Hurricane Extravaganza 2017 - Throw a Hail Mary for Satan

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Notorious R.I.M.: Jan 27, 2004; up to my ass in alligators

Dominica is going to eat a cat 5 jesus gently caress these hurricanes keep blowing up hard near the antilles

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=meso2-13-24-1-50

# ? Sep 18, 2017 21:29

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 10:10

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/909881724254990341

IT'S ON MOTHERFUCKERS

# ? Sep 18, 2017 22:07

logikv9: Mar 5, 2009; Ham Wrangler

maria is not content to let irma have the history books for itself

# ? Sep 18, 2017 23:37

TraderStav: May 19, 2006; It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

Goon that's traveling to PR this week, identify yourself!

We need entertainment.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 00:31

Hannot: Nov 29, 2007; Grimey Drawer

I know Category 4/5 are Serious Danger Scenarios in any situation, but are homes in Puerto Rico better built to withstand hurricanes than the average non-ritzy home on the Virgin Islands?

# ? Sep 19, 2017 00:35

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Al! posted:

mother earth is a globalist

# ? Sep 19, 2017 00:35

Mia Wasikowska: Oct 7, 2006

VROOM VROOM posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1hgXfX5-U&t=40s

# ? Sep 19, 2017 00:44

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

Haze Thank Liberty posted:

I know Category 4/5 are Serious Danger Scenarios in any situation, but are homes in Puerto Rico better built to withstand hurricanes than the average non-ritzy home on the Virgin Islands?

Puerto Rico is poor as poo poo though I think most of the houses there are concrete. Dunno really though

# ? Sep 19, 2017 00:48

MaxxBot: Oct 6, 2003; you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

https://twitter.com/AP/status/909929715015790593

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:10

Gibbering: May 24, 2014

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/909929715015790593

Godspeed, PR.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:12

Vox Nihili: May 28, 2008

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/909929715015790593

Wake me up when Florida is in the crosshairs.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:15

OhFunny: Jun 26, 2013; EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

Vertical Lime posted:

https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/909881724254990341

IT'S ON MOTHERFUCKERS

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/909929715015790593

That was fast.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:16

Karl Barks: Jan 21, 1981

maria went plaid

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:18

Evil_Greven: Feb 20, 2007; Whadda I got to,
whadda I got to do
to wake ya up?

To shake ya up,
to break the structure up!?

To think we live in the new era of hypercanes.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:23

MaxxBot: Oct 6, 2003; you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

Windspeed had been increasing in 5mph increments every 3 hours and then it did a loving 30mph jump in that time period :stare:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/MARIA_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_with_line_and_wind

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:29

Cao Ni Ma: May 25, 2010

Lawman 0 posted:

Puerto Rico is poor as poo poo though I think most of the houses there are concrete. Dunno really though

Puerto Rico is broke do to horrible mismanagement but the houses are built to last. My house is made out of reinforced concrete, I've put up metal shutters around my glass windows. In this rinky dink rural town on the west side of the island the amount of houses that will be toppled by the hurricane can probably be counted with both hands.

The utility infrastructure, like most government controlled things though, is in tatters. The management of these instutions have cut personnel to a fraction of the workforce we've had when George hit. We were without power for like a month at my house, and the power company had 3 times as many people working on it and the actual infrastructure was in better shape than what it is in now.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:34

TraderStav: May 19, 2006; It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Puerto Rico is broke do to horrible mismanagement but the houses are built to last. My house is made out of reinforced concrete, I've put up metal shutters around my glass windows. In this rinky dink rural town on the west side of the island the amount of houses that will be toppled by the hurricane can probably be counted with both hands.

The utility infrastructure, like most government controlled things though, is in tatters. The management of these instutions have cut personnel to a fraction of the workforce we've had when George hit. We were without power for like a month at my house, and the power company had 3 times as many people working on it and the actual infrastructure was in better shape than what it is in now.

Are you there now? If so, be safe and drunk post

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:37

logikv9: Mar 5, 2009; Ham Wrangler

Friendship ended with IRMA

Now MARIA is my new best friend

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:41

Cao Ni Ma: May 25, 2010

TraderStav posted:

Are you there now? If so, be safe and drunk post

Im here right now, I'm heading out to my unit tomorrow to get the last things around our USARC straighten out before heading to my moms shop to set up her storm shutters. After that I'm heading back home and probably drink all tuesday/wednesday. My sister is bringing her nieces to stay with us, not necessarily because her house cant take the hurricane (it can, just as easily as ours) but because she's there alone and my older niece is loving scared shitless. She's bringing all her supplies with her.

We have two large water cistern on the bottom part of the house, two large propane tanks that we can use for cooking on our gas stove, we have a power plant that can power the basics around the house as well as a water distiller that we can use to purify water. The initial parts of the hurricane aren't a big deal, getting fuel and the utilities running on the island again is going to be the real hard part.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:45

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

logikv9 posted:

Friendship ended with IRMA

Now MARIA is my new best friend

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:47

TraderStav: May 19, 2006; It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Im here right now, I'm heading out to my unit tomorrow to get the last things around our USARC straighten out before heading to my moms shop to set up her storm shutters. After that I'm heading back home and probably drink all tuesday/wednesday. My sister is bringing her nieces to stay with us, not necessarily because her house cant take the hurricane (it can, just as easily as ours) but because she's there alone and my older niece is loving scared shitless. She's bringing all her supplies with her.

We have two large water cistern on the bottom part of the house, two large propane tanks that we can use for cooking on our gas stove, we have a power plant that can power the basics around the house as well as a water distiller that we can use to purify water. The initial parts of the hurricane aren't a big deal, getting fuel and the utilities running on the island again is going to be the real hard part.

Hrmm, you are much more prepared than Jose. This won't be that amusing.

Stay safe.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:53

Zoran: Aug 19, 2008; I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!

Personally I'm rooting for one of these things to bend around, somehow survive all the way across the North Atlantic, and smash Jose again. Irma really let us down by tracking too far west.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 01:54

ate shit on live tv: Feb 15, 2004; by Azathoth

TraderStav posted:

Hrmm, you are much more prepared than Jose. This won't be that amusing.

Stay safe.

Also he is almost certain to lose internet well before anything interesting happens.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:03

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Zoran posted:

Personally I'm rooting for one of these things to bend around, somehow survive all the way across the North Atlantic, and smash Jose again. Irma really let us down by tracking too far west.

a repeat of 1987?

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:03

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Puerto Rico is broke do to horrible mismanagement but the houses are built to last. My house is made out of reinforced concrete, I've put up metal shutters around my glass windows. In this rinky dink rural town on the west side of the island the amount of houses that will be toppled by the hurricane can probably be counted with both hands.

The utility infrastructure, like most government controlled things though, is in tatters. The management of these instutions have cut personnel to a fraction of the workforce we've had when George hit. We were without power for like a month at my house, and the power company had 3 times as many people working on it and the actual infrastructure was in better shape than what it is in now.

yeah I was there a few years ago and that's what I was trying to remember.
The houses really did look sturdy as hell and I do remember encountering some gross infrastructures problems.
Also stay safe friendo.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:07

Hannot: Nov 29, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Lawman 0 posted:

Puerto Rico is poor as poo poo though I think most of the houses there are concrete. Dunno really though

Thank you + Cao Ni Ma (rooting for you friend).

Landfall as a Cat 5 in Dominica.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:23

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

https://twitter.com/ArvelLinchpin/status/909953850748145664

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:39

Notorious R.I.M.: Jan 27, 2004; up to my ass in alligators

With Dominica's topography and the last recon passes on this storm I'm pretty sure they're about to get hit way harder than any island was by Irma. This is going to be devastating.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:42