For the record, are you on the side that climate change is a hoax or that man doesn't cause it? Sounds like the former.
I can't imagine what the total death toll is going to be. You have a Cat 5 hurricane that stalled out over a low-lying island with record storm surge. Not good.
For the record, I believe the climate is changing (which has always been the case). Man is probably influencing it somewhat, but I don't believe it "caused" this hurricane to be worse than it would have been if the industrial revolution never happened.
Not the frequency of Cat 5 hurricanes. We've seen some of the most powerful storms ever in the past few years. Both by newer tech/windspeeds and old-school tech, barometric pressure, which has been around for over a century.
Okay, I feel like people on the right sometimes forget what they are arguing and just want to argue. And people on the left think that they can stop it from happening and just want to argue.
Big changes with the 11 a.m. update. Instead of a major hurricane near the Florida coast, it's now forecast to be less than cat 3. The eye wall is ragged and intensity is falling, but the size of the overall wind field is expanding.
Almost makes you wonder if that happens to you and your house begins to fall to pieces and water is all around, maybe you try to find a car. Get out of the wind and flying debris and hope you wash back up on shore!!!
Absolutely insane, horrifying, (insert countless other words here) how long this thing has stalled over the bahamas. I can't imagine there will be anything left on some of those islands. 120-185 mph winds for 24-36 hours? With a 20'+ storm surge? JFC.
I thought it would have looked even worse than that. I pretty much expected to see the island scraped bare except for foundations.
A lot of those places may be determined to be uninhabitable due to the flooding. At least they would be here.
It looks to me like it took a little jog to the northeast, which could be a really good thing for the entire southeast coast.
Thirty-four Category 5 hurricanes have been recorded in the Atlantic basin since 1851, when records began. Only one Category 5 has been recorded in July, eight in August, nineteen in September, six in October, and one in November. There have been no officially recorded June or off-season Category 5 hurricanes.
Well, we had a pretty intense squall come through, and now the rain has stopped. It's really gusty and there is lightning in the distance.
We're not going to see the full fury of Dorian here, but it was a damn close call.
Well, no... Dorian arrived in The Bahamas and took a long look at Florida and said, "Fvck that, I'm gonna stay here for awhile."
I live 90 miles from there. Really makes me wonder if I want to continue to play super hurricane roulette.
My sister in Boynton and SIL in WPB both took down their shutters yesterday evening. Are you still getting hit by the outer rain bands?
It’s calm here this AM. Yesterday we had wind/rain off and on but nothing too major. All businesses were closed. Assuming they will be back up today.
T minus 24 hours for me and @SCHawkFan ...winds expected to peak around 70 something with gusts around 100, 10 inches of rain.
