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Posted: **Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:38 pm**

The next storm on it's way to the gulf. Currently, Cat 1, predicted now to be a Cat 3 by landfall...according to the link below..."it's at 70mph, not quite hurricane strength but that's good enough, we're not messing around with this one"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/us/tropi ... index.html

Posted: **Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:03 pm**

Looking out the window now I see nothing more than it being a littel windier. It has been like this all week. As it is my first year here, I do not know if I should expect anything whipped around to the atlantic coast either.

Posted: **Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:52 pm**

America deserves every deadly storm, their Moron POTUS pulling out of the climate deal effed it up for a lot of smaller countries....eff them..

Posted: **Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:16 pm**

Evacuations for a few coastal areas have begun.

Posted: **Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:20 pm**

My Daughter is at FSU. They have closed through Friday so she is getting out of town

Posted: **Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:21 pm**

comets wrote:America deserves every deadly storm, their Moron POTUS pulling out of the climate deal effed it up for a lot of smaller countries....eff them..

Ok then

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:05 am**

Does anyone know if this is going to hit Cuba? The missus is there at the moment and it's getting a bit breezy

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:16 am**

happyhooker wrote:Does anyone know if this is going to hit Cuba? The missus is there at the moment and it's getting a bit breezy

That's bizarre, I posted that last night.

Anyway, does anyone better informed know the route it's taking. She's in Cuba till Friday then flying, I think via Atlanta, to a wedding in new Orleans. How likely is this to happen?

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:26 pm**

happyhooker wrote:
happyhooker wrote:Does anyone know if this is going to hit Cuba? The missus is there at the moment and it's getting a bit breezy
That's bizarre, I posted that last night.

Anyway, does anyone better informed know the route it's taking. She's in Cuba till Friday then flying, I think via Atlanta, to a wedding in new Orleans. How likely is this to happen?

Current track
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?cone

Predicted to be a Cat 3 when it makes landfall Wednesday morning.

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:58 pm**

So our little poster is having drinks with you, next week, eh Yank ?

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:58 pm**

Wilson's Toffee wrote:So our little poster is having drinks wit you, tonight, eh Yank ?

huh?

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 1:00 pm**

saffer13 wrote:
Wilson's Toffee wrote:So our little poster is having drinks wit you, tonight, eh Yank ?
huh?

Michael. Referring to a poster on here who named himself. I do not really want to spill him but this is too good.

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 1:02 pm**

Wilson's Toffee wrote:
saffer13 wrote:
Wilson's Toffee wrote:So our little poster is having drinks wit you, tonight, eh Yank ?
huh?

Michael. Referring to a poster on here who named himself. I do not really want to spill him but this is too good.

I thought I saw nipper's name at first....

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 1:13 pm**

saffer13 wrote:
Wilson's Toffee wrote:
saffer13 wrote:
Wilson's Toffee wrote:So our little poster is having drinks wit you, tonight, eh Yank ?
huh?

Michael. Referring to a poster on here who named himself. I do not really want to spill him but this is too good.

I thought I saw nipper's name at first....

Do you see it now ?

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:06 pm**

Wilson's Toffee wrote:
saffer13 wrote:
Wilson's Toffee wrote:
saffer13 wrote:
Wilson's Toffee wrote:So our little poster is having drinks wit you, tonight, eh Yank ?
huh?

Michael. Referring to a poster on here who named himself. I do not really want to spill him but this is too good.

I thought I saw nipper's name at first....

Do you see it now ?

We all did

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:10 pm**

We got the tail of Michael at the weekend.

Caused my golfing horror show on Sunday

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:11 pm**

ZappaMan wrote:We got the tail of Michael at the weekend.

Caused my golfing horror show on Sunday

Posted: **Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:11 pm**

happyhooker wrote: We all did

Nonsense .

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:25 pm**

Wow, this guy popped up and strengthened quickly. Strong Cat 4 now.

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:02 pm**

Looks vicious. You in the way of the thing, Yank ?

Edit: Not according to the cone in this https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics ... 092618.png

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:27 pm**

Wilson's Toffee wrote:Looks vicious. You in the way of the thing, Yank ?

Edit: Not according to the cone in this https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics ... 092618.png

No, I'm in Columbus, GA. We'll get a few wind gusts, nothing more. The coast is going to get battered though. Bigger storm than Florence.

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:56 pm**

We might get an inch or two of rain.

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:57 pm**

Fangle wrote:We might get an inch or two of rain.

Will Atlanta airport be ok by Friday?

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:10 pm**

happyhooker wrote:
Fangle wrote:We might get an inch or two of rain.
Will Atlanta airport be ok by Friday?

Yes.

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:12 pm**

saffer13 wrote:
happyhooker wrote:
Fangle wrote:We might get an inch or two of rain.
Will Atlanta airport be ok by Friday?
Yes.

Bollocks, I was hoping to be able to wind her up

Thanks though

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:22 pm**

Funny how after all the Florence media hype, this one has hardly received any attention and it's now the strongest to ever hit that part of Florida. The lack of coverage probably partly due to the fact that just a couple of days ago it was nothing more than a TS. And it's still gaining in strength with a slight chance of it being a Cat5 by landfall

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Michael's leading edge careened onto northwest Florida's white-sand beaches as a still-growing Category 4 hurricane Wednesday, lashing the coast with tropical storm-force winds and rain and pushing a storm surge that could cause catastrophic damage well inland once it makes landfall.
The unexpected brute quickly sprang from a weekend tropical depression with top winds growing to 145 mph (230 kph), the most powerful hurricane in recorded history for this stretch of the Florida coast.

"We are in new territory," National Hurricane Center Meteorologist Dennis Feltgen wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday. "The historical record, going back to 1851, finds no Category 4 hurricane ever hitting the Florida panhandle."
Rainfall could reach up to a foot (30 centimeters), and the life-threatening storm surge could swell to 14 feet (4 meters).

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:33 pm**

And here's the danger of the seemingly always sensationalized fake news.

In the dangerously exposed coastal town of Apalachicola, population 2,500, Sally Crown planned to hunker down with her two dogs.
"We've been through this before," she said. "This might be really bad and serious. But in my experience, it's always blown way out of proportion."

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 4:06 pm**

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpJz0RaUUAAcr96.jpg

I'll just leave this right here. (I couldn't copy the image url, sorry)

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 4:53 pm**

150mph winds now. At 156mph it will be a cat 5...still a few hours before landfall. Pressure and everything else needed points to it being a Cat 5 already, the winds just need to "catch up"

Posted: **Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:04 pm**

#Hurricane #Michael's pressure continues to drop - now to 923 hPa. Only 4 hurricanes on record have hit the continental US with a lower pressure: Labor Day (1935), Camille (1969), Andrew (1992), Katrina (2005).

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:33 pm**

We measured four inches of rain overnight. All clearing out now.

Posted: **Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:44 pm**

Fangle wrote:We measured four inches of rain overnight. All clearing out now.

We had about the same amount of rain. Had a day off yesterday so enjoyed a nice braai in perfect weather.

Unbelievable devastation from this storm in FL though

Posted: **Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:13 pm**

12 confirmed dead so far.

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