Hurricane Maria Live Thread

NHC/NOAA ^ | 9/16/2017 | NHC/NOAA

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Jose has been hanging around, waiting for attention in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Newcomer Maria threatens to impact the Caribbean Islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma, and brushed by Jose. Hurricane Jose threatens to brush or impact New England. Lee appears to be a fish storm at this time.

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[Black Agnes]

Continued prayers for all in PR including your parents.

[Chgogal]

Wow! Each and every house is either completely destroyed or partially destroyed. Bridges are out. Roads washed out. Where the heck do you begin to clean up?

[1_Rain_Drop]

"All will be forgotten when the paycheck hits the bank."

LOL. That's what I said. My friend's son will be able to retire at 35. I gasped at what they're being paid but it is dangerous work.

[firebrand]

Thanks. The map thing was from today’s print edition. Did anyone point out that the picture didn’t match the story? You would think they would take a lesson from that and not goof with the map the next day.

[NautiNurse]

To paraphrase your earlier comment: the last editor has left the buidling. They forgot to turn off the lights.

[stars & stripes forever]

Is MARIA going out to sea? Just discovered the site.

[soycd]

>Where the heck do you begin to clean up?

With better, stronger buildings. Too bad most will come to the mainland America and bilk me for more welfare. Too many lazy pinch offs.

[NautiNurse]

Can’t say. Maria may yet dance with that old shoe Jose. Stay tuned.

[jeffers]

Cat 3, 115, as of 3 am, per...

(cnn)

[jjotto]

It’s a variation of doom porn.

A lot of people need to believe that anything really bad must somehow be unprecedented and that they are somehow special for having seen it.

[KC Burke]

Have you seen the eye this morning. It is huge. Very odd.

[Paul R.]

Good catch over on Storm2k of unbelievably irresponsible reporting by TWC:

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=2647371#p2647371

Good God, the situation is bad enough without insinuating a town was suddenly inundated by 50+ feet(!) of water OVER the worst flood they’d ever had. Can you imagine the panic such “information” could cause?

Note the poster’s very “pointed” comments.

That said, weather.gov / NOAA / USGS needs to be more “on the ball” too, and show on the page people would most likely go straight to that the gauge is broken / faulty.* Right now, it still erroneously shows “Armageddon”.

https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=sju&gage=comp4

Someone should screen capture this craziness & repost it as erroneous. I could label (add big text to) the image, but do not have a good way to repost it.

*I have seen weather.gov do this in cases around here, so why not for Puerto Rico?

[Paul R.]

I saw that huge eye too. Very distinct.

[NautiNurse]

The eye was very large as the storm exited north of Puerto Rico. Expanded wind field is common in storms as they interact with land. Hurricane Science

[sarasota]

Anyone

[sarasota]

Anyone in the Atlanta area know if Mableton was hit by power outages and or wind damages?

[KC Burke]

Like that one 3-D image I posted a couple of days ago, at Storm2K they are saying that a “hot tower” strengthening cycle is underway.

[NautiNurse]

NHC predicts Maria winds 120-125mph over next 12-36 hours. SST 86ºF, moderate shear with uncertain influence.

[metmom]

wow........

[Rebelbase]

Domenica damage assessement.

http://stormcarib.com/reports/current/dominica.shtml