Hurricane Flo Thread

hawkeyebob62 said:
The eye wall collapsing is huge. Dry air being pulled in from SW also mitigates some effect. Question becomes if/when it stalls, and for how long.

There is definitely upper level shear and high pressure approaching from NW. But, this is going to be a big bitch of a storm, regardless. And it can always tighten up, again, as well.

One phenomenon that rarely gets mentioned is that, even when storm gets downgraded, it's effect once it makes landfall doesn't reduce accordingly. Also, wind speed is a poor single-indicator measurement.

Florida surfers will have some good raw material. They are expecting waves up to 10 feet. Driveable beaches will not be so driveable for a few days.
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This thing is dying down. The rainfall total projections inland are dropping other than within 100 miles of the coast. My concern level for my area has dropped to almost nil. Gonna be a crappy rain storm, but nothing biblical. My step brother in Charleston stuck around and he ain't even worried about it. Gonna suck up around Wilmington and Myrtle Beach, but it ain't horrible. Governor McTaxter looks like less of an idiot for reversing the mandatory evac order for the southern part of the coast. One of my colleagues said USC has had classes cancelled bince the day McTaxter issued the state of emergency order on Monday and that this week may go down as the largest non spring break party week in the history of college.
 
I wonder if this rain from the hurricane will effect the Iowa/Wisconsin game next week? I see the forecast in IC has rain next Wed/Thu so far.
 
Yesterday AM there were civilians reading maps and such already reporting this Guess the Govt was afraid people wouldn't evacuate.

The chain saw clips were funny but so wasilt could happen. Arbor work has become quite expensive.

I dropped a large maple limb a couple of years ago about to go over the house. I knew the wife if she knew would stop me so I did it just before dark when she was in the shower. I had about 8 foot space next to the house to drop it. Whrn it came down it shook tge house landing as planned though. She came running out and boy was I in trouble.
 
Live in Charleston & it looks like we will miss the brunt of the wind, but could get lots of rain.
Since Charleston floods on sunny days, it could be bad.
 
NCHawker said:
because over the last 25 years people have been indoctrinated to look to the federal government to solve problems.
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Federal disaster management is the definition of a problem that the federal government is supposed to address. If you don't understand why this is an essential function of the federal government, I'm not going to waste my precious time trying to explain it to you.
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
The eye wall collapsing is huge. Dry air being pulled in from SW also mitigates some effect. Question becomes if/when it stalls, and for how long.

There is definitely upper level shear and high pressure approaching from NW. But, this is going to be a big bitch of a storm, regardless. And it can always tighten up, again, as well.

One phenomenon that rarely gets mentioned is that, even when storm gets downgraded, it's effect once it makes landfall doesn't reduce accordingly. Also, wind speed is a poor single-indicator measurement.

Florida surfers will have some good raw material. They are expecting waves up to 10 feet. Driveable beaches will not be so driveable for a few days.
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I have a suspicion that people are going to underestimate the damage that'll be caused by that amount of rain. A mere 7 inches over a few hours turned Des Moines, a city with decent drainage, into an emergency flash-flooded hellscape. Did about 5K of damage to my property, which had never before been impacted by water. 7 measly inches.

DRAAAIIINNNAAAAGE!

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bitmap said:
Eye wall is collapsing as of 10:30 PM Wednesday. Hurricane Hunter aircraft in the storm report that the eyewall now wraps less than 50% of the center. All that water and wind energy is going to spread out. Florence is no longer at major hurricane intensity. If it really stalls just off shore there is going to be a historic rainfall event over a very large area for days.

I have a friend who used to live in Homestead, FL. He was there for Andrew. Andrew behaved just the opposite of the current predictions for Flo. It tightened up and became a wind event as it reached the shore. Two years after his neighborhood was still in shambles, and hadn't had electricity or phone service restored. It took six months for the water system to come back online. Most of the houses were heavily damaged or destroyed. His insurance company went bankrupt and the bureaucracy didn't seem interested in rebuilding anything. That's why he left. He ended up getting about 45 cents on the dollar after wasting two years of his life thinking he was going to be able to rebuild.
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Ouch... The cost of living in paradise... Mother nature can get us all no matter where we are pretty much. Either your lucky or your not there's not much more to it than that.
 
Hawkfnntn said:
Oh I wish that's how it was here. It's SECville here.. Lots of Bama, TN, Ole Miss fans... You'd think there'd be some Memphis fans but not as many. With Penny taking over their hoops program that's gonna be mostly a hoops school I think.
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I've never bashed any president prior to the current one
 
okeefe4prez said:
Why the hell are people buying milk? If the power goes out that milk is only gonna make it a day or two at most. I am set for up to 5 days without power because my cooler will hold ice for about 7 days but I ain't wasting space in there on a gallon of milk. Buy the powdered stuff, people.
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Tampa resident here and I've never understood this. Storm is coming and the milk/eggs just fly off the shelves! Hope y'all have generators..

Call me crazy but I'll take my chances with non-perishables. Water works for me. Plus lots of canned food etc. The kind of stuff that won't spoil when the power goes out.
 
1977Hawkeye said:
Tampa resident here and I've never understood this. Storm is coming and the milk/eggs just fly off the shelves! Hope y'all have generators..

Call me crazy but I'll take my chances with non-perishables. Water works for me. Plus lots of canned food etc. The kind of stuff that won't spoil when the power goes out.
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You should see the run on shelves in Iowa or Wisconsin when they predict 4-6 inches of snow. We would have brushed that off with a broom back in the day

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