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The Irma Post
8 years ago
General
Lots of people are worried so I’ll post a quick update here.
First, the best place to track the status of a hurricane is the national hurricane center. You can access it at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ and it shows you all active hurricanes at the time.
Irma’s biggest danger is wind. Harvey was a freak in that it slung buckets of water around to the point that they had to rewrite the rainfall scale. Irma doesn’t have rainfall that bad but it does have wind from hell, and that will be the biggest factor for me. Currently NOAA seems to be showing Irma slowing down when it hits land which is a good thing for me.
But before I go into the good things for me, I would like to ask for people to please keep the folks in South Florida and the people on the coast and keys in your prayers and good thoughts. They’re the ones taking the brunt of this and are going to be the ones suffering the most damage. Hurricanes fresh from the ocean or the gulf are the strongest and Miami and the southern coast is going to take more damage than I will.
I live in Central Florida. If you look on the map at the NOAA site I live slightly right of the ‘L’ on the ‘FL’ marking on the Florida map (If you have trouble navigating the site and can't find the right map, just click here for the graphic and you'll see it: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graph.....e_and_wind.png ). As of 5AM it looks like Irma will have downgraded itself from a major hurricane to a normal one by the time it hits here, and I’m hoping that the trend of it slowing and growing more weak will continue. Sometime today the men are going to board up the windows of my house and we’ll prepare to hunker down. I have food and water and we’ll be fine. Remember that I lived here when Charlie and his two friends all hit us in the span of a few months and I weathered it alright. I’ll get through this.
Barring any problems, the Overlord stream will continue this Saturday but on Sunday I will probably be scarce as I make final preparations. I will probably become more scarce Sunday afternoon as I expect the wind to knock the power out. The last time this happened we were down for about a day, but some folks were without for about two weeks so it all depends. I’ll update as I can in that department as well.
But for now I am prepared and I will be fine. I’ll try and post updates on my Twitter as much as I can which you can see here: https://twitter.com/littletales
P.S. Kitties is at $1,400, so you missed your chance at $1,234 ;)
First, the best place to track the status of a hurricane is the national hurricane center. You can access it at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ and it shows you all active hurricanes at the time.
Irma’s biggest danger is wind. Harvey was a freak in that it slung buckets of water around to the point that they had to rewrite the rainfall scale. Irma doesn’t have rainfall that bad but it does have wind from hell, and that will be the biggest factor for me. Currently NOAA seems to be showing Irma slowing down when it hits land which is a good thing for me.
But before I go into the good things for me, I would like to ask for people to please keep the folks in South Florida and the people on the coast and keys in your prayers and good thoughts. They’re the ones taking the brunt of this and are going to be the ones suffering the most damage. Hurricanes fresh from the ocean or the gulf are the strongest and Miami and the southern coast is going to take more damage than I will.
I live in Central Florida. If you look on the map at the NOAA site I live slightly right of the ‘L’ on the ‘FL’ marking on the Florida map (If you have trouble navigating the site and can't find the right map, just click here for the graphic and you'll see it: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graph.....e_and_wind.png ). As of 5AM it looks like Irma will have downgraded itself from a major hurricane to a normal one by the time it hits here, and I’m hoping that the trend of it slowing and growing more weak will continue. Sometime today the men are going to board up the windows of my house and we’ll prepare to hunker down. I have food and water and we’ll be fine. Remember that I lived here when Charlie and his two friends all hit us in the span of a few months and I weathered it alright. I’ll get through this.
Barring any problems, the Overlord stream will continue this Saturday but on Sunday I will probably be scarce as I make final preparations. I will probably become more scarce Sunday afternoon as I expect the wind to knock the power out. The last time this happened we were down for about a day, but some folks were without for about two weeks so it all depends. I’ll update as I can in that department as well.
But for now I am prepared and I will be fine. I’ll try and post updates on my Twitter as much as I can which you can see here: https://twitter.com/littletales
P.S. Kitties is at $1,400, so you missed your chance at $1,234 ;)
Gentle hugs :)
Though I'm nearly certain I didn't need to tell you that, given your experience with hurricanes, I'd rather remind unnecessarily than find out something got forgotten later.
Irma GERD.
TM & TL
That being said, the people in those tiny Caribbean islands are the ones that have my true sympathy. Irma mauled them, and now what little is left is about to get obliterated by Jose.
Yesterday the storm was going to come right over us on Tuesday. Now the cone has moved to the west.