[OFF TOPIC] Weather Thread

[heywoodu 16,468]

Great Abaco Island is about to get screwed big time...really, really hope everyone has gotten out of there. That's (sustained!) wind speeds of 240 km/h and more..

 

 

Florida still projected to be in big trouble, especially if the hurricane indeed slows down after the Bahamas, that'd be terrible.

 

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[bestmen 2,926]

you can generate tones of giga mega watt of electricity with this wind

[heywoodu 16,468]

There it is, as expected Dorian has been upgraded to category 5, the strongest one. Northern part of the Bahamas about to be hit by 250 km/h winds.

[heywoodu 16,468]

All webcams on the north of the Bahamas have gone down, meaning one can assume power is out. It's now a matter of surviving for those unfortunate enough to not have been able to evacuate, and a matter of waiting for the rest until any sort of contact is possible.

Edited September 1, 2019 by heywoodu

[Olympian1010 8,313]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

All webcams on the north of the Bahamas have gone down, meaning one can assume power is out. It's now a matter of surviving for those unfortunate enough to not have been able to evacuate, and a matter of waiting for the rest until any sort of contact is possible.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think Great Abaco has a huge population. I think the majority of Bahamians live on the southern islands, but as I said I haven’t looked at a map of the Bahamas in a while. Either way this storm has taken a turn for the worse. 

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Just now, Olympian1010 said:

I could be wrong, but I don’t think Great Abaco has a huge population. I think the majority of Bahamians live on the southern islands, but as I said I haven’t looked at a map of the Bahamas in a while. Either way this storm has taken a turn for the worse. 

Yeah it's not the most populated area of the Bahamas, but people do live there and this is an absolute monster of a hurricane, one of the strongest ever in the entire Atlantic. The simple but sad truth is: people who for whatever reason didn't manage to evacuate - which of course is not always possible for some people, sadly - have a very serious chance to not be alive anymore come tomorrow morning.

[Olympian1010 8,313]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Yeah it's not the most populated area of the Bahamas, but people do live there and this is an absolute monster of a hurricane, one of the strongest ever in the entire Atlantic. The simple but sad truth is: people who for whatever reason didn't manage to evacuate - which of course is not always possible for some people, sadly - have a very serious chance to not be alive anymore come tomorrow morning.

I do know that the government of the Bahamas said the were trying to evacuate the northern islands yesterday so hopefully they were successful.

[Olympian1010 8,313]

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

Oddly enough Irma really didn’t do a crazy amount of damage, so hopefully this one goes the same way.