Bermuda Spiral?

by Bryan

6 comments

1 Shirt { 10.06.16 at 3:07 pm }

Stay hi, stay dry and remember: the cats have ordered you to safeguard them!

2 Steve Bates { 10.06.16 at 3:33 pm }

Matthew will finish curling around, cross the Florida east coast heading due west, then the west coast, reentering the Gulf of Mexico once more, then giving first you and then me a good slap in the face, finally entering some sort of time warp and reappearing approaching New Orleans as what we once knew as Katrina. Hey, that’s as likely as anything science has to offer at the moment… 🙄

I’ve almost stopped tracking; it’s hardly worth it.

3 Bryan { 10.06.16 at 4:38 pm }

It’s on the other side of the state from me or I would be gone with two cats. I’m too old for this crap.

4 Steve Bates { 10.06.16 at 6:07 pm }

Damn! Bryan, I just saw the evening national news, and based on everything they said, I, too, would get the hell outta Dodge if I were anywhere along the east coast, especially in a city! I am glad it’s not a direct hit on your part of the state, but if you need any evidence of how bad it is for people living in its path, even Donald Trump didn’t mouth off about it, as he has in fact done about some storms in the past. Even so, please stay safe, my friend, you and the cats; none of us get to be casual about what Mother Nature can do.

5 JuanitaM { 10.06.16 at 6:50 pm }

Bryan, this afternoon a guy on the coast of Florida was being interviewed because the reporter was amazed by the people that intended on staying in the evacuation areas. The guy was laughing and joking about it with his wife standing by him. He said that all his friends told him he was crazy. I don’t think he’s crazy, I just think he’s stupid. There are times I’d rather deal with crazy (which actually I do on a daily basis). Stupid can be much more dangerous.

“reentering the Gulf of Mexico once more… finally entering some sort of time warp”

Lol. Now that’s funny Steve. This storm does sort of look like it plans to circle around and bite itself in the rear. What I want to know is when it circles around and hitches up with Nicole, what kind of storm will we have then? Will the meterologists be confused?

6 Bryan { 10.06.16 at 8:27 pm }

I’m about 13 feet above sea level a couple of miles in from the Gulf. I’m shielded by a billion+ dollars worth of wind break AKA condos on a barrier island backstopped by a two-story concrete commercial building and a few million dollars worth of townhouses in my immediate vicinity. That said, I’ve been in storms like Matthew, and I won’t do it again. Ivan damn near killed me. Sawing up a dozen large trees and patching roofs without air conditioning or refrigeration is no fun.

This storm is moving up the Atlantic Coast and there are Tropical Storm Warnings on the Gulf Coast because the rain bands are already crossing the peninsula.

The people who are staying don’t understand: no power means no water or sewage system. You have bottled water to drink, but no water to flush the toilet or wash up. Your credit cards don’t work, so everything is cash. No electricity means the pumps don’t work at the gas station. No lights, no air conditioning, no traffic or street lights, no refrigeration – The MREs aren’t terrible, but not as a steady diet.

Oh, yes, given the height of most of the coast – the storm surge topped by waves will be more that enough to flood most of the buildings within a mile or so of the water, so even after the transmission lines are fixed, you are going to need your house rewired. I assume that all of the clowns staying have flood insurance, because most of the damage is going to be water related and hurricane policies don’t cover it.

If Matthew and Nicole get too close everyone will need to read about the Fujiwhara Effect. It’s kind of like walking into helicopter blades.