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Posted on 08/22/2012 1:47:19 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Tropical Storm Isaac threatens to dampen the Republican National Convention Monday in Tampa, Florida. National media outlets are having a grand time anticipating a Grand Old Party washout. Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn (D) announced Wednesday that he is absolutely prepared to call off the convention next week, with anticipated attendance of 70,000 delegates, party officials, journalists, protesters and others. Buckhorn has not indicated that he would attempt to mitigate liberal protests or a hastily planned Joe "Plugs" Biden visit to Tampa during the convention.
Time will tell. Stay tuned...
Sea Surface Temps
Buoy Data:
Caribbean W. Carib and Florida
Radar:
Puerto Rico Gitmo, Cuba, Key West & Tampa Bay
Not sure how Obama could get a boost from a hurricane considering the piss poor job he did on the oil spill. Besides....there will be 70,000 conservative delegates there ready to lend a hand to people in harms way.
Why won’t Florida State let Dr. Ray use any of their equipment, especially since he teaches there?
I hope he’s right.
I don’t think Tampa will ever get to host the Summer Olympics now.
When we lived on the Alabama Gulf Coast, this was the only guy I paid any real attention to...
http://www.southalabama.edu/cwrc/stfbill.html
And, well, he is a Nole too.
Makes about as much sense as the time Dallas tried for the Summer Olympics.
As a Texan, I was embarrassed.
We’re planning to go for a few days in October. Mostly to shell and eat fish.
Thanks for the PING!
Okay, I have a question. This Saturday my wife is coming back to Ft. Lauderdale from Venezuela by way of a flight from Tobago. Her normal flight path would put her almost directly into TS Isaac when it is over Cuba. So my question is can they divert the flight path a couple of hundred miles to the east over Santo Domingo to avoid the hurricane or does the flight just get delayed/cancelled?
It looks like a great place. We were going to rent a house on north captiva island. Never been there before but hear the shelling is awesome.
Flight can easily be routed around the storm. The ultimate decision to fly will be based on destination weather conditions at MIA/FLL.
"Hurricane Isaac and the Republican National Convention" has become one consolidated run-on word in the weathermen's vocabularies both on TV and all night and day on the radio.
As Rush enlightened me yesterday, the National Weather Service is Obama's people, under his Department of Commerce czar. These bureaucratic readers of weather news over the air waves plus the bureaucratic weather clerks who write the bulletins and constant alerts are hysterics who desperately hope Isaac ruins the GOP convention. They can almost taste their own anticipatory bile.
I'm just northwest of Tampa and the city historically is not a prime target of direct-hit hurricanes, believe me.
Fringe winds and rain, even flooding.....some times, yes....but nothing to be hysterical about days ahead of time.
If semi-bad weather strikes, the delegates and important personages will be safe and sound inside the Convention Center, cheering and yukking it up. On the outside, the Occupy Tampa pukes and the riot-for-pay creeps bussed in will be awash in water, debris, mud, sand, floating condoms, human waste and MacDonald wrappers as they slip and slide in their tent cities.
Can't wait! Whoo Hoo! GO R & R !!!
Leni
LOL! I didn’t know Dallas did that. Thank God they didn’t get it...... all the athletes would have died of heat stroke and it would have been George Bush’s fault...... somehow or other! :D
Even though I live nowhere near hurricane-prone areas, when NautiNurse speaks, I pay attention.
Why? You were in a safe place, with every assurance available from modern technology and a vast organization interested in your welfare. Did you have property at risk? Family? If not, it was just a hurricane party for you. Why the anxiety?
Actually it’s been quite pleasant this week, temps have been in the high 80s/low 90s.
They could conceivably hold the games in late September, as they’ve done on a few other occasions.
Seeing the result of Hugo was unreal, distruction
for 100 miles or so...of course a greater
concentration of people in Florida
concentration of people in Florida.Andrew was a monster
These things can be like something out of a terrible
nightmare
Why won’t Florida State let Dr. Ray use any of their equipment, especially since he teaches there?
I think its fair that professors not use state doplars and computers for personal use. He is a researcher, not hired to public predictions. However, I have subscribed to his notifications for awhile. He’s usually spot on. He’s a secondary source. We need to respect the different slices to provide info and trust their judgement. Hurricanes are no joke..
If Andrew had made landfall 15 miles to the north of where it did, the damage would have been tripled.
Andrew was still devastating @ 220 miles per hour. I was in college then. Lots of friends had leveled homes.
I went down to Homestead about 6 months afterwards, there was a road where all of the debris was piled several stories high as far as the eye could see.
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