Hurricane Irma

[cupid_stunt]

Florida sheriff urges people not to shoot at Hurricane Irma

As many as 53,000 people said they were interested in a Facebook event called “Shoot At Hurricane Irma”, and 25,000 people said they would participate on Saturday evening.

Several other events quickly appeared on Facebook to combat the storm, including scaring it with flamethrowers, “Spinning your arms really fast to push away Hurricane Irma” and “Destroy Hurricane Irma By Cooling The Atlantic With Ice Cubes”.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Chem trail's are real .....USAF c130's already spraying vast tracts of low lying land around Houston.... And are gearing up for the expected mosquito explosion due in Florida due to the amount of pooled later left in the hurricanes wake..
USAF Has Dispatched Its Air Sprayer C-130s To Texas In Response To Hurricane Harvey
Welcome to the experiment....

Seems a logical reaction to the problem, can't see much different between this and normal flying crop sprayers.

 

[JTG]

WRT complaints of greater coverage for Florida than the Caribbean:

1) There was less notice of Irma hitting the Leeward Islands. It was a newer storm then. The destruction in the Caribbean is the precise reason that the potential destruction in Florida is in the news
2) Florida's population massively outweighs that of those islands Irma passed directly over. The evacuation operations themselves have been newsworthy, never mind the reasons for them.
3) There has been plenty of coverage for St Martin/Maarten, the Virgin Islands, Barbuda etc. The Dominican Republic and Haiti had brushes but were relatively OK.
4) It's easier to get telly crews out on the streets of Miami

Can we not do the "America " stuff when the fact is that the storm potentially still poses greater threat to life when it makes landfall in the US than anywhere else?

 

[gentlegreen]

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[cupid_stunt]

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You quoted me, what did you do you post before the fast edit?

Spit it out, man.

 

[Tankus]

Seems a logical reaction to the problem, can't see much different between this and normal flying crop sprayers.

Hopefully they flushed out the agent orange residue out of tanks first....heh

Going to have to spray urban areas for it to work
Zika or environmental ingestion....? tough call ..!

embryos are going to have a tough time ahead

 

[cupid_stunt]

Hopefully they flushed out the agent orange residue out of tanks first....heh

Going to have to spray urban areas for it to work
Zika or environmental ingestion....? tough call ..!

embryos are going to have a tough time ahead

There's nothing in that link that suggests they will spray urban areas, in fact it implies the opposite. Nor is it an 'experiment', as per your earlier post, because as the article says it has been done in 'previous post-hurricane operations'.

I think you are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill TBH.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Jose heading away from the islands and back out to sea. Small mercies and that.

 

[Dan U]

Both the ECM and GFS have played with José targeting NY next week:

I'm going to NY on Thursday for 4 days, I bloody hope that isn't how it plays out. Mrs U is already wigging out about Irma and talking about not wanting to go

 

[gentlegreen]

You quoted me, what did you do you post before the fast edit?

Spit it out, man.

I was going to post "chemtrails !1!1!!"

Until I saw it was in the original post

 

[Tankus]

Alex Jones will be on drip fed valium .....just wait until the next transgender two headed toad pops up in the Everglades

 

[2hats]

Jose heading away from the islands and back out to sea. Small mercies and that.

The GFS/ECM currently agree that it will pirouette clockwise first before approaching the east coast again though then staying off shore and heading to the NE. Still quite some spread in the ensembles after the short spin though so all to play for subsequently!

E2a: better tracks from the ECM, UKMO, GFS models for both Irma and Jose:

Impending clockwise loop visibly in all.

 

[teqniq]

Long Island, Bahamas! There is no more ocean! As far as the eye can see, And they don't know where it went!

 

[Yossarian]

Six weeks ago, the Washington Post wrote about how Tampa Bay had done nothing to prepare for sea-level rise and was extremely vulnerable if it was hit by its first major hurricane since 1921.

By a stroke of gambler’s luck, Tampa Bay hasn’t suffered a direct hit from a hurricane as powerful as a category 3 or higher in nearly a century. Tampa has doubled down on a bet that another won’t strike anytime soon, investing billions of dollars in high-rise condominiums along the waterfront and shipping port upgrades and expanding a hospital on an island in the middle of the bay to make it one of the largest in the state.

A major storm could destroy Tampa Bay. People should be more worried.

 

[agricola]

Rush Limbaugh thinks the storm is a conspiracy like climate change, cooked up by people who want to sell more batteries and bottled water, going to be a silver lining to this storm if his house gets trashed.

Rush Limbaugh Claims Hurricane Irma Is Part Of A Vast Conspiracy

To the surprise of no-one but the disappointment of many, he evacuated a few days later.

 

[Badgers]

 

[cupid_stunt]

Fucking nutter.

 

[dessiato]

I have friends currently in Florida. They are north of Miami so hopefully they'll be safe.

 

[agricola]

Good advert for Honda, that.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Six weeks ago, the Washington Post wrote about how Tampa Bay had done nothing to prepare for sea-level rise and was extremely vulnerable if it was hit by its first major hurricane since 1921.

A major storm could destroy Tampa Bay. People should be more worried.

That's a bloody good read, very informative, thanks for posting.

Judging by the latest on the path of Irma, Tampa Bay is going to get seriously fucked, hopefully no lives will be lost.

 

[Badgers]

Good twitter account to follow

 

[twentythreedom]

Depends on the size of the swells I'd imagine - I have a horrible feeling that those boats would get tossed about to the point that they'd capsize regardless of whether the sails were in.

If they could sail out of the way - like hundreds of miles out of the way - then getting in the boat might be a good option, but I fear it's a bit late for that...

twentythreedom ?

With no sail up and a weedy engine you simply don't have the grunt to hold a yacht at correct angle to wind and waves. A standard (say) 40ft yacht only needs to get spun by a wave then with seas beam on it takes a wave of height only 1/3 hull length (so 13ft in this example) to roll you

Plus there's a huge number of catamarans out there, face on to the wind they can generate lift, and with no heavy keels are far less stable. And impossible to right once flipped (monohulls will usually self right)

In winds over (say) 80mph with waves and storm surge, it'll be a very lucky boat to survive unscathed

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Decisions, decisions...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Isn't the sea vanishing a sign of an imminent tsunami?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Isn't the sea vanishing a sign of an imminent tsunami?

Looks like something similar is happening in Tampa Bay. Wonder what causes this? Is it the low pressure sucking the water away?

 

[2hats]

Isn't the sea vanishing a sign of an imminent tsunami?

Not without seismicity. The vanishing sea in this case is due to the low pressure in the eye of the hurricane and the high winds. Once the eye has passed water tends to be driven both away towards the eye due to the lower pressure there and also off in other directions by the extreme winds in the eyewall. Ie anywhere but 'here'. Of course, it will return in the ensuing hours.

 

[gentlegreen]

It leaves no doubt as to where rain comes from ...

 

[Ax^]

one question that i've not seen answer is have they secured all the trampolines

 

[cupid_stunt]

Someone said on CNN, that as the hurricane heads north, the winds are anti-clockwise and drawing water away from the coast, then as it passes, it throws it & more back at the coast.

Does that make sense, 2hats?

 

[2hats]

Someone said on CNN, that as the hurricane heads north, the winds are anti-clockwise and drawing water away from the coast, then as it passes, it throws it & more back at the coast.

Does that make sense, 2hats?

All northern hemisphere cyclones rotate anti-clockwise as seen from above (Coriolis forces). How they displace water via the wind depends on the relative geometry with which they approach the shore. So the CNN statement is true for a west facing coast experiencing a cyclone heading north. The pressure imbalance (very low in the eye) also contributes to the effect.