We'd be glad to take it off your hands. We tend to get real dry this time of year and tropical storms are often the only things that bring us relief. Good luck down there.
There is a chance the storm will turn north and never even touch land, but it seems the media wants to keep everyone hyped up about a Cat-4/5 hitting a heavily populated South Florida.
It's good for ratings. However, the Cone of Uncertainty you just posted appears to have shifted a little further south since yesterday...
Ratings, yes. The worse the situation, the better for the media. The Euro-Model has been showing south all along, actually hitting Miami-Dade & Ft Lauderdale from South-East angle, and the US model was as far North as Jacksonville. Today the Euro-model is the same, but the US model has come down to West Palm Beach, so the two models are nearing each other. However, they show slowing, which might allow for the storm to turn North.
May be Category 4 by landfall on Monday. I went to call a friend who lives there and he was already at his daughter's in West Virginia. I hope not, Cat 4 is just under God's Own Apocalypse. Andrew was the only confirmed Cat 5 I know of and it just flattened everything
Be safe down in Florida: I guess the beautiful climate and lifestyle makes it worth living in a place that regularly gets pounded like this. Personally, I'll take winter any day. Hope nobody gets hurt.........
Vote for skirting the Atlantic Coast and hitting New Jersey & New York flooded streets of Manhattan where the Wall St. people live. Vote and vote again! You got a better, more deserving geo-candidate Moi of Hurricane FREE California
I'm one of those rare birds, a native. I could not imagine living anywhere else. Moved twice in my life, a hundred miles south, each time. If I keep moving at that rate, I'll retire in Cuba Only ever been badly effected twice in my life (like power off for days, lots of storm damage all over town) 20 miles can make a huge difference and especially being on the east side of the eye. Not where you want to be but exactly where I was during Irma. Was sad, so many great live oaks down, all over town.
We get massive forest fires that burn down whole towns but nothing like storms you get. When I was visiting Mexico in my youth we were supposed to get hit by a big Hurricane. We had rented a condo with a picture window right on the beach so like idiots we stocked up on Pacifico and decided to watch the storm come in from the front row. Talk about stupid, huh? Luckily the storm veered to the north and all we got was some heavy rain. After watching storms like Katrina and Irma on the news I'll never take nature for granted like that again. Be safe, my friend.....
If it gets there at all it will be as a remnant of its former self. Indeed, some of the maps I've seen seem to have it lucky to even survive Florida. OTOH it is now still some hundreds of miles at sea. Moving slowly over superheated water, and the Spaghetti model is really Spaghetti, there is a dominant pattern but divergent paths are all over the place. Can that many supercomputers be that wrong? I hope this is not FEMA's nightmare, a monster moving up the East coast, little diminished the whole way. It is well known that FEMA cannot pay that many claims and Trump has as little sympathy for storm victims as he does for anyone else.
Out to sea but hugging the coast would be the worst case scenario. The most populated part of the state would get the worse of the storm without the break of the eye and no land interaction to weaken the storm.
I've been following this storm closely because of the business I'm in probably a little too closely to be honest. The talking heads on the Weather Channel have been commenting on the Northern turn being a possibility with increased frequency over the last several hours. That would be terrific news if it happened but of course that will also mean that people in the future might have less faith in a future storm track despite the fact that they always left that possibility open. There are literally 15 million people preparing for a hit by the storm I'm on the west coast and it's crazy.
I strongly recommend that anybody that is deep in the cone with likelihood of at least some impact in addition to the standard preparations take that smartphone and do a quality video of the house inside and out. Video everything from the contents of your drawers and closets to furniture, etc. It's the best way to be able to recreate an inventory because the vast majority of people don't have one, myself included.
Of course Dorian is aiming straight for Boca Raton. The ex PM of Canada said she hopes it hits Mar-a-lago. Well I hope it skims through the Atlantic full steam ahead and heads straight for her house -wherever it is. Better yet, let it be like the Long Island Express in the 1930's and hit South Hampton. People in Connecticut were sitting on their roofs as they floated away. Problem is the estates along the beach are insured by the Federal government so they lose nothing, we do. I want you to know that it has been raining continuously now for over a month in S. Florida - maybe two? Finally it stopped, and now we have this. Aghhh!
Petering off into the North Atlantic would be great, but seems very unlikely. Even if it paralells the coast, with only the West side hitting, that would be a blessing.
