Master of Disaster

This seriously made me laugh

BS they are so well rehearsed with contraflowing I10 they can do it in their sleep.

The NHC hinted at this wind field expansion with the 5am advisory.

In a way this is even worse. Dauphin Island Alabama is the most storm surge prone location in the country. Even a Cat 1 surges the water on the west end to a level they have to close the only access road for days. A Cat 4 would cut that island in half... Again.

Keep in mind with all this concern about New Orleans that several different projects were completed after Katrina. Together they are suppose to mitigate what happened in Katrina. The Lake Borne protect constructed several flood gates to 16 feet above sea level and the Seabrook Floodgate project has been finished. I am not sure any of it has had a real test yet. It doesn't help that the moment a lot of it was finished they discovered it was sinking and flood gates built to 16 feet don't sound like much with a Cat 4 or 5. Either way that city needs to begin evacuations today. Activate the National Bus Contract and get people in low lying areas out of there. I don't have much faith in any leader there considering they left a dead man visible in a collapsed building for 6 months. They kept hanging tarps to cover him and those kept blowing away leaving the guys legs all exposed again while Segway companies ran tours for those to take pics of him.

I spent 10 years active duty USCG. We appreciate the props.

Is Josh down there?

Not only that. It beat last years record for the earliest 5th named storm. That's def notable.

Lol always been here. Just never had much to add. I guess I finally took the advice a few of you had been offering for several years that I should read more and post less. I mostly come here to follow Josh's exploits. But on the rare occasion might chime in with something no one really cares about or wants to hear. For old time sake. Anywho, hope all are well. Even Trixie.

These things have been a nightmare. On no less than 4 different occasions I have had one hitchhike into the bedroom on my clothing. I'll be all under the sheets and all of a sudden one of these starts screeching. The last time I began punching it trying to kill it. I don't even know if this is possible but I almost beat myself to death trying to kill it.

A few called 920s.

Jesus!!

Be kinda cool if they got one of those moonlit stadium effect pics.

Last time I saw those kinda numbers was Dorian.

Gonna be hard to beat Allen.

Looked like one returned.

921. 160mph

Banter but did you know he hiked the Appalachian Trail straight through? Took him around 4 months.

Wonder if there are any Scatter passes over the next few hours?

100% agree.

Wilma comes to mind with this kinda RI. Anyone think Cat 5 is possible? Havent checked the SSTs yet to see if that will support one.

Holding off a bit on this one for some reason. No doubt that has a closed circulation now. Why wouldn't they designate it a PTC earlier though?

For a new guy, your posts are extremely well thought out and informational. Props there. Thats how its done.

In 4 out of 5 cases, merging cells result in no intensification of the absorbing cell according to the SPC. This was not one of those cases obviously. In addition, the environment which would have supported an EF5 went from unimpressive to off the charts in 5 minutes roughly. There is NOT a meteorologist in this world who could have seen what was coming until the velocity scans came in probably about the time it was over Joplin. The point is, regardless of how advanced we think our radars are, some events just unfold so quickly that no one could have predicted it.

Whats so crazy about that video is its not even IN the tornado. The wind direction never changes so its def just inflow.