Some people!...For those who tend to want to stay put, they should keep an eye on the millibar readings. IF it gets down to under 900, it might just be too late. I really resent having strangers malign what I’ve tried to say. Get it straight, people, okay? I did NOT say something by not saying something else first. Communication doesn’t really work that way, but miscommunication does.
NN is hardly a stranger and its her thread. If you go after her you go after a bunch of us.
It is not going below 900. It probably is not going below 930. The eye will be offshore most of the time, so that coastal folks will not be getting the worst of winds. The storm is moving at a good pace, so flooding from rain will not be widespread. When the end of the world comes, it’ll be way worse than this. Please get a grip.
I doubt very seriously Matthew would drop below 900 mb. Katrina’s lowest was 902mb out in the Gulf and Camille made landfall at 906 mb.
That’s not to say this is not a very dangerous storm. And those refusing to evacuate would do well to remember the phone calls to 911and radio and news stations in South Mississippi where people were in their attics begging for someone to come get them. They played those calls on national news. One of them was a girl I went to nursing school with who lived in Ocean Springs and refused to evacuate. Her and her husband were SURE they were far enough inland. The sheriff’s dept even marked their door and told them they were doing it so they would know where to start looking for bodies after the storm, I think partially because they were trying to scare them into evacuating and because they also knew it was a serious possibility they would drown.
Her, her husband and children managed to survive by floating out of their attic to someone else’s. They left Mississippi all together after that.
If your told to evacuate, do it.