Hurricane Irma - the final blow to Texas? [closed-see new thread]

[Scion7]

Assuming it doesn't veer N/NE and exterminate Devon and Somerset, could this storm be the hammer-blow that destroys Gurn's Haydn collection?
Where is Superman???!?   

[Mirror Image]

I think it's too early to tell what it's going to do. Hurricanes are unpredictable. All they can do is continue to chart it's development right now.

[amw]

Irma is more likely to hit Haiti/Dominican Republic and the Atlantic coast if it makes landfall anywhere at all. Texas will probably be fine (for now).

[Gurn Blanston]

Assuming it doesn't veer N/NE and exterminate Devon and Somerset, could this storm be the hammer-blow that destroys Gurn's Haydn collection?
Where is Superman???!?   

Nah, Texas and Haydn are bigger than any 2 storms. Actually, it will veer northwest quite a bit, possibly hitting the east coast of the US, but not for certain. I would say that for it to come here would be poor timing. However, we got Katrina and Rita here within the same month, so we know how to take a storm. I would be more concerned right now if I was John...

[Spineur]

It is still early to have a reliable trajectory.  According to the meteologists it has a fair chance to hit florida, and the odds it may hit lousiana and texas are for the time being small.
Unfortunately the climate change will make these hurricane more and more powerful.  They are heat engine and the hotter the ocean gets the more energy is fed into them.  Inescapable consequence of thermodynamics.

[kishnevi]

Nah, Texas and Haydn are bigger than any 2 storms. Actually, it will veer northwest quite a bit, possibly hitting the east coast of the US, but not for certain. I would say that for it to come here would be poor timing. However, we got Katrina and Rita here within the same month, so we know how to take a storm. I would be more concerned right now if I was John...

Never mind John. He's inland.  I'm 12 miles inland from the Florida coast!

[Mirror Image]

Nah, Texas and Haydn are bigger than any 2 storms. Actually, it will veer northwest quite a bit, possibly hitting the east coast of the US, but not for certain. I would say that for it to come here would be poor timing. However, we got Katrina and Rita here within the same month, so we know how to take a storm. I would be more concerned right now if I was John...

As Jeffrey correctly points out, I'm inland and in mountainous country.

[Gurn Blanston]

As Jeffrey correctly points out, I'm inland and in mountainous country.

If you are (as I thought) in Atlanta, I don't imagine you are out of range of a truly large hurricane. I am 175 miles from the coast, and since I have lived here we have been badly affected (rain) several times and outright run over twice (Rita and Ike).  Just pointing out the possibility. Also, we are in the 400'+ above sea level, not exactly 'mountainous' but not sea level by a long shot either! 

[Gurn Blanston]

Never mind John. He's inland.  I'm 12 miles inland from the Florida coast!

I only picked him because he had already posted in this thread. Indeed, if it decides to run over Florida, well, that's what it's gonna do. I already took part in one Florida evacuation (Ivan in 2006(?)) from Greater Tampa, and I know what a freaking ordeal it is. I wouldn't hesitate to get a head start if it's lookin' like it...

[Scion7]

"I'm sorry, Mr. Gurn, but we have sent you several letters over the past 8 months strongly warning you to get flood insurance on your policy.  Therefore, your $6800 claim against your Haydn music collection must be ... denied.



. . . No ... NO!  That's impossible!!!  Nooooooooooooo . . .

[Gurn Blanston]

"I'm sorry, Mr. Gurn, but we have sent you several letters over the past 8 months strongly warning you to get flood insurance on your policy.  Therefore, your $6800 claim against your Haydn music collection must be ... denied.



. . . No ... NO!  That's impossible!!!  Nooooooooooooo . . .

$6800? That's just what I told my wife... 

The track of this thing looks interesting, once it clears that HI in the Atlantic, it looks like it's gonna hang a sharp right and bowl right into Florida. Be nice if it stayed offshore...

[Spineur]

Current forcast:

French Caribbean->Porto Rico->Haiti Domincan Republic->Cuba->Florida
Wont get to Florida (it it gets there) until next Sunday

[Mirror Image]

If you are (as I thought) in Atlanta, I don't imagine you are out of range of a truly large hurricane. I am 175 miles from the coast, and since I have lived here we have been badly affected (rain) several times and outright run over twice (Rita and Ike).  Just pointing out the possibility. Also, we are in the 400'+ above sea level, not exactly 'mountainous' but not sea level by a long shot either! 

I don't live in Atlanta (thankfully), but I'm about 56 miles NE of the city and about 310 miles from the eastern coast. We get rain and thunderstorms, which pop up mainly in the spring through early autumn sporadically, but if the hurricane hits Charleston, SC for example, we'd get the rain, but very little else I'd imagine.

[Karl Henning]

Never mind John. He's inland.  I'm 12 miles inland from the Florida coast!

Stay dry, friend!

[Mirror Image]

Stay dry, friend!

+1

[Gurn Blanston]

I don't live in Atlanta (thankfully), but I'm about 56 miles NE of the city and about 310 miles from the eastern coast. We get rain and thunderstorms, which pop up mainly in the spring through early autumn sporadically, but if the hurricane hits Charleston, SC for example, we'd get the rain, but very little else I'd imagine.

Ah, I have a good mental picture of that area. I used to fly into Atlanta and do business, then rent a a car and drive through Athens to Newberry SC. Yes, you are back there a ways. Nice country around there too. It would be a pity, wunnit, if sumpin' was to 'appen to it... 

[Mirror Image]

Ah, I have a good mental picture of that area. I used to fly into Atlanta and do business, then rent a a car and drive through Athens to Newberry SC. Yes, you are back there a ways. Nice country around there too. It would be a pity, wunnit, if sumpin' was to 'appen to it... 

Very cool, Gurn. It'd be a pity if something happened to any land of beauty.

[Gurn Blanston]

Very cool, Gurn. It'd be a pity if something happened to any land of beauty.

Couldn't agree more. Y'all have some damned impressive trees there, I must say. We lost a couple million acres back in Ike (2008). What a blow! 

[snyprrr]

I get it! Texas must be full of nazis and white supreamers That's what they get for open carry

[Scion7]

It's still too early for an accurate forecast of the track, but a little while ago the 'middle' prediction was Cuba and then into the Gulf . . . aackk!