hurricane coming...

shit bahamas are gonna get creamed by this :/

maybe you'll find yourself in a remake of I Know Where I'm Going! ― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius)

<3 u for this, because you know how enormously happy that would make me.

threat for Northeast upgraded:

http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/article/hurricane-irene-major-northeast-threats_2011-08-23

good tracking website

http://www.stormpulse.com/atlantic

love how this storm stops immediately at the Canadian border!

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hurricane-scenarios-run-from-bad-to-worse-2011-08-24?link=home_carousel

no hurricanes can get through customs

The author of that artcile needs to learn to distinguish between Spielberg films and Michael Bay films.

Looking up at the hurricane vs. running away from a CGI building collapsing in said hurricane.

Ned otm.

The ironically named Irene...

oh yeah.

I dont want a hurriance in Maine. I already have no roof

Just slow down and there won't be any hurriance.

I think I have astraphobia

hooooooo boy

this shit is gonna hit me pretty much dead on...kinda freaking out

So... like... real talk... should we be trying to find a reason to get the f outta Brooklyn this weekend or no?

Only if you're concerned about spending 1-2 days inside while it rains outside? Is it really going to be any more serious than that? Haven't read up on the whole news/fear-mongering campaign yet.

I'll be fine as long as the power is on.

I'm happy to spend up to 7 days inside while it rains! Just wonder if I'm underestimating things. Apparently my block is in a C-Zone on the NYC hurricane evacuation scale, whatever the hell that means. West Side Highway is a Zone A so I guess C is not too bad...

Oh hmm I see, that's mostly about storm surge flooding. I live like 5 miles inland so I am in no zone at all. I would def recommend getting things out of your basement, I guess? Or raising them up. I feel like basements could flood, because that is what basements do.

laurel i'm not sure you know what "fear-mongering" means

anyway yeah from the looks of things it seems like NYC is gonna get hit with irene as a cat 1 - some pretty legit flooding, widespread loss of power, not sure what kind of wind damage would occur in a city liket that. my apartment in connecticut is surrounded by trees so i may go into campus for a couple days if that's what they recommend

Cat 1 is the tamest out of 5 right?

yes, put an extra case of beer in the fridge just to be safe.

yeah

1 bottle Stoli Vanil

they're saying there's like a 30% chance this could reach category 5 which is nuts but it won't be that strong when it gets to new england. cat 5 is like, devastates everything in its path

if californians got to make fun of nyers and washingtonians for freaking out over a 2 second earthquake, do floridians get to make fun of the same ppl for freaking out over this hurricane?

btw if you live further north than DC i wouldn't worry about this thing, by the time it reaches ny it should prob be just a very bad thunderstorm

Maybe I'm not taking this storm thing seriously enough? But I'm assuming p much it will be windy and rainy. Your basement might flood (or your apartment, if it's in a basement). Other than these things, don't plan any picnics or bike rides? I don't get any tv reception or watch news so I'm just assuming they're talking about how Tropical Storm Irene could flatten lower Manhattan or whatever.

xxxp

hurricanes are pretty unpredictable and they're pretty easy to prepare for

also the higher up you are, the safer you & your things are, so if you live an apt don't freak out

also don't park your car near any trees

obv. don't "freak out," but this is a serious hurricane.

i'm saying this as a floridian whose seen hurricane katrina and wilma (both of which passed through/very near coral gables, where we live) and andrew (when i lived on kendall and 142nd; not the worst-hit area, obv., but an area hit very badly).

Well I mean if tree branches start coming through the glass windows, there's gonna be some clean-up, obviously. But we don't have storm shutters and like everyone else, I live in a rental, so I only have what my LL provided us with.

Also I'm scheduled to perform outdoors all day Saturday for a highland games on Long Island that's supposed to be held in a semi-wooded park. Would be willing to take bets on whether this goes ahead.

lol sarge come on...if this hits nyc as a category 2 it's gonna be a pretty big fuckin deal

if californians got to make fun of nyers and washingtonians for freaking out over a 2 second earthquake, do floridians get to make fun of the same ppl for freaking out over this hurricane?

floridians don't get to make fun of anyone for anything iirc

if you have a car and can leave it in a parking garage over the weekend, i'd make plans to do that

also if you don't have shutters you could, like, put masking tape across your windows -- or if you can get any access to plywood, that works

lol sarge come on...if this hits nyc as a category 2 it's gonna be a pretty big fuckin deal

― frogsb (k3vin k.), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 5:07 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

oh i'm sure we'll hear all about it

i totally cannot tell who is being lol fearmongering and who is serious itt

I wonder if I can find somewhere interesting to go watch the storm from. I like strong weather.

I wish I had a porch.

mother earth tryin to kick us off this bitch

lol hoos

can anyone blame her for trying to wipe out DC?

rly lookin fwd to rick warren makin implications about earthquakes followed by hurricanes hitting dc tho

i totally cannot tell who is being lol fearmongering and who is serious itt

― Kerm, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 5:11 PM (3 minutes ago)

your boy is worried about trees falling on his car/apartment, j0rdan is being all lol florida jaded, laurel seems to be trying to get herself killed

trees aren't gonna fall on your carpartment

I dunno I don't think this is gonna be that bad

^^^remember that post, it might be fun to repost after thousands of people die

there's like a 1% chance that a tree or heavy tree branch falls on your car

this would have to be like cat 4 for something to fall into your apartment and do any damage

Wall Street under water, 20 years ahead of schedule, is fine by me

oh for sure, I can understand that. if it puts yours at further ease, I've lived here 42 years and have been through a double digit number of canes and am still kicking.

being in low-lying areas is usually the biggest concern (i.e. 'you don't evacuate wind, you evacuate water' etc)

Looks like the cone shrunk again as of the 11 a.m. advisory. Tampa/St. Pete area looks increasingly good.

we are blessed in the bay area

My aunt (lives in Jensen Beach) is on her way to Australia, and it sounds like she got out just in time!

going to be about 20-30 mph winds here all day and rain. I'll take it.

think they did a fantastic job with the forecast this go around. amazes me how accurate hurricane forecasting has gotten over the last thirty years even.

Seconded. In Florida one becomes an amateur meteorologist, and one thing I noticed different about Idalia coverage is the emphasis on storm surge within and outside the cone. Seems like forecasters at the state and federal level learned from Ian. They even got the intensification correct, a notoriously erratic thing.

daaaamn

CHECK OUT the misty EYE of Hurricane #Idalia from just inside the inner eyewall rainbands. The winds calmed for a solid 30 seconds before returning full force from the opposite direction. pic.twitter.com/jlUsnTiJ0m

— Josh Griffith ⚡ (@JoshGriffithWX) August 30, 2023

are y'all OK? the PBS Newshour is looking pretty scary today

Yeah, roll call?

doing fine here in Winter Park, FL. we didn't get much other than rain and 25-30 mph winds (fortunately).

unfortunately for the folks at St Bernardus

Also fine here, apparently I'm Neanderthal's neighbor!

you guys need to FAP immediately

Oh word, Vinnie!

I kinda get eyerolly at Floridian friends of mine who have lived here for decades, see a massive hurricane that is ten days away from any landfall and currently not projected to impact us, and immediately start yelling OMG BUCKLE UP FLORIDIANS, WE'RE FUCKED. And yet...Lee is here and friends of mine are already msging me, bugging out

Like when a hurricane actually arrives here, you'll be stressed enough, which I know from experience. Why do you want to feel that same terror prior, no good horror films in theaters?

I just got in from talking to one of my next door neighbors. She's panicing, too.