Running Tropical Storm Hanna thread

Re: Running Hurricane Hanna thread

The Gulf Stream is what usually keeps hurricanes from hitting the area between St. Augustine and Sea Island, Ga., as opposed to the Gulf Stream being about 5 miles offshore in south Florida.

 

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Thank you very much for telling me how the climate in my specific part of the world works. Had no idea, really.

 

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2muchseriousman... get a grip.

 

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And how in the hell would I know what specific part of the world in which you live? Your screen name isn't 2muchseriousfloridaman.

 

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That baby's coming a little too close to the Florida coast for me to take much comfort. But the models have shifted so that none of them now bring it onshore in the Sunshine State. It appears it will affect almost every Atlantic Coast state.

 

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Shouldn't be quite that bad. Four years ago Gaston pounded the hell out of Richmond because it was a slow mover. Damn thing sat on top of my house for 18 hours in SC, and cost me a roof. According to the models, once Hanna hits land, it's gonna fly. Should be almost in New York state by Saturday night. Sunday seems like no problem, and given that RIR has lights and is a short track, I wouldn't completely discount Saturday night. Now, if they postpone the thing because they don't want 112,000 folks trucking it up in a monsoon on Saturday morning and afternoon, that's something altogether different.

 

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And as of the 11 p.m. advisory, models are tracking further east. Eyes peeled, Wilmington.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200808_model.html#a_topad

 

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Haiti just getting killed by rainfall.

Talk about a tragic country.

 

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Certainly not discounting the hell they're going through, but it's made a lot worse by poor decisions from up top to strip the mountains of their trees. When the rain hits, it speeds down the mountains with nothing to stop it, taking a shit-ton of mud along for the ride and making problems exponentially worse.

 

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Every year you wonder ... is this the year NYC gets hit by a Cat 3?

 

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According to that Weather Channel special "it could happen tomororw" NYC is overdue to be hit by a Cat 3.
I think Floyd was just a Cat 1 or a TS when he hit up here in '99.

 

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There's a scenario in which a strong hurricane coming ashore with the eye west of Staten Island would absolutely destroy lower Manhattan, including the Wall Street area.