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Hurricane Harvey

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Aug 24, 2017.

  1. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    I remember it being this way in Atlanta during some hurricanes. Because some larger cities have higher emissions standards, they cannot sell the more-plentiful lower octane gas. The premium and mid-grade runs out faster. Not sure if that's the case in Austin, though.
     
  2. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    It's not. It's pretty much an issue of logistics. There's gas available over there, but the rub is getting it here.
     
  3. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    It was in issue in South Florida after Wilma in 2005, and in Mississippi and Louisiana after Katrina and Rita as well.
    You not only have the dip in supply, you have higher demand from evacuees returning home and others coming into the area to get gas to take back home to run things like generators and chainsaws. After Katrina, people were driving from south Mississippi up to Jackson (a 150 to 200-mile round trip for many) and filling 55- and 100-gallon tanks with gas to take back home.
    Then you have stations that are still closed because they have no power to run the pumps, as well as a general freak-out going on when people have to wait or can't get gas, and it starts snowballing. It should sort itself out in a week or so, but it's not pleasant to be there until it does.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Irma sounds menacing.

    It’s becoming more likely Hurricane Irma will at least affect U.S., if not make landfall

    It seems likely now that the storm will strike the U.S. coast early next week, although meteorologists don’t know exactly where. Florida and the Gulf Coast continue to be at risk. The East Coast, including the Carolinas and the Delmarva Peninsula, are also potential candidates for landfall — or, at the very least, heavy rain, strong winds and coastal flooding.

    . . .

    Irma has entered into a favorable environment for strengthening, with warm sea surface temperatures and favorable upper-level winds allowing the storm to intensify even more over the next 24 hours. As of 11 a.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm will pass just north of the island of St. John on Wednesday morning as a Category 4 with winds over 130 mph.
     
  5. Bronco77

    Bronco77 Well-Known Member

    Posted this on another thread. A check of one of the most reliable tropical weather models' noon run shows it making landfall in Key Largo late Sunday, then heading due north inland through the western Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach metro areas. As a Category 5.

    Another reliable model's noon run was just posted. Keeps it offshore, but barely, hugging the coast.

    These forecast models have jumped around several times over the past day -- alternating between landfalls in Bahamas/Outer Banks, southeast Florida, lower Keys/Marco Island and back to southeast Florida -- and very well could continue that pattern for a few days. But it's not looking good as far as this thing missing the U.S. entirely and heading out to sea.

    Thankfully, we have plenty of time to prepare. Bottled water was sold out this morning at Publix.
     
  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

  7. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    EPA statement was so ridiculous, Russian bots aren't even trying to #MAGA reply to this one.
     
  8. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Sally Buzbee, in Houston, has to be related to Tony Buzbee, the regent who called for Sumlin's firing. Right?
     
  9. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    I thought she was based in New York after previously being Washington bureau chief.
     
  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Oh ok. I misread that.

    A weird surname to pop up twice in 24 hours in unrelated Houston stories.
     
  11. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    I could be wrong. And yeah, I can see how that would happen. Definitely not an everyday name.
     
  12. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Buzbee the regent appears to be the token Democrat on the ATM board. Even the token black guy is a Republican. (Federal Election Commission public donor database.)
     
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