hurricane coming...

I've been through several hurricanes as a kid and while I thought they would be cool, like with shit flying through the air, they all ended up being annoying. The most annoying one being Flloyd in 1999, in which is just rained and rained and rained and my power was out for a week.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg33/JRangerkip/chan/Typhoon_LONGWANG.jpg

Hurricane Irene is predicted to arrive in the general NYC/northeast area some time late on Saturday, early on Sunday.

Oh good, I'll just be getting back from the Long Island highland games. With any luck.

maybe you'll find yourself in a remake of I Know Where I'm Going!

Ooh maybe that means the waves will be good at the beach on Sat afternoon.

We escaped another one!

I called to tell my parents, who just moved to Florida, about the earthquake and my Mom was yelling in the background - "There's a hurricane coming why hasn't she called us?!" Uh cause I'm more likely to get hit by the hurrican than you are at this point? :(

dont come to maine you bitch

Jeez, what on Earth did I do to you Mr. Green?

;p

I mean t the hurciciane - you are welcome in Maine anytime

I love Maine.

a pug gentleman lives in my hood so there's that for socializin

lol @ "pug gentleman"

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

I wondering how much more severe this will make the Tulare Lake situation.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/californias-long-dry-tulare-lake-has-returned-180982507/

I was hearing that the land was too dry to allow any rain to do anything other than run off it. Is it being kept in one place likely to mean anything remotely positive at any point, actually having any effect on aquifers or anything? Or just gradually go stangnant.

old hat for us Floridians by now, never gets less annoying.

wondering how close the intensity forecast will be to what actually happens.

Hopefully be be thus:

actual intensity < fellas, it's too rough to feed ya < fellas, it's been good to know ya

The water is frighteningly hot. I worry about anyone in this thing's direct path.

I've never known anyone to live in the Big Bend aka the Armpit of Florida though.

this annoying dude is canesplaining to me at work right now. I'm like...I just told you I lived in FL, what part of that made you think I need to be explained hurricanes like I'm a 3 year old

tempted to pretend I'm scared and tell him I'm logging off for the week so I can evacuate

We just moved to central FL a couple months ago (hi Floridians!) so this is the first hurricane we've had a watch for so far. Obv knew it was inevitable living here but we're not on the coast and everyone we've talked to here seems to downplay hurricanes. Still a bit anxious tho

No, never downplay hurricanes.

I think you can rest easier with this one, though.

part of the reason assholes people downplay hurricanes is that they don't actually pay attention to what their local meteorologists are saying. they either ignore the cone and think they're being given GPS directions for the exact street the hurricane will come down and get mad when it wobbles slightly at the 11th hour. or they're like one of my friends, who is a nice guy but a bit of a dim bulb about some things, where he'll see a storm is projected to be a Category 3 at 130 mph, thinks they're saying everybody in FL is going to get 130 mph, and then when we get 40 mph winds because we're inland will say the storm was 'overhyped'. even though that's what the meteorologists were always saying was what we were going to get if they'd paid attention.

stay safe and welcome to Central Florida! agree with Alfred can probably rest easier on this one, but never downplay, always prepare for the worst and hope for the best. they get less nerve-racking after a while (though the right storm can be nerve-racking no matter how many times you've been through it!).

as usual, i'm expecting to not even lose power or internet, which means no hooky from work, though I could always pretend.

Yeah, this comes down to people never watching local news. I do, in part because it's the most accurate place to learn about weather condidtions.

I get more aggravated at not being able to find shit in the grocery stores and empty gas stations due to hoarders

Thanks guys. I should mention our friends/family are usually downplaying hurricanes to put us at ease (and entice us to stay here long term, which we aren't sure yet). I know at least the family we live with take it seriously

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.