Hurricane Dorian Live Thread

NHC/NOAA ^ | 28 August 2019 | NHC/NOAA

[SkyPilot]

Storm sitting there moving at 1 MPH! Appears to have started its northern jog.

The Weather Channel reported a few hours ago that if the storm did slow down to a crawl, that was good news for the southeast coast of the US, because the less west it would go before the northern turn. It seems obvious, but it makes sense also.

The storm is now going to be turned by the jet stream that has dipped a bit more southerly over the Midwest and Eastern US.

Here is a story published just a few minutes ago as I type this (posted 6:22 AM, 2 Sep).

Hurricane Dorian’s track shifts farther east, keeping Broward and part of Palm Beach out of cone

So even further east now.

Here is the latest NOAA track, posted 1 hr 42 minutes ago:

[mewzilla]

https://tunein.com/radio/The-Light-810-AM-s301260/

...is still on the air and broadcasting from Freeport. At the moment folks are calling in to report conditions, some to ask for help. Someone just called from Regency Park and reports 4 feet of water in the streets.

[Maskot]

It’s good you have a neighbor to keep an eye on things while you’re gone. Not everybody has that. In my area, anything not nailed down ON A GOOD DAY will most likely be stolen. The sounds of generators etc after a hurricane is the very least of my worries. There’s much to do right after a storm. I’m of the mindset that even without power, there’s much to take care of immediately. Damage assessment etc. I’m not gonna evacuate and possibly risk not being allowed back into the area for weeks. That just postpones cleanup

[RaceBannon]

Hello Miss, your name and a post about your dad popped up on my FB feed, I shared it from 2012?

Hope all is well.

[Freee-dame]

1 mph is barely moving. Terrible for Grand Bahama.

[rodguy911]

Any time. Lots of us here have your back whenever necessary.

[Atlantan]

Atlanta Motor Speedway, south of Atlanta, is always open for hurricane evacuees. Free with showers.

https://www.henryherald.com/news/atlanta-motor-speedway-to-open-up-for-evacuees-of-hurricane/article_038f0a78-ca94-11e9-8fa3-5b1895fe75cc.html

[rodguy911]

Your posts and posting history is well known and its as good as Freeping gets. No need for second thoughts. When other losers give you a hard time I doubt it will be tolerated here. What you do is a huge service to those in time of need. Anyone challenging that will be dealt with.And thanks again for what you do we all appreciate it.

[Maskot]

They are! However, when Wilma came from the west coast, it was a daytime storm. I saw things I hope to never see again! It was truly frightening. I’ll take a nighttime storm over day. Neither is good but my head is better with nighttimers!

[rodguy911]

From the looks of it Dorian is getting ready to make the northerly turn.Bigger question is how long will it move so slowly,near stall, and will that force up cooler water which kills off some of the intensity? Also will the damaging wind field expand as they sometimes do.

[SkyPilot]

It’s good you have a neighbor to keep an eye on things while you’re gone. Not everybody has that. In my area, anything not nailed down ON A GOOD DAY will most likely be stolen.

I have relatives who live in the Houston area.

After Harvey, they were helping a friend carry some furniture and belongings outside of their flooded home.

As they put things like an antique hutches and a very valuable antique oak desk in their driveway, people were pulling up in pickup trucks (standing in their driveway!) and dragging their things to the road in an effort to take them!

They screamed: "What are you doing?!" The pickers responded: "Oh, we thought you were throwing all this out."

Now, many things were thrown out, and the cleanup piles took months to clear. But other people had to put up SIGN made up of huge plywood sheets: "THIS IS OUR PROPERTY! DO NOT STEAL!"

[rodguy911]

I don’t last that long anymore,930 10:00 Im done.

[zzeeman]

You got that right! The value and importance of these threads is immeasurable... storm after storm, year after year, for FReepers and many others just reading and lurking.

NN does a fantastic job from start to finish, each and every time!

[rodguy911]

What we need to learn how to do is to replicate mountains which tend to really slow down if not devastate hurricanes.

[Maskot]

Sickening isn’t it? There are always jerks who think they can just take whatever they want. Grrrrr

We were preparing for a storm one year and had our garage door open. Somebody actually walked in to our garage and stole our gas cans! Needless to say, we now chain our gas cans to the workbench until Needed to refuel the generator

[zzeeman]

From the looks of it Dorian is getting ready to make the northerly turn.Bigger question is how long will it move so slowly,near stall, and will that force up cooler water which kills off some of the intensity? Also will the damaging wind field expand as they sometimes do.

I think you are correct on both counts... likely to see the intensity drop (but still remain a powerful storm) and the wind field expand over the next couple of days.

[rodguy911]

You got that right! The value and importance of these threads is immeasurable... storm after storm, year after year, for FReepers and many others just reading and lurking. NN does a fantastic job from start to finish, each and every time!

No question. We need to have her back and it appears we do.

[Truth29]

Remember the good ole days when looters could be shot? Not anymore, unfortunately.

[21twelve]

I had that happen with some hand tools at a site in Newark. We’re standing 30 feet away and a couple of kids started picking them up as we are looking at them.

“Hey - leave that stuff alone!”

“Oh - we thought you didn’t want them no more.”

I recall on one of the Katrina threads where a Freeper had gone down to help out. He said at the entrance to a neighborhood there was a dead guy sitting against a tree with a sign on him that said “Looter”. That would work too I guess.

[rodguy911]

Thanks very much.
One comment I heard that seemed worrisome is that as the eye wall replacements continue the storm could expand. It has had a history of a small center. If that were to expand could be bad news. But, I don’t know enough about hurricane evolution to figure it out.