XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.survival, alt.science
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/#20L
The hurricane models CANNOT get a grip on this
thing. It's kinda stuck in an eddy caused by
the start-up of the winter cold fronts.
Yesterday they had it moving close to Bermuda
before doing a loop-de-loop out to the north.
Today they have it going well SOUTH before
doing the loop-de-loop ... and a few of
the prediction tracks head straight for
the US mainland, some as far south as Miami.
They've been predicting weakening for a LONG
time now, but yesterday it was a strong cat-1.
Today a TS, but if it moves south again ....
This reminds of hurricane Jeanne ... it LOOKED
like it was headed towards oblivion but did a
loop-de-loop and crashed into central Florida
as a cat-3 - impact literally within like a
mile of where cat-2+ Frances had hit barely
two weeks before.
I was THERE. Like Frances it became a very
slow moving storm as it approached the coast,
the eye-wall expanding to maybe 40 miles
wide. Because of the slowness/direction, I
was in the eye-wall for like 12 HOURS. It
shook everything apart. The surviving radio
stations did nothing but shout out warnings
about the latest tornadoes ... all night long.
Spent that night in a hallway, with as many
walls between me and the outside as possible.
Ah, that SOUND ... a hundred screaming banchees.
Power and everything else was GONE for about
2-3 WEEKS. The cell towers died - leaving
the kiddies in a sort of media-minus coma.
Other states sent tons of utility workers,
but the damage was basically complete -they
had to rebuild everything from scratch.
While those with metal roofs did kinda ok,
most everyone with shingle/tar roofs lost
EVERYTHING. All the residential streets were
six to eight FEET high with the entire contents
of houses ... furnishings, appliances, carpets,
often even dry-wall. Power/phone/net lines
were just a destroyed tangle, trees near the
water lines pulled THEM up - even the big
poles were often snapped in half and fell onto
the streets, or houses.
There were no leaves left on the trees,
except some local cedars - where only
ONE row of twigs remained on the NW side.
It was just WEIRD, SURREAL. Cat-3 doesn't sound
like the worst, but let it PERSIST for 12+
hours and ......
On Ft. Pierce beach I saw a 4-floor condo,
not that old, where all the stucco exterior
had been peeled off - and made cannon-ball
craters in everything downwind.
Google-Earth has 'historical' photos ... try
those, and view the SEA of "blue roofs".
THIS is why loop-de-loop storms worry me.
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