It's Getting Scary...

"PS9" (PS9)
10/07/2016 at 05:09 • Filed to: None

Wish me luck, guys

DISCUSSION (17)

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > PS9
10/07/2016 at 05:13

Damn stay safe man. Same to everyone else in the area. Never experienced such extreme weather here in the UK, must be pretty awful.

bob and john > PS9
10/07/2016 at 05:14

get out your kite :D

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > PS9
10/07/2016 at 05:45

Isn’t it expected to keep going north? It’ll just skirt your side of the state.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > PS9
10/07/2016 at 06:07

Stay safe. How bad is it?

Also: Kissimmee? I hardly know ya

Jdrentarol > PS9
10/07/2016 at 07:32

I’ll visit your grave

ttyymmnn > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/07/2016 at 07:33

The northwest quadrant of a hurricane has the highest winds. So this has the potential to really scour the coast.

TheRealBicycleBuck > PS9
10/07/2016 at 08:02

Best of luck. Stay high and dry. I’ve been through similar events many times. Here’s hoping you are adequately supplied and have lots of stuff to keep you entertained when the power goes out. By the way, one last ditch thing you can do as a “just in case” measure is fill the tub with clean water. A little bit of tub water will go a long way if a water main breaks and you don’t have a water supply to the house.

Nonster > PS9
10/07/2016 at 08:44

Good luck!

My brother and sister live in Melbourne so they evacuated to my grandma’s in Ocala.

Matt Nichelson > ttyymmnn
10/07/2016 at 08:52

Not trying to nitpick, but

“It is more correct to say the worst wind is in the forward right quadrant. In other words, it depends upon which way the storm is moving. For a hurricane traveling westward the strongest wind is the northwest quadrant. If it is going east then the strongest wind is in the southeast quadrant. As storms curve the location of the strongest winds shifts.”

Sorry, I am a weather dork. With a hurricane moving mostly north, typically the northeast quadrant is where the most destructive winds are.

ttyymmnn > Matt Nichelson
10/07/2016 at 09:11

No worries. I was reaching back to what I remember about Hurricane Diana in 1984 and Hurricane Gloria in 1985. I was living in Norfolk, VA, and we rode both of them out, though it wasn’t very bad. Thank God Pat Robertson prayed Gloria away . Well, he prayed it away from Tidewater, because Gloria then proceeded to shellac the northeast.

Matt Nichelson > ttyymmnn
10/07/2016 at 09:17

Understandable. Most people automatically assume the northeast side is in fact always the worst. It just depends on the storms forward movement. Since I live in MS, we would worry about the NE quadrant because the storm would be going mostly north if it was going to make landfall here. I live about an hour north of the coast and we got the northeast quad and the eye where I lived at the time. Definitely an experience I will never forget.

Scary__goongala! > PS9
10/07/2016 at 09:30

Yes quite.

mcseanerson > PS9
10/07/2016 at 09:35

Hope you’re stocked up on cigarettes and booze. That’s how you’ll get favors over the next couple weeks with no electricity. Bottled water and batteries are good too. And never forget duct tape.

Wheelerguy > PS9
10/07/2016 at 11:19

Pfft, amateur.

-Filipino who eats three or four of that every year EVER

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > PS9
10/07/2016 at 11:43

I’m in Sarasota so right now I’m more concerned with the loop it’s doing.

Right now ive just got some wind.

Stay safe there!

PS9 > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
10/07/2016 at 12:16

Everything turned out good. The loop likely only means we’ll get more rain. It will never be as dangerous as it was when it hit Haiti unfortunately.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
10/07/2016 at 12:19

Why are you worried about the loop? Just means rain. Even if it strengthened during the loop, there’s enough land between you and the coast that it gets blunted. You’re from Florida, you’re supposed to just know that East Coast storms don’t matter on the West Coast!