2024 Hurricane & Other Amazing Awful Weather Thread



Hurricane Idalia coming ashore...but don't worry. 500 Starlink have been deployed. Elon Musk has your back.
 
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Hurray the machines are protected from hurricane floods. But wait what about all that carpet and electricity?
 
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Hurricane Lee intensifies to a Category 5 storm

“Dangerous surf and rip currents are expected to begin along most of the U.S. East Coast beginning Sunday," the National Hurricane Center said in an update.
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Been a few days but no one knows if it's hitting the eastern seaboard or going back to the ocean or heading for Bermuda. Kind of hard to prepare.
 
3/4 a million without power or cell reception in Houston today.
 
Cell phone towers down. I don’t have enough reception to upload some of the destruction in my hood


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Alive and well. I was lucky where I am. My power got knocked out for 2 hours and got restored. Luckily I have a generator, so I didn't lose power. Areas north of me got hit hard; a friend had a tree landing on her roof.
 
No power and limited cell reception here, but no damage to the house so we’re fine
 
Dropbear said:
Less than a week.



Nope. No space for one. The neighbors have a natural gas generator running, even though they are out of town. I’ve been charging battery packs from their external outlet and we have the electric car, which is a giant battery pack.
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Ahh. nice. I got a 17 kw Generac so I was safe. Katy was safe but I saw Cypress got hit hard.

I was surprised the city got hit hard but the burbs survived.
 
Pauly Chase said:
Ahh. nice. I got a 17 kw Generac so I was safe. Katy was safe but I saw Cypress got hit hard.

I was surprised the city got hit hard but the burbs survived.
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Looks like it followed 290 down to the city at its worst.

if it was hotter out, it’d be so much worse.

I really wish we had room for a good sized generator
 
The NHC is predicting a category 4 storm now with 10-15 feet of storm surge. This storm came out of nowhere and is going to be a Katrina-level event for the Florida panhandle.

But land temperatures in the paleolithic areas could have possibly been higher based on an AI model that some scientists cooked up so I guess everything is fine and this is normal.
 
Grand Potentate said:
The NHC is predicting a category 4 storm now with 10-15 feet of storm surge. This storm came out of nowhere and is going to be a Katrina-level event for the Florida panhandle.

But land temperatures in the paleolithic areas could have possibly been higher based on an AI model that some scientists cooked up so I guess everything is fine and this is normal.
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From a colleague:

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"Warnings over Hurricane Milton come just 10 days after Hurricane Helene - the deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005 - tore through the US south-east, killing at least 225 people. Hundreds of others are still missing."

Category 4. Although it looks like it will weaken by the time it hits Florida.
 
Fwiffo said:
"Warnings over Hurricane Milton come just 10 days after Hurricane Helene - the deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005 - tore through the US south-east, killing at least 225 people. Hundreds of others are still missing."

Category 4. Although it looks like it will weaken by the time it hits Florida.
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It’s going to hit CAT 5 soon. This is the second fastest storm to jump from depression to CAT 4 in recorded history.
 
On TV they had a vice president collections company guy say he's picking up debris along residential streets until the very last moment. Okay - I understand debris piled on to a street that isn't secured are effectively projectiles and missiles when the hurricane passes through. But where are you dumping the debris where it won't be? It's not like in 36-48 hours you are going to dig a hole and cover it up.

Another person said he was going 40 miles north where there is higher ground. Okay. That's it? The hurricane itself is 300km+. Shouldn't you head to Georgia?
 
Fwiffo said:
Another person said he was going 40 miles north where there is higher ground. Okay. That's it? The hurricane itself is 300km+. Shouldn't you head to Georgia?
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A lot of people lack the funds to be able to evacuate so the best advice is to see higher elevation where the storm surge is least likely to effect you.
 
It sounds like it was less severe than the most dire predictions. At least the Rays weren't in the playoffs.
 
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