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

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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.
 
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.
 
Kevin L said:
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.
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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.
 
KateMTx said:
It's supposed to be a category 4 now.
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Yep, this could get real nasty.

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Silent Earth said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...devastated-Bahamas-wake-Hurricane-Dorian.html
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Hate to see the damages done in the Bahamas....now, imagine if this monster would have hit the W. Palm Beach area as a Cat 5, crossed Florida into the Gulf, restrengthened and then nailed the Gulf Coast! Be glad this thing turned North when it did.

But the U.S. mainland isn't out of the woods yet..still have almost two months to go, and there is another one forming off the Africa Coast that is heading due West and may well make it to the Caribbean and into the Gulf of Mexico. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php

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I have seen news reports of people in the Bahamas getting desperate, frustrated, and under extreme stress. I think if these people would have had prepared, all their preps would have blown away. Now they are reliant on their government. Not a good place to be.
 
DP,

"Prepping" also involves your choice of places to live. Living on a flat island in the Carribean would not be a good choice.

And, you prep for the likely scenarios. A hurricane there would be prep #1. That means storing your preps in a way that will survive a hurricane. That would mean a buried storage.

Of course, most people there live in such poverty that 'prepping' means having tomorrow's meal planned. Living in a 10x10 tin lean-to is a different realm that we can imagine.

I'm not faulting the people there. And their gov't is completely unprepared and incompetent. So if they are to be saved, they will require other countries to step up. Everyone always looks to the US to "save them", then turn around and spit in our eye the next week.
 
I used to live in Komifornia, then in Kentucky --- now in Arizona. komifornia had the nasty surprise earthquakes. Kentucky had those yearly tornadoes. Arizona, nothing, no natural disasters. So it is much easier to plan for SHTF, you can pretty much bet it will be a man made problem.
 
Urbanprep said:
I used to live in Komifornia, then in Kentucky --- now in Arizona. komifornia had the nasty surprise earthquakes. Kentucky had those yearly tornadoes. Arizona, nothing, no natural disasters. So it is much easier to plan for SHTF, you can pretty much bet it will be a man made problem.
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Arizona has a man made problem, MS13. :) I am only kidding... well sort of... my aunt lives there and complains about them. She is moving back to Texas at the end of this month.
 
DrPrepper said:
I have seen news reports of people in the Bahamas getting desperate, frustrated, and under extreme stress. I think if these people would have had prepared, all their preps would have blown away. Now they are reliant on their government. Not a good place to be.
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Agreed, if they had preps that didn’t blow away or get flooded then they would have to deal with desperate looters now. Bugging out would have been the only wise thing to do for this storm.
 
So glad this missed us. I still have debris to haul off from 2 yrs ago's storm. This time, my wife and I were on a trip in GA, so weren't home, and our daughter was home alone with all the animals (including a full stable of horses). So we were pretty worried.

The day before we left, was all storm prep, just in case. (boarding windows, etc.). At one point, we were this close to scrubbing the vacation.... So glad we didn't.
 
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