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
astronautgun.jpg “It always was”
I saw NOAA flying around it yesterday, right after a military plane was leaving the hurricane...got bad vibes seeing that, knowing that the government can and does tamper with our weather...get out of the path if you're in it, I don't trust this one bit!
Can we talk about the name? ID-all-a-ya. CAT fore! Look out below.
It's probably just falsipitation, but with a scary name for the perps.
My thought too. Interesting choice in name, esp. on the heels of hurricane "Hilary". Hmmmmm...
Fear porn or not, serious weather calls for cool heads. I lived in Pinellas County for 2 years, and I know the natives know what to do, but that was over 30 years ago, I had been there to care for my father who had terminal cancer, and stayed on till his house was sold, worked in Clearwater. It's a different place now, I am sure. No matter the category, flooding is damaging to property, and it looks like around Cedar Key they are going to get walloped. Storm warnings are not the time to be prepared, a person should always be prepared for power outages, no matter what. The biggest thing that causes hardship is taking for granted all the conveniences that modern living gives us. I pray that good people are prepared to deal with what happens when the switch dont work. Flushing toilets, washing up, drinking, eating, cooking. Relying on the state to take care of you is just foolishness, thinking you can brave out the storm on your own, if you are in the direct path, is foolish also. Be alert and keep calm. And please don't abandon your animals. Always have a box of mres in the trunk of your car and some dog or cat food and a case of water, always. That way you can get in the car and drive to higher ground, and avoid the shelters. Take your pets, loved ones, your gun, cash, and have the food in your trunk. Water purification tabs are easier to pack than clorox. Medicines. May God cover you with his strength, love and mercy.
I live in Spring Hill (FL) and use an app called max tracker. It shows about 10 models from the top forecasters around the world. They had this thing nailed 3 days ago (kudos to them). My wife calls me yesterday because she watched hernando county in full panic mode on the tv. I told her they have to err on the side of caution. The storm is not coming near us. I do understand however these storms have been known to all of a sudden "change their mind".
I use radar omega, but I’m an amateur meteorologist lol
Tornado siren went off in the early morning hours, but then nothing. Also in central FL.
If you want some surprisingly good and intelligent real time reporting on the storm, that is not WEF/DEI/ESG corporate shill media trying to fear porn climate change 24/7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Twdn4GowHA
Love Ryan’s channel!
Thank you so much for the link forward it to a lot of people
As a northerner we are used to the Panic created by the media during the nor'easters. People buy out bread water milk for days ahead of time. We watch the news reports for comic relief. We moved to Florida 7 years ago. We are used to the Panic media. During the year we make sure we have water and our freezer is full. We have a generator that we check regularly and we make sure we have gasoline and that our outdoor stoves are workable so we don't have to rely on electricity. For us watching the media panic is comic relief. We were right on the track of this storm. Well it moved. You can never predict the weather so I'm told. We pray and we always prepare ahead of time and then we can sit back comfortably and watch. It's here. They are still predicting tornadoes. Will wait and see what happens that's all we can do. No Panic. Just lots of fun. Right now I am in my front porch watching The Birds going after the food in the bird feeders. If they're not worried neither am I
These people look like complete idiots. The cherry on top was when they started naming snowstorms.
Seriously......snowstorms.
The real storm is the wave of wealthy elites who are arriving en mass to park million cars in the flood regions so they can get new ones from insurance claims.
Found this neat site.
https://www.ventusky.com/
Winds don't show Cat 3 levels...¯_(ツ)_/¯
Strange right? Lol. I'm all about being cautious but I don't like being lied to.
Long-time hurricane-watcher here. They’ve been inflating the wind speeds on these storms for way too many years. It is never sustained either.
Lived in a hurricane area all my life. I totally understand. Although what happened with Andrew and the one recently in Ft. Meyers was sad, I never lost power longer than a few hours. Seems like it's always been this way. Like everything else in my life... I have been lied to by propaganda. Lol.
Frogs love water, we’re not scared.
Apparently not enough people are freaking out on the East Coast yet. Unlike California, we’re used to these kinds of events.
fuckery afoot https://greatawakening.win/p/16c2W7orvt/more-intentional-disaster-mishan/
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.9580176,-82.0487031,7.25z/data=!4m2!21m1!1s%2Fg%2F11l1p5jjv7?entry=ttu
Current path
How unusual is it for the path to curve east-southeast. They usually go northeast. Is that some aftereffect from Franklin?
Not sure?
Here is some data
https://www.cccarto.com/floridahurricanes/
I'm watching to see if Idalia crosses FL and then goes up the coast to Washington DC.
Idalia is going to be flying over my house starting in about an hour. Should be interesting.
In citrus county. A lot of rain. Power didn’t go out at all. So far, so good. Friends in Marion say no issues either. Not the storm the media prayed for.
This reminds me of the time I was visiting my daughter in SC. The cab driver asked me where I was from and his answer was "We know how to handle hurricans but cannot understand how you guys can live in the North with all that cold"! Made me smile!
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The last Super Blue Moon until 2037 rises tonight. Here's how to see it
"August gets not only a second full moon, but a rare Super Blue Moon."
Several baby-naming websites say Idalia is a name of Greek or Spanish origin and means “behold the sun” or simply “the sun.” In Greek mythology, it was linked to Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love., the goddess of beauty and love.
"The coincidence of the Perigee Blue Moon with the approach of Hurricane Idalia may make a bad situation worse for the Gulf Coast of Florida."
RE: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/explainers/coastal-flooding-from-hurricane-idalia-could-worsen-due-to-the-perigee-blue-moon
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/live-news/live-hurricane-idalia-makes-landfall-in-florida-as-category-3-storm/1574324