The Swamp

That's Taiwan down there under the typhoon.

Well, this escalated quickly. Not even a tropical depression Wed morning, 5pm today a Cat 4. Current projections to hit Jamaica on Monday morning.

ETA: Make that Cat 5, as of 11pm eastern

Matthew Vaults to Category 4 Strength; Uncertainty Clouds the Forecast

Yellow line is coast of Colombia, off the Gulf of Venezuela. Aruba and Curacao taking some as well.

Well, hopefully this thing doesn't take a hard left.

If it does, hopefully we luck out like we did last time.

My thought - it slows down enough to miss the trough in the central US which means it isn't picked up and brought inland north of North Carolina sufficient to cause on-shore problems. Trough acts as a kicker instead, keeping it just off-shore north of the Carolinas - beach issues but no landfall in mid-Atlantic or ny to Boston .

Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Yeah, I guess we aren't going down to the beach this weekend. Unless I have to run down midweek and put our patio furniture inside. I'm hoping to find someone there who can do it for me.

Fucking hurricanes.

tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?

Shirley wrote:Yeah, I guess we aren't going down to the beach this weekend. Unless I have to run down midweek and put our patio furniture inside. I'm hoping to find someone there who can do it for me.

Fucking hurricanes.

First world problems.

A_B wrote:

Shirley wrote:Yeah, I guess we aren't going down to the beach this weekend. Unless I have to run down midweek and put our patio furniture inside. I'm hoping to find someone there who can do it for me.

Fucking hurricanes.

First world problems.

And I just paid a guy to repaint my front door. This is going to push that out another week or two! Unbelievable.

Most recent run of the Euro would make you a bit happier - put it with a landfall in central Florida, then back off the coast but then a loop in the Atlantic and never gets into the Carolinas.

Rex wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?

Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.

wlu_lax6 wrote:

Rex wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?

Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.

Not just hurricanes and queers. We've legislated away beach erosion too!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina ... d=16913782

Shirley wrote:

wlu_lax6 wrote:

Rex wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?

Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.

Not just hurricanes and queers. We've legislated away beach erosion too!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina ... d=16913782

Well those ACC lobbyists just want Duke, UNC, and State to finally compete with ECU's and UNCW's surfing teams.

Shirley wrote:

wlu_lax6 wrote:

Rex wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Coast of North Carolina may not be as lucky.

Did God just fuck this one up?

Well obviously it is either because of the need for a bathroom law or because of the opposition of the bathroom. I mean NC is trying to fight off hurricanes with legislation, but seems like they just need different laws.

Not just hurricanes and queers. We've legislated away beach erosion too!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina ... d=16913782

JFC!

This fucker's gonna look like Harambe, isn't it

Looks like Matthew is going to miss NC now, making a hard right at South Carolina. Good for me, but it looks pretty shitty for much of Florida. A Cat 4 scraping up along a lot of the coast. And then a few days later, it'll likely come back and hit Florida again. Crazy.

Oh, and then it'll go into the Gulf's warm waters and probably restrengthen.

BTW, I see that they're projecting a 9-foot storm surge. That would be pretty catastrophic on my island, especially when you add big waves on top of that surge. There are parts of my island that probably don't have much more than 9 foot clearance across the whole width.

I'm on the West Coast, so I should be good (for now). We've got friends coming up from Jupiter and West Palm, so I ran out to Walmart at 10:30 last night to stock up. What a shit show. Not in the hurricane prepping sense, but in the methhead insanity sense.

So it was just a regular Wednesday night?

Apparently. I don't normally go to Walmart, so I can't attest for whether it was different at 10:30 than any other time of night. There was a guy there slinking around like the brother in Wedding Crashers, but with dark eye shadow, filling his shopping card with hundreds of Hot Pockets.

Shirley wrote:Looks like Matthew is going to miss NC now, making a hard right at South Carolina. Good for me, but it looks pretty shitty for much of Florida. A Cat 4 scraping up along a lot of the coast. And then a few days later, it'll likely come back and hit Florida again. Crazy.

Oh, and then it'll go into the Gulf's warm waters and probably restrengthen.

BTW, I see that they're projecting a 9-foot storm surge. That would be pretty catastrophic on my island, especially when you add big waves on top of that surge. There are parts of my island that probably don't have much more than 9 foot clearance across the whole width.

So Dave, you are buying islands with that big Micro$oft money? Nice.

Never really thought of this before, from the NWS:

Residents in high-rise buildings should be aware that the winds at the top of a 30-story building will be, on average, about one Saffir-Simpson category higher than the winds near the surface.

"... so don't go standing on top of your high rise building during the hurricane."

mister d wrote:"... so don't go standing on top of your high rise building during the hurricane."

"Super Storm winds can't melt steel beams!"

LSU-Florida game gas been postponed.

mister d wrote:"... so don't go standing on top of your high rise building during the hurricane."

Or don't stay inside your high rise building figuring you will be safe.

Pfft. More like Saf-fear Wimp-son.

The Drudge Report: Responsible Tweeting!

https://heatst.com/politics/hurricane-m ... p-florida/

Obama is summoning the weather against Trump!

Holla when your power comes back on, Gunpowder

NC not safe yet - trough maybe tugging storm a bit north after all.

Im in philadelphia, waiting for a replacement pilot to fly this bitch back to fll. No worries about me, frogs. Northern Fl, though, does not get hit with these storms just about ever. They could get f-ed up.

Death toll in Haiti keeps rising, 572 as of this morning. I haven't heard how bad it is in the population centers of the Bahamas.

Hurricane Matthew death toll nears 900 in Haiti, cholera takes lives

Over and over this country suffers.

Where's the root system on that tree?

govmentchedda wrote:Where's the root system on that tree?

Some trees have shallow root systems. The house behind us has a 50 foot tall redwood tree. Redwoods also have shallow roots. I worry about it when we have big storms.