hurricane coming...

winds up to 135 miles an hour

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/9/1/1283344951794/This-September-1-2010-NOA-006.jpg

http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/hurrearl_604x341.jpg

these are fun! (sometimes)

fun?!?

sometimes

maybe just cuz i was a kid and NO SCHOOL

http://media.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/photo/eye-pathjpg-556a2e3705606a48_large.jpg

ugh, i guess.

i was on kendall/142nd during andrew. that was bad. i was in coral-gables during katrina and wilma. those were kind of bad, too, tbh.

well i was 4 during andrew and we had to move out of our house for a whole year but most hurricanes aren't andrew

during katrina my car got destroyed but oh well

most hurricanes are minor & fun ime

i feel for my marthas vineyard family. i hope aunt bette battens down the hatches.

LOL, my car was destroyed during katrina, too.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT07/refresh/AL0710W5_sm2+gif/212340W_sm.gif

WATCH OUT, GREENLAND

I've never had the joy of being directly hit (around the Cocoa Beach area), but I love it when they hang around offshore so I can go outside in 60mph wind and try running against it.

Worst that ever came through where I lived in FL was Charlie, but we were on the West coast (not the panhandle), so it was significantly weakened by the time it got to us. We got a lot of downed trees and some flooding.

powerlines on our street are underground so we never lost power so i always got to have mega sleepovers when hurricanes came :-D

this is gonna fuck up my last vacation day of the summer :(

I got quadruple time pay for coming in to work one time when there was a hurricane churning offshore (this was 1999 or 2000 I think?). I lived one mile away from the office, so it wasn't that big a deal. SUCKERS.

Hurricanes are only fun when they hang out far enough offshore to close down the county yet your power doesn't go out (see Frances, Jeanne, Rita).

I may have been the only person in South Florida not to lose power during Wilma.

ugh i'm supposed to be moving this weekend, not gonna be cool if i have to make multiple trips in & out of the city in hurricaney weather

Max Mayfield, I love you.

http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/090210_goawayearl_20100902_063459.jpg

Sign says "Go Away Earl!"
Cause comfort rules
At the Co-om-fort Inn.

I've been through several hurricanes as a kid and while I thought they would be cool, like with shit flying through the air, they all ended up being annoying. The most annoying one being Flloyd in 1999, in which is just rained and rained and rained and my power was out for a week.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg33/JRangerkip/chan/Typhoon_LONGWANG.jpg

Hurricane Irene is predicted to arrive in the general NYC/northeast area some time late on Saturday, early on Sunday.

Oh good, I'll just be getting back from the Long Island highland games. With any luck.

maybe you'll find yourself in a remake of I Know Where I'm Going!

Ooh maybe that means the waves will be good at the beach on Sat afternoon.

We escaped another one!

I called to tell my parents, who just moved to Florida, about the earthquake and my Mom was yelling in the background - "There's a hurricane coming why hasn't she called us?!" Uh cause I'm more likely to get hit by the hurrican than you are at this point? :(

dont come to maine you bitch

Jeez, what on Earth did I do to you Mr. Green?

;p

I mean t the hurciciane - you are welcome in Maine anytime

I love Maine.

a pug gentleman lives in my hood so there's that for socializin

lol @ "pug gentleman"

shit bahamas are gonna get creamed by this :/

maybe you'll find yourself in a remake of I Know Where I'm Going! ― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius)

<3 u for this, because you know how enormously happy that would make me.

threat for Northeast upgraded:

http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/article/hurricane-irene-major-northeast-threats_2011-08-23

good tracking website

http://www.stormpulse.com/atlantic

love how this storm stops immediately at the Canadian border!

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hurricane-scenarios-run-from-bad-to-worse-2011-08-24?link=home_carousel

no hurricanes can get through customs

The author of that artcile needs to learn to distinguish between Spielberg films and Michael Bay films.

Looking up at the hurricane vs. running away from a CGI building collapsing in said hurricane.

Ned otm.

The ironically named Irene...

oh yeah.

I dont want a hurriance in Maine. I already have no roof

Just slow down and there won't be any hurriance.

I think I have astraphobia

hooooooo boy

this shit is gonna hit me pretty much dead on...kinda freaking out

So... like... real talk... should we be trying to find a reason to get the f outta Brooklyn this weekend or no?

Lol. Jensen Beach is very cute! Had lunch there once several years ago but it was adorable.

Christine - I hope you manage to reach your mom soon.

I've tried a couple more times, but it's still going straight to voice mail. I sent a text with no response. I also sent a text to my landlord to see how the park is doing, but he hasn't texted me back yet.

Today is our 30th wedding anniversary, as well. So many things going wrong at once.

Hope all are safe and you can get in touch with your loved ones soon

A suggested $10 donation for a ridiculous amount of music. 100% of proceeds will be split evenly between Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR), and BeLoved Asheville.

https://cardinalsatthewindow.bandcamp.com/album/cardinals-at-the-window-2

Still no power here

But look at me, I’m on ilx so things aren’t so bad. The neighbors have a generator so we were able to recharge our devices

Sending you a cold Negroni

thumbs up to everyone and hope folks quickly get in touch w/ their friends and family.

Emailed a Florida-based coworker today, got no response.

Seeing if they were ok - or seeing if they could get those tps reports out by eod?

Seeing if they were OK and asking for advice/input on something they asked me to do for them.

Still no power here

Dang sorry to hear that. Christine, did you get back to the park yet?

Yep, I've been back since Friday. No damage to the trailer.

But I still haven't been able to get in touch with my mother. Her phone isn't going directly to voice mail any more, though.

JFC, what the hell is this country coming to

Government emergency workers in the US responding to the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina were relocated over the weekend amid concerns that “armed militia” could pose a threat to their safety.

According to an email obtained by the Washington Post, a US Forest Service official sent out a message warning that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) “has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately”.

The message said that soldiers with the national guard “had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA”.

Jesus fucking Christ

This is the most thorough recent report that I've seen---not clear about accuracy/basis of some warnings *to* FEMA, but they did get a guy, who posted $10,000 bail:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/armed-north-carolina-man-arrested-suspicion-making-threats-fema-worker-rcna175287

Does Dr. Fauci run FEMA now or something? I don't understand these whack-a-doodles

fema conspiracy theories go back to katrina i think, talking about "fema camps"

This makes me even more concerned about the safety of polling places on Nov. 5.

FEMA camp conspiracies go back to the 1980s!

They need to arrest and prosecute these assholes to the fullest extent of the law.

The North Carolina man above is out on bail cos his charge was a mere misdemeanor

oh look

Busted: Bundy collaborator fueled FEMA conspiracy in Hurricane Helene aftermath

FEMA camp conspiracies go back to the 1980s!

― Elvis Telecom

this is 100% true, I fell for it in an especially paranoid period circa 1998-99, it was common in anarchist/left circles as well

Thats a bunch of fetal alcohol syndrome if ever I saw it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/impact-plastics-gerald-oconnor-lawsuit-hurricane-helene-johnny-peterson-death/

This immediately made me think of Triangle Shirtwaist

So, there wasn't even a Tropical Depression here as of 9A today, and as of 2P there is a surprise hurricane just N of Cuba. I cannot recall in my lifetime a complete *miss* like this.

So here's Oscar: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT1+shtml/191755.shtml

About that:

#BREAKING: Oscar is now a hurricane. 36 hours ago it was given a 10% chance to form from the NHC. Smaller storms are often tricky in their intensity forecasts and how computer models handle them early on. Despite the intensity uptick, no change for Florida. It stays away. #Oscar pic.twitter.com/eH9rLvZvoR

— Matt Devitt (@MattDevittWX) October 19, 2024

New borad I love weather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9MgbexiVkA

Sara may be on the way:

GFS model has now shown a hurricane hitting SW Florida three runs in a row.

At this point, I would say it is POSSIBLE that a tropical storm or hurricane hits Florida around November 20th. That's still 8 days away, so right now, this is still something to watch, NO reason to… pic.twitter.com/RNxZvFZbhj

— Max Velocity (@MaxVelocityWX) November 12, 2024

So there's no reason to panic about a possible storm that may or may hit the southwest coast in eight days. OK.

the Euro model, meanwhile, doesn't have it becoming a hurricane at all. until GFS and Euro get more in line w/ each other, or one emerges as the more correct of the two models, it's really hard to tell. so far this year different models have done better on different storms.

and we're getting our first real cool front this weekend

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/11/yet-another-november-hurricane-threat-is-taking-shape/

The latest runs of both the GFS and European model predicted that the system would develop into a dangerous major hurricane over the Western Caribbean by early next week.

Good news:

Tropical Depression 19 is much further west than initially forecasted, which means this will likely NOT become a hurricane after all.

Land interaction will limit this from rapid intensification, but Honduras will have a significant flooding threat, with 15-25" of rain possible.… pic.twitter.com/PVMhbvMwYJ

— Max Velocity (@MaxVelocityWX) November 14, 2024

Has my news consumption narrowed to the point where i missed the developing hurricane or is there not a lot of reporting overall?

a. it's supposedly going to turn back out east, if perhaps not quite enough to avoid fucking up some coastal areas
b. bad news is not allowed
c. magic marker on the map

It's not hitting the U.S.

In Miami, hurricane news starts at least a week before its final track.

It's looking very grim for Jamaica

indeed -- ugh

wow, I thought it was just going to continue to the west... what a terrible track, moves west and then makes a hard right to pass directly over Jamaica

my app is indicating 100mph wind right over Montego Bay :(

...and not moving much at all for the next 24 hours.

From Noah Bergen (Orlando TV meteorologist):

2PM EDT Intermediate Advisory from NHC raises Hurricane Melissa to 175 MPH sustained winds, gusts of 190 MPH. Pressure of 906 mb is in the top 5 lowest ever. This is going to be a historically catastrophic weather event in Jamaica Tuesday.

Damn. Plus it's tracked to hit Cuba, the Bahamas and Bermuda (the latter two "only" at normal hurricane strength).