.
 
So at this point the models might not be overplaying the strength of the storm....

Barzul said:
Hmm, so if the eye moves further east, what that mean for the strength of the winds folks will experience? Will it feel like Cat 3 vs the Cat 5 it currently is? I'm not sure how this all works.
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the strongest, most intense winds are always in the northeast quadrant of the storm so if we can somehow manage to keep that side off shore the entirety of the storm then it'll lessen the damage somewhat.
 
perfectchaos007 said:
Unless Irma stalls, there's no way Irma will dump as much rain as Harvey.
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Yeah that's what I figured.
smokeandmirrors said:
So at this point the models might not be overplaying the strength of the storm....



the strongest, most intense winds are always in the northeast quadrant of the storm so if we can somehow manage to keep that side off shore the entirety of the storm then it'll lessen the damage somewhat.
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Thanks this is good to know.
 
Machine Messiah said:
I was going to fly into Tampa on Friday and leave on Tuesday. Should I cancel that trip? How do I do that through Expedia? The trip insurance I got through them doesn't mention natural disasters...
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Not sure about flight insurance, but I’d give it a day or so, things can change quickly and could move up the Atlantic coast.
 
Machine Messiah said:
I was going to fly into Tampa on Friday and leave on Tuesday. Should I cancel that trip? How do I do that through Expedia? The trip insurance I got through them doesn't mention natural disasters...
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Wait until tomorrow before cancelling. Will you get a refund if the flight gets cancelled by itself?
 
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