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Sounds like one hell of a hurricane the size of france!!
Hitting Portico on its way through most of the worlds most impoverished countries. Some fat cat hide aways maybe washed away but what about the locals!!! |
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"Sounds like one hell of a hurricane the size of france!!
Hitting Portico on its way through most of the worlds most impoverished countries. Some fat cat hide aways maybe washed away but what about the locals!!! "
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What do you suggest? |
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Was in Florida in 2011 and on hurricane alert. Luckily enough it changed direction and skirted the coast. There was a few deaths from people thinking it was ok to carry on swimming in the sea. But yes it was very scary at the time as we did have some bad weather but not the full force.
My friend is there at the moment and has been offered early flights home at the weekend x |
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"Was in Florida in 2011 and on hurricane alert. Luckily enough it changed direction and skirted the coast. There was a few deaths from people thinking it was ok to carry on swimming in the sea. But yes it was very scary at the time as we did have some bad weather but not the full force.
My friend is there at the moment and has been offered early flights home at the weekend x "
Are the gonna take the flights or ride it out? |
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"Was in Florida in 2011 and on hurricane alert. Luckily enough it changed direction and skirted the coast. There was a few deaths from people thinking it was ok to carry on swimming in the sea. But yes it was very scary at the time as we did have some bad weather but not the full force.
My friend is there at the moment and has been offered early flights home at the weekend x
Are the gonna take the flights or ride it out?"
Playing it by ear. The shops have been emptied as everyone stocks up. Even watching it off the coast was a scary thing, so wouldn't want to be in the middle of it x |
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary "
Yep cat5 typhoon in Hong Kong, fun but only because our building was built to withstand it. The damage outside was nuts though. |
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"The USA has been saying "Fuck you planet earth" for sometime .
It was inevitable the earth was going to say "Well,fuck you too"  "
Didn't learn from katrina did they! |
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scary............. and it's always baffled me why people choose to go on holiday to places at high risk from hurricanes during hurricane season??
Save a few kid maybe but either spend a couple of weeks effectively in a washing machine - or risk death from something falling on you - it's a funny old game |
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary "
Yes 26yrs ago here in the uk, i remember it waking me up and looking out the window but i couldn't see much because it was still dark outside and the streetlight wasn't working ,but in the morning there was trees and debris everywhere. But that hurricane was nowhere near as big and scary as irma is |
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary
Yes? Unpleasant in the extreme. I flew from Miami airport last night, thank goodness, so missing the potential for this one "
That's a yes! No question |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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i have relatives in antigua and montserrat and have spoken to them this morning, and they said that they dodged a bullet with this.... there are other islands that took it a lot worse than they have
having seen some of the pictures coming out of anguilla and saint maarten, they took it hard!
if you know any holidaymakers out in florida at the moment and they have the chance to get out... tell them to get out!!!! |
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary
Yes? Unpleasant in the extreme. I flew from Miami airport last night, thank goodness, so missing the potential for this one "
We're you due to fly or got an early flight? |
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary
Yes 26yrs ago here in the uk, i remember it waking me up and looking out the window but i couldn't see much because it was still dark outside and the streetlight wasn't working ,but in the morning there was trees and debris everywhere. But that hurricane was nowhere near as big and scary as irma is"
I was serving on the QE2 at that time, we were just ahead of the storm for the last two days of a Transatlantic voyage. Those two days the ocean was as still as a mill pond! We docked then a few hours later the storm hit. |
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My cousin is in cuba for his 21st birthday present and they are all being evacuated to havana. Apparebtly there are 2 more hurricanes in the path too (hurricane jose and hurricane katia). Puerto rico is completely destroyed as well as the british virgin isles. |
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary "
I experienced a hurricane back when i was 7 going from jamaica to florida. Scariest thing to go through. Waiting at jamaica areport and the windows shook and smashed with us being evacuated underground to safety bunkers |
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"Where do they get there names from? "
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Theres a list of girls and boys names that rotate over a set number of years.
So Jose was one of about nine j names but only two were available for this year, the next one gets a girl's name of k and then a boy's name of L and so on and so on.
If the hurricane is a deadly one or very destructive they occasionally retire the name like Katrina was that hit New Orleans and probably Harvey will as well |
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It's always an anxious wait during hurricane season, my dad left me his house in Trinidad, so I'm watching the weather right now, irma is going to pass too far north to do any damage and it looks like José will follow the same path, mind you, if it hit my dad's house it would break the hurricane, he knew a thing or two about building a house my dad lol |
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We are due to go over in 2 weeks on holiday. Its looking likely that Irma will put a stop to that, but its the people that are living there I feel sorry for, must be devastating  |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"It's always an anxious wait during hurricane season, my dad left me his house in Trinidad, so I'm watching the weather right now, irma is going to pass too far north to do any damage and it looks like José will follow the same path, mind you, if it hit my dad's house it would break the hurricane, he knew a thing or two about building a house my dad lol"
feel relieved.... I have relatives on antigua and montserrat.... and looking at what happened to the poor people on barbuda and St Maarten, they dodged one hell of a bullet... got a soaking from the rain but survived!
hopefully jose will miss as well.....
florida is going to get crushed... it not a case of if but there.....
could be miami and ft lauderdale if it goes up the east.... tampa and naples if it goes up the west.... or orlando if it goes straight up the middle.....
this is florida's worst nightmare because you don't know where to run to to be safe... other than north towards atlanta!
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary
Yes? Unpleasant in the extreme. I flew from Miami airport last night, thank goodness, so missing the potential for this one
We're you due to fly or got an early flight?"
I wasn't due to leave - spent hours online trying to get a flight. Finally booked one but getting to Miami airport was horrendous.
The airport itself was even worse - missed my flight but bought one of the last few tickets available to anywhere that wasn't £5000 plus etc.
Miami airport was like a disaster zone - days before the hurricane. Got escorted through to the front of security - saving hours of lining up, then spent several more hours until the first flight that had one seat free.
Several flights later I'm in the west coast of the USA. Pity the people who have not managed to leave  |
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The whole general area is getting battered by nature at the moment.
Just had a big hurricane. One heading to Florida and currently flattening half of Cuba, another to Mexico and a third on its way. Hopefully Jose will miss the majority of the islands...
To top that off a massive earthquake off the coast of Mexico.
We might complain about British weather but we never get real extremes...
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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its just freaky the size of it... the way it has maintained its strength.... and it is strengthening again!!!
now expected to hit land as a cat 5..... which means it will be at least maintaining winds of 160 mph! |
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"its just freaky the size of it... the way it has maintained its strength.... and it is strengthening again!!!
now expected to hit land as a cat 5..... which means it will be at least maintaining winds of 160 mph!"
Yes, they can lessen but this one isn't  |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"I've got family in Florida, not sure yet of they are ok
Looks like it will hit Florida Saturday/ Sunday. It's scary.
Hopefully there's still enough time for people to get out "
nope... that bird has now basically flown.... if you are not out by now you are basically sitting this one in and praying!
my fear is that because so much of the focus has been on miami and the east coast, if it does now look like to come in slightly further west that it was that people in the likes of naples, ft mayers, sarasota, tampa/st pete and orlando dont now get crushed! |
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"I've got family in Florida, not sure yet of they are ok
Looks like it will hit Florida Saturday/ Sunday. It's scary.
Hopefully there's still enough time for people to get out "
My friends are staying. |
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"Hopefully there's still enough time for people to get out
nope... that bird has now basically flown.... if you are not out by now you are basically sitting this one in and praying!
my fear is that because so much of the focus has been on miami and the east coast, if it does now look like to come in slightly further west that it was that people in the likes of naples, ft mayers, sarasota, tampa/st pete and orlando dont now get crushed!"
Selfishly I'd prefer to go west as they are on the east cost but either way it's going to be hideous for far too many people
I can't imagine what this will be like. I've been in a few hurricanes as a child in New York but they weren't this strong. |
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"I've got family in Florida, not sure yet of they are ok
Looks like it will hit Florida Saturday/ Sunday. It's scary.
Hopefully there's still enough time for people to get out
My friends are staying. "
Have they got a proper shelter? |
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By *abioMan
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"its just freaky the size of it... the way it has maintained its strength.... and it is strengthening again!!!
now expected to hit land as a cat 5..... which means it will be at least maintaining winds of 160 mph!
Yes, they can lessen but this one isn't "
it will only lessen if it meets cooler water.. or it hits land.... this had really done neither! the little islands are not big enough to stop it... and in fact the eye wall has regenerated so the eye is now twice as big as it was before....
in fact... its likely to meet warmer water again after passing cuba which means the pressure will drop and will strengthen again!! |
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"its just freaky the size of it... the way it has maintained its strength.... and it is strengthening again!!!
now expected to hit land as a cat 5..... which means it will be at least maintaining winds of 160 mph!
Yes, they can lessen but this one isn't
it will only lessen if it meets cooler water.. or it hits land.... this had really done neither! the little islands are not big enough to stop it... and in fact the eye wall has regenerated so the eye is now twice as big as it was before....
in fact... its likely to meet warmer water again after passing cuba which means the pressure will drop and will strengthen again!!"
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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I can't imagine what this will be like. I've been in a few hurricanes as a child in New York but they weren't this strong."
if you want to compare this to superstorm sandy.... sandy was a cat 2 when it barrelled up the east coast...
this as a cat 5 will be 20 times stronger than sandy........ |
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"I've got family in Florida, not sure yet of they are ok
Looks like it will hit Florida Saturday/ Sunday. It's scary.
Hopefully there's still enough time for people to get out
My friends are staying.
Have they got a proper shelter?"
No. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"I've got family in Florida, not sure yet of they are ok
Looks like it will hit Florida Saturday/ Sunday. It's scary.
Hopefully there's still enough time for people to get out
My friends are staying.
Have they got a proper shelter?
No. "
seriously... please try and persuade them to go to a public shelter....
my friends in florida were originally going to trying a sit it out... but after they say the damage it did in the carribean, they decided to go! so most have gone up to atlanta... |
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"Anyone her ever experienced a hurricane? Must be scary "
Yes in Japan a typhoon hit. What was incredible was the rain. So heavy, I had to walk about 20 yards outside and it was really hard to breathe with the level of water in the air., never known rain like it. |
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Remember flying into the Dom Rep about 20 years ago and you could see the eye of a nearby hurricane below. Really was pretty surreal.
Been caught in an earthquake and that was pretty terrible so heart goes out to those affected by the hurricane.
Kinda puts moaning about the miserable Manchester weather into perspective. |
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"i have relatives in antigua and montserrat and have spoken to them this morning, and they said that they dodged a bullet with this.... there are other islands that took it a lot worse than they have
having seen some of the pictures coming out of anguilla and saint maarten, they took it hard!
if you know any holidaymakers out in florida at the moment and they have the chance to get out... tell them to get out!!!! "
How come it destroyed Barbuda but not Antigua, I don't get that as it was so huge? |
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"i have relatives in antigua and montserrat and have spoken to them this morning, and they said that they dodged a bullet with this.... there are other islands that took it a lot worse than they have
having seen some of the pictures coming out of anguilla and saint maarten, they took it hard!
if you know any holidaymakers out in florida at the moment and they have the chance to get out... tell them to get out!!!!
How come it destroyed Barbuda but not Antigua, I don't get that as it was so huge? "
Im sure it has done dome horrendous damage to it |
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By *abioMan
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How come it destroyed Barbuda but not Antigua, I don't get that as it was so huge? "
its because barbuda basically took the eye of the storm.... is in effect got battered by the stongest and worst weather twice......
because antigua is slightly south and west the winds were bad.. but not as bad it was in barbuda....
you are taking for example if naples gets a direct hit the winds will be 150 mph.... miami which is basically 100 miles up the road, may get 100mph winds.... |
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"worried for our daughter & grandaughter, in orlando at the mo and managed to get an early flight home today, hope they get it ok as it is just an hour before the airport is due to close down"
Oh they're lucky getting out. A few of my friends are there and have been told Tuesday they'll get a flight home x |
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"Not fantastic news but it has been downgraded to a cat 4...sadly that is still gusts upto 155 mph."
that can be misleading... because cat 5 starts at 157mph....
it would only take a tiny bit of strenghtening between cuba and florida in those really warm waters to regain the cat 5 label...
and the storm is actually slowing down a little which will mean it will be in the warm waters longer to get back whatever it loses over cuba |
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"Not fantastic news but it has been downgraded to a cat 4...sadly that is still gusts upto 155 mph.
that can be misleading... because cat 5 starts at 157mph....
it would only take a tiny bit of strenghtening between cuba and florida in those really warm waters to regain the cat 5 label...
and the storm is actually slowing down a little which will mean it will be in the warm waters longer to get back whatever it loses over cuba "
Yeah I seen that after I posted and agree not good  |
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I have a frined who was going to be about 60 miles from the eye but has just emailed me that she's going to be closer and she's hunkering down. I don't know why she's not just going, she hasn't replied back yet. So, worried Lisa is worried. |
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I can't imagine what this will be like. I've been in a few hurricanes as a child in New York but they weren't this strong.
if you want to compare this to superstorm sandy.... sandy was a cat 2 when it barrelled up the east coast...
this as a cat 5 will be 20 times stronger than sandy........ "
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"I've got family in Florida, not sure yet of they are ok
Looks like it will hit Florida Saturday/ Sunday. It's scary.
Hopefully there's still enough time for people to get out
My friends are staying.
Have they got a proper shelter?
No. "
Yikes. Even if you get through the storm itself there is always the potential problem of being flooded and having no electricity etc.
At least shelters have water & provisions. |
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"Anxious times, have friends who live in Holguin in Cuba and waiting to hear as they live close to the coast...last i heard they were due to be moved closer inland "
It\s not knowing that fuels the worry. |
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"worried for our daughter & grandaughter, in orlando at the mo and managed to get an early flight home today, hope they get it ok as it is just an hour before the airport is due to close down"
hope they are okay
Nice profile and pics also btw xx  |
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"Anyone had any updates on family & friends?
Yes, some damage done but thankfully not as bad as expected. Hopefully they're flying home tomorrow. X "
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The hills of Cuba took all the guts out of it, then it unexpectedly stalled and hit wind shear.
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