Good afternoon everyone!
i wanted to see if someone can scan Hurricane Irma. I live in Miami, Florida and I have weathered many storms throughout my life (including Andrew, Katrina and Wilma) and for the first time I have been getting these gut feelings to just get in the car and drive north. Problem is that the storm is supposed to veer north on Saturday and go right through the whole state. Any help would be appreciated.
This is odd. I don't live anywhere near Florida but more than one of my high school classmates lives there now. I am friends with several of them on FB and they are feeling anxious about this one too.
Ben0821, the best thing to do is follow your gut. Even if your wrong, you can return after the Hurricane passes. There is a evacuation order for The Florida Key.
Going north west is your best bet. Head toward OK, Missouri. Staying in Miami is not a good idea with this storm. She is a beast. Going straight up the East coast and hitting eastern parts of TN and Kentucky. The weather channel said the eye is 50 miles wide and her entire width is over 300 miles.
Hi, re IRMA, get out, and do it before the storm hits. (It may not hit where you are, or just nudge by, but safety is the best option.
Get across the state line into Georgia, and check into a motel. Take plenty of fuel and basic stuff like water, simple cold food, clothing. If you leave it too long, you will get stuck in a traffic jam, possibly. Or not. but it will make you feel better, as you are doing something practical. After the storm, you can go back. The whole thing is then an adventure.
Someone in my local predictions group made a prediction for 2017 about three years ago that there would be "an epic storm" in 2017, and 100,000 people dead.
When we are projecting three years in advance we do not do it by month, so I only have it as a storm that would happen in 2017.
I pray that the death toll will not be anywhere close to correct, but so far Irma looks epic. It is already the strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
At the time that I got that prediction, I thought it would happen in a densely populated Caribbean nation. But those afterthoughts can be very in accurate.
I'm going to look up the original handwritten prediction to see who made it, but that takes some effort going through papers. Back then my students did not opt to be identified on the website.
Jeanne, I am getting, after the Houston storm, "Two more storms" one of which, is obviously IRMA, but the other one is unclear. my betting i that the othr, at the moment un-named storm, (I shall call it "Juliet" might be very late in the season. I think 100,000 dead is very unlikely, but will buy into 1000 plus, and massive disruption. I am also thinking about the West coast, which i think will take a while, to emerge, I am even thinking some sort of Winter storm there, very big. plus another big ice storm, this winter, that goes right down to Texas. The main problem with these storms is the huge economic damage, and the effect on national morale.
I searched through my five-inch paper file of old predictions and discovered that the epic storm prediction was mine. I made it in 2014 and then changed the hundred thousand dead to "thousands" dead, only because I couldn't believe 100,000 would die from a storm. Still don't believe that. But I do remember seeing a crazy wild storm with palm trees blowing sideways.
as of 10 minutes ago
The PM was being interviewed from Barbuda and the line was cutting out, so people are hoping he was either misunderstood about fatalities or he was making a guess that was way off.
Those that heard him on the interview say it sounded like 90% property destruction and 1000 dead, though. Still waiting for official verification.
The eyewall with the heaviest gusts passed two times over Barbuda Completely unofficial USmarine intel: 'obliterated, swept clean...' Barbuda has a population of a little over 1600