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Title: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: degrub on September 06, 2017, 10:45:39 pm
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-irma-extreme-storm-surge-threat-us-and-bahamas

Time for a road trip.
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Alan Klein on September 08, 2017, 05:56:08 pm
Looking at the weather maps,  I predict Irma is going to go into the gulf,  that the weathermen are wrong.   Florida's going to miss the bullet with minimum damage.
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Telecaster on September 09, 2017, 04:04:39 pm
No predictions here, but if I lived anywhere in Irma's forecast path I'd already be elsewhere by now. This storm could do anything from running straight up through Florida to hugging Florida's gulf coast to cruising right on past, spinning up again and then pulling a Katrina further west.

-Dave-
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: stamper on September 10, 2017, 12:48:59 pm
Looking at the weather maps,  I predict Irma is going to go into the gulf,  that the weathermen are wrong.   Florida's going to miss the bullet with minimum damage.

Fake news. Deaths reported on the news. :'( :(
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Chairman Bill on September 10, 2017, 01:04:05 pm
Looking at the weather maps,  I predict Irma is going to go into the gulf,  that the weathermen are wrong.   Florida's going to miss the bullet with minimum damage.

Fake news. Deaths reported on the news. :'( :(

That's just a liberal conspiracy & because teh gayz can has marriage now. Well, it is according to various f***witted politicians and purveyors of supernaturalist mumbo-jumbo.
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 10, 2017, 03:04:43 pm
It is really unfair to label weathermen "wrong." It is not over yet, and, of course, predicting a hurricane's path, days in advance, with absolute precision, is impossible.

I flew my daughter out on Thursday. She just started her college in Fort Lauderdale, half-an-hour north of Miami, along the coast.

One phenomenon caught my eye, though: "Hurricane Irma Is So Strong, It's Sucking Water Away From Bahamas' Island Shore"

Video here: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Hurricane-Irma-Sucks-Water-Away-From-Bahamas-Island-Shore-443495553.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_MIBrand
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Rob C on September 10, 2017, 04:35:59 pm
It is really unfair to label weathermen "wrong." It is not over yet, and, of course, predicting a hurricane's path, days in advance, with aboslute precision, is impossible.

I flew my daughter out on Thursday. She just started her college in Fort Lauderdale, half-an-hour north of Miami, along the coast.

One phenomenon caught my eye, though: "Hurricane Irma Is So Strong, It's Sucking Water Away From Bahamas' Island Shore"

Video here: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Hurricane-Irma-Sucks-Water-Away-From-Bahamas-Island-Shore-443495553.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_MIBrand

OMG. It's gotta come back. What then?

Rob
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Telecaster on September 10, 2017, 05:14:33 pm
OMG. It's gotta come back. What then?

Likely some degree of storm surge on Florida's eastern coast. Dunno if there'll be a backlash in the Bahamas afterward. Irma's current path is allowing it to draw water from the Gulf too as it moves north. I have a friend in Orlando…last I heard from her she was planning to hightail it, but where to?

-Dave-
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 10, 2017, 05:19:55 pm
The same phenomenon observed in Florida too:

Hurricane Irma sucks away Tampa Bay water
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/10/hurricane-irma-sucks-away-tampa-bay-water.html
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Telecaster on September 10, 2017, 05:41:34 pm
…it is according to various f***witted politicians and purveyors of supernaturalist mumbo-jumbo.

I'll give the superstitious of "ye olden days" some credit: they often saw destructive natural events as punishment for their own shortcomings and failures (as delineated by their particular norms). Their modern-day degenerate counterparts OTOH…  ::)

-Dave-
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 10, 2017, 06:11:57 pm
Speaking about the modern day...

Florida sheriff warns residents not to shoot at Hurricane Irma: 'You won't make it turn around'
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/10/florida-sheriff-warns-residents-not-to-shoot-at-hurricane-irma.html
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 10, 2017, 08:20:49 pm
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/09/10/05/4417F82300000578-0-image-a-103_1505018063480.jpg)
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: kers on September 11, 2017, 05:59:46 am
Are you sure? that is a good way to go ;)
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Otto Phocus on September 11, 2017, 07:51:12 am
Just two words about the hurricane in Florida

F-ing looters!

People suck
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 11, 2017, 08:07:19 am
...F-ing looters!...

Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 11, 2017, 11:47:02 am
More looters:
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Telecaster on September 11, 2017, 04:29:39 pm
Florida was "lucky" that Irma was only a Cat 3 hurricane by the time it made final landfall, and that it was at its most powerful over the Everglades rather than a major city.

Now here comes Hurricane José (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov).

-Dave-
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 13, 2017, 08:07:47 am
Ah, I apologize ... turns out, those were not looters, but brave young men:

FLORIDA VOLUNTEERS RESCUE AIR JORDANS FROM HURRICANE IRMA

http://thinkamericana.com/2017/09/11/florida-volunteers-rescue-air-jordans-hurricane-irma-video/
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: texshooter on September 13, 2017, 08:51:13 pm
No looters here.   I take it nobody's interested in The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides?

(https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/11/bn1-520x245.jpg)
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 14, 2017, 04:20:03 pm
And some nice things happening as well:

"South Florida Millionaire Takes in 70 Foster Kids After Irma"

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/South-Florida-Millionaire-Takes-in-70-Foster-Kids-After-Irma-444492343.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_MIBrand
Title: Re: Time to get out of the way in Florida before the line gets long
Post by: Telecaster on September 14, 2017, 04:41:10 pm
I take it nobody's interested in The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides?

Oh yes.

See the day reappearing
bright light like butter
You can say we're faking
Athens or Sparta
Gotta learn to give
Gotta learn to live
Gotta learn to breathe
Gotta learn to leave
Crooked lines


— from Crooked Lines by The Go-Betweens (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go-Betweens).

-Dave-