Dorian projected to be CAT 2 hurricane when it gets to Florida....

[VenomJockey]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tropical...o-virgin-islands-florida-category-2-hurricane

Could cross Florida, restrengthen in the Gulf, and nail the Gulf Coast as well.

 

[Proud Prepper]

We are prepared for it. There are to many that are not.

 

[TexasFreedom]

Cat 2 is fairly light. What speed is it expected to be moving? My experience is that how long it sits above someone is just as important as what category it's running.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Now its forecasted to be Cat 3

 

[Kevin L]

I'm almost in the middle of the cone in Palm Beach County.

I've been through many hurricanes before, but my other half hasn't.

I was a relief worker after Hurricane Andrew with Humana and the Red Cross.

She has always criticized my preoccupation with prepping.

After this......maybe we'll be on the same sheet of music.

 

[VenomJockey]

Cat 2 is fairly light. What speed is it expected to be moving? My experience is that how long it sits above someone is just as important as what category it's running.

Now projected to be Cat III when it hits Florida.

https://www.clickorlando.com/weathe...tting-central-florida-as-category-3-hurricane

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at5.shtml?start#contents

 

[Kevin L]

I'm almost in the middle of the cone in Palm Beach County.

I've been through many hurricanes before, but my other half hasn't.

I was a relief worker after Hurricane Andrew with Humana and the Red Cross.

She has always criticized my preoccupation with prepping.

After this......maybe we'll be on the same sheet of music.

She always objected to the expense of a generator. After sitting with me in the 90° heat and 95% humidity for the three or four days before the power comes back......maybe she'll change her tune.

 

[Kevin L]

You see.....I can tough out extreme heat and humidity, as I work out, bicycle, and hike in the florida summer heat.....so I'm acclimated.

She's a softie, as she works indoors.

 

[grayghost668]

Hurricanes love Florida,,,,I spent 26 years there and never took a direct hit,the year after I left Jville was hit,,,I got out just in time

 

[KateMTx]

It's supposed to be a category 4 now.

 

[VenomJockey]

It's supposed to be a category 4 now.

Yep, this could get real nasty.

 

[Gazrok]

Wife and I are currently in Atlanta. But our daughter is home with all the animals. Currently...the track has it going right at us. Irma all over again. Just did this two years ago. We are fully prepped for it. I even boarded windows...but bad timing. Too expensive to cancel our trip. Supposed to fly back Tue. We'll see....if it isn't cancelled.

 

[TexasFreedom]

Sorry to hear about the bad timing. I thought you were further north, not central FL?

I think for those directly in the path that this is going to be much worse than Irma. Maybe further north FL will be similar (slow moving, lots of falling water). But east coast north of WPB is going to be destroyed. Go back 30 years & look at the damage from Andrew. A direct hit cat 4. But Andrew moved quickly saving further damage. From what they're showing, once Dorian hits, the brakes come on and it crawls. Rising water from falling water is going to cause as much damage as the initial hit. The slow move is what we faced with Harvey here in TX a couple of years ago. We had 30" of rain over a couple of days and I'm 100+ miles from the coast.

 

[Silent Earth]

UK media says its cat 4 now and strengthening towards cat 5, and eye is forming, stay safe my friends

 

[TexasFreedom]

Good news, right now the predictions are that it will make a hard right just BEFORE it makes landfall. BUT, who knows. I'd remain very cautious anywhere along the coastline. And there'll still be plenty of rain and wind even with it staying off shore. Stay alert.

 

[TexasFreedom]

Wow. Look at the map, Dorian has not moved at all over the past 24 hours. The 'northern Bahamas' are sitting just below the eye. When the hurricane finally moves, we'll see the level of destruction. I suspect it will be massive. Many 'homes' there are made of corrugated tin, little more than a cheap tool shed you might have in the back yard. Subject those to 100+ mph winds (let alone gusts/micro-tornados) and add both the falling water and rising waters, it's going to be very deadly. It's no accident that no major news have people in the Bahamas... they were smart enough to not send them to their deaths (or they refused to go!).

I wonder if the Clinton Foundation will organize to help the Bahamas, just like they did with Haiti. Where 1% of the money actually made it to the island.

 

[DrHenley]

Wow. Look at the map, Dorian has not moved at all over the past 24 hours.

The eye has finally moved offshore, which is an improvement. They are still in the inner bands however.

 

[TexasFreedom]

Wow. Bahamas have spent the last 3 days under the hurricane going from a cat 5 to a cat 2. Only now is the rain stopping. Initial aerial views show massive destruction. The two biggest islands had 70k people living there, and the highest land was 40 ft above sea level. I'd guess 50+k people are now 'homeless'. And probably 100's are dead/missing.

 

[DrHenley]

 

[Silent Earth]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...devastated-Bahamas-wake-Hurricane-Dorian.html