Hurricane Irma

[prfctlyximprct]

Honestly glued to the news and weather all weekend. Hoping the best for all the animals and people in her path

 

[csmat99]

Where are you getting this information?

Weather channel is seeing the eye more to east and not NW. But of course they have to wait until the next update from the planes flying through the eye.

UPDATE - they officially have it going North now.

Update 2 - Miami crane just collapsed and guess what Miami is further from hurricane then Orlando will be. It's not looking good.

 

[csmat99]

Here's CNN's updates on the hurricane, which doesn't mention the storm going through Orlando at all:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/09/us/hurricane-irma-florida-latest/index.html

CNN is fake news

 

[tribbleorlfl]

It gets better, according to Google:

http://comicbook.com/movies/2017/09/09/frozen-kristen-bell-saved-josh-gads-family-hurricane-irma/

And it's gotten even better than that. One of my friends is the music teacher at one of the area middle schools serving as a shelter. She showed up this morning to give a concert to the evacuees. They really don't come much better than Ms. Bell.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=271276896701930&id=100014588641919

 

[SorcererMC]

For convenience - The Visit Florida page has links to official channels for information, including NHC.
http://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/florida-now.html

Osceola County will tweet out information regarding weather updates and curfews.
https://twitter.com/OsceolaCountyFl

 

[21stamps]

This photo doesn't do this shot justice. Waves and water in Downtown Miami are crazy right now.

 

[flynnibus]

Id still be upset. Can't a man be upset? I get all that stuff about risk ect.. I would just be upset.

Can you be irrational? Yes you can be irrational. But you are still irrational

 

[csmat99]

Ocean is already being sucked out away from beach. That is not good sign. The storm surge is going to come hard and fast. They are saying at least 10-15ft there.

 

[LAKid53]

Who's saying that? I just read a warning for Tallahassee from the NWS.

Do you have a link?

 

[cosmicgirl]

Weather channel is seeing the eye more to east and not NW. But of course they have to wait until the next update from the planes flying through the eye.

UPDATE - they officially have it going North now.

Update 2 - Miami crane just collapsed and guess what Miami is further from hurricane then Orlando will be. It's not looking good.

The wind speed is increased between the highrises due to something called the Venturi effect, so cranes are more vulnerable in Miami than they would be in Orlando.

Do you have a link?

https://twitter.com/NWSTallahassee/status/906872588797915136

 

[fiftiesdean]

The wind speed is increased between the highrises due to something called the Venturi effect, so cranes are more vulnerable in Miami than they would be in Orlando.

Yup, stand under SSE, nice breeze

 

[flynnibus]

So, even though WDW says the parks will reopen Tuesday there is a possibility they won't beable too if Duke has massive power outages in Orlando (else where) they have to deal with and can't supply WDW for several days. Anyway, hope that doesn't happen for people on property now

Power outages are usually due to the transmission system... not their ability to generate power. So that means areas are impacted... but if you have a high power hookup near the mains... you (like a Disney) are less likely to be offline. Disney will still likely be bound by what is happening in the region tho... because of the need to staff everything and cleanup. It's hard to run an operation of tens of thousands of employees when huge portions of your worker base are unable to get to work on time. And it's unfair to the workers too

 

[csmat99]

The wind speed is increased between the highrises due to something called the Venturi effect, so cranes are more vulnerable in Miami than they would be in Orlando.


https://twitter.com/NWSTallahassee/status/906872588797915136

I understand that effect my point was another poster was saying Orlando is not in trouble. They are in trouble and there are going to be hurricane force winds coming through tonight.

 

[freesvoice]

CNN is fake news

This sort of rhetoric is the opposite of helpful.

 

[21stamps]

I understand that effect my point was another poster was saying Orlando is not in trouble. They are in trouble and there are going to be hurricane force winds coming through tonight.

Agree, but hopefully they don't get too scared by what they're seeing in Miami right now. Between the high rises, sea level, storm surges, and waves- that's creating a much worse effect than the wind speed alone.

 

[freesvoice]

This photo doesn't do this shot justice. Waves and water in Downtown Miami are crazy right now.

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Just saw the shot of what looked like rivers running through Miami. What a sight

 

[oceanbreeze77]

DANG. She shifted east again

 

[21stamps]

Just saw the shot of what looked like rivers running through Miami. What a sight

The water has risen and the waves are just pounding, in the intracoastal as well. I saw a few videos of boats loose on the water.

 

[freesvoice]

And it's gotten even better than that. One of my friends is the music teacher at one of the area middle schools serving as a shelter. She showed up this morning to give a concert to the evacuees. They really don't come much better than Ms. Bell.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=271276896701930&id=100014588641919

She just posted a pic of her performing on her Instagram page

 

[LAKid53]

The wind speed is increased between the highrises due to something called the Venturi effect, so cranes are more vulnerable in Miami than they would be in Orlando.


https://twitter.com/NWSTallahassee/status/906872588797915136

Thanks. I love the "falling trees will be dangerous comment" because we don't know anything about falling trees in Tallahassee, lol.