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Holy Shit Hurricane Patricia is now 200mph with the lowest (Original Post) malaise Oct 2015 OP
Looks like it ultimately will give us some rain here too madokie Oct 2015 #1
Gusts are 246mph - I can't even contemplate that malaise Oct 2015 #4
That is just a very large Tornado... Lochloosa Oct 2015 #16
not just a tornado, a low-end EF5 tornado phantom power Oct 2015 #33
A tornado that takes hours to pass. Aerows Oct 2015 #71
Those readings may exceed the 1935 Memorial Day hurricane in the FL Keys. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #86
During Hurricane Andrew, we had sustained winds of 264 MPH for 21 minutes before it blew the Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #22
Wow! malaise Oct 2015 #24
Andrew was one of the rarest forms of hurricanes. Lochloosa Oct 2015 #39
I had a friend in ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #54
I can speak from experience Aerows Oct 2015 #73
It was sad to see. She ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #101
I was in a house on Card Sound Rd. MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #44
I wasn't far from you.. at a motel right at Palm Drive & US 1 in Florida City! I used to frequent Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #48
I love Alabama Jack's MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #49
Better off without it. nt Flying Squirrel Oct 2015 #62
I rode out Katrina Aerows Oct 2015 #72
I spent that night in a walk-in-closet w/ wife & child. Scurrilous Oct 2015 #97
What, you never been on a busa'? snooper2 Oct 2015 #41
Ha malaise Oct 2015 #42
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #59
Do I read that right? KansDem Oct 2015 #78
Yeah, conversions are cool like that snooper2 Oct 2015 #83
How do you even hold on at that speed? n/t leveymg Oct 2015 #98
Man, that's not on MY bucket list. PatrickforO Oct 2015 #130
Better: ret5hd Oct 2015 #137
Very scary. narnian60 Oct 2015 #2
"mantenerse a salvo" safeinOhio Oct 2015 #3
Damn glad I'm not down there yet nt newfie11 Oct 2015 #5
Well I'm betting that if you're planning to head to where Pat is going to malaise Oct 2015 #6
if that is sustained, I'm afraid there is not much that will be left standing where it lands. Ed Suspicious Oct 2015 #20
You are 100% correct malaise Oct 2015 #67
Look at that eye. Scurrilous Oct 2015 #103
I'm thinking your right! Nt newfie11 Oct 2015 #131
I still wish we would get some rain yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #7
Please, people. This is not a rain storm! Ed Suspicious Oct 2015 #21
well duh! yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #55
Texas and Louisiana MelungeonWoman Oct 2015 #37
I saw a house floating down a street near Austin, Texas on TV this morning malaise Oct 2015 #38
San Francisco California yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #56
Wait 'til Wednesday KamaAina Oct 2015 #57
okay looking at the weather forecast yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #58
k and r... Stuart G Oct 2015 #8
This story will be big news by Sunday. B Calm Oct 2015 #9
Landfall expected today muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #10
When I posted about this two days ago, she was expected malaise Oct 2015 #12
Will be big news from today malaise Oct 2015 #11
I hope everyone on the coast evacuated. LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #13
I hope people brer cat Oct 2015 #14
Cut from tornado-facts.com . . . ReasonableToo Oct 2015 #15
Yep then add the storm surge malaise Oct 2015 #18
holy shit restorefreedom Oct 2015 #17
Incredible wind map BadgerKid Oct 2015 #19
Global Met folks say this is comparable to typhoon Haiyan that malaise Oct 2015 #23
I was checking that out of my Living Earth app Blue_In_AK Oct 2015 #66
Olaf malaise Oct 2015 #104
Thank you. Blue_In_AK Oct 2015 #113
Holy cats! 200mph max sustained winds? meow2u3 Oct 2015 #25
From NOAA malaise Oct 2015 #26
This going to be worse than anyone can imagine MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #27
Experts say to expect the devastation associated with Cyclone Haiyan malaise Oct 2015 #28
I was in the upper Keys during hurricane Andrew MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #29
We survived Gilbert malaise Oct 2015 #30
I hop those mountains MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #31
Sadly that will happen after it flattens the coastal areas malaise Oct 2015 #43
I just hope people evacuate and don't try to ride it out. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #92
Agreed. MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #95
Many have no choice - roads are now blocked and airports closed malaise Oct 2015 #100
Oh dear, those poor people. This is going to be awful. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #105
What does that mean? rjsquirrel Oct 2015 #138
This storm is horrid BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #32
They're expecting 39ft waves malaise Oct 2015 #36
I was in Acapulco back in '89 when Cosme passed overhead BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #40
Oh my god... MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #52
I could not imagine a 6 mile wide tornado of that power. Glassunion Oct 2015 #45
I turned on the weather channel and have been watching for 15 minutes...... a kennedy Oct 2015 #34
They only care about what affects the US malaise Oct 2015 #35
Worse, Bain Capital. Cassiopeia Oct 2015 #107
I pity the poor folks who live in pieced-together shacks. lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #46
Major evacuations are taking place malaise Oct 2015 #63
This storm has my name on it and I don't like it.. mountain grammy Oct 2015 #47
Hurricane Wilma (2005) blew a large tree down on my roof. lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #51
Thank you.. Not being threatened by hurricanes I lose track, mountain grammy Oct 2015 #119
Those unfortunate people in its path are going to catch hell. lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #121
The Pacific has had lots of cyclones this year malaise Oct 2015 #64
Yikes! City Lights Oct 2015 #50
I was in a typhoon on Okinawa workinclasszero Oct 2015 #53
My worst storm was Gilbert malaise Oct 2015 #112
I was in the eyewall of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida. geomon666 Oct 2015 #122
Eyewall -damn!!! malaise Oct 2015 #125
Yeah our house survived too, but the ceiling collapsed in my bedroom. geomon666 Oct 2015 #129
Scary stories guys workinclasszero Oct 2015 #132
Seriously TBF Oct 2015 #60
Stay safe malaise Oct 2015 #65
Weather Channel is showing all of the flooding there, from current storm system countryjake Oct 2015 #70
Dam we are going to get some of that. Rex Oct 2015 #61
Well you're already facing a lot of rain malaise Oct 2015 #68
Thanks malaise. Will do. Rex Oct 2015 #69
That's one incredible image! countryjake Oct 2015 #77
Yes - I hope the ewarning reached all the folks in rural regions and malaise Oct 2015 #80
Since that Oso landslide up here last year, I've decided there's no safe place countryjake Oct 2015 #89
Good post malaise Oct 2015 #90
Yup, I read that, too! countryjake Oct 2015 #99
cue the senator.... spanone Oct 2015 #74
Stupid moron malaise Oct 2015 #81
bwahahahahaaa... spanone Oct 2015 #82
He'll find some gawd forsaken justification malaise Oct 2015 #84
This one is going to be so bad. herding cats Oct 2015 #75
Very scary suffragette Oct 2015 #76
Right workinclasszero Oct 2015 #94
Airports closed and folks are trying to get further inland via roads KeepItReal Oct 2015 #79
Not a good day to fly in to Puerto Vallarta Warpy Oct 2015 #85
Yep I started a thread when it was a TS and said it would be Cat3 malaise Oct 2015 #87
Over at the BBC, analysts are predicting a sharp turn inland Warpy Oct 2015 #88
This is going to be bad malaise Oct 2015 #93
It's like an overloaded, unbalanced washing machine on spin cycle... countryjake Oct 2015 #96
. Liberal_in_LA Oct 2015 #91
For those who want to watch although I can't think of anything worse malaise Oct 2015 #102
That webcam had been out ever since the storm passed through. lpbk2713 Nov 2015 #139
Dear god, and sure as god made little green apples (well he didnt actually) one of these randys1 Oct 2015 #106
One will hit one of our Caribbean islands these days malaise Oct 2015 #108
You are in the caribe? randys1 Oct 2015 #109
Jamaica malaise Oct 2015 #110
Oh man....My great/great grandfather has a highway named after him on Maui, where I belong randys1 Oct 2015 #111
I'm with you. Anything under 80 degrees is freezing! gvstn Oct 2015 #114
I hate the cold malaise Oct 2015 #115
My mom was sick this past winter. gvstn Oct 2015 #126
Having been on Maui several times, I might be able to scope out which one KamaAina Oct 2015 #116
dont say it here, please randys1 Oct 2015 #117
Wouldn't dream of it. KamaAina Oct 2015 #118
Best of luck to the people in the path tonight. geomon666 Oct 2015 #120
ReTHUGs might start by confirming the Ambassador malaise Oct 2015 #123
Rubio is such a piece of shit. geomon666 Oct 2015 #124
One day soon MFM008 Oct 2015 #127
Geez. The strongest hurricane ever recorded? PatrickforO Oct 2015 #128
It made landfall at 165mph - a very serious Cat5 but not the strongest ever malaise Oct 2015 #133
Found this video on Facebook geomon666 Oct 2015 #134
BBC also has videos Warpy Oct 2015 #135
Thanks for the link. n/t geomon666 Oct 2015 #136

madokie

(51,076 posts)
1. Looks like it ultimately will give us some rain here too
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:00 AM
Oct 2015
https://twitter.com/NHC_Pacific?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

We just got an inch of rain last night. We sure needed it

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
22. During Hurricane Andrew, we had sustained winds of 264 MPH for 21 minutes before it blew the
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:15 AM
Oct 2015

anemometer off the building at Homestead AFB...

Anyone in the path of this storm should FLEE QUICKLY! I speak from experience. I rode Andrew out in a motel room a mile from my home, right in the middle of "ground zero". Winds ripped half the motel roof off, and I had to dig my family out from under debris where the ceiling and drywall from inner walls fell in on them. Lucky that we all survived.

Peace,

Ghost

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
54. I had a friend in
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:33 AM
Oct 2015

Homestead. She was hunkered down in a powder room with her husband and two toddlers. They lost everything and my friend lost her mind for awhile. It was horrific. I was in Miami at the time and that was bad enough.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
73. I can speak from experience
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:05 PM
Oct 2015

that losing your mind in the wake of the aftermath is nothing uncommon. My God it is horrific.

I don't even know what to tell those poor people. This thing is huge, fast and ugly.

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
101. It was sad to see. She
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:52 PM
Oct 2015

divorced her husband, started drinking, blew off all of her old friends, took up with bad elements, and almost lost her girls. I'm happy to say at some point she got better. I found her on Facebook but decided not to contact her and possibly open old wounds.

As you said, it was horrific. Cutler Ridge was levelled. We had friends that had moved from there just months before.

I feel horrible for the people in Patricia's path.

MynameisBlarney

(2,979 posts)
44. I was in a house on Card Sound Rd.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 10:49 AM
Oct 2015

During Andrew...it was scary as hell where I was, can't imagine being in the middle of it.

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
48. I wasn't far from you.. at a motel right at Palm Drive & US 1 in Florida City! I used to frequent
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:12 AM
Oct 2015

Alabama Jack's and Fred's Place on Card Sound road, but mostly Skeeter's Last Chance Saloon on US 1 just before the turn to Card Sound.

I remember back in the mid 80's.. 85 or 86.... driving out to the "Tiltin' Hilton" one Sunday at about 11:30 AM when I saw a crate on the side of the road. I was going to stop and check it out, but was driving a '73 Camaro and it looked too big to fit in the trunk or inside the car. A couple of hours later, on my way home, I came up to where the crate was and it was surrounded by cops, Feds & DEA. It was FULL of kilos of cocaine!! Must have bounced out of a boat or something. I kicked myself in the ass for not stopping on the way, but was also kind of thankful that I didn't. I could have made millions, or I could have ended up in prison...

Peace,

Ghost

MynameisBlarney

(2,979 posts)
49. I love Alabama Jack's
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:16 AM
Oct 2015

But I've never ventured into Skeeter's, lol.

I remember some of the old timers talking about the glory days and the square groupers were everywhere.

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
97. I spent that night in a walk-in-closet w/ wife & child.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:36 PM
Oct 2015

Even a good distance from ground zero up in NW Miami-Dade it was scary.

Those poor people in the path of this one are seriously fucked.

Response to snooper2 (Reply #41)

malaise

(267,823 posts)
6. Well I'm betting that if you're planning to head to where Pat is going to
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:11 AM
Oct 2015

Last edited Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:12 AM - Edit history (1)

get hit, you'll be changing your venue. Which building can handle 200 - 245mph wind?

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
20. if that is sustained, I'm afraid there is not much that will be left standing where it lands.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:07 AM
Oct 2015

Good luck, Mexico.

MelungeonWoman

(502 posts)
37. Texas and Louisiana
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:08 AM
Oct 2015

By Monday parts of Texas will see a foot to a foot and a half of rain. Not sure where you are but stay safe.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
38. I saw a house floating down a street near Austin, Texas on TV this morning
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:11 AM
Oct 2015

Texas is already under water.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
10. Landfall expected today
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:22 AM
Oct 2015
Mexico's Pacific coast is in the crosshairs of Hurricane Patricia, which became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere on Friday morning as its maximum sustained winds reached an unprecedented 200 mph (320 kph).

The hurricane is forecast to make landfall in the Mexican state of Jalisco Friday evening as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane capable of causing widespread destruction. Residents and authorities in Mexico are rushing to prepare for what will likely be the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall on that country's Pacific coastline.

At 4 a.m. CDT, the eye of Hurricane Patricia was about 160 miles (255 kilometers) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and was moving north-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph).

In addition to its unprecedented 200-mph (320-kph) sustained winds, Hurricane Patricia now holds the record for lowest pressure in any hurricane on record. With a minimum central pressure of 880 millibars (25.99 inches of mercury) at the 4 a.m. CDT advisory, Patricia broke the record of 882 millibars set by Wilma almost exactly 10 years ago.

http://www.wunderground.com/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast

malaise

(267,823 posts)
12. When I posted about this two days ago, she was expected
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:24 AM
Oct 2015

to be a Cat3 - blew up yesterday to Cat4 - no one expected this.

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
13. I hope everyone on the coast evacuated.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:34 AM
Oct 2015

I would probably leave if the winds were only half as strong as this one. Our local weatherman said last night that it's supposed to lose strength drastically when it hits the mountains. I hope he's right.

ReasonableToo

(505 posts)
15. Cut from tornado-facts.com . . .
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:40 AM
Oct 2015

An F2 Tornado
-Have wind speeds between 113-157 mph
-Causes considerable damage.
-Roofs gets torned off. Big trees get toppled. Mobile homes are destroyed. Heavy cars are lifted and thrown.

An F3 Tornado
-Have wind speeds between 158–206 mph
-Causes Severe Damage.
-Roofs torned off even on the most well constructed structures. Trains are overturned.

An F4 Tornado
-Have wind speeds between 207-260 mph
-Causes Catostrophic Damage
-Well constructed structures are leveled. Structures with weak foundations are blown away.

Yikes!!

malaise

(267,823 posts)
18. Yep then add the storm surge
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:30 AM
Oct 2015

I'm trying to imagine a single Caribbean island dealing with this one day in the not too distant future.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
23. Global Met folks say this is comparable to typhoon Haiyan that
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:16 AM
Oct 2015

hit the Philippines and killed over 6,000 people a few years ago.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
66. I was checking that out of my Living Earth app
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:44 PM
Oct 2015

It looks like there's another one right behind Patricia, with an eye.

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
25. Holy cats! 200mph max sustained winds?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:24 AM
Oct 2015

Patricia is off the charts! There ought to be new categories of hurricanes, and she must be a category 8!

malaise

(267,823 posts)
26. From NOAA
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:35 AM
Oct 2015

BULLETIN
HURRICANE PATRICIA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 14A
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP202015
700 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2015

...PATRICIA...
...THE STRONGEST EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC HURRICANE ON RECORD...
...HEADING FOR POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC LANDFALL IN SOUTHWESTERN
MEXICO LATER TODAY...


SUMMARY OF 700 AM CDT...1200 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...17.3N 105.6W
ABOUT 145 MI...235 KM SW OF MANZANILLO MEXICO
ABOUT 215 MI...345 KM S OF CABO CORRIENTES MEXICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...200 MPH...325 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNW OR 345 DEGREES AT 12 MPH...19 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...880 MB...25.99 INCHES

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for...
* San Blas to Punta San Telmo

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for...
* East of Punta San Telmo to Lazaro Cardenas

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* East of Punta San Telmo to Lazaro Cardenas
DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK
------------------------------
At 700 AM CDT (1200 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Patricia was
located near latitude 17.3 North, longitude 105.6 West. Patricia
is moving toward the north-northwest near 12 mph (19 km/h). A turn
toward the north is expected later this morning, followed by a turn
toward the north-northeast this afternoon. On the forecast track,
the core of Patricia will make landfall in the hurricane warning
area this afternoon or evening.

Maximum sustained winds remain near 200 mph (325 km/h) with higher
gusts. Patricia is a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson
Hurricane Wind Scale. Some fluctuations in intensity are possible
today, but Patricia is expected to remain an extremely dangerous
category 5 hurricane through landfall.

Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 30 miles (45 km) from the
center and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 175 miles
(280 km).

The estimated minimum central pressure is 880 mb (25.99 inches).
-----------------------
Get out of harm's way

malaise

(267,823 posts)
28. Experts say to expect the devastation associated with Cyclone Haiyan
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:37 AM
Oct 2015

which killed over 6,000 in the Philippines a few years ago

MynameisBlarney

(2,979 posts)
29. I was in the upper Keys during hurricane Andrew
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:40 AM
Oct 2015

and it was the most horrifying thing I've ever experienced.
I hope the people in the path of this one are able to get the hell out of there.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
92. I just hope people evacuate and don't try to ride it out.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:13 PM
Oct 2015

I don't think this is going to be one of those storms where you can just hunker down and bear it. I think is going to destroy everything and everyone in its path.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
100. Many have no choice - roads are now blocked and airports closed
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:47 PM
Oct 2015

In fact some roads are closed already.
Maybe I'm obsessed with hurricanes but from I hear Cat 3, I'd be on the first aircraft out.
Sadly no one anticipated this reaching Cat 5 overnight.
Additionally I find tourist resorts often wait for the last minute and tourists don't watch weather forecasts.

Local folks are busy working and people often hear late.
I hope they find some of the drug cartels' tunnels.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
105. Oh dear, those poor people. This is going to be awful.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:58 PM
Oct 2015

Even if they find those tunnels, there is a high likelihood they they will flood due to the storm surge. I hope for the best for them.

 

rjsquirrel

(4,762 posts)
138. What does that mean?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 10:57 PM
Oct 2015

Last edited Sat Oct 24, 2015, 06:01 AM - Edit history (1)

I can imagine it just fine.

Not good but not so different from many other big cyclones.

ETA: lol it petered out a few hours after hitting the coast. But yeah HUUUUUGE and THE WORDT EVAH!

BumRushDaShow

(127,312 posts)
32. This storm is horrid
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:51 AM
Oct 2015

it's like the power of a F3 tornado over a much larger area than a tornado (in this case, hurricane-force winds extend 30 miles as of the 8 am update) along with copious rains. And I do hope the mountains of Mexico do shred it apart once it comes inland. The NWS anticipated that we along the east coast will get some rains from it (probably funneled along a front), some time around the middle of next week.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
36. They're expecting 39ft waves
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:02 AM
Oct 2015

Will be the third strongest storm ever seen on the planet. This could be the first such storm ever to make landfall at 200 -205mph.

BumRushDaShow

(127,312 posts)
40. I was in Acapulco back in '89 when Cosme passed overhead
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:29 AM
Oct 2015

We stayed at the El Presidente (that I just discovered was one of the early luxury hotels back in the '50s before most of the rest of the hotels were built along the bay) and it was built on the rocks.



We watched the wave swells come in well before the hurricane made landfall (which happened overnight) and they had reached the pool in the above pic during the day (wasn't able to see when landfall came). The next morning, there were dozens of ships that had pulled into the bay for protection and the street that the hotel fronts, was flooded. What was wild was that a day or two before we went to Acapulco, we were in Mexico City - WELL inland and north, and experienced unusual winds at the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. The guide remarked about it because it is usually calm there (altitude there is about 7000 ft). We didn't know there was a tropical storm/hurricane forming out in the Pacific!

If you have almost 40 ft swells - forget it for anything along the coast all the way back to the hills.

a kennedy

(29,467 posts)
34. I turned on the weather channel and have been watching for 15 minutes......
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:52 AM
Oct 2015

and nothing about the storm....oops, now, finally. What the has happened to the weather channel??? It's like faux noise has taken over the weather channel. Ugh......

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
46. I pity the poor folks who live in pieced-together shacks.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:08 AM
Oct 2015



I have been through several hurricanes in a cement block house and it was dicey. A storm of this magnitude is deadly, no other word for it. I wish them all the best. And I hope Mexico and other governments has help lined up for after it passes. Lots of people will surely need it.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
63. Major evacuations are taking place
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:37 PM
Oct 2015

The problem is time - this sudden change in strength caught everyone off guard.

mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
47. This storm has my name on it and I don't like it..
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:10 AM
Oct 2015

They so rarely get to the "p's". Guess I'll see a Zelda in my lifetime, and we still have climate change deniers out there?

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
51. Hurricane Wilma (2005) blew a large tree down on my roof.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:21 AM
Oct 2015



That was the year they used up the entire alphabet on names and started using Alpha, Beta, etc.
The year before was when the path of three hurricanes went right over my house.


mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
119. Thank you.. Not being threatened by hurricanes I lose track,
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:45 PM
Oct 2015

and I shouldn't. So many people are in the path of any given storm. It's terrifying and my thoughts are with everyone. Hoping for a quick recovery.

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
121. Those unfortunate people in its path are going to catch hell.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:51 PM
Oct 2015



My thoughts are with them as well.

They will need a lot of help after it passes.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
64. The Pacific has had lots of cyclones this year
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:38 PM
Oct 2015

I have a sister with that name as well - we've having fun discussing 'her power and strength' - never heard a hurricane Patricia before

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
53. I was in a typhoon on Okinawa
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:30 AM
Oct 2015

once, many moons ago.

We had sandbagged all the doors on base and then duck taped all around the windows and doors. Everything loose put away or strapped down.

At the height of the storm the howling wind drove the rain through every little crack and the hallways were soaked with rainwater.

We were locked down for 3 whole days eating MRE's and drinking beer LOL

Hurricanes/typhoons are scary beasts, and 200mph winds...I can't even....

malaise

(267,823 posts)
112. My worst storm was Gilbert
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:11 PM
Oct 2015

That was a complete disaster and to be truthful I don't think Jamaica ever recovered from Gilbert. We didn't have water or electricity for weeks.

geomon666

(7,512 posts)
122. I was in the eyewall of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:55 PM
Oct 2015

Living in Perrine at the time. Took about 6 years to get the PTSD under control.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
125. Eyewall -damn!!!
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:06 PM
Oct 2015

One of my sisters survived Andrew - her place was OK but all around her was destruction,

geomon666

(7,512 posts)
129. Yeah our house survived too, but the ceiling collapsed in my bedroom.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:17 PM
Oct 2015

I hid in my father's closet the whole night. The sound was just...indescribable.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
132. Scary stories guys
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:34 PM
Oct 2015

I'm scared for all the people in the path of that monster bearing down on Mexico right now.

TBF

(31,922 posts)
60. Seriously
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 01:25 PM
Oct 2015

we are hunkering down in Texas just anticipating the rain from this event west of us ... flash flood warnings throughout the weekend

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
70. Weather Channel is showing all of the flooding there, from current storm system
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:55 PM
Oct 2015


http://www.weather.gov/

It looks like a good chunk of Texas has already been super-soaked, without help from any hurricane.

I can't imagine what's in store for your state, once the massive moisture coming with Hurricane Patricia hits you. They're predicting that some parts of Mexico may get from 12 to 24 inches of rain, today and tomorrow.

Batten down the hatches!
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
61. Dam we are going to get some of that.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 01:27 PM
Oct 2015

South Texas is going to be floating out to sea. We already had flood warnings before, now it will be worse. Everyone batten down the hatches!

Stay safe everyone, think safety first!

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
77. That's one incredible image!
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:10 PM
Oct 2015

They're showing more International Space Station pics of Patricia on our local noon news.

And now they're showing all of the flooding overnight in Texas. Jeeze, a mobile home floating down a river, washed away.

I sure hope the warnings about Hurricane Patricia have reached everyone in the remote rural regions along the Pacific coast and inland... all of those directly in the path of such unbelievable forces.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
80. Yes - I hope the ewarning reached all the folks in rural regions and
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:22 PM
Oct 2015

on the coast. This is going to be a disaster.

This morning we were discussing what we'd do if a Cat 5 was heading for Jamaica.
The options were
- prepare our home and head for family in the US
- prepare our home and batten down right here

We decided that as much as we'd rather not be here, having to stay away for a long period of time because both airports would be destroyed was more than we could bare. So we'd stay - we have a safe place but I don't know what survives a Cat5.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
89. Since that Oso landslide up here last year, I've decided there's no safe place
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:57 PM
Oct 2015

Sitting in a mobile, with any measurable wind, we'd have no chance staying home, and with "thousand year floods" now occurring, bringing more than a foot of rain in less than 12 hrs, even heading for the hills is no longer an option as the mountains crumble into mud under that much water.

I used to count myself lucky cause we don't live in a place under threat of hurricanes or tornadoes, but with the drought this "evergreen" wa state has experienced, this year's incredible wildfire season, and tree-stripped hills coming down on top of unsuspecting neighborhoods, it appears there is no place on earth to escape the dire consequences of Climate Change.

All of the big hurricanes/typhoons out in the Pacific this year have been amazing to follow...never seen anything like that before, and now comes Patricia.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
90. Good post
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:06 PM
Oct 2015

I don't ever remember a season where there were so many typhoons at the same time.
Patricia is now expected to be the worst recorded storm in the Western hemisphere. Climate change is real. Last month was the hottest September on record (following the hottest July and August).

I heard that the temperature in Patricia's eye way up there in the sky was 89degrees.
We have fugged up this planet.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
99. Yup, I read that, too!
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:46 PM
Oct 2015

And almost mentioned it, earlier, ha! Those Hurricane Hunters are some brave folk!

At 200 MPH, Hurricane Patricia Is Now the Strongest Tropical Cyclone Ever Recorded by Dennis Mersereau ~
10/23/15 5:07am

http://thevane.gawker.com/at-200-mph-hurricane-patricia-is-now-the-strongest-tro-1738224692

Shortly after midnight on October 23, 2015, a group of courageous men and women flew into the center of Hurricane Patricia and landed in the history books. With measured winds of 200 MPH, Hurricane Patricia became the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded anywhere on Earth. Let that sink in for a moment...

~snip~

During the 24-hour period between 4:00 AM CDT on Thursday and 4:00 AM CDT on Friday, Patricia went from an 85 MPH category one to a 200 MPH category five. Its minimum central pressure dove from 980 millibars to 880 millibars over the same period, such an extreme pressure drop that it is unprecedented in modern history.

The storm is so intense that the air temperature up in the hurricane’s eye, thousands of feet above the surface, was 89°F. 89°F!

The storm is so intense that the Hurricane Hunter aircraft recorded sustained winds of 221 MPH at flight level a few thousand feet above the surface of the ocean.


Patricia is a storm without precedent. We are living history today, but nobody will live it more than Mexico. While we try to wrap our minds around what the atmosphere did last night, it’s important to remember that there are people in the path of this storm. This is not some abstract homework assignment assigned by some madman meteorology professor. This is a real storm that is quickly approaching land and soon threatens to create unimaginable amounts of devastation in any communities caught directly in the path of Patricia’s eye.

spanone

(135,636 posts)
82. bwahahahahaaa...
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:25 PM
Oct 2015

this storm should give him pause for thought, but that's projecting he has a thought process.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
84. He'll find some gawd forsaken justification
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:28 PM
Oct 2015

He's to stupid to be rational although big oil may have been paying him to spew his ignorance.
Should be nice to find out who has been making money to deny climate change.

herding cats

(19,549 posts)
75. This one is going to be so bad.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:09 PM
Oct 2015

I just hope most people had time to flee and get to a safer area. The destruction from this storm is going to be historic.

KeepItReal

(7,769 posts)
79. Airports closed and folks are trying to get further inland via roads
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:20 PM
Oct 2015

And reports of people hunkering down in resort hotels.

This is going to be ugly.

More than 7 million residents — and an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. citizens visiting or living there — were told to prepare for the "worst-case scenario" as the ferocious storm was expected to race ashore on Mexico's Pacific coast between 6 to 10 p.m. ET Friday.

The tourist magnets of Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo were directly in the Category 5 storm's projected path, and Puerto Vallarta's airport was closed Friday out of precaution as some stranded vacationers described their inability to fly out a "nightmare."


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hurricane-patricia-strongest-storm-ever-measured-hit-mexico-n449731

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
85. Not a good day to fly in to Puerto Vallarta
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:35 PM
Oct 2015

It's just amazing how fast this one intensified, winds 60 kt when I went to sleep on Wednesday, a cat 4 when I got up on Thursday.

I hope people are managing to evacuate. I hope the government and gangsters are taking a time out from fighting to help them.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
87. Yep I started a thread when it was a TS and said it would be Cat3
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:39 PM
Oct 2015

Watched it become Cat4 but Cat5 overnight was really a shock.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027276525

It's looking more like a direct hit on Puerto Vallarta.

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
88. Over at the BBC, analysts are predicting a sharp turn inland
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:53 PM
Oct 2015

with landfall at Manzanillo or thereabouts. However, storms like this one are impossible to predict in the few hours before landfall, so you could be right.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
93. This is going to be bad
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:13 PM
Oct 2015

and they don't have the insfrastructure to deal with this catastrophe.
I have a really bad feeling about this one.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
96. It's like an overloaded, unbalanced washing machine on spin cycle...
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:30 PM
Oct 2015

wobbling all over the place!

My thoughts are with all those people who've found themselves doomed to ride this hurricane out.

And the migrating birds.

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
139. That webcam had been out ever since the storm passed through.
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 10:40 AM
Nov 2015



I checked this morning and it is working again. You can see a small
pile of debris and it looks like some people are cleaning up.

Link: http://www.lamanzanilla.info/web_cam.html

randys1

(16,286 posts)
106. Dear god, and sure as god made little green apples (well he didnt actually) one of these
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 05:01 PM
Oct 2015

will hit our coast one of these days.

But for now we get to watch climate change kill Mexicans while the Mexican hater in chief denies climate change.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
108. One will hit one of our Caribbean islands these days
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 05:03 PM
Oct 2015

That thought terrifies me because there aren't too many evacuation options in these parts

randys1

(16,286 posts)
111. Oh man....My great/great grandfather has a highway named after him on Maui, where I belong
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 05:08 PM
Oct 2015

I didnt know about this until about 10 yrs ago, I wondered why I always felt at home there.

I want to be warm all the time.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
114. I'm with you. Anything under 80 degrees is freezing!
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:24 PM
Oct 2015

That stuff is three sweater weather. And I remember a time when I used to love September and cooler temperatures. And I'm only 50, I can't imagine what it will be like if/when I get older.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
115. I hate the cold
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:32 PM
Oct 2015

I couldn't bare it even in my teens. It's strange because my siblings are fine with it.
I don't mind September cool - I don't even mind mid-50s and 60s - it's that winter crap I detest. It doesn't affect me health wise and I can take a few hours playing in the snow - I am just not living anywhere with winter

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
126. My mom was sick this past winter.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:08 PM
Oct 2015

I had to go to the hospital everyday from far away parking. 18 degrees and wind, Christ, I needed a bed before I even got to the lobby.

I envy you to live in a place without winter. I'm just not strong enough anymore for that cold stuff.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
116. Having been on Maui several times, I might be able to scope out which one
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:42 PM
Oct 2015

I'm pretty sure it wasn't Honoapiilani.

I lived on O'ahu when I joined DU after Nineleven(TM), hence the name.

geomon666

(7,512 posts)
120. Best of luck to the people in the path tonight.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:50 PM
Oct 2015

They're going to need it and we should all be ready to give aid after it passes.

geomon666

(7,512 posts)
124. Rubio is such a piece of shit.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:01 PM
Oct 2015

I'm ashamed to be from the same state as that asshole. We know repigs won't do anything to help anyone. We're going to have to do it on our own.

MFM008

(19,782 posts)
127. One day soon
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:12 PM
Oct 2015

something like this will take the path Katrina did.
I feel something bad coming, earthquake swarms in CA and here in WA, this monster.
Very unsettling.

PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
128. Geez. The strongest hurricane ever recorded?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:14 PM
Oct 2015

That's scary.

Of course, global warming is nothing more than a myth foisted on us by lib-er-al scientists. And we don't need no science, right?

Drill, baby, drill!

You know, an aside. I'm reading a book called 'An Indigenous People's History of the United States.' It isn't cheering me up much. Do you ever wake up at night and wonder if we humans are about to enter the 'failed species' list and go the way of the dinosaurs and the dodo?

malaise

(267,823 posts)
133. It made landfall at 165mph - a very serious Cat5 but not the strongest ever
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:44 PM
Oct 2015

Good news - it did not make a direct hit Puerto Vallarta or Manzanilla
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast

Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever known to make landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico after the center of its eye crossed the coast of Jalisco state early Friday evening. Catastrophic damage is expected along a narrow path as the eye slices into the interior of southwest Mexico Friday night.

Earlier in the day, Patricia became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere as its maximum sustained winds reached an unprecedented 200 mph (320 kph) and its central pressure fell to 879 millibars (25.96 inches of mercury).


At 6:15 p.m. CDT, the eye of Hurricane Patricia made landfall near Cuixmala in Jalisco state of southwest Mexico. Maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated at 165 mph. While those were off from Patricia's extraordinary peak intensity, they still make Patricia a Category 5 hurricane capable of catastrophic wind damage in the immediate vicinity of the eye.

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