09/2017 - Hurricane Irma

[Westy]

Those spagetti models are an embarrassment....lol....First they say it is going up the atantic ocean...then direct hit on miami...

then they say for certain it is going to stay off the west coast all the way to tampa....but it goes inshore to orlando...

they dont know...the national hurricane center joke....

They DON'T know ... they CAN'T know. They can only make an educated guess -- well, there's a high-pressure ridge over there, so it'll probably go away from it; a trough leading this way, it's likely to follow it -- wait, it went that-a-way ... It's chaos.

"Spaghetti model" is a good way to describe it, though. The forces that steer a hurricane first one way, then another, are about as random as the noodles in a boiling pot of spaghetti. And there are people who say, "The science is settled" ... seriously?

[Westy]

On the positive side, I see an opportunity to pick up a new sailboat, cheap, in Saint Martin....

[JD426]

There is a guy on the other board who is missing, said he would ride in out in the Mangroves ?
wtf .... with his wife no less.... Hope the dude is ok, but not smart , imo.
St Thomas got hit HARD... Glad I got to see it just a little this Spring on a Cruise stop off. ..

Branson's Island got absolutely Demolished .. just total destruction from the looks of it .

[Westy]

There is a guy on the other board who is missing, said he would ride in out in the Mangroves ?
wtf .... with his wife no less.... Hope the dude is ok, but not smart , imo.
St Thomas got hit HARD... Glad I got to see it just a little this Spring on a Cruise stop off. ..

Branson's Island got absolutely Demolished .. just total destruction from the looks of it .

And Richard Branson is calling for a "Marshall Plan" to pay for rebuilding the islands.

Not sure what he means, but the original Marshall Plan involved a king-hell of a lot of U.S. Government funding.

You've got billions, Richard - why not put some of your own money into it?

[Hunter]

Dem der Weed got lucky in st. pete...totally missed him...he still got his house

Cool seeing jacksonsville flood on tv...

[j_d66]

Hunter did you make it out of the DR yet?

[Hunter]

Hunter did you make it out of the DR yet?

Yes..no problem. Punta Cana zero damage....flew home yesterday....

[j_d66]

Yes..no problem. Punta Cana zero damage....flew home yesterday....

Ok i didnt know if you were connecting in MIA which clearly you weren't

You still got through all of that pretty luckily

[Hunter]

Ok i didnt know if you were connecting in MIA which clearly you weren't

You still got through all of that pretty luckily

Yeah I am a direct JFK to carribean all the time now....avoid miami like the plague...

[SeaWeed]

Dem der Weed got lucky in st. pete...totally missed him...he still got his house

yeah mi was certainly lucky........ got hit hard from 3PM to 1AM in da morning....wind gusts up to 100mph......ugh
lost power at 3pm right at the start and still without....kmt....water was never a problem.......
heard ambulance sirens and howling winds all night......slept in mi bathroom....was afraid my big ass oak was gonna crush mi bedroom....
mi spent two days boarding up the house........and now mi will spend two days getting rid of all the yard debris.....
had couple small fallen trees and tons of branches..directly across the street two huge oaks came down.....ouch
and the whole neighborhood has fallen trees.....some directly in the roads.....what a friggin mess

Irma was a nasty bitch....never seen winds like that before....and mi have been thru 10+ hurricanes
one thing to have high winds for an hour or two...another thing to have it last for 10 hours......
it was really nerve-wracking to say the least.....boy mi glad it is over.....and that mi didn't loose everything like they said was gonna happen....kmt

now lets get back to our sexing exploits......lol

[Hunter]

Yeah when I was watching Sunday at one point they were positive the eye was going to stay out to see and direct hit you there in st. pete....so yeah you lucky it went inland....tampa bay would be flood zone now and you in your hip waiters

[SeaWeed]

Yeah when I was watching Sunday at one point they were positive the eye was going to stay out to see and direct hit you there in st. pete....so yeah you lucky it went inland....tampa bay would be flood zone now and you in your hip waiters

mi probably would have been dead with a lot of other people....mi 1925 bungalow wasn't built with hurricanes in mind...kmt

[Don Tomas]

OMG they just said tornado has been sighted and is going to go right through Pompano. signing off because I have to at least try and watch to see where this fucking tornado is going!!! Tornado??? WTF...tornados happen in the midwest and central part of the USA.

Hope to update you tomorrow if I can.

Glad you are okay Jack, but are you new to Florida?

One of the first things I learned when I moved to Florida was that there were more tornadoes in Florida than most US states, as they were "proud" to point out! Of course the Floridians usually fail to point out that almost all of them are of the weak ass F0 variety.

For the record, Florida is #1 in tornadoes based on area and 4th overall.

[Westy]

mi probably would have been dead with a lot of other people....mi 1925 bungalow wasn't built with hurricanes in mind...kmt

1925? I'd say, likely it was​. (Stick-built? Or concrete block?)

I mean, it's not likely it would have survived otherwise.

[jacknback]

DT, I've been here since 1977 and never heard what you're saying. Once in a fucking blue moon I've seen a tornado warning that lasts about 5 minutes.
They say, for me, for the first time hearing, that the tornadoes are of the small quick variety. Usually around 35 MPH. This was the first time I remember ever hearing that. Maybe I just didn't pay attention.
But like I said...never heard your info before.

Example...I think they said there were 14 overnight warnings from Saturday to Sunday. I sat through some that by the time they said the warnings were taken off they were admitting they were lasting maybe 5 to 10 minutes and they were 20 minutes late telling people.

Not that I want to see any tornadoes. Mostly down my area they show a water spout off shore once in awhile.

[Irie]

If I recall correctly, it was Hurricane Andrew that first drew the attention to the presence of tornadoes in hurricanes ....especially in the eye wall area. Dr Fujita, originator of the 'f' scale given to tornadoes, did his first work with the presence of twisters examining the aftermath.

[Hunter]

mi probably would have been dead with a lot of other people....mi 1925 bungalow wasn't built with hurricanes in mind...kmt

KMT


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[Hunter]

Good article on how Irma tracked on best case scenario for Florida...could of been so much worse....lucky...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.2c1e01888d65

[Westy]

Those spagetti models are an embarrassment....lol....First they say it is going up the atantic ocean...then direct hit on miami...

then they say for certain it is going to stay off the west coast all the way to tampa....but it goes inshore to orlando...

they dont know...the national hurricane center joke....

You're going to love this link, Hunter. Schadenfreude all the way.

The Costs of Getting Hurricane Irma So Wrong -- Foundation for Economic Education

... Now, going back to Rush Limbaugh, he was also entirely truthful when he stated that many on the left use hurricanes — and any tragedy that might be associated with them — to hype and push their global warming and climate change narratives.

Like the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, and academia, discrimination against conservative or even pragmatic and honest thought is in full effect when it comes to hiring meteorologists. For the most part, if you don't worship at the altar of the "evil of man-made global warming" and political correctness, you can't get hired at The Weather Channel, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC or even most local television news stations.

Beyond that fact is the reality that the "forecasters" with their "European" and "American" models — as well as every other spaghetti noodle model they could slap on the screen — have been decidedly inaccurate when it came to Irma and Florida....

[greydread]

Nothing compliments a natural disaster like a little politics and religion. Throw in a little for profit commentary from a crap spewing bigot and we have a storm not made by man but perfected by men.

Un-fucking believable....