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Frank

Frank

Floridians, have no fear, Rush Limbaugh has informed us that Hurricane Irma is a liberal hoax.

The inhabitants of Barbuda should be thrilled to learn this.

Stupid joking aside, stay safe all you folks, seriously.

Earth has gone from a 2 to a 3 in the Star Control 2 weather scale, about when you need to think whether the loss of crew is worth going down without the Melnorme's weather shielding.
 
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Gared

Gared

Well, all of the models have updated again, and the GFS has come into consensus with the Euro model. I'm hoping the reason we haven't heard from any actual Floridians (and Carolinians, and Georgians, and hell, maybe even Virginians) is because they're all checking in with the advisories from their local Emergency Management department and hunkering down/bugging out as necessary. Stay safe everyone.
 
General Specific

General Specific

I live in South Carolina, possibly within the storm track of Irma. I'm fine and not planning on going anywhere. Current models show the storm veering into Georgia and so it is unlikely that we will get much more than some strong storms and a slight chance of a tornado. Right now, my work has not announced any closings, but I am anticipating the high school I am at to be turned into a shelter, so will possibly be out monday and tuesday. Waiting on further updates.
 
Dave

Dave

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By the way, our servers are located in Miami. The datacenter assures me that they can handle things and we'll be fine, but you never know.
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

Dave said:
By the way, our servers are located in Miami. The datacenter assures me that they can handle things and we'll be fine, but you never know.
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Do you have the ability to back up the database and other data? Might be a good time, if you don't do it regularly already.
 
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General Specific said:
I live in South Carolina, possibly within the storm track of Irma. I'm fine and not planning on going anywhere. Current models show the storm veering into Georgia and so it is unlikely that we will get much more than some strong storms and a slight chance of a tornado. Right now, my work has not announced any closings, but I am anticipating the high school I am at to be turned into a shelter, so will possibly be out monday and tuesday. Waiting on further updates.
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We got Hugo in 89 there. The eye passed right over Pelion. It was noisy and rained, but it passed very quickly and didn't do much that far inland.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Gared said:
Well, all of the models have updated again, and the GFS has come into consensus with the Euro model. I'm hoping the reason we haven't heard from any actual Floridians (and Carolinians, and Georgians, and hell, maybe even Virginians) is because they're all checking in with the advisories from their local Emergency Management department and hunkering down/bugging out as necessary. Stay safe everyone.
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I know Covar is also in NC. We're both 2 hrs from the coast, and at the most we might get some flash floods. If the wind speeds hold over land we could have tree problems. We shouldn't have nearly as bad of a time as our Florida/SC/Georgia brethren (Denbrought, OfficerCharon, Ravenpoe, Terrik, EvilMike, GenSpecific, others?) Stay safe, y'all.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

In the mean time, it's unseasonally chilly around here, and kinda drizzly, and it has been for days. No fair! My weather's HORRIBLE! My vacation's coming up! BWAAAHHHH!

...But seriously, all of you stay safe.
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

Dave said:
It gets automatically backed up on an hourly schedule. That's what they say, at least.
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Do they explicitly say their backups are off-site? Do you know where this off-site is, or at least how far away from the main data center? A manual backup can buy you a lot of peace of mind, in this kind of situation.
 
Terrik

Terrik

So this thing is now tracking even farther west and I got a notice to evacuate. ALRIGHT.

So the plan is to board up the windows, set up the sandbags, and head to my sister's on Sunday. She lives 20 minutes from here, but its a sturdier (i.e. newer concrete block) house and isn't in a flood zone. The good(?) news is that it'll be "only" a Cat 3 when it gets here.
 
Terrik

Terrik

So my latest forecast includes sustained 80-90mph winds with possibilities of gusts higher than that, so good chance my power will go out sometime sunday night.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Barbuda Island.
Left, early 2017 in the dry seaosn. Right, today, after Irma. There's pretty much not a tree left standing, the entire tropical foliage has been torn away.

 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Because of the mass evacuation turning the roads into absolute gridlock, it took me 4 hours to drive the 12 miles from work to home.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Bubble181 said:
Barbuda Island.
Left, early 2017 in the dry seaosn. Right, today, after Irma. There's pretty much not a tree left standing, the entire tropical foliage has been torn away.

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From what I've read, the island is now deemed "uninhabitable."

My idiot sister is staying put. I hope she and hers will be alright.
 
Dei

Dei

Zero Esc said:
From what I've read, the island is now deemed "uninhabitable."

My idiot sister is staying put. I hope she and hers will be alright.
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Evacuating at this point is all but impossible because the roads are fucked. See Poe's comment about just trying to get home.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Dei said:
Evacuating at this point is all but impossible because the roads are fucked. See Poe's comment about just trying to get home.
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This wasn't "I planned to leave but we're stuck here," it's "we were never planning to leave, last time we left and nothing happened." I know people are stuck now though.
 
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