*WHOOP WHOOP* Incoming Weather Units!

[AztecWarrior]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040811/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather

MIAMI - Back-to-back tropical storms moved closer to Florida early Wednesday, with Bonnie creeping across the Gulf of Mexico toward the Panhandle and a stronger Charley behind it prompting a hurricane watch for the lower Florida Keys.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040811/capt.ny11808111356.tropical_weather_ny118.jpg

Most of northwest Florida, from the Alabama line to the Suwanee River, was under a tropical storm watch and could expect Bonnie's wind and rain on Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center (news - web sites) in Miami. Bonnie is not expected to become a hurricane, meteorologists said.

Charley was forecast to hit or pass close to the lower Keys later Thursday and then hit the southwestern Florida mainland as a Category 1 hurricane coast early Friday, packing sustained wind of about 85 mph, forecaster Daniel Brown said. A hurricane watch, meaning hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours, was posted from the Dry Tortugas to Craig Key, near Long Key.

Charley was forecast to pass over central Florida, still packing hurricane-force wind, and then exit near Daytona Beach on the Atlantic Coast.

Three to 6 inches of rain is expected, with locally higher amounts possible, Brown said. "It's not going to slow down that much," however, meaning even heavier rainfall is not expected, he said.

At 8 a.m. Wednesday, Bonnie was centered about 265 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving north at 6 mph. It was expected to turn northeast and speed up during the day, forecasters said.

The storm had maximum sustained wind of near 50 mph and would likely get stronger during the day, forecasters said. Tropical storm-force wind extended up to 45 miles from the center.

"It could be a fairly strong tropical storm at landfall," said hurricane center specialist James Franklin.

Charley, in the Caribbean Sea, was first a threat to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Haiti and Cuba.

As of 8 a.m., Charley was centered 115 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and moving west-northwest around 24 mph. Charley had maximum sustained wind near 65 mph and could become a hurricane Wednesday or Thursday, forecasters said.

Jamaica was under a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch. A hurricane warning was issued for the Cayman Islands and a tropical storm warning was in place for the southern peninsula of Haiti.

Bonnie and Charley are the second and third named storms of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.

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On the Net:

National Hurricane Center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

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- Cuba's about to get PWNED. Everyone in the eastern parts (Camaguey/Oriente)'d better run.

- The lower one is set to turn north, heading for the Keys (and consequently, Miami)

- Anyone living in the Panhandle (northern FL) had better get stuff.

[Hamma]

Yea the remnants are supposed to hit Mass by the weekend.

I'm just happy it isnt next weekend.

[AztecWarrior]

Yea the remnants are supposed to hit Mass by the weekend.
Like what, a sun shower? We get catacalysmic winds, thunderstorms, flash floods, uber-high waves, tornadoes, and you get "the remnants?"

[Triggar]

My boss thinks they'll have to evacuate our fleet of aircraft.

I'm skerred.

[martyr]

yee-haw.

by the way, stay away from the weather channel, and hooray for the NHC - good for you, aztec.

i'm finally ordering my jacket.

[Sputty]

Just do what those guys with pontoon boats do, tie em together

[Fragmatic]

My boss thinks they'll have to evacuate our fleet of aircraft.

I'm skerred.

:( /me hugs Triggar.

Why can't you just fly away if it hits near you, then come back and land. See, this is why I want a helicopter, you can fly to safety.

[Rbstr]

whew good thing all i have to worry about are thunderstorms.

But i heard something interesting the other day, you know those Hurracane study planes that fly though 'em right? They wouldn't dare go though a thunderstorm.

[Triggar]

Because my apartment's here, all my stuff is here, my kitty is here, and we have nowhere to go :(

[Fragmatic]

Because my apartment's here, all my stuff is here, my kitty is here, and we have nowhere to go :(

:( my ideas suck.

[Hamma]

Like what, a sun shower? We get catacalysmic winds, thunderstorms, flash floods, uber-high waves, tornadoes, and you get "the remnants?"
No you jacknut, its still supposed to be a tropical storm when it gets here. We have had some pretty big hurricans in our time too.

[Lartnev]

The remnents of hurricane Alex (I think, or someone) hit Ireland last week. We had storms Monday night and will probably have them tomorrow night as well.

I love storms... :bouncy:

....except when they knock the lights out. :scared:

[AztecWarrior]

No you jacknut, its still supposed to be a tropical storm when it gets here. We have had some pretty big hurricans in our time too.
What, like Category 1?

[SDM]

jacknut
:lol:

[martyr]

http://img1.uploadimages.net/210402FL.jpg

[Infernus]

http://img1.uploadimages.net/210402FL.jpg

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[Dharkbayne]

http://img1.uploadimages.net/210402FL.jpg
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Well played.

[Hamma]

What, like Category 1?
like, no (http://www.hurricanecity.com/city/boston.htm)

[Kuraltai]

:( my ideas suck.Good idea .. work on the execution. :p
Hope all goes well there for y'all. Luckily we only have to deal with thunderstorms and tornadoes. The flooding we had here in the St Louis area in 1993 was plenty water trouble for me thanks.

[Indecisive]

I want friday off. The homos in hillsbourough county have been whoring our hurricane days for the last some 4-5 odd years. They schedual x number of days, and if hurricanes dont happen, they keep the days off.

I hope friday is a hurrricane day, but is no stronger than any of the other hurricane-esque storms we have been getting recently.

[Hezzy]

http://img1.uploadimages.net/210402FL.jpg

:lol: I saw my cousin moderate that earlier. He was all like :huh:

[GonePostal]

cubas fucked.

[Hamma]

Good :p

[Squeeky]

http://img1.uploadimages.net/210402FL.jpg

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[Triggar]

My boyfriend pwns :lol:

[Squeeky]

Party in the city where the heat is on.
All night on the beach til the break of dawn
Welcome to miami (bienvenido a miami

[JetRaiden]

Party in the city where the heat is on.
All night on the beach til the break of dawn
Welcome to miami (bienvenido a miami

:rofl: :rofl:

/me switches Will Smith mode OFF

[Indecisive]

bump. Gonna fuck some people up in florida today. Bunch of storm bands are already on land.

It might turn into a cat 3. Cat 3 = uproots trees, owns mobile homes and cows.


Dammit. This is more serious then I thought.

[Infernus]

:( I'm worried for the Florida people... especially my xmodum... :(

[Indecisive]

BATTON DOWN THE HATCHES BITCHS!

IT SKIPPED CAT 3!

Charlie is now a Catagory fucking 4 hurricane. What does this mean? Well.

Winds of 114 to 135 knots (131-155 mph)
Storm surge 13 to 18 feet above normal


ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES PER HOUR WINDS!



The bulk of it is missing me by this | | much. I pray for all of those in its direct path.

[Infernus]

...wow...


I remember what was its name, Floyd or somethin I think... three or so years ago... it was still Cat1 or somthin when it reached Philadelphia... and then way back in the 80s was Andrew...

[martyr]

http://img1.uploadimages.net/081932iws2.jpg

[OfaLoaf]

http://sirocco.accuweather.com/iwxpage/adc/popup/iws2.jpg
:rofl:



Improvement? That's supposed to be only when it goes through New Jersey.

[TheN00b]

:lol:

[Mr1337Duck]

I live in Kansas, we get tornados.

[starbum]

I live 20 minutes away from west virginia. We get inbreeds without dental records.

[Infernus]

I live 20 minutes away from west virginia. We get inbreeds without dental records.

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[UncleDynamite]

Hope martyr and Triggar are doing alright :(

[OneManArmy]

let us all pray for the animals at the animal kingdom. like the giraffes and the penguins...

[JetRaiden]

Im pretty sure they put the little guys in their little indoor quarters whenever theres a big storm. they wont leave giraffes out in the open with 90 mph winds...I hope...

[Indecisive]

They put 50 horses out in some park around my area. Not disney.

[Mango]

I live in Ohio, we get bored.

[AztecWarrior]

Okay, not surprisingly, I got out fine. Like 30 MPH wind, a lot of fallen palm fronds, no rain.

The Hurricane pwned a lot of people for two reasons:

1. It made an unexpected right turn. Tampa was almost completely spared, while SW FL got hit.
2. It became Category 4 out of 5 like instantly, it skipped three.

This is a big one. :(

[SDM]

I live in Ohio, we get bored.I live in Indiana, we get bored and drool.

edit: ...then we mbate, then we get bored and drool some more.

[AztecWarrior]

ADDIT.: It's scheduled to be a Tropical Storm (i.e. it's scheduled to suck) when it hits Orlando. There will probably be flooding, but no wind damage. It won't look like a war zone for PSU:MA.

[Indecisive]

Awww.

*stores chaingun*

[AztecWarrior]

Party in the city where the heat is on.
All night on the beach til the break of dawn
Welcome to miami (bienvenido a miami
You will now be shot.

[AztecWarrior]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040814/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_charley

Hurricane Kills at Least 15 in Florida

18 minutes ago

By MARK LONG, Associated Press Writer

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Hurricane Charley's devastating tear across Florida flattened oceanfront homes, killed at least 15 people and left thousands more homeless Saturday before the weakened storm pushed north and struck the Carolinas.

It was the strongest storm to strike Florida in a dozen years, knocking out electrical service to an estimated 2 million homes and businesses as it crossed from the southwest coast at Punta Gorda to the Atlantic at Daytona Beach.

"I could hear the nails coming out of the roof. The walls were shaking violently, back and forth, back and forth. It was just the most amazing and terrifying thing," said Anne Correia, who spent two hours in a closet in her Punta Gorda apartment.

Charley's generally northward course took it across open ocean, missing the westward curving shore of Georgia, before it made landfall for a second time on South Carolina's Grand Strand resort region and moved into North Carolina.

By the time it made landfall for a second time on South Carolina's Grand Strand resort region, the area was nearly empty after a mandatory evacuation of some of the area's 180,000 tourists and residents.

The storm still packed wind of 75 mph, considerably weaker than its sustained speed of 145 mph Friday but still enough to classify it as a hurricane.

In Charlotte County, hundreds of people were unaccounted for and deputies were standing guard over bodies in areas not immediately accessible by ambulances. Ten deaths had been confirmed, but no exact death toll was available, said Wayne Sallade, the county's director of emergency management.

"Not hundreds. I would hope that it would be limited to dozens, if that," Sallade said.

Two or three of Charlotte County's dead were told before Charley struck to evacuate their mobile home subdivision in Punta Gorda, but they refused, Sallade said.

There were five confirmed storm-related deaths elsewhere in the state. Earlier, Charley killed three people in Cuba and one in Jamaica. Tornados spun off by Tropical Storm Bonnie killed three people in North Carolina earlier in the week.

The American Red Cross (news - web sites) set up more than 250 disaster relief shelters in Florida and 40 in the Carolinas. Staffers and volunteers are providing dry clothing, meals, first aid and counseling to victims.

"This is our largest hurricane disaster operation since Hurricane Andrew," said Red Cross president Marty Evans. Andrew was directly blamed for the deaths of 26 people, most in South Florida.

President Bush (news - web sites) said he would visit Florida on Sunday to see the damage. He already had declared storm-struck counties a major disaster area. His brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, completed a helicopter tour of the region, saying, "our worst fears have come true."

In a statement, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) said "families across Florida today are coming to grips with incredible loss," offering his "full support to the president and governor as the people of Florida rebuild their communities and their lives."

Sallade said hundreds of people were unaccounted for in Charlotte County, which includes Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, and thousands were homeless.

"It's Andrew all over again," he said. "We believe there's significant loss of life."

There are 31 mobile home parks in the county that suffered major damage, some with more than 1,000 units, said Bob Carpenter, a Charlotte County Sheriff's Office spokesman. He said teams were sent to each park to search for bodies and survivors, but getting into them was difficult.

"We just couldn't get the vehicles in � there is so much debris," he said.

Rescuing people who may be trapped is the top priority, said state emergency management director Craig Fugate.

"If we're going to change the outcome for anybody that's been injured or trapped, we know time is of the essence," he said.

Dan Strong, 51, returned to his home in Biehls Mobile Home Park in Punta Gorda and found it had been destroyed.

"Everything is gone," Strong said as he dug through the rubble trying to salvage photographs, clothes and other belongings.

The storm arrived in North Carolina with maximum sustained wind of 75 mph, and gusts to more than 80, down considerably from the 145 mph wind that ravaged Florida's west coast on Friday, said National Weather Service (news - web sites) meteorologist Ron Humble.

About 65,000 South Carolina customers lost power, including 32,000 in the Charleston area.

A hurricane warning was in effect from the South Santee River in South Carolina to the Virginia-North Carolina state line. A tropical storm warning extended north to Sandy Hook, N.J., and a tropical storm watch was in effect to the Merrimack River in Massachusetts.

National Guard troops were on duty in North Carolina, where a mandatory evacuation order was in effect for vulnerable coastal areas hit less than two weeks ago by Hurricane Alex.

More tornadoes were possible, warned Renee Hoffman, spokeswoman for North Carolina's Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

Three hospitals in Charlotte County sustained significant damage, Sallade said, and officials at Charlotte Regional Medical Center in Punta Gorda said they were evacuating all patients Saturday.

More than 200 ambulances � many from southeast Florida � were organized to transfer patients to other hospitals in Orlando, Sarasota, Tampa and Lee County.

"We really have to get the patients out of here. This place just isn't safe," said Peggy Greene, chief nursing officer. She said windows were blown out, part of the roof was blown off, and there was no power or phone service.

Among those seeking treatment was Marty Rietveld, showered with broken glass when the sliding glass door at his home was smashed by a neighbor's roof that blew off. Rietveld broke his leg, and his future son-in-law suffered a punctured leg artery.

"We are moving," said Rietveld's daughter, Stephanie Rioux. "We are going out of state."

An estimated 1.4 million people evacuated in anticipation of the hurricane, which reached landfall at 3:45 p.m. EDT, when the eye passed over barrier islands off Fort Myers and Punta Gorda, some 110 miles southeast of the Tampa Bay area.

At a nursing center in Port Charlotte, Charley broke windows and ripped off portions of the roof, but none of the more than 100 residents or staff was injured, administrator Joyce Cuffe said.

"The doors were being sucked open," Cuffe said. "A lot of us were holding the doors, trying to keep them shut, using ropes, anything we could to hold the doors shut. There was such a vacuum, our ears and head were hurting."

The fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Danielle, formed Friday but posed no immediate concern to land. The fifth may form as early as Saturday and threaten islands in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.

[AztecWarrior]

I don't get it: staying in a mobile home during a hurricane is like playing with fire in a pool of oil. They tell everyone to GTFO. Some just don't :/

[SDM]

I don't get it: staying in a mobile home during a hurricane is like playing with fire in a pool of oil. They tell everyone to GTFO. Some just don't :/http://planetside-universe.com/forums/images/buttons/edit.gif

[Sputty]

If they're already living in a trailer their intelligence is already in question I'm sure

[AztecWarrior]

I just left a message on Trig's phone. It's a good sign, meaning that cell phone towers aren't blown over.

[AztecWarrior]

We're not out of the clear.

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/activeatlantic.html

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm5_track_720x486.jpg

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm5_strike_720x486.jpg

TROPICAL STORM EARL: While it's MOVING fast, it's not very strong, right now at least. Winds are under the 74 MPH needed for hurricane strength. It's expected to reach that speed when it nears Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. That is, if it makes a right turn at all and doesn't just wander into Nicaragua. Too early to tell.

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm4_track_720x486.jpg

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm4_strike_720x486.jpg

(I put this image in because I think they update with the same filename, so that if this thing does become active, I won't have to re-upload.)

HURRICANE DANIELLE: It's already Category 1, but is expected to turn to the northwest.

If it doesn't. I'm FUCKED. Look at the path. Arrow-straight for Miami.

[Hamma]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT04/refresh/AL0404W5+GIF/152053W5.gif

and

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT05/refresh/AL0504W5+GIF/152053W5.gif

Should be ok, NOAA > *

[OfaLoaf]

They named a storm Earl?

[Hamma]

Indeed.

[Infernus]

Earl is the janitor at school that we make fun of... he picks through the schools trash before he puts it on the curb...

[JetRaiden]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT04/refresh/AL0404W5+GIF/152053W5.gif

and

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT05/refresh/AL0504W5+GIF/152053W5.gif

Should be ok, NOAA > *

haha. cancun is gonna get owned.

[Indecisive]

That would suck if earl hung a right and owned psuma.

You boys is crazy.