The Weather

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:24 am

That's Taiwan down there under the typhoon.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:27 pm

Well, this escalated quickly. Not even a tropical depression Wed morning, 5pm today a Cat 4. Current projections to hit Jamaica on Monday morning.

ETA: Make that Cat 5, as of 11pm eastern

Matthew Vaults to Category 4 Strength; Uncertainty Clouds the Forecast

Yellow line is coast of Colombia, off the Gulf of Venezuela. Aruba and Curacao taking some as well.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:59 am

Well, hopefully this thing doesn't take a hard left.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:14 am

If it does, hopefully we luck out like we did last time.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:39 am

My thought - it slows down enough to miss the trough in the central US which means it isn't picked up and brought inland north of North Carolina sufficient to cause on-shore problems. Trough acts as a kicker instead, keeping it just off-shore north of the Carolinas - beach issues but no landfall in mid-Atlantic or ny to Boston .

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:40 am

Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:48 am

Yeah, I guess we aren't going down to the beach this weekend. Unless I have to run down midweek and put our patio furniture inside. I'm hoping to find someone there who can do it for me.

Fucking hurricanes.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:01 pm

tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:13 pm

Shirley wrote:Yeah, I guess we aren't going down to the beach this weekend. Unless I have to run down midweek and put our patio furniture inside. I'm hoping to find someone there who can do it for me.

Fucking hurricanes.

First world problems.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:10 pm

A_B wrote:
Shirley wrote:Yeah, I guess we aren't going down to the beach this weekend. Unless I have to run down midweek and put our patio furniture inside. I'm hoping to find someone there who can do it for me.

Fucking hurricanes.
First world problems.

And I just paid a guy to repaint my front door. This is going to push that out another week or two! Unbelievable.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:45 pm

Most recent run of the Euro would make you a bit happier - put it with a landfall in central Florida, then back off the coast but then a loop in the Atlantic and never gets into the Carolinas.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:05 am

Rex wrote:
tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?

Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.

Post by **Shirley** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:17 am

wlu_lax6 wrote:
Rex wrote:
tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?
Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.

Not just hurricanes and queers. We've legislated away beach erosion too!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina ... d=16913782

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:34 am

Shirley wrote:
wlu_lax6 wrote:
Rex wrote:
tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?
Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.
Not just hurricanes and queers. We've legislated away beach erosion too!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina ... d=16913782

Well those ACC lobbyists just want Duke, UNC, and State to finally compete with ECU's and UNCW's surfing teams.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:05 am

Shirley wrote:
wlu_lax6 wrote:
Rex wrote:
tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?
Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.
Not just hurricanes and queers. We've legislated away beach erosion too!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina ... d=16913782

JFC!

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:01 am

This fucker's gonna look like Harambe, isn't it

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:32 am

Looks like Matthew is going to miss NC now, making a hard right at South Carolina. Good for me, but it looks pretty shitty for much of Florida. A Cat 4 scraping up along a lot of the coast. And then a few days later, it'll likely come back and hit Florida again. Crazy.

Oh, and then it'll go into the Gulf's warm waters and probably restrengthen.

BTW, I see that they're projecting a 9-foot storm surge. That would be pretty catastrophic on my island, especially when you add big waves on top of that surge. There are parts of my island that probably don't have much more than 9 foot clearance across the whole width.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:43 am

I'm on the West Coast, so I should be good (for now). We've got friends coming up from Jupiter and West Palm, so I ran out to Walmart at 10:30 last night to stock up. What a shit show. Not in the hurricane prepping sense, but in the methhead insanity sense.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:51 am

So it was just a regular Wednesday night?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:30 am

Apparently. I don't normally go to Walmart, so I can't attest for whether it was different at 10:30 than any other time of night. There was a guy there slinking around like the brother in Wedding Crashers, but with dark eye shadow, filling his shopping card with hundreds of Hot Pockets.

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 1:40 pm

Shirley wrote:Looks like Matthew is going to miss NC now, making a hard right at South Carolina. Good for me, but it looks pretty shitty for much of Florida. A Cat 4 scraping up along a lot of the coast. And then a few days later, it'll likely come back and hit Florida again. Crazy.

Oh, and then it'll go into the Gulf's warm waters and probably restrengthen.

BTW, I see that they're projecting a 9-foot storm surge. That would be pretty catastrophic on my island, especially when you add big waves on top of that surge. There are parts of my island that probably don't have much more than 9 foot clearance across the whole width.

So Dave, you are buying islands with that big Micro$oft money? Nice.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:29 pm

Never really thought of this before, from the NWS:

Residents in high-rise buildings should be aware that the winds at the top of a 30-story building will be, on average, about one Saffir-Simpson category higher than the winds near the surface.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:41 pm

"... so don't go standing on top of your high rise building during the hurricane."

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:56 pm

mister d wrote:"... so don't go standing on top of your high rise building during the hurricane."

"Super Storm winds can't melt steel beams!"

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:09 pm

LSU-Florida game gas been postponed.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:25 pm

mister d wrote:"... so don't go standing on top of your high rise building during the hurricane."

Or don't stay inside your high rise building figuring you will be safe.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:45 pm

Pfft. More like Saf-fear Wimp-son.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:48 pm

The Drudge Report: Responsible Tweeting!

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:17 pm

https://heatst.com/politics/hurricane-m ... p-florida/

Obama is summoning the weather against Trump!

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:24 pm

In Haiti, Slow Revelations About The Scale Of Hurricane Destruction

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:25 pm

Holla when your power comes back on, Gunpowder

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:14 pm

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:39 am

NC not safe yet - trough maybe tugging storm a bit north after all.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:03 am

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:48 am

Im in philadelphia, waiting for a replacement pilot to fly this bitch back to fll. No worries about me, frogs. Northern Fl, though, does not get hit with these storms just about ever. They could get f-ed up.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:45 am

Death toll in Haiti keeps rising, 572 as of this morning. I haven't heard how bad it is in the population centers of the Bahamas.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:20 pm

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:43 pm

Hurricane Matthew death toll nears 900 in Haiti, cholera takes lives

Over and over this country suffers.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat Oct 08, 2016 12:05 pm

Where's the root system on that tree?

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:18 pm

govmentchedda wrote:Where's the root system on that tree?

Some trees have shallow root systems. The house behind us has a 50 foot tall redwood tree. Redwoods also have shallow roots. I worry about it when we have big storms.