Hurricane Idalia
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Looks like Idalia just got upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane. Mods, can we have a hurricane thread sticky for those of us in FL and the southeast?
just now it's reported that landfall was made as cat 3. this storm will NOT be what the fearporn media makes it out to be.
weather channel is all fear porn ... "Its the Storm of the Century"
I think they average about 2 "Storm of the Century" 's per year.
muh climate change
There likely will not be another Katrina in our lifetime.
Only if it hits another city like New Orleans, which is below sea level.
Gotta sell that toilet paper!!
Appropos of nothing, years ago hubby and I had been to dinner and had a few drinks and it was raining. The radio and Tv stations were going beserk with the fear porn. They were taking calls from every hillbilly around here who eagerly called in to tell us it was raining where they were. So we decided to participate. That's right, grown-ass people calling the news and acting like the other hillbillies that were calling in. We laughed and laughed. Then we woke up the next day and found out a woman had drowned in an elevator downtown. We felt like shit.
I was thinking that. We get some nasty thunderstorms. Power didn’t even blink in Tampa from Idalia.
Yeah most of us non-FL residents just think of what happened to Ft. Meyers
[see: Andrew]
NOAA app only showing 30MPH winds on land in the red zone. Not entirely sure how they think it's a cat 2. I guess they measure the winds 1,000 feet in the air, which seems like fear mongering to me. Luckily the storm is fast moving. It's a typical rain storm for me in Central Florida. Parents are fine in Pinellas County, never lost power. Friends in Cape Coral never lost power. Only family in Tallahassee lost power but nothing serious so far. Just some typical flooding along the coast from high tide, but I don't think very much overall damage at all thank goodness.
Have you see footage out of Perry, FL?
https://twitter.com/iCyclone/status/1696922050454028731?s=20
https://twitter.com/accuweather/status/1696920124496716216?s=20
The gas pumps at this place were ripped out of the ground https://twitter.com/AdamLucioWX/status/1696932192985764052/photo/4
It got down to 840 milibars of pressure before it cooled down, so definitely a category 4 at one point.
This guy is a stormchaser, who by keaton beach where landfall happened and realized they had to get out. Lots of stuff showing the conditions of the highways
https://twitter.com/PeeDee_WxSC/status/1696889239345000793?s=20
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