Hurricane Irma - What would you do?

Harry Palmr

Joking aside at least here houses are built of things like brick and blocks. In the States wood shacks and mobile homes are where a large chunk of the population live.

Cheerful Spring

MissShihTzu wrote: »

My cousin was caught by Irma in Antigua. She got through it OK - just some windows smashed and of course, no power. She managed to send a video of the aftermath. It wasn't pretty - The whole place has been smashed to smithereens. The island of Barbuda has been flattened. Literally nothing left.

Now they're bracing themselves for Jose and Katia...

Hurricane Jose looks like will miss the United States. I believe it has bypassed the Caribbean. Hurricane Katia hit the Mexico area will not hit America or the Caribbean There is a new storm Lee but not sure yet it will develop to a hurricane.

Noveight

If I was living in one of the areas expected to be hit I'd be dialing up relatives/friends elsewhere, don't think I'd take my chances and batten down the hatches.

rossie1977

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Joking aside at least here houses are built of things like brick and blocks. In the States wood shacks and mobile homes are where a large chunk of the population live.

A cat 4 or 5 hurricane and it wouldn't really matter. I remember the Christmas storm of 1997 battered the west coast. The roof of the big shed across the road from me tore off like tin foil and we lost power for nearly a week. . I can't imagine what kind of damage sustained winds of 150-185mph like the Caribbean islands experienced would do

Places like Galway, Dublin and cork city are so low lying that any kind of storm surge a major hurricane would bring would cause total devastation......

jacksie66

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tiger55

Richard Branson left his black staff members, and didnt invite them in. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711NEyRQ_8M

B.A._Baracus

So am watching CNN. They cut to a reporter that is outside. Starts going on about how he could be in the eye of the storm. Behind him walks a man and his dog. The man waves at the camera. The dog is happily walking along. The reporter then switches tactic and says how people are coming out now. Yet seconds before it was doom and gloom.

Feckin' CNN :pac:

Kermit.de.frog

Since, in reality this has been so underwhelming, CNN coverage reminds me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krFN7jHKNNo

silverharp

rescuing trainers seems to be a thing

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/907006944489213953

AllGunsBlazing

rossie1977 wrote: »

A cat 4 or 5 hurricane and it wouldn't really matter. I remember the Christmas storm of 1997 battered the west coast. The roof of the big shed across the road from me tore off like tin foil and we lost power for nearly a week. . I can't imagine what kind of damage sustained winds of 150-185mph like the Caribbean islands experienced would do

Places like Galway, Dublin and cork city are so low lying that any kind of storm surge a major hurricane would bring would cause total devastation......

The big shed is always the first to go.

Canis Lupus

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Feckin' CNN :pac:

Feckin News in general you mean. Sure when what'sherface did the infamous 'don't make unnecessary journeys' there on RTE News some fella wandered past out for a walk.

Witchie

I would try to get out of dodge but it isn't always just as easy as packing your car and going.

One of my best mates lives in Fort Lauderdale. She is a teacher and was working until Thursday. She recently changed teaching jobs so hasn't received her full pay yet so is stone broke.

She was telling me that she would have really had to leave Wednesday or Thursday to get anywhere safe before the chaos began and even if they did leave then, they would still be sitting in traffic burning fuel that was hard to come by.

For her, the safest thing to do was to hunker down. She took her daughter and dog and went to her mums coz her house is 2 storey and the landlord didn't leave shutters for the the top floor and is in Egypt. Her mum has a bungalow and proper shutters so it is safer.

I had a crap sleep worrying about her and other friends in Port St Lucie last night. She hadn't been online in 12 hours before I finally submitted to sleep but about an hour ago she posted on fb that they were ok. They had no internet or mobile coverage. Am just so relieved that they are ok.

PSL friends seem to be fine as they have checked in recently.

Scary stuff.

Academic

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Joking aside at least here houses are built of things like brick and blocks. In the States wood shacks and mobile homes are where a large chunk of the population live.

Depends on how you define "a large chunk of the population." It's about 10 percent of the population, the vast majority of them in he south.

The U.S. is a pretty urbanized country.

Academic

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

So am watching CNN. They cut to a reporter that is outside. Starts going on about how he could be in the eye of the storm. Behind him walks a man and his dog. The man waves at the camera. The dog is happily walking along. The reporter then switches tactic and says how people are coming out now. Yet seconds before it was doom and gloom.

Feckin' CNN :pac:

Nothing surprising there. The eye is always calm. Doesn't mean the storm is over.

branie2

What's the outcome after the hurricane?

MadYaker

It's not over yet... http://google.org/crisismap/2017-irma?hl=en&llbox=35.46%2C11.66%2C-40.38%2C-100.41&t=TERRAIN&layers=3%2C1340721332252%2C30%2C1%2C31%2C32%2C5%2C49%2C15%2C11%2C20%2C12%2Clayer9%2Clayer8

Find Florida on this you can see it's sitting right over western Florida now.

jmayo

Riddle101 wrote: »

Wouldn't be a bad thing to live in a caravan/mobile home in the US I think. You could live like a turtle and bring your home wherever you go. With Irma hitting Florida you could drive to a safer location a wait out the storm without having to worry about your property being damage or destroyed. Something I would definitely invest in if I ever moved to the United States.

People do not live in caravans, motorhomes or rvs.
Well some do, but more people live in trailer parks.

They are mobile homes in what are called trailer parks.
Actually most are not very mobile at all.
And you need big truck to move them and I don't mean a pickup.

Maybe you should do bit more research before that move to the US.

B.A._Baracus

Academic wrote: »

Nothing surprising there. The eye is always calm. Doesn't mean the storm is over.

The storm was over from where the reporter was. Wasn't too hard hit too (just the part of florida he was in)

But hey its live TV baby. Always some idiot who'll buy into the whole "I'm now directly in the eye Tom" while they watch. Or someone who'll reply back on a message board going on about the eye being calm but yet not seeing said clip of said reporter and coming off as a know it all

DEFTLEFTHAND

I see Richard Branson's private island have been absolutely ravaged by the Hurricane.

He was there at the time and had to take shelter in his wine cellar.

Academic

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

The storm was over from where the reporter was. Wasn't too hard hit too (just the part of florida he was in)

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No he wasn't. He was in the eye. The lower half of the storm (admittedly always the lesser of the two so far as wind, rain, etc.) had yet to hit him.

Think of a hurricane as a circle moving north. He was in the middle, not yet having been hit by the bottom half.

B.A._Baracus

Academic wrote: »

No he wasn't. He was in the eye. The lower half of the storm (admittedly always the lesser of the two so far as wind, rain, etc.) had yet to hit him.

Think of a hurricane as a circle moving north. He was in the middle, not yet having been hit by the bottom half.

I posted that in the early hours of the morning. You replied back after 12pm today.

You don't know what you're bloody talking about. CNN had loads of reporters in places waiting to be hit, places it past, Didn't hit etc.

So tell me..
What did the reporter look like?
What city was the reporter?
You didn't even see broadcast and you're arguing with me :pac:


This takes the biscuit man.

Captain_Crash

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Joking aside at least here houses are built of things like brick and blocks. In the States wood shacks and mobile homes are where a large chunk of the population live.

I was in Florida last week and was watching a demo on the difference between houses made of brick and wood and to be honest, there isn't much in it. If a projectile hits a wall in Cat 3+ winds, doesn't matter if its made of brick, wood or unicorn tears... its going trough it like bog roll.

The science is that as wood has more flex it has more give in strong sustained winds, much like tall buildings have a natural sway or an airplane wing flexes up when flying.

Fact of the matter is if a hurricane ever hit Dublin, the damage would be devastating. Just think of the damage done by Charlie in '86, and that was a weakening tropical storm when it hit, who's strongest gust was recorded at 65mph, well short of hurricane force.

PandaPoo

My parents flew out to Haines city last week. I thought they were absolutely nuts to go over there. They're doing ok, which could be a lie because they dont want us to worry.

My dad's 75 and he can't swim!