2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

Sounds like a mistake tbh

 

If you’re in the area and haven’t evacuated yet, it’s about to be too late.

 

I am sick about her decision. When I asked yesterday, she said they aren’t in an evacuation zone, her father wouldn’t leave the farm animals and she wouldn’t leave her father. The time it appeared a serious hurricane was going to hit my area, all the people calling and messaging me about evacuating did nothing but increase my anxiety by 1000 percent. While they all meant well, they didn’t understand the actual risks for me or the practicality (or lack thereof) of evacuation. My friend and her family aren’t new to the area. I hope they know something I don’t, not being familiar with where they live. There was nothing to be gained by lecturing her. Best I could do was review preparation check lists with her to be sure they had done whatever they could, short of leaving.

 

If only there had been a length of time -- say like a week -- to focus on structures and their needs

 

Just a biscuit away from a 5.

 

For people offering prayers for those in the path of the storm, didn't God send the hurricane to begin with?

 

Here's the latest discussion:

At 700 PM CDT (0000 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Laura was located
near latitude 28.4 North, longitude 92.9 West. Laura is moving
toward the north-northwest near 15 mph (24 km/h). A turn toward the
north is expected overnight, and a northward motion should continue
on Thursday. A northeastward to east-northeastward motion is
expected Thursday night and Friday. On the forecast track, Laura
will approach the upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts this
evening and move inland within that area tonight. The center of
Laura is forecast to move over northwestern Louisiana tomorrow,
across Arkansas Thursday night, and over the mid-Mississippi Valley
on Friday.

Reports from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that the
maximum sustained winds have increased to near 150 mph (240 km/h)
with higher gusts. Laura is an extremely dangerous category 4
hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Some
additional strengthening is possible tonight before Laura reaches
the northwest Gulf coast overnight. Rapid weakening is expected
after Laura moves inland.

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km) from
the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205
miles (335 km). A sustained wind of 48 mph (78 km/h) was recently
reported at Cypremort Point, Louisiana, on Vermilion Bay.

The minimum central pressure estimated from NOAA Hurricane Hunter
aircraft observations is 940 mb (27.76 inches).

 

For comparison, Camille was 900 mb and Katrina 902. Nothing to mess with, definitely.

 

I've ridden out my share of hurricanes. I'm very happy that I'm nowhere near that one.

 

If you live on a barrier island:
Cat 1 or 2, ride it out unless there is just some extenuating circumstances. If you leave, take that Salt Life sticker off your truck before you go.
Cat 3, trust the experts and probably leave if you are in the path of the eye.
Cat 4 or 5, if you are in the cone, leave.

 

I was the the Navy the first time I was remotely in the vicinity of a tornado. Reports came on that it was touching down 10 miles away. A couple of other guys and I were in scramble mode because we really didn't know what to do. A buddy from Oklahoma is kicked back in his rack, reading, and said, "What the hell's wrong with y'all. That thing's on the other side of town. It's no big deal."