Just don’t ride past stop signs at 70mph. You might kill someone like the weather channel did last year 

 

Well yeah, and we had a tornado tear through in early March.

But I thought the "season" itself was more Summer than Fall.

 

Canada still has floods and blizzards and stuff tho, don't they? And wild moose. lol

 

Good luck everyone. Hope all the Penguins can swim.

Went through Harvey a couple years ago. Not fun.

Yeah, every place has its thing. I live in a place where there are no hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes. Or wind at any speed. Or any rain at all. Or any clouds. Or water in any form. Only extreme, soul-crushing heat. But we're almost through it!

And any place where nature doesn't actively try to kill its inhabitants, it costs an insane amount of cash to live there.

Stay safe and get one of those water bottles that filters yucky water as you drink it!

In LA, we get both.  


 

 

Yes, but don't you have the coolest name storms ever, the HABOOBS?

 

Lol yep! We actually had a small haboob a couple days ago in the east valley. Hopefully more soon, need that water.

The hurricane season starts June 1st and ends November 30.

I'm loving that the new track shows that my town is out of the cone of uncertainty! I don't think it will be too bad over here on the west coast of Florida.

Now it's a 5 apparently? I sure hope and pray as many people as possible got the heck out of the way. Where I'm from we've had a few notable tornadoes over the years though.

Actually a thought just occured to me, what about people who live on islands like in Puerto Rico or the Bahamas or something?  What are they supposed to do?  They can't evacuate anywhere!

Source?

Last advisory it was 150 mph. Cat 5 is 156 mph. Next advisory is in an hour and a half.

I live in central Polk, so it might scrape us a bit. I hope it doesn't get any worse than that. The Bahamas may be spared.

 

Meanwhile, FEMA funds get diverted to the wall...

Are you forgetting the flash floods?

I'm constantly telling non-natives not to go near certain roads or washes during storms....but NOPE. 

That's the main problem with the whole Category 1-5 thing (and E0-E5 scale for tornadoes for that matter)...it only counts wind speed. Indeed there are other factors such as flooding and speed of storm (and YES hurricanes can sometimes produce a tornado as well!) that can make things just as bad if not worse.

As of 8:00AM, 175MPH winds and is a rather certain Cat-5. Passing by the Bahamas soon. May God bless and protect them all, but hopefully they've evacuated.

The good news for most is that the newly projected path have it mostly staying out to see with the edges of heavy rain hitting the coast of the Carolinas.

Classic pic, appropriate mood:

We're getting smacked by this bitch tomorrow in NS. Tracking right over the house as a cat-2 with the current track. Well above sea level so just concerns about the wind and rainfall.

Got to love mother nature at its best

How did you fare up in Canada?

We (Hampton, VA) lucked out and stayed just outside of the tropical storm force winds as it came by.
But further south of us, the outer banks of NC were crushed.

Didn't get anything in CT from it (at least eastern CT). Hope everyone affected made it out okay.

A lot of power outages and some damage along the coast with local flooding but nothing overly significant (no deaths or major injuries as far as I know). It was pretty powerful but absolutely nothing compared to hurricane Juan a while back (2003). Came through Saturday afternoon and pretty much everything is back to normal and looking cleaned up minus a few lingering power outages.

Glad to hear it.

When I saw it was going to be a full-blown hurricane when it made landfall up there, seemed like it might be something that the local infrastructure wasn't designed to handle given what I assumed was the relative rarity of storms that strong making it that far north.


(structurual-code-wise, by the time you reach VA in the mid-Atlantic, code requirements only build to category 1 sustained winds -- would have imagined that was the baseline for points north, as well)

We get very strong winds in the winter, often at or near hurricane strength, but it's a little different when there is no foliage/leaves on the trees. Our biggest issue up here are the trees that sit between the road and sidewalk - very big with little to hold on to so they go down and take the power lines with them. It's not very often we get winds that strong outside of the main winter months (jan-march) so when it happens in the summer it's definitely more eventful (as well with camping and marinas in business etc.).