OT Hurricane Irma

[Shaboid]

And Shaboid just admits he's still a virgin...

You should ask Mrs. SlyPokerDog, she will tell you differently.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm going to Puerto Rico today and will be there through next week.

ugh

I'm worried that we haven't heard from @yuyuza1 yet.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

There are some really good deals on hotel rooms at Miami Beach right now!

https://www.priceline.com/stay/search/hotels/3000090052/20170908/20170911/1/?searchType=CITY&page=1

 

[Nikolokolus]

It's slowing because the trough to the NW is catching it. The storms been moving west at a decent speed because of the ridge of high pressure being the only steering factor, but now that high is pushing it into a brick wall (trough), essentially. It's not quite that simple but that's why it's slowing down.

I hadn't read anything about it, but that was sort of my basic premise above:

The fact that Irma is slowing can be for any number of reasons, but usually means hitting a different airmass with an opposite/different vector

 

[illmatic99]

I'm worried that we haven't heard from @yuyuza1 yet.

All good. Our hotel had a generator and everything was fine. Tons of people without power on the island tho

 

[SlyPokerDog]

All good. Our hotel had a generator and everything was fine. Tons of people without power on the island tho

Your flight still on for today?

 

[Chris Craig]

Meet Harvey and Irma married for 75 years

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

So my cousin is safe. She drove out and made it to my cousin's in Atlanta.

Isn't Atlanta supposed to get hit?

Obviously, not as strong, but my co-worker had told me it was supposed to be pounded by water and have remnants of the high-force winds (that was a few days ago - the forecast is constantly changing).

 

[Orion Bailey]

It's a hobby, but I'm getting my info straight from the NHC. I wouldn't trust local meteorology on the matter, that's why I posted that link. Especially local meteorology in a place that just got rocked by one.

It's not selfish that you don't want it to go to Texas. Two major hurricane hitting there in less than two weeks would compound devastation exponentially.

The only problem is it could hit anywhere in Florida. Evacuations would be extremely tough already due to the shape of the state, but theyll probably have no idea where it will hit until a couple days before.

You need to make it a job and take it to the top.
You nailed this man.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[BonesJones]

You need to make it a job and take it to the top.
You nailed this man.

I've been tracking every Atlantic tropical storm/hurricane since 2003 (I was 8 years old). I used to live in Louisiana and was visiting family in Vancouver when hurricane Claudette have our town a scare. I didn't know what hurricanes were before then, but when I found out I was fascinated.

So I have years of practice lol. My mom tells me I should become hurricane expert but I view tracking them as more of a hobby (not that I hope anyone gets hit by one, just that I find many things about the storms themself fascinating). Could definitely be an option as I've gotten pretty good at predicting where they'll go.

 

[Orion Bailey]

I've been tracking every Atlantic tropical storm/hurricane since 2003 (I was 8 years old). I used to live in Louisiana and was visiting family in Vancouver when hurricane Claudette have our town a scare. I didn't know what hurricanes were before then, but when I found out I was fascinated.

So I have years of practice lol. My mom tells me I should become hurricane expert but I view tracking them as more of a hobby (not that I hope anyone gets hit by one, just that I find many things about the storms themself fascinating). Could definitely be an option as I've gotten pretty good at predicting where they'll go.

Old news but I used to do on a small scale like what the people did in that storm chasers show.

When I lived in CO for a few years, its crazy the weather there in the later parts of the summer. You could set your watch to the clouds building in the mountains and start to peak over the front face right around 3pm. By 4pm, they were hovering over Colo Springs and by 5pm the lighting would start, JUST as it hit the desert past the population.
We would go chase these storms. It was hot so the showers that came with them felt good.

If that is your fascination, you have a real chance of making it a living, and do you know how special that is T? on the serious, VERY few people get to go to work at a place they find fascinating and love.
For long term happiness, I strongly suggest you go after it man. You are young. you can make it happen, and you obviously have a knack for patterns.

Hell, you the meteorologist, could probably already talk circles around some of the "weather people" on TV. lol

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Irma is only going to be a Cat 3 when it hits Florida.

Nothing Burger.

If this was really caused by global warming it would be a Cat 8.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

When did @MarAzul go to Florida?!?

Florida gun owners encouraged to 'shoot the storm' and fire their guns at Hurricane Irma

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/florida-gun-owners-encouraged-apos-213111921.html

 

[Denny Crane]

Got this message from a good friend of mine.

 

[illmatic99]

Your flight still on for today?

Had to work around as I was flying thru Miami. But I managed to get out. San Juan is ok. No power literally anywhere. People are paying like a 100 bucks every day to fuel up their generators.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Got this message from a good friend of mine.

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Best of luck to your friend but there was never a forecast that said Miami will be hit but everywhere else in Florida is safe. Actually the governor of Florida has gone out of his way to say both coasts of Florida should evacuate out of Florida, not to the opposite coast of where you think the hurricane will hit.

@BrianFromWA lives in Tampa and got his family the fuck out of there days ago.

And, discretion being the better part of valor, just got my tickets out of Dodge.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Had to work around as I was flying thru Miami. But I managed to get out. San Juan is ok. No power literally anywhere. People are paying like a 100 bucks every day to fuel up their generators.

Can't wait to see your vacation pictures.

Glad you're safe.

 

[Denny Crane]

Best of luck to your friend but there was never a forecast that said Miami will be hit but everywhere else in Florida is safe. Actually the governor of Florida has gone out of his way to say both coasts of Florida should evacuate out of Florida, not to the opposite coast of where you think the hurricane will hit.

@BrianFromWA lives in Tampa and got his family the fuck out of there days ago.

#3 will floor you.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

#3 will floor you.

Never claimed I wasn't an asshole.

And I truly wish him and his family the best of luck.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Mediocre Man]

Irma now a category 3

 

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[SlyPokerDog]

#PrayersForMar-A-Lago

 

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[SlyPokerDog]

Irma now a category 3

Harvey is category 0.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Now Cat 2.