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Posted on 08/20/2011 4:22:03 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Tropical Storm Irene has developed from Invest 97 in the Western Atlantic Ocean, east of the Leeward Islands.
Buoy Data:
Caribbean Sea
Florida
Exactly. The worst decision is to wait and do nothing until the last possible minute. Then everybody’s out of gas, supplies, there’s not enough time to get ready, and there are 50,000 people ahead of you in the line to get outta town.
95% of the time it’s not needed — but the rest of the time will scare the @#%^$ out of you.
My dad’s nursing home called this afternoon....they’re tentatively activating their evacuation plan....will decide Wednesday for sure....
Sounds like they have everything in order. It still gives two more days to watch and evaluate the storm track. They seem very organized.
...caution is a good thing.
...caution is a good thing.
My daughter is flying to Greenville, SC on Saturday. I have been told that G’ville will not be impacted but I am not so sure.
Advice would be welcome since we live out west and have never experienced a hurricane.
Greenville is a remarkably difficult location for a tropical storm to reach. Closest storm I can remember would be Hurricane Hugo in 1989. It got within 100 miles of Greenville. Very unlikely your daughter will have any problems due to Hurricane Irene.
Hi NautiNurse - time for the Atlantic season I see
this one be in my neighborhood on thursday
Thanks. She is headed back to college and is traveling alone. You’ve eased my mind.
Stopped by wu a little earlier, and noticed that the last 3-4 frames show a more NW move than WNW. Remains to be seen whether this is a wobble, or trend. If it is a trend, that should be some good news, as the turn is starting earlier than expected.
I was totally appalled the last time we had big hurricanes here how many people were unprepared. We were newbies to hurricanes, but we had water, canned food, a grill with 2 propane tanks (both full) 2 cars with full gas tanks, plenty of batteries, flashlights, radio, etc. Lucky for us because it was about 2 weeks before we had electricity. We stayed (lots of our friends went north and got hotel rooms). It was no big deal really, kind of like camping, but in our house. And I didn’t have to worry that someone would break in while we were gone.
Hope it’s not necessary, but glad they are ahead of the game.
South Florida here.
Does anyone know of a website where you can play more than say 8 frames in an IR satellite loop?
I’d love to be able to see 10-12 hours worth of IR frames.
Thanks!
Thank you, again, for your ping this year. Even though I am completely away from any coast, I follow these posts religiously. Not going to hurt me, but I pray for all those in the way. God Bless!
I jumped early. I left the marina at 6:00 this morning to make the 9:00AM lock opening. She is blocked and strapped now. I will give the insurance company a call in the morning as to my vessel’s status. They will intern reimburse me, half of the cost of joining the hurricane club, which is $2000/year.
Yeah, I remember Floyd. 1999. It was headed STRAIGHT towards Ft. Lauderdale. It was on that path for days and at the last moment veered sharply north due to a high pressure front moving in to South Florida. Floyd was huge and powerful. It ended up flooding half of North Carolina.
LOL--yes. Top of the thread, with lots of other nifty references I worked very diligently to provide...find the link called "Satellite Images." Click on that link. In the table, look for "Long" Image Loop. You have your choice between Java and Flash. Long loop is 12-15 images. Short loop is 8 images.
Oh geez...remember the poor little town where all the coffins popped out of the ground and were floating around from Hurricane Floyd?
Trivia--There was another hurricane shortly prior to Hurricane Floyd in 1999--Hurricane Dennis. Dennis & Floyd had similar paths as they moved past Florida toward NC. Hurricane Dennis 1999 is the image in my Surf's Up Ping logo. The name Dennis was finally retired in 2005, the notorious year when five storm names were retired.
Speaking of trivia - I bet there aren’t too many that remember Hurricane Gabrielle...........I know you do. So do I, but for a different reason :)
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