Hurricane Irma...

[Dame]

Trip of the year cancelled before they boarded the flight (thank goodness). The Ritz on St. Thomas is evacuating all guests and has turned into a shelter for the locals. They're hunkering down out there.

 

[Devildoc]

Trip of the year cancelled before they boarded the flight (thank goodness). The Ritz on St. Thomas is evacuating all guests and has turned into a shelter for the locals. They're hunkering down out there.

At least St. Thomas has some mountains and high ground. Some of those islands are nothing but speed bumps.

 

[Dame]

At least St. Thomas has some mountains and high ground. Some of those islands are nothing but speed bumps.

Yeah, compared to Puerto Rico they are all pretty small, and that's saying something.

 

[Gunz]

We're not evacuating. We're on a hill. I got guns. I got two chainsaws. Fuck Buddha. Bring it.

 

[Frank S.]

We're not evacuating. We're on a hill. I got guns. I got two chainsaws. Fuck Buddha. Bring it.

Still....

Just in case... What do you drive?

 

[policemedic]

Don't be so sure, brother, with a Cat 5. I was in Charlotte, NC some 200-250 miles inland
when Hugo hit Charleston, SC...and Hugo toppled hundreds of huge old Live Oaks and blew roofs off even as far inland as we were. And Hugo was a Cat 4.

Agreed. I was on Camp McCall for Hugo, and that was the first and last time they pulled us out of the field. It was a mess.

 

[BloodStripe]

Tropical Storm Jose Becomes the 10th Named Storm of the Hurricane Season

Just plan for a week long vacation away from Florida. No sense hanging around for Irma and Jose.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Hmmmm.....

U.S. Virgin Islands seizing guns, ammo in anticipation of Irma

The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands has ordered the territory's national guard to begin seizing guns and ammunition from citizens in preparation for Hurricane Irma's landfall.

In an executive order signed Monday, Gov. Kenneth Mapp instructed Adjutant General Deborah Howell "to take whatever actions she considers necessary to carry out the assigned mission" of maintaining and restoring public order.

"The Adjutant General is authorized and directed to seize arms, ammunition, explosives, incendiary material and any other property that may be required by the military forces for the performance of this emergency mission," the governor said in the order.

The order went into effect Tuesday at 12:01 a.m.

 

[Red Flag 1]

Hmmmm.....

U.S. Virgin Islands seizing guns, ammo in anticipation of Irma

The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands has ordered the territory's national guard to begin seizing guns and ammunition from citizens in preparation for Hurricane Irma's landfall.

In an executive order signed Monday, Gov. Kenneth Mapp instructed Adjutant General Deborah Howell "to take whatever actions she considers necessary to carry out the assigned mission" of maintaining and restoring public order.

"The Adjutant General is authorized and directed to seize arms, ammunition, explosives, incendiary material and any other property that may be required by the military forces for the performance of this emergency mission," the governor said in the order.

The order went into effect Tuesday at 12:01 a.m.

Wow!. I'd have a big problem with that one.

 

[BloodStripe]

 

[BloodStripe]

 

[Gunz]

Still....

Just in case... What do you drive?

2011 F350 6.7 turbo diesel flatbed dually with a straightback cab. I can secure my wife on the flatbed with ratchet straps and put the dogs and the beer up front with me.

 

[Red Flag 1]

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[RackMaster]

A really detailed article on the whole situation. It's officially the strongest storm in the Atlantic on record.

Irma is so strong it's registering on earthquake devices | Daily Mail Online

 

[Muppet]

Maria has an aunt in P.R. (Aricebo), living in the mountains. She has a concrete and steel home, sheltering in place, in basement. They are getting hit pretty good now. Maria's family are from that A.O.

M.

 

[x SF med]

We may get to see if the theory holds any water.

Well done man of many gasses... I see what you did there... nice job.

 

[AWP]

This has been a pretty stressful 24 hours for me. It is one thing to be there with some control over your, more importantly your family's, destiny, but another thing entirely to sit on the other side of the globe.

Hope isn't a COA and my wife has her plans, wrapping up prep today while she determines in the best of the Clash should she stay or should she go. With that said, the models I've seen went from "direct hit on FL" yesterday to "possible hit, but probable turn into the Atlantic...and sorry about that Carolinas" today. It is still too far out to know anything, but for now all we can do is wait.

I hate waiting.

NOAA 5AM prediction:

Other models:

I think it is interesting, not being a weather guy like SOME people on this board , that the models differ so greatly from the NOAA's projections.

 

[Devildoc]

That spaghetti plot takes it a bit further east than most models. The current models do have a decent probability of bringing it very close to where I live, eventually, in Central North Carolina. Where I live I do not need to worry about flooding, but trees down are a very real possibility.

 

[DA SWO]

This has been a pretty stressful 24 hours for me. It is one thing to be there with some control over your, more importantly your family's, destiny, but another thing entirely to sit on the other side of the globe.

Hope isn't a COA and my wife has her plans, wrapping up prep today while she determines in the best of the Clash should she stay or should she go. With that said, the models I've seen went from "direct hit on FL" yesterday to "possible hit, but probable turn into the Atlantic...and sorry about that Carolinas" today. It is still too far out to know anything, but for now all we can do is wait.

I hate waiting.

NOAA 5AM prediction:

Other models:

I think it is interesting, not being a weather guy like SOME people on this board , that the models differ so greatly from the NOAA's projections.

I told ya, just like an election poll.

 

[Devildoc]

@AWP, my wife hates uncertainty. She wants to go all-out and prepare for Armageddon now, or wait till Sunday to see what it's going to do. I told her either course doesn't make much sense right now.

She hates not knowing. I get it, but we need more information.