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Hurricane Irma

The island of Barbuda had major destruction. I think they lost contact with the outside world around 20 hours ago.
 
Zenithal said:
The island of Barbuda had major destruction. I think they lost contact with the outside world around 20 hours ago.
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I want to say that it was St. Maarten that had those earthquake sensors go off..

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LizKat said:
Wrong coast, man.. I mean if Irma reaches out to touch @jkcerda we're all pretty much in the the soup in the USA... we'll be back to the primordial soup except with nanoplastics added in advance.
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I prefer Ivanka reaches out to touch me :D

of course that would mean the wife would touch me in a way similar to the way Lorena Bobbit did to her hubby :eek:
 
jkcerda said:
I prefer Ivanka reaches out to touch me :D

of course that would mean the wife would touch me in a way similar to the way Lorena Bobbit did to her hubby :eek:
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Yah. A fate worse than even a permanent vacation from here. Keep your eyes on the road man.
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PracticalMac said:
Stay safe everyone! Think about moving (except jkcerda, he has a protective midget bubble).

Irma is looking to make Harvey a wimp.
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That certainly looks the case for southeast Florida per the latest rainfall forecasts from Irma:

RAINFALL: Irma is expected to produce the following rain
accumulations through Saturday evening:

Northeast Puerto Rico and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands...
additional 2 to 4 inches, isolated 6 inches
Much of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos...8 to 12 inches, isolated
20 inches
Andros Island and Bimini, Bahamas...12 to 16 inches, isolated 25
inches
Northern Dominican Republic and northern Haiti...4 to 10 inches,
isolated 15 inches
Southern Dominican Republic and southern Haiti...2 to 5 inches
Eastern and central Cuba...4 to 10 inches, isolated 15 inches
Southeast Florida and the upper Florida Keys...8 to 12 inches,
isolated 20 inches
Lower Florida Keys...2 to 5 inches​
 
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I thought jkcerda was in FL.

Where is your Hobbit hole, jkcerda??
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He's in SoCal.

With that said, while the LA Basin, let alone the high desert (read: Las Vegas Valley) hasn't seen a hurricane, we do get the remnants of those hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast (Texas, in particular). They generally combine with the rains we get during monsoon season, and while those rains last for a much shorter period of time, due to the lack of water retention the high desert has, can cause floods just as deadly, if not deadlier, than what Harvey and Irma have shown so far.

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Princess Juliana Airport in St. Maarten sustained heavy damage. Sand washed up on the over-run at the beach end of the runway, sand piled on the apron by the terminal, severe roof damage and flooding in the terminal.

News in my area is reporting that most flights out of South Florida are booked, no more tickets left on Southwest and JetBlue but there was one airline with limited seats. Florida Governor has asked the government to lift weight and time restrictions to allow truck drivers to get fuel supplies in faster so people can fill their cars and get outta Dodge...
 
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Princess Juliana Airport in St. Maarten sustained heavy damage. Sand washed up on the over-run at the beach end of the runway, sand piled on the apron by the terminal, severe roof damage and flooding in the terminal.

News in my area is reporting that most flights out of South Florida are booked, no more tickets left on Southwest and JetBlue but there was one airline with limited seats. Florida Governor has asked the government to lift weight and time restrictions to allow truck drivers to get fuel supplies in faster so people can fill their cars and get outta Dodge...
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The screaming you are now hearing is from all of the aviation enthusiasts and planespotters who love going to TNCM and sitting in the water while watching the planes land less than 300ft above their heads. :eek::(

Additionally, talk about a pair of pilots with the proverbial gonads/testicular fortitude. A Delta Airlines flight raced Hurricane Irma, and won. they flew from JFK to TJSJ (San Juan, PR), pulled into their gate, and in 30 minutes (read: Southwest Airlines turnaround time), pushed back and departed while Irma was bearing down on the island.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-flew-into-and-out-of-san-juan-defying-irma/

This Delta flight raced Irma and won
By Luz Lazo
September 6 at 7:07 PM

A Delta Air Lines flight from New York’s JFK airport managed to fly into San Juan, Puerto Rico, pull into the gate, and less than an hour later take off full of passengers — all while Hurricane Irma was bearing down on the island Wednesday.

Delta flight status data show Flight 431 left JFK at 8:12 a.m. and arrived in San Juan at 12:01 p.m.; Delta 302 left San Juan at 12:41 p.m. and arrived in New York at 4:22 p.m.

Radar data of the plane’s flight path offered a spectacular show for aviation enthusiasts who followed in real time as Delta Flight 431 headed south right into the dangerous storm before noon.

“Where others have turned back, Delta #DL431 presses on,” tweeted the Flightradar24, which tracks air traffic in real time. According to the tracking data, the plane landed at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport at 11:58 a.m. and departed at 12:43 p.m. as DL302.

Jason Rabinowitz, a self-described aviation geek tweeted the flight’s trajectory in real time, uploading images of the plane climbing out of San Juan between the outer band of Irma and the core of the storm.

“Amazing stuff,” Rabinowitz said.

Delta officials said the airline operated its last scheduled flight to and from San Juan “armed with the latest forecast from the airline’s meteorology team.” Flight 431 arrived a minute after noon to nine miles of visibility and light rain, the airline said. Winds were well below operating limits for the 737-900ER to safely operate at around 28 mph, and gusts up to 36 mph. Flight 302 departed San Juan with 173 passengers on board, the airline said.

“Our meteorology team is the best in the business,” said Erik Snell, vice president for Delta operations and customer center. “They took a hard look at the weather data and the track of the storm and worked with the flight crew and dispatcher to agree it was safe to operate the flight. And our flight and ground crews were incredible in their effort to turn the aircraft quickly and safely so the flight could depart well before the hurricane threat.”

The conditions worsened soon after departure. Heavy rain and historic winds lashed Puerto Rico’s northeast coast Wednesday as Irma roared through the Caribbean on its way to Florida. The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang reported gust of 62 miles per hour in San Juanlate Wednesday afternoon and in Culebra, Puerto Rico, a small island 17 miles east of the mainland, a wind gust registered 111 miles per hour.

The flight was the last one in and out of San Juan, before the air traffic control ceased operations.
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Some pics from the flight tracking:

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Those guys deserve a drink. JetBlue capped tickets at $99/head. I thought that was very generous to do, not to mention the good PR. According to some unconfirmed reports, Trump's Caribbean chateau has been heavily damaged.
 
I don't want to alarm our Florida friends but the new track looks bad. It's shifted West and both models go right up the peninsula. The GFS tracks over Orlando. The European goes closer to Tampa.
 
Someone get the doctor
Gypsy Woman, weave your magic spell
Shaman, do your rain dance
Looks like Mother Earth is mad as hell

Part of the first verse of Inherit The Wind, a track off of Strength in Numbers by Tyketto.

How prophetic. Harvey with its damage, Irma following up right behind it, Jose picking up where Irma left off, remnants of Harvey reforming as Hurricane Katia in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas-bound...

... and now a 5.2 and 8.0 earthquake, minutes apart from each other, and less than 100km from each other in southern Mexico.

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bradl said:
Someone get the doctor
Gypsy Woman, weave your magic spell
Shaman, do your rain dance
Looks like Mother Earth is mad as hell

Part of the first verse of Inherit The Wind, a track off of Strength in Numbers by Tyketto.

How prophetic. Harvey with its damage, Irma following up right behind it, Jose picking up where Irma left off, remnants of Harvey reforming as Hurricane Katia in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas-bound...

... and now a 5.2 and 8.0 earthquake, minutes apart from each other, and less than 100km from each other in southern Mexico.

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Harvey and Katia are totally different systems. The rain from Harvey came through Connecticut on Sunday.
 
The track has shifted west again and now might pass more near Tampa. This is a worst case scenario as it will mean most of the destructive wind is on shore.
 
My Dad lives in Winterhaven, Florida, center of the State at 185' elevation so he's not worried about storm surge, but possible winds. He lives in a 500 year flood plain, but no rivers or creeks nearby. However there are lakes around and honestly I don't know if the area has a drainage system set up to deal with lakes that fill up with rain water and overflow. Hopefully by the time the storm reaches North Central Florida, it will be downgraded to a storm. He plans on staying in town.

Edited to change 500' to 500 year.
 
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We're clearing out about 10 miles west away from the coast - don't expect the same level of flooding as Matthew (angle of approach, tides), so hopefully we'll return to a mostly intact house (it's a modern, over spec home so should be OK with the expected wind). Got a generator on deck with about 30 hours of gas on deck, so if (assuming this will be the same) we come back to no power, we'll be able to run some things. Also have lots of supplemental water (drinking and 60+ gallons of "utility water").

Also, lots of lots of booze :D
 
D.T. said:
We're clearing out about 10 miles west away from the coast - don't expect the same level of flooding as Matthew (angle of approach, tides), so hopefully we'll return to a mostly intact house (it's a modern, over spec home so should be OK with the expected wind). Got a generator on deck with about 30 hours of gas on deck, so if (assuming this will be the same) we come back to no power, we'll be able to run some things. Also have lots of supplemental water (drinking and 60+ gallons of "utility water").

Also, lots of lots of booze :D
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Hang in there. We're all rooting for you guys.
 
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