I think the latest track and all the models have it turning north well before NOLA. Looks to me like it will miss Miami, dancing between the tip of FL and Cuba, then turn north to slam into Tampa. Then it will roll up the west coast of FL and bring the pain on into GA.
The storm is going to be too wide to miss Miami. If they get lucky they'll dodge the worst of it, but they're going to see some major damage regardless. The projections I've seen have the eastern side of Florida catching the worst of it (while the storm will be wide enough to cover coast to coast) but it's hard for any model to be too specific at this point. https://www.news4jax.com/weather/new-system-to-watch-in-the-tropics
Yeah, well, I'll have you know it rained here last night a bit... even had some thunder and lightning.
Uhm... wouldn't a natural disaster be the exact time you'd actually NEED a firearm? Just like if we were making straw man arguments for you absolutely should be armed to the teeth to protect yourself and your shit, I'd say something like "the entire city is flooded and in disarray, a sizable portion of the populace is now homeless, the local government cannot police effectively"... that's gonna describe the US/BVI in a bit won't it?
Brilliant. So the assholes who plan to use them hide them/don't turn them in and all the law abiding people are defenseless. Not like I think it's going to turn into a shoot out, but with the looting that typically follows these disasters, there is definitely shit heads out there who would take advantage of the fact that most people are unarmed. Anyway, this is what the store aisles in Miami are starting to look like.
Oh, good, maybe the lightning will set off some more forest fires so a raging inferno will melt your computer. Seriously, though, when we had our big flood back in the 90s, it was this type thing. Hurricane Alberto downgraded to a tropical storm. Then it got pinched by two systems and just sat right in middle Georgia. And it rained and rained and rained. . .
I interrupt this hurricane talk just to let you guys know that I'm on my third (subsequently stronger) gin and tonic of the evening. I have nothing of substance to add other than that. As you were.
For a more pleasant thing to do with skies, Wednesday night the Northern Lights will be as visible as far as southern Illinois.
There's a permanent thread over there that proves indisputably that you have things of substance to add. But now that gin and tonics are in my head I'm having one as well.
I'm in a really obstinate mood, so reverse psychology might work better for you tonight. Just saying.
Why OF COURSE we don't want to see boobs! No one here does! Ever! Especially Rush! That would be....bad, or something! Am I doing this right?
I'm just having my go to beer at the moment. In all seriousness, if Irma hits I'll be getting drunk off my ass, at least in the aftermath. Seriously, what else is there to do? Option A: Stay in Florida. Power is out, the remaining beer is only going to get warmer. There's nothing else to do until the water in the streets isn't nut sack level deep. Option B: Go to some shitty hotel in nowhereville.
Close enough. It's been a week and it's only Tuesday. I'm going to Tennessee in a few weeks and I can already tell that I'm going to have a hard time coming home.
I'm not 25 anymore. That ship has sailed. I'm just in that awkward "what am I doing with my life" stage, just like everyone else. Related: I love gin. I apologize that it's making me talk about my personal life to y'all. Nobody wants to know, and I know this.