The most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin, headed through The Islands and towards the U.S. mainland. Need everybody's fingers crossed, please.
The most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin, headed through The Islands and towards the U.S. mainland. Need everybody's fingers crossed, please.
What's the best case scenario at this point? A massive change of direction?
A change in direction could take it into The Gulf, that could be the worst thing that could happen if it gets anywhere near Houston. Anybody's guess right now.
Stay safe out there, if it's any consolation about 3,000 people (including me) in the insurance Market in London are praying it's minor and minimal land fall!
I used to live in Florida and still have a lot of friends there. Been speaking to many throughout the day and if there is one bright side to this it's that there is a lot of advanced preparation and people in Florida are pros at this.
Limey hope you're alright. For this thing to make its way up the East Coast would be awful. Thoughts and love with anyone in that part of the world. Desperately hoping it swings east out into the open ocean.
Where do the Floridians evacuate to? Looks like the path is over most of the state.
Stay safe.
It varies. The further north and the the more centrally you go the better things tend to be. For as bad as the hurricane is now, once it hits lands it immediately starts to weaken. So by the time it gets somewhere like Orlando or Tampa, it's usually the case that the storms have weakened enough to where they can still cause damage, but they're not apocalyptic.
The concern is of course a once in a generation storm that hits land with such ferocity that by the time it gets to somewhere like Tampa, where I have a lot of friends, it is still powerful enough to do a lot of damage. And a city like Tampa, or Gainesville where I used to live, are not as well prepared as areas like the Keys and Miami-Dade county.
Where do the Floridians evacuate to? Looks like the path is over most of the state.
Stay safe.
Exactly what I just asked the Mrs. Her mum is in a care home so quite vulnerable. My brother in law wants to move her but it takes 4 hours driving north just to get to Orlando from where they are and you're still not out of the woods although at least away from the ocean.
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Good luck @limeygent
Batten down the hatches
Thinking of them all tonight.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?cone#contents
Limey hope you're alright. For this thing to make its way up the East Coast would be awful. Thoughts and love with anyone in that part of the world. Desperately hoping it swings east out into the open ocean.
Looks like the path is over most of the state.
Stay safe.
The concern is of course a once in a generation storm that hits land with such ferocity that by the time it gets to somewhere like Tampa, where I have a lot of friends, it is still powerful enough to do a lot of damage. And a city like Tampa, or Gainesville where I used to live, are not as well prepared as areas like the Keys and Miami-Dade county.