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Oct 4, 2013#1

strawman

For weather related stuff that probably doesn't deserve its own thread.

From Jeff Masters:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2542

Tropical Storm Karen
The 5 am EDT Friday wind probability forecast from NHC put Karen's best chance of becoming a hurricane as a 23% chance on Sunday at 2 am EDT. This is down from the 41% odds given in Thursday afternoon's forecast. ... We don't have much skill making hurricane intensity forecasts, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Karen do the opposite of what the models predict, and decay to a weak tropical storm just before landfall, due to strong wind shear. In any case, residents of New Orleans should feel confident that their levee system will easily withstand any storm surge Karen may generate, as rapid intensification of Karen to a Category 3 or stronger hurricane has a only a minuscule probability of occurring (1% chance in the latest NHC forecast.)

Most significant fire threat for Southern California in the past 5 years
A Santa Ana wind event is building over Southern California this morning, where wind gusts in excess of 50 mph have already been observed this morning. From the Los Angeles NWS office:

"Most significant fire weather threat across Southern California in past 5 years as strong Santa Ana wind event unfolds. In addition to the strength of winds being projected...the concerns with this event include the widespread nature and long duration of Santa Ana winds...very long period of single digit humidities...and extremely dry fuels approaching record levels. Red flag warnings are in effect for much of Los Angeles and Ventura counties overnight into Sunday. The onset of the offshore winds are expected to begin across the mountains by late evening...then descend into the lower elevations overnight. The peak of this Santa Ana wind event will likely be late tonight through Saturday morning...with the strongest winds focused across Los Angeles and Ventura counties."

A blizzard and a severe weather outbreak in the Midwest
The same low pressure system that is expected to turn Tropical Storm Karen to the northeast this weekend is hammering the Midwest with a variety of extreme weather today. Blizzard warnings are flying in Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota from the storm, and a significant outbreak of severe thunderstorms with a few tornadoes is expected over much of Iowa this afternoon.

Wunderground weather historian Christopher C. Burt has done some research to see the last time a blizzard, major severe weather outbreak, tropical storm, and extreme fire danger all threatened the U.S. at the same time, and has not been able to find such an event in past history.

Oct 4, 2013#2

sixpackshaker

It is October 4th. It will be 90 degrees today.

Oct 4, 2013#3

drawn_inward

They have Tornado watch for the western 1/4 of Oklahoma today/tonight.

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Oct 4, 2013#4

Hailey Knight

OP's stuff is significantly weirder than the pain in the ass 40 degrees in the morning, 89 in the afternoon that we're getting in my area, but mine's still weird.

Oct 4, 2013#5

GasBandit

90 as usual in Texas. Though we've been getting lots of rain this week, which is unusual. Nice. But unusual.

Oct 4, 2013#6

Frank

Fukushima climate ozone hole!

It doesn't matter, as long as it waits until Sunday to snow in this fucking city. Sunday. JUST WAIT ONE MORE DAY.

The rest of the province is getting covered in snow.

ONE MORE FUCKING DAY.

LET THE ROOFERS FINISH MY ROOF.

Oct 4, 2013#7

Yoshimickster

Dear lord this is the hottest October week I have ever dealt with. And I'm in freakin' Jersey!

Oct 5, 2013#8

PatrThom

We're normal+10 over in MI, too. And we have lakes around us to buffer everything.

--Patrick

Oct 5, 2013#9

Frank

The roofers are almost done and it's threatening to rain. HOLD OFF MOTHER FUCKER!

Oct 6, 2013#10

Bowielee

I work emergency calls for an energy company that serves the South Dakota area. This has not been a fun weekend so far.

Oct 7, 2013#11

Yoshimickster

And we have Tornado warning in Philly, which if you don't know is just a stones throw away from South Jersey. Stupid misleading nice weather.

Oct 9, 2013#12

CrimsonSoul

GasBandit said:
90 as usual in Texas. Though we've been getting lots of rain this week, which is unusual. Nice. But unusual.

Since cds doesn't want to we should go shooting one day, gas!

Oct 9, 2013#13

GasBandit

CrimsonSoul said:
Since cds doesn't want to we should go shooting one day, gas!

I do enjoy a good skeet shoot. I haven't been honest to god hunting since I was a teenager.

Oct 9, 2013#14

CrimsonSoul

I need a shotgun

I have two pistols that I use and an AR and then I have 2 rifles and a revolver from the early 19th late 18th century from my grandparents but no shotgun

Oct 9, 2013#15

GasBandit

CrimsonSoul said:
I need a shotgun I have two pistols that I use and an AR and then I have 2 rifles and a revolver from the early 19th late 18th century from my grandparents but no shotgun

Then let me recommend to you the Mossberg Maverick 88. I managed to pick one up with an 18 1/2" barrel (shortest you can legally get, also available in 28" suitable for hunting) for just over $120. Despite being so inexpensive, it's an excellent short shotgun suitable for trap shooting and home defense. Uses 12 gauge shells of your choice of load (I can get 7 full size shells in the magazine no problem, +1 in the chamber), and the pump action has never jammed on me even once. Easy to disassemble and clean. The only drawback some people might point out is that the stock and pump handle are plastic ("Polyesthic") and non-interchangable, but it isn't a problem for me.

Oct 9, 2013#16

Eriol

Frank said:
The roofers are almost done and it's threatening to rain. HOLD OFF MOTHER FUCKER!

So what happened? Success? Or rain + no roof?

Oct 9, 2013#17

Frank

Roof shingles replaced successfully and then it rained.

Nature heeded my call like a well trained dog.

Please don't snow yet, I DON'T WANNA SHOVEL.

Maybe that'll work too.

Oct 9, 2013#18

GasBandit

Frank said:
Roof shingles replaced successfully and then it rained.

Nature heeded my call like a well trained dog.

Please don't snow yet, I DON'T WANNA SHOVEL.

Maybe that'll work too.

"Sorry Frank. Everybody gets one, and you had yours." - Nature

Oct 9, 2013#19

ThatNickGuy

This isn't current news, but when I first moved to Toronto years ago, we had something I'd never experienced or even heard of before:

A thunderstorm during a snowstorm. The city was getting heavily with a major snowstorm and that evening, I saw lightning flashes and heard booms of thunder. Never even knew that was a thing before.

Oct 9, 2013#20

PatrThom

ThatNickGuy said:
A thunderstorm during a snowstorm.

Thundersnow

--Patrick

Oct 9, 2013#21

Frank

I think that kind of weather is pretty much only in the vicinity of the great lakes (in NA anyway).

Oct 9, 2013#22

ncts_dodge_man

Frank said:
I think that kind of weather is pretty much only in the vicinity of the great lakes (in NA anyway).

We've had it here in south-central Wisconsin.

Jun 6, 2016#23

evilmike

@Ravenpoe and @Officer_Charon , I hope all your hatches are battened -- it looks like you have that oddball tropical storm to deal with over the next couple of days.

Jun 6, 2016#24

Ravenpoe

evilmike said:
@Ravenpoe and @Officer_Charon , I hope all your hatches are battened -- it looks like you have that oddball tropical storm to deal with over the next couple of days.

Pfft, as a Floridian I don't even get out of bed for a tropical storm. Call me when it's a hurricane.

Jun 6, 2016#25

evilmike

Ravenpoe said:
Pfft, as a Floridian I don't even get out of bed for a tropical storm. Call me when it's a hurricane.

Hey, you're center state. I thought you might be a little soft.

Jun 6, 2016#26

Terrik

evilmike said:
@Ravenpoe and @Officer_Charon , I hope all your hatches are battened -- it looks like you have that oddball tropical storm to deal with over the next couple of days.

As if I didn't live in Florida too :foreveralone:

Jun 6, 2016#27

Ravenpoe

Terrik said:
As if I didn't live in Florida too

OC lives in Georgia, but that's besides the point. Really, mike was just listing the forumites that matter. :troll:

Jun 6, 2016#28

evilmike

Terrik said:
As if I didn't live in Florida too

I didn't mean to discount you -- I misremembered where you live. I was thinking you were in Cape Coral and well south of the main storm. (Not that this that serious of a storm anyway.)

Jun 6, 2016#29

sixpackshaker

The strangest weather story that I ever read about.

http://www.texasescapes.com/MikeCoxTexasTales/Chilled-Catfish-of-Concho-County.htm

Jun 6, 2016#30

CrimsonSoul

Tropical Storm? Psh I still work outside in those on the coast of Texas

Sep 1, 2016#31

evilmike

@Terrik any problems from the storm?

Sep 1, 2016#32

Ravenpoe

evilmike said:
@Terrik any problems from the storm?

He lives a bit south of it.

I, on the other hand...

Sep 1, 2016#33

Dave

It's what you get for putting up with gays.[DOUBLEPOST=1472761870,1472761852][/DOUBLEPOST]Seriously, though, hope you come through it okay.

Sep 1, 2016#34

GasBandit

Terrik sent me pictures of the flooding in his area, and apparently now there are tornado warnings and a watch in effect until 11pm.

Sep 1, 2016#35

Ravenpoe

I really wish my phone would stop buzzing to alert me to a hurricane warning.

I KNOW! I KNOW! SHUT UP!

Sep 1, 2016#36

Bubble181

In...Unrelated news but the same thread: do we have any Kiwi readers/posters?

Sep 1, 2016#37

Ravenpoe

And there goes the power. Time to live like a neanderthal for the next few days.

A neanderthal with Internet access

Sep 1, 2016#38

Terrik

evilmike said:
@Terrik any problems from the storm?

Been flooding pretty bad. Now that the hurricane is almost over land, the wind is picking up like crazy.

Sep 1, 2016#39

PatrThom

California must be so jealous.

--Patrick

Sep 1, 2016#40

strawman

Bubble181 said:
In...Unrelated news but the same thread: do we have any Kiwi readers/posters?

My sister in law lives there, but they slept through the earthquake. Glad there wasn't a tsunami, they would have been in the path, living right on the cost.

Sep 2, 2016#41

Ravenpoe

Power company says it will be 2-3 days before power is restored

Oct 5, 2016#42

evilmike

@Officer_Charon , all ready for the storm?

Oct 5, 2016#43

fade

And General Specific, too. I don't remember if there are any other SC peeps here, but they've already either reversed (or about to reverse) I-26 in preparation for evacuation.

Oct 5, 2016#44

evilmike

fade said:
And General Specific, too. I don't remember if there are any other SC peeps here, but they've already either reversed (or about to reverse) I-26 in preparation for evacuation.

Good point.

At least @General Specific is near Columbia which hopefully won't see the full effect of the storm. Can't think of anyone else who might be in the crosshairs. Neither @Terrik or @Ravenpoe are really close to the projected track.

FYI, just heard from someone who lives in Charleston -- it looks like they are reversing the interstate at 3pm.

Oct 5, 2016#45

sixpackshaker

I got to drive against a reverse-flow highway once. I only had the white stripe of the shoulder to keep me from getting a head on accident. It also got dicey when I had to dodge mailboxes next to oncoming traffic.

Oct 5, 2016#46

Officer_Charon

evilmike said:
@Officer_Charon , all ready for the storm?

In all seriousness, my wife and kids (and both guinea pigs) evaced this morning, so now I can do my job without stressing about them being here, caught up in stuff. My house is not far from a creek, but on a rise, so I SHOULD be fine.

I'm much more concerned with tree limbs finding their way through my roof. We'll see how THAT goes.

Oct 5, 2016#47

General Specific

Yeah, I am in Columbia, SC. Forecast here is for about 2 inches of rain, so shouldn't be much worry for us. We have friends in Charleston who have already evacuated up to relatives, which is good because at last check that area is due to get about 11 inches.

And yes, they reversed the flow of the interstates around 3pm today.

Oct 5, 2016#48

TNM

We've got family that lives in Charleston that has evacuated further inland here in Ga. We might see some clouds but nothing special here.

Everyone that hasn't left stay safe.

Oct 5, 2016#49

evilmike

They haven't reversed any of the interstates here, but they did suspend toll collection on most of the toll roads and the turnpike. Mandatory evacuations for the barrier islands and just about everything is going to be shut down tomorrow and Friday.

Oct 6, 2016#50

Terrik

Matthew isnt screwing around apparently. Infrared satellite picture.

Oct 6, 2016#51

Celt Z

Terrik said:
Matthew isnt screwing around apparently. Infrared satellite picture.

View attachment 22213

...I'm not the only one who saw a scary, grinning clown, right? :hide:

Oct 6, 2016#52

Emrys

Celt Z said:
...I'm not the only one who saw a scary, grinning clown, right?

Left-side profile, showing three teeth in the grin?

Nope, I see it too. :hide:

Oct 6, 2016#53

fade

A lot of people are calling it a skull. I thought that's what Terrik was talking about.

Oct 6, 2016#54

Dave

According to Rush Limbaugh, hurricanes are a left-wing conspiracy to push global climate change.

Oct 6, 2016#55

Charlie Don't Surf

Dave said:
According to Rush Limbaugh, hurricanes are a left-wing conspiracy to push global climate change.

It's not just him, some fringe view. This is a mainstream Republican plank of their party platform.

Oct 6, 2016#56

sixpackshaker

A week ago the day time high hit 75. It was 75 this morning when I got to work at 8am.

Oct 6, 2016#57

evilmike

Just tried to get a "calm before the storm" picture. Unfortunately, the wind has picked up just enough and there was just enough cloud cover to make the water dark and choppy. (Not that I'm complaining -- it's better than the alternative!)

Oct 6, 2016#58

GasBandit

Celt Z said:
...I'm not the only one who saw a scary, grinning clown, right?

fade said:
A lot of people are calling it a skull. I thought that's what Terrik was talking about.

Oct 6, 2016#59

Gared

I'm really hoping that one of the little tidbits that the "Weather*" Channel showed was a typo. They had an infographic showing that NC was expecting 12 feet of rain from Matthew.

*Don't get me wrong, I like Highway Thru Hell and Why Planes Crash as much as the next guy, but some actual quality weather coverage would be nice too.

Oct 6, 2016#60

Ravenpoe

Gared said:
I'm really hoping that one of the little tidbits that the "Weather*" Channel showed was a typo. They had an infographic showing that NC was expecting 12 feet of rain from Matthew.

*Don't get me wrong, I like Highway Thru Hell and Why Planes Crash as much as the next guy, but some actual quality weather coverage would be nice too.

Only old people watch the weather channel, everyone else has the internet.

Oct 6, 2016#61

evilmike

Here's the rain map from the National Hurricane Center:

Oct 6, 2016#62

evilmike

A little good news. The eye of the storm is running east of the most recent tracking predictions. (http://wxug.us/224r0) Hopefully that will keep it further off-shore and keep the winds down to category 2 strength on-shore. I'm hoping after the 5pm update, my predicted winds for tonight will drop back to 100mph.

Oct 6, 2016#63

GasBandit

(I couldn't help it)

Oct 6, 2016#64

evilmike

GasBandit said:
(I couldn't help it)

Actually, it's more appropriate to suggest that you could go fly a barn door tonight.

Oct 6, 2016#65

MindDetective

Sounds like NASA is facing some serious damage from the storm: http://gizmodo.com/hurricane-matthew-is-a-nightmare-scenario-for-kennedy-s-1787471900

Oct 6, 2016#66

Shakey

Snow tonight!

Oct 6, 2016#67

Emrys

Shakey said:
Snow tonight!

I've got 14+ inches on my lawn. You can have it.

Oct 6, 2016#68

fade

Ha. It was 90 here today. That is so weird to hear.

Oct 6, 2016#69

GasBandit

Right now, Miami is all

Oct 6, 2016#70

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Right now, Miami is all

--Patrick

Oct 6, 2016#71

evilmike

The wind has picked up a bit. It's not tropical storm force yet but it was enough to kill the power. I'm going to try to get some sleep before the wind really starts banging. I'll update when I can.

Oct 6, 2016#72

Jay

The nicest Indian summer in Montreal since I've been alive.
Tomorrow it's October 7th and we're getting a high of 26 degrees Celsius.
Average is 12.

Past week has been really nice but this shit worries me greatly.

Oct 6, 2016#73

bhamv3

My brother in law is named Matthew. So hearing people saying "Matthew has killed hundreds in Haiti" and "Matthew is expected to tear up the east coast" is really weird to me.

Oct 7, 2016#74

evilmike

The storm is due east of here right now. It looks like the worst of it stayed off shore. Hopefully this will be good news for the space center too. (It's going to get clipped by the outer eyewall so there's certainly still a concern.)

Oct 7, 2016#75

General Specific

Columbia, SC is just now seeing the very leading edge of the rain. Looks like a normal rainy day out right now. Worst is set to come through tonight and tomorrow morning.

Current forecast for us here is somewhere between 2 and 6 inches of rain. Still not really worried about this area, just hopeful that friend's homes along the coast will be ok.

Oct 7, 2016#76

Officer_Charon

HERE WE GO, BITCHES.

Oct 7, 2016#77

Tinwhistler

My niece lives in Florida. So far she's doing fine, thank goodness.

Oct 7, 2016#78

Ravenpoe

bhamv3 said:
My brother in law is named Matthew. So hearing people saying "Matthew has killed hundreds in Haiti" and "Matthew is expected to tear up the east coast" is really weird to me.

My name -IS- Matthew, so I just nod my head knowingly.

Oct 7, 2016#79

evilmike

No power but everything else is otherwise OK. I got out a bit today -- looks like category 1 damage, which counts as a win considering how dire the predictions were.

Oct 7, 2016#80

Terrik

I WILL REBUILD

On a serious note however, my friend (who is in Korea) but whose mother (and his childhood home) is in Edgewater, FL, on the east coast, had a massive tree fall on their house and destroyed his old room as well as the living room. His family and pets weren't hurt, but that was no small amount of damage

Oct 8, 2016#81

DarkAudit

Oct 8, 2016#82

Gruebeard

bhamv3 said:
My brother in law is named Matthew. So hearing people saying "Matthew has killed hundreds in Haiti" and "Matthew is expected to tear up the east coast" is really weird to me.

I just keep wanting to call the storm a spaz.

Oct 8, 2016#83

General Specific

Woke up about 6am to the wind howling and the power out. Power came back on in a few minutes, so I went back to sleep. Woke back up again a little bit ago and power is out again, but the wind has died off. Doesn't appear to be any damage here, thankfully.

Edit: power restored as of 11:30 am

Oct 8, 2016#84

Officer_Charon

My neighborhood is FUCKED up... LOT of trees and lines down. There's several nearby areas that are the same way. The major commercial areas and routes are fairly well-off, which SHOULD facilitate power and tree crews moving around, but I haven't seen any in my area.

Gonna be a long road.

Oct 9, 2016#85

PatrThom

Officer_Charon said:
Gonna be a long road.

Gettin' from there to here.

--Patrick

Oct 9, 2016#86

Frank

Jay said:
The nicest Indian summer in Montreal since I've been alive.
Tomorrow it's October 7th and we're getting a high of 26 degrees Celsius.
Average is 12.

Past week has been really nice but this shit worries me greatly.

It's snowing here.

Which before Halloween is still a little unusual, not unheard of, but unusual.

Oct 9, 2016#87

evilmike

Officer_Charon said:
My neighborhood is FUCKED up... LOT of trees and lines down. There's several nearby areas that are the same way. The major commercial areas and routes are fairly well-off, which SHOULD facilitate power and tree crews moving around, but I haven't seen any in my area.

Gonna be a long road.

I'm glad you made it through the storm. I hope the clean up is manageable and you aren't stuck without power for an extended length of time.

Shakey said:
Snow tonight!

Emrys said:
I've got 14+ inches on my lawn. You can have it.

Frank said:
It's snowing here.

Which before Halloween is still a little unusual, not unheard of, but unusual.

You all can flaunt your snow as much as you want, *I'm* just happy to have air conditioning again!

MindDetective said:
Sounds like NASA is facing some serious damage from the storm: http://gizmodo.com/hurricane-matthew-is-a-nightmare-scenario-for-kennedy-s-1787471900

According to NASA, after an initial aerial survey on Saturday, officials determined the center received some isolated roof damage, some downed power lines, and limited water intrusion. Further inspections will take place on Sunday, before officials clear buildings to reopen.

A SpaceX official told Ars, “Hurricane Matthew caused some damage to the exterior of SpaceX's payload processing facility at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The company has a ready and fully capable back-up for processing payloads at its SLC-40 hangar annex building. There was no damage the company’s facilities at Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.”

United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno said on Twitter that its facilities saw only "light to moderate" damage and that flight assets had sustained no damage.

(Ars Technica)

Oct 10, 2016#88

Jay

Frank said:
It's snowing here.

Which before Halloween is still a little unusual, not unheard of, but unusual.

You can keep that shit.

Oct 10, 2016#89

Dei

We usually get snow of some kind before Halloween but it doesn't sick around. Mountains have been getting snow though.

Oct 10, 2016#90

Eriol

And Matthew's remnants are hitting us right now: Government warns N.L. communities to prepare for flooding, power outages

Rainfall amounts are expected to range from 100 to 200 millimetres. Environment Canada advised extreme rainfall rates of 20 millimetres an hour or more are possible.

For you 'mericans, that's about an inch of rain an hour.

It's bad yes, but not much worse (if at all) than anything else we've seen here. We get LOTS of wind/rain here in the winter. This is early for it though.

Good luck to all facing flooding. That's not us. Parts of the town MIGHT happen (not forecast though), but even at its worst it doesn't really happen. Most of the town is on the hills, and thus you'd need biblical-level stuff to flood the vast majority. People observed where the water came, and built elsewhere here!

Oct 10, 2016#91

evilmike

Oct 11, 2016#92

General Specific

Dei said:
We usually get snow of some kind before Halloween but it doesn't sick around. Mountains have been getting snow though.

We rarely get any snow at all during the year and if we do, it usually doesn't stick around.

Which leads to stuff like:

Oct 11, 2016#93

Officer_Charon

There is a LEGION of power and tree folks moving through the county and city in sections. They'll come, work for hours, busting their asses and clearing up areas, then move on to the next ones. The response to Savannah/Chatham County has been PHENOMENAL, and despite occasional issues, looting has not bee NEARLY has bad as I feared it'd be.

Oct 12, 2016#94

PatrThom

People are shockingly helpful and supportive when they all have a common cause.

--Patrick

Oct 13, 2016#95

GasBandit

Yes hello Florida can you keep your fucking weather to yourself please thanks

It's a little out of focus, but it's coming down in sheets (see left of the pillar, that's a sheet of rain moving) and submerging the raised sidewalk.

Oct 13, 2016#96

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Yes hello Florida can you keep your fucking weather to yourself please thanks

Last night I drove back from the eastern side of the state, I had to go around a car that had slid off the road in the rain, and bypass another crash entirely (Thanks, GPS app!).
Honestly, folks. This is just rain! What're you going to do when the snow gets here?

--Patrick

Oct 13, 2016#97

Emrys

PatrThom said:
Honestly, folks. This is just rain! What're you going to do when the snow gets here?

--Patrick

When in danger
Or in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and shout.

Oct 17, 2016#98

CynicismKills

I think it sprinkled a bit here early-morning, but most days have been a murky 80-90 degrees. Nights have been nice a cool, though.

Summer is overstaying its welcome and I would very much like it to feel like fall now.

Oct 17, 2016#99

GasBandit

CynicismKills said:
I think it sprinkled a bit here early-morning, but most days have been a murky 80-90 degrees. Nights have been nice a cool, though.

Summer is overstaying its welcome and I would very much like it to feel like fall now.

After a pleasant spell with highs in the mid 80s for 10 days or so, it's been highs in the low 90s for about a week here... and will continue to be so until this Thursday, when we get slammed by a cold front and the highs drop into the 70s. That'll be freakin' heaven.

Oct 17, 2016#100

ncts_dodge_man

Just last week we had frost overnight and lows of like 32... Today we're a high of 76 and like 85% humidity....

Oct 17, 2016#101

fade

GasBandit said:
After a pleasant spell with highs in the mid 80s for 10 days or so, it's been highs in the low 90s for about a week here... and will continue to be so until this Thursday, when we get slammed by a cold front and the highs drop into the 70s. That'll be freakin' heaven.

Yeah, for like 2 days according to the ten-day. Then right back up to heat. At least here.

Oct 17, 2016#102

GasBandit

fade said:
Yeah, for like 2 days according to the ten-day. Then right back up to heat. At least here.

What a difference a two-hour Drive makes. It only gets back up into the low eighties for us.

Aug 24, 2017#103

evilmike

South Texas Halformites, are you ready for hurricane Harvey?

Aug 24, 2017#104

PatrThom

evilmike said:
South Texas Halformites, are you ready for hurricane Harvey?

Hey now don't forget about our Taiwanese contingent. They got battered this week, too.

--Patrick

Aug 24, 2017#105

evilmike

Fair enough. After all, @bhamv3 is probably the Halformite who is most likely to get hit by a cyclonic storm. I'm concerned for him too. It's just that my news filters are keyed to hurricanes and he gets hit by typhoons so they don't show up in my news feed.

Aug 25, 2017#106

GasBandit

I will be driving home right into the upper edge of Harvey. Probably will suck.

Aug 25, 2017#107

bhamv3

evilmike said:
Fair enough. After all, @bhamv3 is probably the Halformite who is most likely to get hit by a cyclonic storm. I'm concerned for him too. It's just that my news filters are keyed to hurricanes and he gets hit by typhoons so they don't show up in my news feed.

We're fine. The typhoon took one look at us, sort of gave us a half-hearted swipe, and then decided to go fight Hong Kong instead.

Aug 25, 2017#108

fade

Starting to rain here. Houston is being spared the main force, but Harvey is supposed to linger here for nearly a week. It will drop about 3ft of rain in that time. So winds probably will be manageable in H-Town, but the flooding will be a problem. We'll see if any of those millions of dollars they spent improving drainage after the Tax Day 2016 floods.

Aug 25, 2017#109

Eriol

The company I work for has a sales office in Houston, and this came through our company email. Names redacted to protect the guilty:

I just spoke with **REDACTED** and he has “flood-zoned” his house and is getting ready to hit the high ground:

“For those interested, the Houston office is being temporarily relocated to the Hill Country just north of San Antonio. It will be accompanied by two kids and two dogs. **REDACTED** has to work today and won't be done until 7 so she will drive over afterward. We can't take a chance of getting caught in evacuation traffic or we would wait for her.

Note that Spring, where we live, isn't under evacuation order and it’s in a no flood zone, however, the forecast below isn't encouraging. Harvey is supposed to sit on top of this general area from Saturday afternoon until Tuesday or Thursday, depending on who you speak. “

* Rainfall from Harvey will cause devastating and life threatening flooding as a prolonged heavy rain and flash flood threat is expected to occur. Rainfall rates of 4 inches per hour or more will lead to flash flooding as rain squalls from Harvey become more numerous this morning along the coast and then spread inland tonight and over the weekend. Periods of heavy rainfall are expected from Harvey through at least Monday morning, and rainfall totals of 15 to 25 inches and isolated amounts up to 35inches are anticipated.

So ya Gas, we apparently have an employee somewhat near you!

Aug 25, 2017#110

GasBandit

Eriol said:
So ya Gas, we apparently have an employee somewhat near you!

Spring is where Dave, Fade, Pez, Sixpack and I all met at that cajun restaurant. It's closer to Fade and Pez than Sixpack and I, it's about 80 miles from me, but yeah, we're all gonna take a bath. Here's hoping the vaunted drainage changes Fade was talking about are actually extant. As for me, I live on (what the locals count to be) a big hill with decent drainage, so I'm more worried about road conditions on Highway 6 as I drive home Sunday.

Aug 25, 2017#111

Dave

Now my sister, she's in Spring. I sent her a message but haven't heard anything back yet.

Aug 25, 2017#112

sixpackshaker

I predict about 10"s where I live. I am on the northern border of the storm area. The problem is the road out of my neighborhood floods at 5"s of rain. My house is safe, but might go some time without power or safe water.

So I did what anyone would do in my situation, I bought a half gallon of whiskey and a 12 pack of beer.

Aug 25, 2017#113

Dei

My husband's grandparents live in a trailer park San Benito, which is right next to Harlingen, which appears to be getting hit by the south side of the hurricane. I think I'm more concerned than he is, I don't know if that's good or bad.

Aug 25, 2017#114

figmentPez

Aug 25, 2017#115

sixpackshaker

Aug 25, 2017#116

fade

It's up to category 4 now. Funny enough it hasn't rained in hours at my house, though.

Aug 25, 2017#117

strawman

Eesh, cat 4?

I'm sorry man, I hope your place makes it through ok.

Aug 25, 2017#118

Dave

Lots of Texas Halforumites. Stay safe, you crazy kids!

Aug 25, 2017#119

drifter

stienman said:
Eesh, cat 4?

I'm sorry man, I hope your place makes it through ok.

I thought that was a networking burn until I realized what thread I was in.

Aug 25, 2017#120

CrimsonSoul

Fucking Harvey. They said the flooding from it is supposed to be worse than last years flood, they think it will be the worse we've ever seen in this area

Aug 25, 2017#121

CrimsonSoul

In Lake Jackson, tx if anyone is interested

Aug 25, 2017#122

strawman

The models are breaking, this storm has no good precedent. There's a good chance it will stall just inland and pick up moisture from the ocean then drop it on the land leading to rainfalls over five days measured in feet.

I hope people are evacuated.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/m...bears-down-texas-catastrophic-flooding-likely

Aug 25, 2017#123

General Specific

My brother in Houston has reported in on Facebook as safe.

Aug 25, 2017#124

fade

Right now, it isn't bad. The problem is that Harvey is in a pincer between two high pressure areas. So it's going to stall here, possibly even moving back over water and restrengthening.

Aug 26, 2017#125

IronBrig4

We just have showers here in Bryan. A&M is still planning for classes to start on Monday. Sam Houston's Woodlands campus closed early today but main campus is also expecting classes to be in session on Monday.

Even so, I went to HEB to top off my food and water supplies. It started to get a little crazy when I checked out.

Aug 26, 2017#126

fade

The "European model" has BCS getting more rain than Houston just FYI. At least as of last night.

Aug 26, 2017#127

Bubble181

But remember folks, climate change is a hoax and not a problem at all.

Aug 26, 2017#128

sixpackshaker

Just started to rain in Huntsville. The feeder band looks like it is lined up to give MANY hours of thunderstorms that show up as red on the radar.[DOUBLEPOST=1503753527,1503752959][/DOUBLEPOST]

Aug 26, 2017#129

GasBandit

That picture was from Ike, and was explained that nailing the plywood to the outside would cause more $ in damage to the frame than it would cost to replace the glass

Aug 26, 2017#130

fade

It has been mild here. Heavy rain overnight, but the sun was even put a few minutes ago.

Aug 26, 2017#131

Sparhawk

I'm a little more north of Houston than the others, we've seen a few minutes of rain so far. People in the stores are acting like its the end of the world. I had to go to the gas station twice yesterday, first for the rental car we used on vacay (2017 Ford Fusion, averaged 40.8mpg for the whole 2000 mile trip), and second time for our personal car. Saw two different people that tried to "cut" in line by trying to back into a pump that was opening (car behind on both kept them from doing that) one guy got all pissy that he couldn't do what he wanted and sped off gesturing and apparently cussing as everyone else. Guess he didn't need gas that much then. Grocery stores are nuts with people trying to stock up for what will probably be less violent than a spring thunderstorm.

Aug 26, 2017#132

IronBrig4

I should add that Loupot's has been closed for years. It's practically a shell.

Aug 26, 2017#133

Sparhawk

NOAA has changed the forecast path for TS Harvey, it's no longer expected to move back out to the Gulf, but will linger along it's present location possibly into Thursday.

Aug 26, 2017#134

Gruebeard

drifter said:
I thought that was a networking burn until I realized what thread I was in.

Nice. But to get the prized YDTTA rating you gotta pretend you didn't realize what thread you were in.

Aug 27, 2017#135

sixpackshaker

Well as of 1am the road to my house is open.

Aug 27, 2017#136

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker said:
Well as of 1am the road to my house is open.

I need to quit going out into inclement weather and drinking all night.

Saw the most Canadian thing I could think of on the Houston news this morning. A French Canadian priest cruising around town on a kayak. The on-the-spot reporter interviewed him. He was trying to get to his church for mass, but could not reach it in time. So he tried to buy wine to celebrate mass with the many people stranded on the free-way (Loop 610), but you can't buy alcohol before noon. He even made a joke about his forefathers converting the native Americans by canoe.

I am shocked that the worker at the convenience store just did not give him a bottle. So he said he would come back in 4 hours to buy the wine.

Aug 27, 2017#137

GasBandit

Face the Nation is saying Houston is basically underwater. Hope you guy's are ok down there. I35 and hwy 6 seem to be open, so I'm gonna try for home... A paltry 3 hour drive normally, but now with a heavy rain twist that will slow me down and keep me on edge.

Aug 27, 2017#138

Hailey Knight

Stay safe out there, people.

Aug 27, 2017#139

sixpackshaker

I drove over this bridge last night, when I left a viewing party for the prize fight. So I am guessing my road is flooded too.

[DOUBLEPOST=1503849836,1503849791][/DOUBLEPOST]

Zero Esc said:
Stay safe out there, people.

Damn, I used to live and work in that area.

Aug 27, 2017#140

PatrThom

Zero Esc said:
Stay safe out there, people.

Reminds me of the 2014 Detroit-area flooding.

Wonder whose turn it will be next year?

--Patrick

Aug 27, 2017#141

Hailey Knight

PatrThom said:
Reminds me of the 2014 Detroit-area flooding.

Wonder whose turn it will be next year?

--Patrick

Well, I'm sure Houston will bounce back rather than spiral into a necropolis.

Aug 27, 2017#142

fade

Now it's once again supposed to loop back over the gulf before restrengthening and hitting Houston head on. In response, our school is closed for the week.[DOUBLEPOST=1503860355,1503860135][/DOUBLEPOST]This is the bayou near my house (~5 min walk). Normally, the bayou is well within steep, channelized banks beyond the far treeline. What's in front of me is a deep grassy bowl. I would have to reach up from the ground to touch the bottom branches of the trees you see.

[DOUBLEPOST=1503860468][/DOUBLEPOST]I put an interactive panorama on Facebook if you're friends with me there

Aug 27, 2017#143

PatrThom

Zero Esc said:
Well, I'm sure Houston will bounce back rather than spiral into a necropolis.

Hah! Joke's on you, Detroit was already spiraling prior to the flooding.

--Patrick

Aug 27, 2017#144

figmentPez

I'm still high and dry, but not far from me...

SO MUCH FLOOD!

Aug 27, 2017#145

Gruebeard

PatrThom said:
Hah! Joke's on you, Detroit was already spiraling prior to the flooding.

--Patrick

Sure, but it's kinda looking like tbe next Robocop remake is gonna be set in Chicago.

Aug 27, 2017#146

Sparhawk

Just announced, US Highway 59 is closed at Goodrich, TX heading south toward Houston. That's about 50 miles north of the Houston metro area (Humble to be specific), that's how far these floods are affecting people.

Aug 27, 2017#147

sixpackshaker

I stole this from my brother who...

(Stole this from a friend)
For my non-Houston friends- to help you understand the devastation:
Houston is huge. The greater metropolitan area is circled by the Grand Parkway - which is 170 miles long. That makes the area of the circle inside the Grand Parkway over 2200 sq. miles.
2200 square miles of densely habited, urban and suburban, areas with over 7 million residents is flooded.
Imagine if the entire state of Delaware, with twice the population of Manhattan, was under water.
That's Houston.
It's still raining.

Aug 27, 2017#148

DarkAudit

sixpackshaker said:
I stole this from my brother who...

(Stole this from a friend)
For my non-Houston friends- to help you understand the devastation:
Houston is huge. The greater metropolitan area is circled by the Grand Parkway - which is 170 miles long. That makes the area of the circle inside the Grand Parkway over 2200 sq. miles.
2200 square miles of densely habited, urban and suburban, areas with over 7 million residents is flooded.
Imagine if the entire state of Delaware, with twice the population of Manhattan, was under water.
That's Houston.
It's still raining.

Stealing to signal boost.

Aug 27, 2017#149

sixpackshaker

Good news, the Cajun Navy is coming to Houston.

[DOUBLEPOST=1503871711,1503871443][/DOUBLEPOST]Other good news, what was once considered the largest tree in the world is still standing after taking a direct hit from the hurricane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Tree,_Rockport

Aug 27, 2017#150

fade

The overpass at Sam Houston Parkway and Boheme collapsed.[DOUBLEPOST=1503873857,1503873806][/DOUBLEPOST]Latest models are showing it may restrengthen to cat 1 before hitting Houston head on.

Aug 27, 2017#151

sixpackshaker

Just outside my brother's neighborhood. That is an overpass under water.

Aug 27, 2017#152

CrimsonSoul

So all of my county pretty much except my city is under a mandatory evacuate. We aren't because we are protected by levees

Aug 27, 2017#153

CrimsonSoul

Well everyone south of hwy6 and west of hwy288

Aug 27, 2017#154

CrimsonSoul

And of course it's essential that I come to work and sit down playing in my phone for 12 hours a night because I got voluntold for hurricane duty even though there is no work at all to do (railroad) because the plant is basically shut down

Aug 27, 2017#155

sixpackshaker

They have been evacuated. But that is just heart breaking.

edit: and the lady doing her knitting, don't give a fuck. I like Texas.

Aug 27, 2017#156

sixpackshaker

My personal tragedy, I can't watch Game of Thrones due to the satellite signal is too weak.

Oh, and the water has been out for 3 hours.[DOUBLEPOST=1503883018,1503882811][/DOUBLEPOST]GoT is streaming on HBOgo. Just like my driveway.

Aug 27, 2017#157

PatrThom

sixpackshaker said:
They have been evacuated. But that is just heart breaking.

This is more what I would expect of Britain, not the US.
I guess Texas has a stiffer upper lip than most.

--Patrick

Aug 27, 2017#158

sixpackshaker

Remember all the homeless in this storm. If it is wet and dangerous out, bring them in.

Aug 27, 2017#159

Hailey Knight

Aug 27, 2017#160

General Specific

Posting to let everyone know that my brother & his family are remarkably well off so far. They had to hunker down in a closet during tornado warnings last night and did lose power for a while, but it has been restored and they have not yet had any water in their house. Closest it has come is the street they live on had an inch or two of water at one point today. They are a bit south of Houston in Rosharon, TX.

Several of their friends are not as lucky, a few have lost their homes.

Aug 27, 2017#161

sixpackshaker

Looks like I am stuck in my house. The only road out of the subdivision is flooded/closed.[DOUBLEPOST=1503889912,1503889611][/DOUBLEPOST]I got a wicked bad case of cabin fever. Thank God I went to a friend's house last night, or I'd be completely nuts right now.

Aug 27, 2017#162

Emrys

Fortunately, you have us to ~~annoy~~ entertain you.

Aug 27, 2017#163

figmentPez

Aug 27, 2017#164

fade

Guys it's getting pretty wet here. The culverts are saturated and the streets around us are flooding.

Aug 27, 2017#165

PatrThom

Might want to put together a bug-out bag, just in case.
Maybe make some backups of any critical files, that sort of thing.
...you know, while there's still time.

--Patrick

Aug 27, 2017#166

fade

Street is up to my knees.

[DOUBLEPOST=1503892517,1503892486][/DOUBLEPOST]Also you're welcome for the photo of my junk.

Aug 27, 2017#167

Emrys

Yowza!

Aug 27, 2017#168

sixpackshaker

That's the palest white junk I ever seen...

Aug 28, 2017#169

Bubble181

sixpackshaker said:
That's the palest white junk I ever seen...

Is this an invitation to a white-junk-off-party? 'Cause I'm pretty sure I'd win that competition.

Aug 28, 2017#170

sixpackshaker

Bubble181 said:
Is this an invitation to a white-junk-off-party? 'Cause I'm pretty sure I'd win that competition.

The string looks like junk...

Aug 28, 2017#171

strawman

HOw many people are still inside the (probably expanding) evacuation zone? Are there any mandatory evacuation zones yet?

Aug 28, 2017#172

sixpackshaker

stienman said:
HOw many people are still inside the (probably expanding) evacuation zone? Are there any mandatory evacuation zones yet?

There are only a few mandatory areas. But there is very little high ground to run to.

Aug 28, 2017#173

fade

That water subsided fairly quickly. We were fine within a couple of hours. The neighbors' teens kayaked down the street.

When it was high, I saw a beach ball floating down the street. I held out my hand and it came right over to my open hand. Creepy. I was looking around for Pennywise.

"They all float down gargle gargle blub blub."

Aug 28, 2017#174

sixpackshaker

The bridge out of my neighborhood. It is normally 20 feet over the creek.

The road just past the bridge. There is a pickup truck in that shot. I still don't see it.

My back yard... lake. This is the first time that it has topped the dam in the last 10 years.

Aug 28, 2017#175

GasBandit

Around my home/work, the rain has been coming and going. The drainage is largely doing its job, and we're not inordinately inconvenienced.

Aug 28, 2017#176

Eriol

Apparently there was some genius in the Houston area who waited until Sunday to cancel a work meeting with my boss for Tuesday afternoon. He was "scheduled" to fly down today... originally. My boss's attitude was unimpressed, but it's a big contract (that we don't have yet) so he can't express TOO much "YOU IDIOT!" sentiments despite whatever cancellation fees I'm sure the company is enduring as a result.

Aug 28, 2017#177

strawman

I just read that they chose not to issue evacuation for Houston due to experiences with evacuation for Rita years ago, where the freeways were so clogged people died while on the road trying to evacuate.

There's no good plan to evacuate 2 million people.

So they chose this time to focus on emergency crews and recovery rather than evacuation.

Aug 28, 2017#178

drawn_inward

Keep us posted folks - let us know if y'all need help.

Aug 28, 2017#179

fade

West Houston folks: memorial and gessner intersection is gone. As in washed out. There is no asphalt.

Aug 28, 2017#180

GasBandit

~~Cut and Shoot, TX (yes, that's the name of the town) just east of Conroe (which is the next town north of Spring/The Woodlands)~~:

HA HA DISREGARD THAT I CLUCK SOCKS

The person who POSTED it lives in Cut and Shoot, this is North Houston, south of Spring, near GB International Airport

Aug 28, 2017#181

Sparhawk

GasBandit said:
Cut and Shoot, TX (yes, that's the name of the town) just east of Conroe (which is the next town north of Spring/The Woodlands):

That's not where that intersection is at, that Greenspoint District is around the intersection of Beltway 8 and I-45 North. Houston Fire Department actually called off answering emergency calls from the area yesterday because of gang violence (shooting at responders specifically).

Aug 28, 2017#182

GasBandit

Sparhawk said:
That's not where that intersection is at, that Greenspoint District is around the intersection of Beltway 8 and I-45 North. Houston Fire Department actually called off answering emergency calls from the area yesterday because of gang violence (shooting at responders specifically).

Yeah, I realized that once I actually read the sign, and edited my post accordingly.

Aug 28, 2017#183

Sparhawk

GasBandit said:
Yeah, I realized that once I actually read the sign, and edited my post accordingly.

Well I see that now... did it while I was typing obviously. Dang ninjas. :ninja:

Aug 28, 2017#184

Terrik

GasBandit said:
~~Cut and Shoot, TX (yes, that's the name of the town) just east of Conroe (which is the next town north of Spring/The Woodlands)~~:

HA HA DISREGARD THAT I CLUCK SOCKS

The person who POSTED it lives in Cut and Shoot, this is North Houston, south of Spring, near GB International Airport

I didn't know you had your own international airport.

Aug 28, 2017#185

GasBandit

Terrik said:
I didn't know you had your own international airport.

I'm kind of a big deal.

Aug 28, 2017#186

GasBandit

Aug 28, 2017#187

GasBandit

How Fire Ants survive floods:

They build a fucking raft out of their own god damn selves.

Aug 28, 2017#188

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
How Fire Ants survive floods:

They build a fucking raft out of their own god damn selves.

Must be nice, being so hydrophobic.

--Patrick

Aug 28, 2017#189

GasBandit

Life in Texas:

"Basement?" What "basement?"

Aug 28, 2017#190

GasBandit

Aug 28, 2017#191

PatrThom

GasBandit said:

Sheesh, just post the video already.

--Patrick

Aug 28, 2017#192

fade

I have to admit. Whenever a disaster approaches, I secretly cheer for it. I don't want anyone to get hurt, but it's thrilling. I know I'm not alone, but just throwing that out there.

Aug 29, 2017#193

CrimsonSoul

My dad finally evacuated. They had to go get him in a boat. He's staying st my house tonight then is getting a hotel I think even though he doesn't have to. When he left water was coming under his door. He left the power on hoping his house will burn down so it'll be covered on insurance.

Aug 29, 2017#194

CrimsonSoul

General Specific said:
Posting to let everyone know that my brother & his family are remarkably well off so far. They had to hunker down in a closet during tornado warnings last night and did lose power for a while, but it has been restored and they have not yet had any water in their house. Closest it has come is the street they live on had an inch or two of water at one point today. They are a bit south of Houston in Rosharon, TX.

Several of their friends are not as lucky, a few have lost their homes.

If they do need a place to stay I'm in Lake Jackson (10 minutes away) . I'll pm you my phone number and they can contact me

Aug 29, 2017#195

CrimsonSoul

Also if anyone in the Houston are needs a place to go and can get to lake Jackson feel free to hit me up. I might not be around a lot but I just pmed Gen specific my phone number just as him for it

Aug 29, 2017#196

General Specific

My brother and his family are safe. It has been a long night for them, but they have been sending constant updates on Facebook. At last report, water was halfway up their driveway in the front and not yet to their fence in the back with the rain appearing to be subsiding finally. So they are fine, just stuck where they are for now.

Aug 29, 2017#197

figmentPez

The bad news is the parking lot at my apartment complex is starting to flood.

The good news:
- I don't have a car to worry about, and I'm on the third floor.
- My parents, sisters, and brother-in-law are all fine. They're on higher ground than I am.
- The San Jacinto River near here is expected to crest sometime Tue or Wed, below it's 1994 record.

So, I guess at this point I can mark myself safe, but itchy.*

*Crazy ants have taken up residence somewhere below me. They've made small forays into my bedroom, but the storm has caused their activity to increase in my apartment. They like to crawl up my leg while I'm at my computer desk.

Aug 29, 2017#198

sixpackshaker

I was able to capture enough rain water for 2-3 more flushes.

Aug 29, 2017#199

jwhouk

sixpackshaker said:
I was able to capture enough rain water for 2-3 more flushes.

Minor victories are the best.

Aug 29, 2017#200

GasBandit

We're actually drying out in B/CS, so hopefully that makes it down to you guys soon.

Aug 29, 2017#201

IronBrig4

Sam Houston State is closed through Labor Day. Parts of the 30 between Huntsville and BCS are underwater.

Aug 29, 2017#202

fade

GasBandit said:
We're actually drying out in B/CS, so hopefully that makes it down to you guys soon.

It's still raining in west Houston, but it's light.

Aug 29, 2017#203

sixpackshaker

It is still raining here. But the creek and lake are back in their banks. Also my water is back on.

Aug 29, 2017#204

figmentPez

The first floor apartments in my building are flooded, and those people are being evacuated. People on the second and third floor are being told it's okay to shelter in place. I'll stay here. I've got water, power, and internet for the time being.

Aug 29, 2017#205

figmentPez

Pics from my balcony:

Those garage doors are 4 panels high, and I think it's stopped rising. Weather dot com says "San Jacinto West Fork near Humble: Already topped previous record from Oct. 18, 1994; will fall slowly into the weekend"

Aug 29, 2017#206

GasBandit

The Brazoria county levees have breached.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/08/29/...ached-officials-urging-residents-to-evacuate/

Aug 29, 2017#207

figmentPez

Well, Led Zeppelin was right. If it keeps on raining, the levee is going to break.

Aug 29, 2017#208

CrimsonSoul

GasBandit said:
The Brazoria county levees have breached.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/08/29/...ached-officials-urging-residents-to-evacuate/

Only that one specific levee has been breached. and it's just to one very specific rich neighborhood, all the other ones in BCounty are good

Aug 29, 2017#209

GasBandit

figmentPez said:
Well, Led Zeppelin was right. If it keeps on raining, the levee is going to break.

Don McLean lied to us!

Aug 29, 2017#210

GasBandit

Some more pictures of the last couple days

Aug 29, 2017#211

fade

Volunteered on some of the water rescues this morning. Most of that seemed to carrying cats for old ladies. My wife used her car to shuttle people from the rescue point to the shelter. We went until FEMA showed up and kicked out most of the volunteers.

Aug 29, 2017#212

GasBandit

Irony.

Aug 29, 2017#213

GasBandit

Aug 29, 2017#214

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Irony.

Apparently he can stand (on) the weather.

--Patrick

Aug 30, 2017#215

WasabiPoptart

A friend's father is in Barrington. Well, he was there until he had to be rescued yesterday morning. The water in the house was about 3 feet deep from the one picture I saw. It's heart-breaking.

Aug 30, 2017#216

figmentPez

The flooding in my apartment complex has receded, huzzah!

I am without power at the moment, but I hope to have it back before too long.

Aug 30, 2017#217

sixpackshaker

I took a shower for the first time in 3 days. I feel like a new man.

...and if you ever felt a new man, you'd know how I feel.

But I had to go to work though.

Aug 30, 2017#218

strawman

sixpackshaker said:
I took a shower for the first time in 3 days...But I had to go to work

If this wasn't worth it, then congratulations! You have the skills necessary to become a hobo!

Aug 30, 2017#219

sixpackshaker

stienman said:
If this wasn't worth it, then congratulations! You have the skills necessary to become a hobo!

Actually I have thought about packing my 'stuff' into a bag and taking off. I do have the skills.

Aug 30, 2017#220

Eriol

Guy from my work got back to his house. Apparently the water was up to the seals, but didn't actually go into his house. Lucky.

Here's a photo of his back yard pool:

Apparently it flooded over the pool but not the hot tub? I can't see any other explanation for the water colors there.

Aug 30, 2017#221

drawn_inward

stienman said:
If this wasn't worth it, then congratulations! You have the skills necessary to become a hobo!

Or the parent of multiple kids while working 60+ hrs a week!

Aug 30, 2017#222

fade

We are not out of the woods yet here. It's sunny, but the bayou is still rising. Our street is deep and still getting deeper. This is primarily due to pressure releases from the reservoirs and natural drainage cresting. Huge military planes and helicopters are overhead. It's like a zombie apocalypse movie

Aug 30, 2017#223

GasBandit

Whitecaps on I-10.

Aug 30, 2017#224

strawman

Aug 30, 2017#225

Gared

GasBandit said:
Whitecaps on I-10.

That was the photo that broke my brain for this storm/event. I've seen massive floods, horrific storm surge damage, and photos and videos of Joplin, so wind damage isn't exactly new to me; but I have never in my life seen choppy floodwaters, or orders for rescue boats to pull back to calmer waters and ride it out.

Aug 30, 2017#226

fade

I have been marking a stick. The street got a bit deeper in the morning but now it has stabilized. Hasn't gone down, but not up either.

Aug 30, 2017#227

CrimsonSoul

Aug 30, 2017#228

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Whitecaps on I-10.

That's LAKE I-10 to you.

--Patrick

Aug 30, 2017#229

Celt Z

GasBandit said:
Whitecaps on I-10.

Wow, that is both terrible and amazing.

Aug 30, 2017#230

sixpackshaker

Aug 31, 2017#231

Eriol

I'll give them small props for this:

Aug 31, 2017#232

Bubble181

Eriol said:
I'll give them small props for this:

"Oops, we accidentally labeled our cans truthfully. Now what can we do with them?"

Aug 31, 2017#233

fade

Bubble181 said:
"Oops, we accidentally labeled our cans truthfully. Now what can we do with them?"

They're not labelled correctly. They say "drinking water". No one should drink that.

Aug 31, 2017#234

Bubble181

fade said:
They're not labelled correctly. They say "drinking water". No one should drink that.

Well, I assume it's the water they make the horses drink to produce Budweiser.

Aug 31, 2017#235

LittleKagsin

Just talked to Pez and wanted to let you guys know he's still doing okay. No internet, but he's alright.

Aug 31, 2017#236

Dave

Thanks, Kags. I was starting to worry about him.

This fucking storm, man.

Aug 31, 2017#237

Eriol

Dave said:
Thanks, Kags. I was starting to worry about him.

This fucking storm, man.

Round 2, despair? Irma's coming.

In all fairness to not PROMOTE panic, it's so far out they have NO idea where it'll end up yet. Could be southern mexico, could just go up the atlantic coast (relatively) harmlessly. Way too early to call.

Edit: A Better Article: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/u...-irma-cooking-in-the-atlantic-this-week/85617

Aug 31, 2017#238

LittleKagsin

Dave said:
Thanks, Kags. I was starting to worry about him.

This fucking storm, man.

It's fucking wild!

He sent me pics of his complex and it's like..under water - the bottom floor. But yeah!

Aug 31, 2017#239

fade

Also proto-Jose seems to be heading right this way. Even if it doesn't develop into a tropical storm, it will still bring rain.

Aug 31, 2017#240

figmentPez

My internet is back. Things are still fine here. Just frustrating.

Aug 31, 2017#241

sixpackshaker

figmentPez said:
My internet is back. Things are still fine here. Just frustrating.

When my internet is down, I itch like a junkie...

Aug 31, 2017#242

sixpackshaker

Aug 31, 2017#243

GasBandit

sixpackshaker said:

Gallery Furniture will ~~SAVE! YOU! MONEY!~~ SAVE! YOUR! ASS-IN-A-FLOOD! (little jump, raised fist)

Aug 31, 2017#244

GasBandit

Texans help out the national guard

Aug 31, 2017#245

Hailey Knight

Does anyone know a good relief thing to donate to? I normally donate to Red Cross in these situations, but I've seen word about them mishandling funds in recent years.

Aug 31, 2017#246

fade

Houston food bank is a good start.

Aug 31, 2017#247

Sparhawk

youcaring.com/jjwatt

Aug 31, 2017#248

GasBandit

Aug 31, 2017#249

sixpackshaker

Is there a charity that buys flatbed trailers of drywall and drops it off in neighborhoods?

Aug 31, 2017#250

Dave

If you weren't from that area it would just be mean.

Sep 1, 2017#251

CrimsonSoul

Sep 1, 2017#252

figmentPez

Sep 1, 2017#253

figmentPez

Propeller marks on the roof of a minivan...

Sep 1, 2017#254

strawman

I really think swamp boats are the way to go for floods, followed closely by jetskis.[DOUBLEPOST=1504284421,1504284386][/DOUBLEPOST]/stienman says with absolutely no experience in such matters.

Sep 1, 2017#255

Denbrought

stienman said:
I really think swamp boats are the way to go for floods, followed closely by jetskis.[DOUBLEPOST=1504284421,1504284386][/DOUBLEPOST]/stienman says with absolutely no experience in such matters.

Nah, for floods the way to go is definitely a gopher wood ark 300 cubits in length, 50 in width, and 30 in height, with three internal divisions, a door on the side, and a roof.

Sep 1, 2017#256

ncts_dodge_man

The remnants of Harvey started hitting me last night - it's been raining since 7 PM Central time last night. Wind gusts took down a tree just down the road at 4:30 AM and took my power down until a little while ago. We've gotten over 4 inches of rain (my rain gauge only went to 4 inches, so I dumped it out this morning).

Sep 1, 2017#257

fade

Well.

My neighborhood is now under mandatory evacuation if you have water in your house. The mayor says that the reservoir releases have to continue, and they don't expect the water levels to go down over the next 7-10 days.

Also, because this is Texas, "mandatory" means exactly jack squat. It's basic a stern finger wagging.[DOUBLEPOST=1504293559,1504293263][/DOUBLEPOST]To be clear, this doesn't affect me directly. More just reporting. The only real effect is that it's starting to stink around here.

Sep 1, 2017#258

Gruebeard

fade said:
To be clear, this doesn't affect me directly.

Not yet. But I was rather thinking of what 7-10 days of standing, seeping water will bring

Sep 1, 2017#259

GasBandit

Gruebeard said:
Not yet. But I was rather thinking of what 7-10 days of standing, seeping water will bring

Fun fact: The Houston Ship Channel does not smell good on the best of days. And these are not the best of days.

Sep 1, 2017#260

DarkAudit

Texas Secretary of State rejects Quebec's offer of blankets, beds, and hydro crews, says "send prayers" instead.

It's that kind of headline that makes the rest of the world laugh at us.

Sep 1, 2017#261

Celt Z

The offer should have come from the First Nations people. At least then there'd be a reason to go, "Hey, thanks! ...Waaaaaaaait a minute. Maybe not."

Sep 1, 2017#262

strawman

DarkAudit said:
Texas Secretary of State rejects Quebec's offer of blankets, beds, and hydro crews, says "send prayers" instead.

It's that kind of headline that makes the rest of the world laugh at us.

Why is that laughable? Next week they may need outside help, but Texas has different needs this week.

Or are you saying that the religious request is laughable?

Sep 1, 2017#263

DarkAudit

stienman said:
Why is that laughable? Next week they may need outside help, but Texas has different needs this week.

Or are you saying that the religious request is laughable?

If you only read the headline, it makes TX look like a bunch of backwards bible-thumping idiots who rejected actual help. True, the real story is the help offered isn't what's needed right now, but the headline just makes TX look bad.

Sep 1, 2017#264

fade

The truth is that Texas received too much help. They were turning away even local, internal donations before the hurricane was even over. Volunteers were in overabundance, too.

Sep 1, 2017#265

Sparhawk

DarkAudit said:
Texas Secretary of State rejects Quebec's offer of blankets, beds, and hydro crews, says "send prayers" instead.

It's that kind of headline that makes the rest of the world laugh at us.

Is your hyper-link the actual headline at the time you posted it? If so, they changed it to:
Quebec offers blankets, beds and hydro crews to Texas in wake of Hurricane Harvey
Texas Secretary of State says no need for now, asks for prayers instead

Sep 1, 2017#266

DarkAudit

Sparhawk said:
Is your hyper-link the actual headline at the time you posted it? If so, they changed it to:
Quebec offers blankets, beds and hydro crews to Texas in wake of Hurricane Harvey
Texas Secretary of State says no need for now, asks for prayers instead

That was the story I picked to link. It seemed to be the least biased. That was their headline from the start. Most other outlets are going with the more inflammatory version.

Sep 2, 2017#267

sixpackshaker

If you are freaking out over shortage of gas, remember we've had worse. Remember the recall of Blue Bell...and we got through it.

Click to expand...

Sep 2, 2017#268

fade

I just drove out over the Addicks reservoir. I think the city is hiding how bad the dams are. Probably to prevent panic. The water is right up against I-10 and above the road level. It's being held back by long water bags, and only the very tops of house rooftops are above water. There is a massive flurry of construction going on in the dam itself.

Sep 2, 2017#269

fade

Scary looking military trucks went down my street escorted by a police car with lights and sirens on. Then the power went out.

I'm telling you, man. Zombie apocalypse.

Sep 2, 2017#270

CrimsonSoul

My dad's house is looking to be an almost total lost. Still has over 4 feet of water in it and it is hey aren't expecting it to receded down here until at least the 13th. Hopefully they are wrong. His security cameras are still working so that's how we know the amount of water in his house. My mom has water in her house, no idea how much because she lost power on the first day, and same thing with her, they are expecting the water to receded around the 13th. My sisters houses and my house are completely fine. My dad also lost his car and motorcycle due to the flood, he has one surviving car and that's because it's in the shop. He's stuck in west Columbia and it's under a mandatory evacuation, the last highway just got flooded out and closed down here for that town. Everyone else but me are ifutger up north evacuated. I'm not in an evacuation area so I'm still good

Sep 3, 2017#271

Hailey Knight

fade said:
Scary looking military trucks went down my street escorted by a police car with lights and sirens on. Then the power went out.

I'm telling you, man. Zombie apocalypse.

Not zombies, but could be pretty damn bad for people still in Houston:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...aise-fears-spreading-toxins-article-1.3463785

Sep 3, 2017#272

fade

Zero Esc said:
Not zombies, but could be pretty damn bad for people still in Houston:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...aise-fears-spreading-toxins-article-1.3463785

They were actually checking for trapped people. I was just playing around. They're starting planned outages in this neighborhood starting today.

Jeez, @CrimsonSoul I hope things get better for your parents. If they need help, I can offer food or manual labor. My wife's been working with a shelter here, and she can put you in touch with people who can help if you need it.

Sep 3, 2017#273

CrimsonSoul

fade said:
They were actually checking for trapped people. I was just playing around. They're starting planned outages in this neighborhood starting today.

Jeez, @CrimsonSoul I hope things get better for your parents. If they need help, I can offer food or manual labor. My wife's been working with a shelter here, and she can put you in touch with people who can help if you need it.

My mom and her husband together make over 100 dollars and hour working. And my dad, he recently retired but he's made bank as well so they are good, thanks though

Sep 3, 2017#274

figmentPez

Photo from inside of the HEB (grocery store) in Kingwood, TX

Sep 4, 2017#275

Gruebeard

figmentPez said:
Photo from inside of the HEB (grocery store) in Kingwood, TX

My first thought: someone should photoshop that prominent red box into a box of Sugar Bombs.

Sep 4, 2017#276

Sparhawk

Gruebeard said:
My first thought: someone should photoshop that prominent red box into a box of Sugar Bombs.

I've shopped that store before. We drive down to that area to shop semi-regularly.

I don't mention them often, but our company BBB lost the store at 1960 and 59N where the San Jacinto flooded the area again. One of the employees has relocated with us, talk from his bosses is that possibly not re-opening that store and moving it instead. This is the second time since I went to work for BBB that this particular store has flooded.

Do you happen to know if V-Bistro made it? It' was on the south side of 1960 has a DSW Shoes across from it. My wife loves their pho.

Sep 4, 2017#277

sixpackshaker

Sep 4, 2017#278

PatrThom

Why would I ever click "See More" in that pic??? I'VE SEEN PLENTY ALREADY THANKS

--Patrick

Sep 4, 2017#279

MindDetective

Meanwhile, the west coast is turning to ash (this map is a week or so old):

This morning I literally had ash raining on my car:

Sep 4, 2017#280

Gruebeard

MindDetective said:
Meanwhile, the west coast is turning to ash (this map is a week or so old):

This morning I literally had ash raining on my car:

View attachment 25466

TIL - where Idaho is.

Sep 4, 2017#281

MindDetective

Gruebeard said:
TIL - where Idaho is.

Was. I think it has been consumed by the fires of Hell now.

Sep 4, 2017#282

Gruebeard

MindDetective said:
Was. I think it has been consumed by the fires of Hell now.

Cool. I like baked potatoes.

Sep 4, 2017#283

MindDetective

The biggest fire going on right now, which is probably the one decorating my car, is the Chetco Bar fire, which has burned for almost 2 months and has consumed or is consuming more than 140,000 acres (roughly 220 square miles of land). I am not a forest manager, but I suspect the very wet winter followed by the very dry summer, thunderstorms, and high heat has made conditions ideal for fires all up and down the west coast. The last I heard, we are expecting the Rogue Valley where I live to be filled with smoke through all of September and into October. It is basically a giant bowl for smoke to pour into here. I cannot even see the mountains on the other side of the valley some days. Fortunately I am in a pretty safe place and have not seen any fires myself. But outside is not a place fit for people right now.

Sep 4, 2017#284

sixpackshaker

Gruebeard said:
Idaho ...

...but I lost her.

Sep 4, 2017#285

Cheesy1

It's been really hazy here thanks to all the smoke being blown in from the nearby Yosemite fire.

Sep 4, 2017#286

evilmike

This explains a lot:

Sep 4, 2017#287

Dave

Weird. I saw a couple models that took Irma's track right into Texas. Which would be devastatingly bad.

Sep 4, 2017#288

PatrThom

evilmike said:
This explains a lot:

This says we might not hear from @Terrik or @Ravenpoe for a bit.

--Patrick

Sep 4, 2017#289

Ravenpoe

PatrThom said:
This says we might not hear from @Terrik or @Ravenpoe for a bit.

--Patrick

Unless the cell towers go down, I'll still be here.

I mean, unless I'm dead, I suppose.

Sep 4, 2017#290

Terrik

I suppose for our neck of the woods, the best (worst) case scenario is that it hits the SE corner and weakens as it moves across.

Sep 4, 2017#291

evilmike

Dave said:
Weird. I saw a couple models that took Irma's track right into Texas. Which would be devastatingly bad.

Irma is a bit too far out to call a shot at Texas yet. Heck, it's a still little too far out to call a hit on Florida.

That being said (NHC):

A trough of low pressure located over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is producing disorganized showers activity and gusty winds. Environmental conditions are marginally conducive for slow development, and this system could become a tropical depression during the next couple of days while it meanders over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico during the next few days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.

PatrThom said:
This says we might not hear from @Terrik or @Ravenpoe for a bit.

--Patrick

I think we'll have a better picture tomorrow. Unfortunately, Irma is going to go far enough west that it's going to be someone's problem (not just Gulf states, but also most of the Greater Antilles.)

Right now, @Ravenpoe has a 8% chance of storm force winds. @Terrik is at ~18%.

Sep 5, 2017#292

figmentPez

Too soon:

Sep 5, 2017#293

Dave

The newest possible tracks is now not even featuring Texas.

Sep 5, 2017#294

Eriol

Dave said:
The newest possible tracks is now not even featuring Texas.

Neat graphic. I like.

Secondly, except for the fact that I have friends in the area, I kinda want that thing to trend north and go through Washington. All the hot air would fuel the storm even more!

Sep 5, 2017#295

Dave

I hope it goes back out to sea, but there's one track that would take it right over New Orleans. Ouch.

Sep 5, 2017#296

blotsfan

I have a friend going to school in Antigua. Thankfully he was able to make it on a flight back to the US but it basically sounds like everything on the Island is gonna be destroyed.

Sep 5, 2017#297

Celt Z

I'm glad your friend is okay. That hug is for Antigua, since we dont have a "Sad" rating. Those poor people.

Sep 5, 2017#298

figmentPez

The other day I was talking with a friend about how the possibility of another storm hitting Texas was like the recent trend for horror movies to use creepy versions of children's songs.

Rain, rain, go away.... Come again, some other day!.... *violin screech*

Sep 5, 2017#299

fade

figmentPez said:
The other day I was talking with a friend about how the possibility of another storm hitting Texas was like the recent trend for horror movies to use creepy versions of children's songs.

Rain, rain, go away.... Come again, some other day!.... *violin screech*

"Yep, that's me. A lowly category 2 hurricane. You might be wondering how I ended up in this situation...."

Sep 5, 2017#300

GasBandit

Sep 5, 2017#301

PatrThom

Ther Berhermerrs.

--Patrick

Sep 5, 2017#302

jwhouk

...I work in Irma.

Sep 5, 2017#303

Sparhawk

The cold front that is going to deflect Irma to the east is passing through right now, this is much worse storm wise than Harvey was. Harvey was rain, lots of it (over 13 inches here), but this is lightning and high winds, this has the potential to knock over trees that have had the ground soaked around them.

Sep 5, 2017#304

PatrThom

Sparhawk said:
this has the potential to knock over trees that have had the ground soaked around them.

You know, I never thought about how they could team up.

--Patrick

Sep 5, 2017#305

Sparhawk

PatrThom said:
You know, I never thought about how they could team up.

--Patrick

We had Rita and Ike come through here a few years back. It wasn't the "front" of the storm that got us, it was when the center passed and the wind changed directions from out of the south to out of the north.

Sep 6, 2017#306

fade

The cold front passed over us relatively mildly. There was a storm, but it was pretty tame. The fall temperatures this morning are nice though.

Sep 6, 2017#307

Dave

Did you know that hurricanes and hurricane coverage are nothing more than liberal conspiracies to promote climate change? That must be true because Rush Limbaugh says so.

http://www.newsweek.com/irma-hurric...ge-liberal-conspiracy-trump-deep-state-659890

Sep 6, 2017#308

fade

Dave said:
Did you know that hurricanes and hurricane coverage are nothing more than liberal conspiracies to promote climate change? That must be true because Rush Limbaugh says so.

http://www.newsweek.com/irma-hurric...ge-liberal-conspiracy-trump-deep-state-659890

EDIT: I'd rather not start that debate outside the political subforum

Sep 6, 2017#309

evilmike

Hopefully, the forecast for my weekend weather improves a bit...

Sep 6, 2017#310

Denbrought

evilmike said:
Hopefully, the forecast for my weekend weather improves a bit...
View attachment 25475

What's the source/site for that graphic? I really like that way of organizing the forecast.

Sep 6, 2017#311

evilmike

Denbrought said:
What's the source/site for that graphic? I really like that way of organizing the forecast.

It's from Weather Underground.

Sep 6, 2017#312

GasBandit

I'm impressed that they believe they can predict the atmospheric pressure to that degree.

Sep 6, 2017#313

PatrThom

Denbrought said:
What's the source/site for that graphic? I really like that way of organizing the forecast.

WU is my go-to when I'm not using forecast.io (a.k.a. Dark Sky)

GasBandit said:
I'm impressed that they believe they can predict the atmospheric pressure to that degree.

The other weather systems already exist, so long as they get the trajectories right, the bars should follow.

--Patrick

Sep 6, 2017#314

fade

I'm a big fan of Windy.

Sep 6, 2017#315

Celt Z

Because she has stormy eyes that flash at the sound of lies?

Sep 6, 2017#316

GasBandit

Celt Z said:
Because she has stormy eyes that flash at the sound of lies?

...OH MY GOD IS THAT THE LYRIC?

All these years I thought it was "sound of flies." I know it didn't make sense but... you know, old songs were silly. Goo goo ga choo and all that.

Sep 6, 2017#317

Eriol

GasBandit said:
...OH MY GOD IS THAT THE LYRIC?

All these years I thought it was "sound of flies." I know it didn't make sense but... you know, old songs were silly. Goo goo ga choo and all that.

I'm sure you can google quickly for "20 songs who have lyrics you have been getting wrong for years!" (replace 20 with whatever number) They are LEGION.

Sep 6, 2017#318

blotsfan

I don't care. I still hear "wrapped up like a douche."

Sep 6, 2017#319

GasBandit

Eriol said:
I'm sure you can google quickly for "20 songs who have lyrics you have been getting wrong for years!" (replace 20 with whatever number) They are LEGION.

Sep 6, 2017#320

PatrThom

Eriol said:
I'm sure you can google quickly for "20 songs who have lyrics you have been getting wrong for years!" (replace 20 with whatever number) They are LEGION.

The word you're looking for is "mondegreen"

--Patrick

Sep 6, 2017#321

jwhouk

GasBandit said:
...OH MY GOD IS THAT THE LYRIC?

All these years I thought it was "sound of flies." I know it didn't make sense but... you know, old songs were silly. Goo goo ga choo and all that.

"Goo goo ga joob", by the way.

Sep 6, 2017#322

GasBandit

jwhouk said:
"Goo goo ga joob", by the way.

That one I'm not worried about. The exact spelling of jibberish is a little too trivial even for me.

Sep 6, 2017#323

mikerc

GasBandit said:
That one I'm not worried about. The exact spelling of gibberish is a little too trivial even for me.

But not for me. Normil wurds do'nt bohter mee butt gibberish shood b spellet rite.

Sep 6, 2017#324

Terrik

I'm actually considering getting out of Dodge here. Forecasts show it'll be a CAT 3 by the time it gets here, which is still major. I just don't know where the eye is going. It LOOKS like it'll be east of here, on the other coast, which would make my area safer (if true---still no idea where its actually going), but the storm is so big, I'm not sure what the impact will be. Top it off with the fact I-75 N out of Florida is a parking lot and I'm kinda stuck deciding what should be done.

Sep 6, 2017#325

strawman

Well, we've got fires, floods, and storms. Now all we need are earthquakes and plagues (locusts or diseases I guess?).

Sep 6, 2017#326

GasBandit

And then alien invasion, and zombie apocalypse.

Sep 6, 2017#327

Dei

stienman said:
Well, we've got fires, floods, and storms. Now all we need are earthquakes and plagues (locusts or diseases I guess?).

Well, we are seeing an epidemic of anti vaxxers, so plagues probably aren't far off.

Sep 6, 2017#328

evilmike

Terrik said:
I'm actually considering getting out of Dodge here. Forecasts show it'll be a CAT 3 by the time it gets here, which is still major. I just don't know where the eye is going. It LOOKS like it'll be east of here, on the other coast, which would make my area safer (if true---still no idea where its actually going), but the storm is so big, I'm not sure what the impact will be. Top it off with the fact I-75 N out of Florida is a parking lot and I'm kinda stuck deciding what should be done.

FWIW, Weather Underground is showing storm force winds in your area whereas Orlando is getting hurricane force winds.

Sep 6, 2017#329

sixpackshaker

$99 to take JetBlue out of Florida.

Sep 6, 2017#330

GasBandit

sixpackshaker said:
$99 to take JetBlue out of Florida.

They might not take dogs... or they might let dogs freeze in the hold.

Sep 6, 2017#331

GasBandit

Sep 6, 2017#332

WasabiPoptart

Stay safe southeast coast people!

Sep 6, 2017#333

Officer_Charon

My family will be evacing on Saturday morning, most likely. Maybe sooner, we'll see.

Just like last time, I will be here, swimming and dodging flying trees.

EDIT: Jim Cantore has landed. Shit. Got. Real.

EDITREDUX: Apparently, this is bullshit. That'll teach me to take friends' Facebook posts at face value.

Sep 6, 2017#334

jwhouk

stienman said:
Well, we've got fires, floods, and storms. Now all we need are earthquakes and plagues (locusts or diseases I guess?).

Yanno, when I was a kid, I always thought that "The Big One" would hit the LA area about this year...

Sep 6, 2017#335

Hailey Knight

Really hope my sister pulled her family out of there.

Sep 6, 2017#336

Jay

So, I've been watching some video/footage of places like St-Maarten where I've personally visited twice and the devastation there is staggering. Watching the live video feed was unreal.

Sep 6, 2017#337

DarkAudit

Relatives from Orlando are up here to visit. They are planning to head back tomorrow instead of Friday. They're in contact with family back home, but I'm wondering if leaving early is really a good idea.

Sep 6, 2017#338

Gared

DarkAudit said:
Relatives from Orlando are up here to visit. They are planning to head back tomorrow instead of Friday. They're in contact with family back home, but I'm wondering if leaving early is really a good idea.

I dunno man, the most recent ~~Euro~~ UKMet model apparently has Irma tracking a little further west before turning north, making landfall in cuba, then sw Florida, and tracking right between Orlando and the east coast; but the shot I have of it doesn't have the (extremely important) timestamps on it.

Edit: Sorry, wrong model.

Sep 6, 2017#339

DarkAudit

Gared said:
I dunno man, the most recent ~~Euro~~ UKMet model apparently has Irma tracking a little further west before turning north, making landfall in cuba, then sw Florida, and tracking right between Orlando and the east coast; but the shot I have of it doesn't have the (extremely important) timestamps on it.

Edit: Sorry, wrong model.

The WU Computer models have it tracking up the east coast of FL, but the Ensemble models are all over the state. Sigh.

Sep 7, 2017#340

strawman

DarkAudit said:
Relatives from Orlando are up here to visit. They are planning to head back tomorrow instead of Friday. They're in contact with family back home, but I'm wondering if leaving early is really a good idea.

Looking at the tropical wind probability for their location, there's a 60-80 percent chance they're going to be hit with 39mph winds or greater.

Better than even odds, but the reality is that they are relatively far inland, and fairly well protected by all the land mass around them (unless they are closer to the coast than to orlando).

If they don't have anything critically irreplaceable, if their home is already secured for tropical force winds, and if they can extend their stay until late next week, then it's worth considering staying longer. Otherwise there's little danger in traveling down before the storm and weathering it out in place. Even if it hits them head on, it'll have already travelled half of Florida's length and thus weakened considerably. It would only be very bad if it stayed in the atlantic off the coast, strengthening, then took a sharp turn west right at Orlando.

Worst case, they'll have a day or two notice that it's still a major hurricane as it approaches them, hasn't weakened, and they'll have some time to evacuate.[DOUBLEPOST=1504795557,1504795406][/DOUBLEPOST]http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/114654.shtml?tswind120#wcontents

Sep 7, 2017#341

GasBandit

The post-Harvey mosquito crop has come in.

Sep 7, 2017#342

Terrik

It would be so satisfying to take an electric racket through all that.

Sep 7, 2017#343

GasBandit

Terrik said:
It would be so satisfying to take an electric racket through all that.

Imagine setting up Bill Gates' anti-mosquito laser turret there. It'd go Molten Core.

Sep 7, 2017#344

evilmike

Filed under "interesting, yet mildly unsettling":

The eye transition is clearly showing up in my 10 day forecast now:

Sep 7, 2017#345

Dave

GasBandit said:
The post-Harvey mosquito crop has come in.

So instead of the locusts we were talking about....

Sep 7, 2017#346

Eriol

evilmike said:
Filed under "interesting, yet mildly unsettling":

The eye transition is clearly showing up in my 10 day forecast now:
View attachment 25477

The part about that graph that stands out for me is how the temperature graph is very "day-night" distinct post-hurricane (clear skies-ish presumably) but the approaching cloud "muddles" the whole thing into an outright flatline (both ways, doesn't go down at night) as it approaches.

Sep 7, 2017#347

GasBandit

Dave said:
So instead of the locusts we were talking about....

We thought the Crimson Curse was vampirism... turns out it's Zika.

Sep 7, 2017#348

Dave

Sep 7, 2017#349

Bubble181

Dave said:
So instead of the locusts we were talking about....

For now, malaria isn't a (big) issue over ther eyet, but we're already seeing malaria mosquitoes survive up to Northern Italy. The changing weather patterns - and let's all agree to leave the politics out of this thread and just assume it's changing, never mind the cause - will push malaria further north soon enough, and it will come there too. Instant double the fun!

Sep 7, 2017#350

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
For now, malaria isn't a (big) issue over ther eyet, but we're already seeing malaria mosquitoes survive up to Northern Italy. The changing weather patterns - and let's all agree to leave the politics out of this thread and just assume it's changing, never mind the cause - will push malaria further north soon enough, and it will come there too. Instant double the fun!

The Texas Department of Health and Human Services actually rescheduled a lot of their Zika virus awareness commercials off the week after the hurricane on my stations because they thought reminders to "drain standing water" might be a little insensitive during the flood. But now they sure as hell are doubling up on them.

Sep 7, 2017#351

blotsfan

Florida also voted trump, when it kinda mattered more...

Sep 7, 2017#352

Dei

blotsfan said:
Florida also voted trump, when it kinda mattered more...

Sep 7, 2017#353

blotsfan

I thought the joke was just "he wished ill on others and then it happens to him." My b.

Sep 7, 2017#354

Dave

[why not both picture]

Sep 7, 2017#355

figmentPez

GasBandit said:
Imagine setting up Bill Gates' anti-mosquito laser turret there. It'd go Molten Core.

SUPPRESSING FIRE!

Sep 7, 2017#356

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.

Sep 7, 2017#357

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.

Sep 8, 2017#358

strawman

Aaaand there's the earthquake - strongest one in a century, just to the south west of Mexico:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Sep 8, 2017#359

Eriol

stienman said:
Aaaand there's the earthquake - strongest one in a century, just to the south west of Mexico:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

How many plagues and/or apocalypse signs are we at now?

Sep 8, 2017#360

strawman

Eriol said:
How many plagues and/or apocalypse signs are we at now?

I don't know, but xkcd is tracking space phenomena for us:

Sep 8, 2017#361

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.

Sep 8, 2017#362

Dave

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.

Sep 8, 2017#363

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.

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.

Sep 8, 2017#364

evilmike

Expecting category 2 conditions here on Sunday which is an improvement over earlier forecasts.

Sep 8, 2017#365

fade

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.

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.

Sep 8, 2017#366

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.

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.

Sep 8, 2017#367

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.

Sep 8, 2017#368

Dave

Denbrought said:
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.

It gets automatically backed up on an hourly schedule. That's what they say, at least.

Sep 8, 2017#369

GasBandit

Sep 8, 2017#370

Denbrought

Dave said:
It gets automatically backed up on an hourly schedule. That's what they say, at least.

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.

Sep 8, 2017#371

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.

Sep 8, 2017#372

strawman

It will be interesting how the 1992 Florida hurricane building regulations work with this storm.

Sep 8, 2017#373

Terrik

Important things first.

Sep 8, 2017#374

evilmike

Sep 8, 2017#375

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.

Sep 8, 2017#376

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.

Sep 8, 2017#377

DarkAudit

Relatives who were up here are now safely back in the Orlando area.

Sep 8, 2017#378

Terrik

Sep 8, 2017#379

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.

Sep 8, 2017#380

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.

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.

Sep 8, 2017#381

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.

Evacuating at this point is all but impossible because the roads are fucked. See Poe's comment about just trying to get home.

Sep 8, 2017#382

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.

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.

Sep 8, 2017#383

evilmike

Zero Esc said:
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.

What part of the state is she located in?

Sep 8, 2017#384

Hailey Knight

evilmike said:
What part of the state is she located in?

Jacksonville, I think.

Sep 8, 2017#385

evilmike

Zero Esc said:
Jacksonville, I think.

FWIW, the storm has to go through most of the state to hit Jacksonville.

Sep 8, 2017#386

Hailey Knight

evilmike said:
FWIW, the storm has to go through most of the state to hit Jacksonville.

Okay, that makes me feel a lot better.

Sep 8, 2017#387

strawman

Zero Esc said:
Okay, that makes me feel a lot better.

Jacksonville is in the north east corner, and only has a 10-20 percent chance of receiving hurricane force winds, but a 80% chance of receiving tropical storm winds. So they should be fine. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/035210.shtml?hwind120#wcontents

The rest of Florida, though, wow. Nearly the entire peninsula is within the 90% chance of tropical storm winds, and a good portion of it is within 50% of hurricane force winds.

It spun back up to a category five. Hurricane force winds should hit the south west coast Sunday morning, and will perhaps have passed over the entire state by Monday morning.

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2017/hurricane-irma

Things can still change, and given that it's going to hit Cuba harder than earlier models showed, it may lose some of its strength (one possibility is that it'll weaken enough due to cuba to become a category 2 upon Florida landfall, but that seems unlikely, particularly since the strait is warm, and so it'll pick up steam again once it leaves Cuba).

At least it doesn't present the possibility of 36" and more rain, like Harvey did. The storm surge will be rough, and the winds will be bad, but it doesn't look like persistent deep flooding is going to be likely.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/irma-top-end-cat-4-storm-now-less-two-days-florida

Sep 8, 2017#388

evilmike

I just had to turn off the alerts on my phone because it apparently just realized that, as of 11pm, we are in a hurricane warning zone and it wouldn't stop buzzing about it.

Thank you, phone, I know about the hurricane.

Sep 8, 2017#389

Officer_Charon

We've switched over to 12 hour shifts. I should really be in bed because I have to be back at 0600 tomorrow.

Even though most projections have this bitch going through Florida to get to us, they're still doing mandatory evacuations, starting at 0800. I'm going to be in traffic control Hell tomorrow, and I can't even toss my rookie at it, because she's never done traffic control before. Not the time to do trial by fire.

They're gonna be sheltering my precinct at a local military school. If, for some reason, it hits Category 3 or above here, they're gonna pull out all non-SWAT personnel, bringing us back in when the storm passes.

And to top it off, by the time I got off shift today, all the liquor stores were closed. Guess Thor and Njall aren't gonna get their offering of mead...

Sep 8, 2017#390

DarkAudit

Thor's a good guy, I'm sure he'll understand.

Sep 9, 2017#391

figmentPez

In case anyone is wondering how @LittleKagsin is doing with all the fires out west, she says it's smoggy where she is, but she's not in any danger.[DOUBLEPOST=1504934328,1504934194][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, apparently Irma is so powerful it's going to wipe NC off the map and replace it with a copy of WV.

Sep 9, 2017#392

Frank

Fuck, that path looks like it's going to snap America's dick right off.

Sep 9, 2017#393

Terrik

My forecast got worse. All it's done is get worse. As of this morning, this is my Sunday forecast:

Hurricane conditions likely. Frequent rain showers will be accompanied by heavy downpours and strong gusty winds at times. Low 74F. Winds NNE at 100 to 115 mph. Chance of rain 100%. 3 to 5 inches of rain expected.

Sep 9, 2017#394

evilmike

Terrik said:
My forecast got worse. All it's done is get worse. As of this morning, this is my Sunday forecast:

Hurricane conditions likely. Frequent rain showers will be accompanied by heavy downpours and strong gusty winds at times. Low 74F. Winds NNE at 100 to 115 mph. Chance of rain 100%. 3 to 5 inches of rain expected.

It's going to be a rotten few days. Is there anything else you need to do to prepare? Are there any flood concerns at your new location?

Sep 9, 2017#395

Terrik

evilmike said:
It's going to be a rotten few days. Is there anything else you need to do to prepare? Are there any flood concerns at your new location?

My backyard tends to flood, and the anclode river is nearby, although I'm at the border of a C/D evacuation zone. I boarded up my house and have sandbags at my sliding glass door in the back yard where it tends to flood. Although I'm seeing this more of a wind event than a rain one. Now I have the option of going a little further (not much though, like, 15-20 minutes) to my sisters' Unfortunately she only boarded her back windows, but not the front. Although her house is mostly brick, I'm wondering if its safer at all, because all that needs to happen is a window breaks. She is somewhat shielded by trees, though. I honestly have no idea what to do. I wasn't expecting the hurricane eye in my face.

Sep 9, 2017#396

Terrik

Alright screw it. We're supposed to get gusts up to CAT 4 strength. I'm going to the east coast to Melbourne to a friend's house. I better start packing. I-75 N may be jammed, but I-4 should be clear.

EDIT: And just to be clear, Melbourne (on the east coast) is still forecasted to get hurricane force winds. 70-90mph. However, thats better than here and its not in the path of the eye.

Sep 9, 2017#397

evilmike

Terrik said:
My backyard tends to flood, and the anclode river is nearby, although I'm at the border of a C/D evacuation zone. I boarded up my house and have sandbags at my sliding glass door in the back yard where it tends to flood. Although I'm seeing this more of a wind event than a rain one. Now I have the option of going a little further (not much though, like, 15-20 minutes) to my sisters' Unfortunately she only boarded her back windows, but not the front. Although her house is mostly brick, I'm wondering if its safer at all, because all that needs to happen is a window breaks. She is somewhat shielded by trees, though. I honestly have no idea what to do. I wasn't expecting the hurricane eye in my face.

It sounds like you're well prepared. Even your sister's place sounds ok. I assume you've got your evacuation kit planned should it come to that.

I think the best thing you can do right now is: wait for the 11am update and, unless the news changes your evacuation status, go outside and relax. I call this the 'Waiting for Godot' phase of the hurricane. We know the storm is coming, but there isn't anything we can do about it other than make small talk, and it's kind of mad.

Sep 9, 2017#398

Frank

Stay safe.

Sep 9, 2017#399

Terrik

A friend of mine just called me who's getting sandbags at the fire station down the street from my house said someone got stabbed, people are stealing shovels, and everyone is yelling at the fire station personnel.

Sep 9, 2017#400

strawman

Brick will still provide significant protection from projectile debris compared to other typical siding. If you're facing more than tropical force winds, then you should probably shelter in brick if you don't have better shelter options. Your evacuation order probably comes with instructions for public shelters suitable for this storm if you're very concerned.

I assume you've gone over a hurricane checklist, particularly for supplies. If it does get bad communications, power, water, and food is going to be limited for days and possibly weeks, so make sure you've got a portable radio, and if you have FRS or similar walkie talkie radios make sure you have batteries for them so you can chat with each other, and communicate with others in the area if needed.

Google maps can download local maps, go into settings and make sure you have a map of the local area, and if there's any critical information (phone numbers, medical, etc) which you usually use online make sure you have a local copy. It's not a bad idea to buy a paper map of the area, so you can conserve battery power on your smart phone.

If you have limited cellular after the storm, text messages will often get through when calling may not. If you have an iphone, consider going into settings and imessage, and switching off imessage so everything is sent via the cellular texting system rather than waiting 15 minutes trying to get to apple's servers via the internet.

Bring/pack/protect some board games and books, or movies and a tablet or portable player of some sort. These might help distract you and others for the long hours during the storm when every creak and bang feels threatening. Keep your phones on chargers during the storm so you aren't fighting a low battery situation just as you're trying to understand the extent of the damage and exploring the new situation. I suggest portable chargers rather than wall chargers to reduce the risk of storm related electrical damage, but you'll need to preserve as many portable chargers for after the storm as you can. If you don't have a gasoline generator, make friends with your neighbors who do so you can charge your phone chargers.

My phone is 734-418-8418. I can't do much here from Michigan, but my heart and mind will be with you and if there's anything you want to talk through, questions I can help with, or you just need a distraction just call or text anytime day or night. I have a pretty good handle on home construction, DIY stuff, electronics, communications, and weather safety.

This goes for anyone affected by this or other storms or emergency situations.

Oh, another thing, in situations like this almost all mormon churches turn into command centers of some sort, sometimes shelters, sometimes places for volunteers to gather to help others, and they are almost always within a 5-30 drive of any populated area. If you have a situation you can't handle or the authorities are unable to help in time for, go see if there's anyone at the local mormon church building. As such it might be worthwhile mapping out the nearest 2-3 of these buildings to your home and shelter before the storm hits. You'll usually see the yellow "mormon helping hands" tshirts volunteers wear in a day or two after a storm.

Keep a bike handy. Faster than on foot, but can pass almost as many obstacles as you can on foot.

Sep 9, 2017#401

Ravenpoe

Every update on the path gets worse for me. It looks like it's going to skirt up the west coast, keep a lot of its strength, and hit us directly. They're predicting 115mph winds. Even if I wanted to evacuate now (which I do now want to) I can't, because the gas shortage is still in full effect, there is simply no gas anywhere around here, and the only road out of my neck of the woods is pure gridlock.

The plan now is to hunker down as best we can and hope for the best.

Sep 9, 2017#402

evilmike

Ravenpoe said:
Every update on the path gets worse for me. It looks like it's going to skirt up the west coast, keep a lot of its strength, and hit us directly. They're predicting 115mph winds. Even if I wanted to evacuate now (which I do now want to) I can't, because the gas shortage is still in full effect, there is simply no gas anywhere around here, and the only road out of my neck of the woods is pure gridlock.

The plan now is to hunker down as best we can and hope for the best.

If you're in a solid structure, that sounds like a reasonable plan.

Btw, where are you getting your wind data from?

Sep 9, 2017#403

Ravenpoe

evilmike said:
If you're in a solid structure, that sounds like a reasonable plan.

Btw, where are you getting your wind data from?

The weather channel

Also, I'm in a trailer, which is... not the most sturdy? But it does have storm shutters and hurricane anchors, so maybe.

Sep 9, 2017#404

evilmike

Ravenpoe said:
The weather channel

Also, I'm in a trailer, which is... not the most sturdy? But it does have storm shutters and hurricane anchors, so maybe.

Hmm. It was just that the wind speed seems a bit aggressive compared to what I see one weather.com or Weather Underground. (I've been using Gainesville to estimate your weather.)

However, I would not recommend staying in a trailer even if the winds are only category 1 strength. Is there a emergency shelter you can go to?

Sep 9, 2017#405

strawman

I'm surprised at how well the new regulations protect manufactured homes:

http://www.flhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Hurricanes-and-Manufactured-Housing.pdf

That said, I would suggest you shelter elsewhere if possible as well...

Sep 9, 2017#406

Ravenpoe

evilmike said:
Hmm. It was just that the wind speed seems a bit aggressive compared to what I see one weather.com or Weather Underground. (I've been using Gainesville to estimate your weather.)

However, I would not recommend staying in a trailer even if the winds are only category 1 strength. Is there a emergency shelter you can go to?

I'm west of Gainesville. A little area called Dixie County.

Depending on how the forecasts change, or don't change, over the next 24 hours, we may head to my grandmother's home, which isn't far away but is a solidly built log cabin. Our only concern there is there are a lot of trees around her home, whereas here we are in a clearing with trees far enough away from anything on every side to hopefully act as wind breaks.

Sep 9, 2017#407

Gared

There's always these guys:

Sep 9, 2017#408

evilmike

Ravenpoe said:
I'm west of Gainesville. A little area called Dixie County.

Your entire county is under mandatory evacuation! (http://www.dixieemergency.com)

Sep 9, 2017#409

Ravenpoe

evilmike said:
Your entire county is under mandatory evacuation! (http://www.dixieemergency.com)

I am aware of this.

Sep 9, 2017#410

Dei

evilmike said:
Your entire county is under mandatory evacuation! (http://www.dixieemergency.com)

The roadways in Florida are a giant mess. Mandatory evacuation is all well and good until there is no way out.

Sep 9, 2017#411

evilmike

Dei said:
The roadways in Florida are a giant mess. Mandatory evacuation is all well and good until there is no way out.

I don't know how accurate Google Maps traffic reports are in Dixie County, but they are mostly showing green for the major roads. Alachua County has shelters open. I'd guess the closest one is High Springs Community School at 1015 N Main, High Springs.

Sep 9, 2017#412

DarkAudit

Lots of misleading "you can be fired if you evacuate" headlines. Then you click on the article and it's full of qualifications that nearly turn it into a non-story.

Sep 9, 2017#413

Terrik

I made it to Melbourne.

Sep 9, 2017#414

Ravenpoe

Sep 9, 2017#415

Gared

Godspeed, everyone. You'll be in my thoughts tonight, and until we hear from you again if there's a break in communications.

Sep 9, 2017#416

Hailey Knight

DarkAudit said:
Lots of misleading "you can be fired if you evacuate" headlines. Then you click on the article and it's full of qualifications that nearly turn it into a non-story.

Getting fired for obeying a mandatory evacuation should be grounds for a lawsuit.

Sep 9, 2017#417

figmentPez

Sep 9, 2017#418

Gared

Sep 9, 2017#419

ScytheRexx

Huh....

Irma is so strong that it literally sucked all the nearby ocean water towards it's core leaving shallow areas without any water.

Sep 9, 2017#420

PatrThom

Yeesh...

--Patrick

Sep 10, 2017#421

Officer_Charon

That trailing patch to the north is rolling over us right now. A tasty preview of things to come. And while the main storm ain't gonna hit us, we're at high risk for storm surge and tornadoes, as well as occasional hurricane-strength wind gusts.

Florida folks, hunker down, and we'll see you on the other side.

Sep 10, 2017#422

evilmike

Wind and rain here. Not tropical storm force yet.

Sep 10, 2017#423

Terrik

evilmike said:
Wind and rain here. Not tropical storm force yet.

Constant tornado warnings though

Sep 10, 2017#424

GasBandit

Sep 10, 2017#425

Terrik

Sep 10, 2017#426

evilmike

@Terrik , you missed an opportunity yesterday. You should have stopped at Disney World.

Sep 10, 2017#427

Terrik

Starting to pick up a little bit.

Sep 10, 2017#428

evilmike

I found a site that gives a pretty good visualization of the wind over Florida right now: http://www.windmapper.com/?Loc=FL

Sep 10, 2017#429

jwhouk

The rest of the country is basically clear, but the entirety of Florida and almost all of the southeast is covered by Irma.

Sep 10, 2017#430

Dei

Terrik lost power. He turned off his phone to conserve battery and will update me again later.

Sep 10, 2017#431

Ravenpoe

Dei said:
Terrik lost power. He turned off his phone to conserve battery and will update me again later.

I'm still here. Bring it, Irma!

No, actually, don't... keep it Irma.

Sep 10, 2017#432

evilmike

Still here as well.

I'm in a gap between bands right now. Lots of wind, but no rain.

Sep 10, 2017#433

evilmike

Some good news:

(Snopes)

Sep 10, 2017#434

PatrThom

Do not taunt Hurricane Irma.

--Patrick

Sep 10, 2017#435

evilmike

PatrThom said:
Do not taunt Hurricane Irma.

--Patrick

She started it.

Sep 10, 2017#436

Dei

Got an update. Data service is down, but Terrik still has basic SMS and was able to text me that winds are still bad, but he thinks they are going to be fine.

Sep 11, 2017#437

figmentPez

Florida Sheriff warns against shooting guns at the hurricane

Sep 11, 2017#438

Eriol

figmentPez said:
Florida Sheriff warns against shooting guns at the hurricane

This is the whole "the warning label is only there because somebody did something stupid" thing, taken to 11.

Sep 11, 2017#439

strawman

Eriol said:
This is the whole "the warning label is only there because somebody did something stupid" thing, taken to 11.

This is probably due to the facebook event "Shoot at hurricane Irma":

Sep 11, 2017#440

Ravenpoe

I'm without power, but we made it

Sep 11, 2017#441

evilmike

Lost power some time during the night, but it's back now. Looks like minor damage. It's weird how little rain is trailing this storm.

Not that I'm complaining...

[DOUBLEPOST=1505138159,1505137746][/DOUBLEPOST]Texted Terrik. He's fine. He's headed back home.

Sep 11, 2017#442

GasBandit

Nobody knows where Jose is going to go. Perhaps it should be "No-way-Jose."

Sep 11, 2017#443

evilmike

GasBandit said:
Nobody knows where Jose is going to go. Perhaps it should be "No-way-Jose."

I am uncomfortably reminded of Hurricane Jeanne:

Sep 11, 2017#444

General Specific

Update from West Columbia, SC. We are beginning to feel the effects of Irma here. We have had rain all morning, but recently winds have started really picking up with periodic downpours as well. Power has remained on for us, but that is most likely due to our proximity to a hospital. This area kinda gets priority attention when power does go out.

Sep 11, 2017#445

Terrik

Long, long ass, traffic heavy, fallen tree-laden, flooded drive back, but I'm back. A few tree branches got thrown around, my neighbors fence got destroyed, and my grill cover flew off, landed in the yard, and I found it infested by frogs, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, power is on, water is fine, and it's good to be home. Ironically I think Melbourne, where I went to evacuate, ended up getting it worse. Maybe later I'll post a couple videos of how it ended up progressing as time went on.

Sep 11, 2017#446

Ravenpoe

I've got this no power problem all figured out

Sep 11, 2017#447

figmentPez

Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma

Apparently Tesla models S and X cars all have the same battery systems, but different configurations will software limit them to use only 60 or 70 of the 75 kilowatt hours. After a customer called for help in evacuating, the company set it so that all of their cars in the SE would get the full battery capacity through Saturday.

Sep 11, 2017#448

fade

Ravenpoe said:
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I've got this no power problem all figured out

Looks like you're about to touch that alien egg pod despite everyone in the theater yelling at you not to.

Sep 12, 2017#449

Ravenpoe

They're saying power is going to be out until Saturday, and all motels are either booked or also don't have power

Sep 12, 2017#450

Gared

How's the Texas cleanup and recovery going?

Sep 13, 2017#451

Officer_Charon

Glad that most folks SEEM to be doing okay after this...

Sep 14, 2017#452

fade

Doesn't seem to be getting the media coverage Harvey did. But then again I'm kind of biased, since TV here was 24/7 Harvey.

Sep 14, 2017#453

strawman

It seems that people build better buildings every time a storm comes through, so the biggest news is usually about the flooding. Harvey was responsible for a lot more flooding than Irma.

That said, we had two major hurricanes land in the US in heavily populated areas with a combined death toll (so far) of just over 100.

That's amazing.

Dec 6, 2017#454

Dei

Dec 6, 2017#455

PatrThom

It was 63°F on Mon. At 11pm.
Now it's 2 solid days of 20-35MPH winds. Garbage cans and signs everywhere.
Also it's supposed to snow on Fri with a low of 10°F.

--Patrick

Dec 6, 2017#456

Celt Z

Dei said:

Yikes.

Dec 6, 2017#457

WasabiPoptart

I'm cold.

Dec 6, 2017#458

GasBandit

WasabiPoptart said:
I'm cold.

Me too! It's 40 damn degrees outside! This should not be a thing where either of us live!

Dec 6, 2017#459

Terrik

GasBandit said:
Me too! It's 40 damn degrees outside! This should not be a thing where either of us live!

Celcius.

Dec 6, 2017#460

PatrThom

Terrik said:
Celcius.

Felsius.

--Patrick

Dec 6, 2017#461

General Specific

Yesterday's high was 72, the overnight low for Saturday-Sunday is 28

Dec 6, 2017#462

WasabiPoptart

GasBandit said:
Me too! It's 40 damn degrees outside! This should not be a thing where either of us live!

It's not 40 where I live, but it's down to 21 on Mauna Kea! The winds are blowing from that direction so the breeze here is cold even though the overall temperature doesn't reflect it.

Dec 7, 2017#463

GasBandit

It's fucking snowing

Dec 7, 2017#464

sixpackshaker

GasBandit said:
It's fucking snowing

We are under threat of snow here too.

Really weird weather.

Dec 7, 2017#465

GasBandit

sixpackshaker said:
We are under threat of snow here too.

Really weird weather.

Weather like this makes me really nervous about driving home. These people see a few flakes and treat it like the end times, the roads turn into Mad Max shit.

Dec 7, 2017#466

PatrThom

Just stay after work a little.
Also make sure you have a scraper, blanket, and peanut butter in the car in case you are stranded, and don’t let your tank go below half. Maybe also carry some road flares, 12ga ammo in a waterproof can, and maybe a dirigible.

—Patrick

Dec 7, 2017#467

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Just stay after work a little.
Also make sure you have a scraper, blanket, and peanut butter in the car in case you are stranded, and don’t let your tank go below half. Maybe also carry some road flares, 12ga ammo in a waterproof can, and maybe a dirigible.

—Patrick

Heh, It's less than 2 miles to get home.

But the route passes the main entrance of a community college.

That entrance intersection claimed the life of my previous car.

Dec 7, 2017#468

GasBandit

It's sticking.

It's not supposed to be sticking, you guys.

Dec 7, 2017#469

strawman

/bender Neat!

Dec 7, 2017#470

GasBandit

I don't have a scraper.

Dec 7, 2017#471

strawman

GasBandit said:
I don't have a scraper.

Meh. Sit in your car with the heat on high for ten minutes then run the wipers. You aren’t going to get significant ice accumulation down there.

Dec 7, 2017#472

jwhouk

Credit cards.

Dec 7, 2017#473

Gared

jwhouk said:
Credit cards.

Store discount club cards. Don't screw up the mag strips or chips on your credit cards.

Dec 7, 2017#474

GasBandit

I just went and found a magazine somewhere in the station to sweep off the snow. Steinman was right, after all, it was just a 6-inch pile of fluff with no ice underneath it. My youth in Colorado made me expect to always find an inch thick layer of ice below a 6in pile of snow, but this is Texas.[DOUBLEPOST=1512698415,1512698385][/DOUBLEPOST]It's still just pretty neat because it has literally never snowed like this since I moved here.[DOUBLEPOST=1512698907][/DOUBLEPOST]Made it home safe. The streets were understandably near deserted.

There are kids across the way making a Snowman on the lawn. Unheard of. My cat is absolutely flabbergasted.

Dec 7, 2017#475

PatrThom

Your cat must be out of his mind.
“THE SKY IS ATTACKING rrrRRghlblblblbll...”

—Patrick

Dec 7, 2017#476

fade

It is snowing in Houston. In Houston.

Dec 7, 2017#477

GasBandit

fade said:
It is snowing in Houston. In Houston.

It's officially the Endtimes.[DOUBLEPOST=1512712031,1512711567][/DOUBLEPOST]It was too good to last in BCS though. It's already back up above freezing and it's all melting away.

Dec 8, 2017#478

sixpackshaker

Each time we get a hurricane, we get snow that year too.

Dec 8, 2017#479

Emrys

Doomweasel minion, they're catching onto our weather control! Vary the pattern!

Dec 8, 2017#480

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
I don't have a scraper.

That's what the peanut butter is for. Smear it on top of your windscreen, and DOomweasels will come and heat up the windshield while eating.
Then, you just need to get rid of the Doomweasels.

Dec 8, 2017#481

Emrys

Bubble181 said:
Then, you just need to get rid of the Doomweasels.

Ha! Good luck with that.

Dec 8, 2017#482

sixpackshaker

All the pine trees looked like confections. And there are at least a million pine trees on my commute in the morning. The clouds hung low and were a dark blue. Really pretty morning. Luckily the roads did not freeze.

Dec 8, 2017#483

Bubble181

Emrys said:
Ha! Good luck with that.

It's easy enough. Just organize a Scampering.

Dec 8, 2017#484

Dave

I’m in Colorado Springs. It’s going to be 60 today.

Dec 8, 2017#485

Emrys

Bubble181 said:
It's easy enough. Just organize a Scampering.

That is a Scampering.

Well, part of one.

A minor one.

OK, that's how we get peanut butter in our house.

Dec 8, 2017#486

GasBandit

Merry Christmas from Aggieland.

Dec 8, 2017#487

Celt Z

GasBandit said:
View attachment 26159

Merry Christmas from Aggieland.

Well, that is a snow.....thing.

Dec 8, 2017#488

GasBandit

Celt Z said:
Well, that is a snow.....thing.

It was PROBABLY a snowman last night, around 9pm (it's what I saw the kids making when I came home) but I didn't leave for work until 10 am this morning and everything was melting like crazy already

Dec 8, 2017#489

GasBandit

For reference, here's Underling #2 making a snowman last night.

Dec 8, 2017#490

sixpackshaker

Letting the dog out this morning.

Dec 8, 2017#491

Eriol

sixpackshaker said:
Letting the dog out this morning.

Given the age of that movie, pretty soon people are going to start calling you @Dave

:awesome:

Dec 8, 2017#492

Dei

Dave said:
I’m in Colorado Springs. It’s going to be 60 today.

That's not weird though.

Dec 8, 2017#493

fade

Dammit, thanks for reminding me that I meant to watch PT&A for Thanksgiving.

Dec 8, 2017#494

Terrik

We're getting our fun weather tonight

Dec 8, 2017#495

Eriol

To all of us Haligonians out there: Special Weather Statement from Environment Canada

Alerts for: Halifax Metro and Halifax County West

Statements

3:54 PM AST Friday 08 December 2017
Special weather statement in effect for:

Halifax Metro and Halifax County West

Winter weather conditions expected this weekend across the Maritimes.

A low pressure system will approach the Maritimes from the southwest on Saturday and track across Nova Scotia Saturday night to lie over the Gulf of St. Lawrence by midday Sunday.

Precipitation associated with the system will begin as rain along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia Saturday morning while interior regions of the province will see a mixture of snow and rain beginning near noon before changing over to rain at times heavy Saturday night.

Northern areas of the province could see as much as 5 to 10 cm of snow before the change over to rain Saturday night. In total 20 to 40 mm of rain is expected across the province by midday Sunday with the highest amounts likely for areas along the Atlantic coast.

Additionally, higher than normal water levels and rough surf are expected at the high tide Saturday night along the Atlantic coast.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ec.weatheraspc.ec@canada.ca or tweet reports using #NSStorm.

So just rain for Halifax area... probably. Who knows for those of us slightly (or MORE than slightly) inland?

Dec 8, 2017#496

Dave

Underling #2 is attractive.

Dec 8, 2017#497

GasBandit

Dave said:
Underling #2 is attractive.

You have NO idea.

The lighting is bad in that picture. Her hair is long and copper colored.

Dec 8, 2017#498

PatrThom

Terrik said:
We're getting our fun weather tonight
View attachment 26162

Looks like Crystal River around to Ft Myers have a fair chance of Murlocs.

GasBandit said:
You have NO idea.
The lighting is bad in that picture. Her hair is long and copper colored.

I’ll see what I can do when I get home.

—Patrick

Dec 15, 2017#499

evilmike

Dec 20, 2017#500

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
For reference, here's Underling #2 making a snowman last night.

Dave said:
Underling #2 is attractive.

PatrThom said:
I’ll see what I can do when I get home.

HA HA or maybe two weeks later.

--Patrick

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