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MNCYWX said:
Seriously. It's mind boggling how dumb people are. That's a high end EF2 tornado, several miles wide, up most of the coast of Florida.

There will be widespread areas uninhabitable for weeks after this. Not only due to the wind, but storm surge and flooding rains. This is the real deal folks.
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Folks I know in Jamaica are experiencing angry responses. The Jamaican government got ahead of things to warn people, then the storm missed that island. Some people are loudly complaining that the government fooled or deceived them.

Sometimes, helping just doesn't work.
 
CycloneErik said:
Folks I know in Jamaica are experiencing angry responses. The Jamaican government got ahead of things to warn people, then the storm missed that island. Some people are loudly complaining that the government fooled or deceived them.

Sometimes, helping just doesn't work.
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Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Hurricane prediction is better but still not perfect. Better safe than sorry. Yes, you can over hype something too often such that it causes people to ignore the warnings. I get complacent about storm warnings, tornado watches here. When there's one everyday you just get complacent.

Better safe than sorry...
 
Down at Disney right now, shutdown parks early today and closed tomorrow. Resorts are pretty much closing down too, telling us to stay in rooms until at least Friday afternoon.
 
saw the Nightly News and interviews with multiple people riding it out because "it won't be that bad" "we can handle it" "Florida has had hurricanes before, this will be no different"

It's like natural selection via hurricane.

If I've got multiple days' warning that a devastating tornado-esque storm is coming straight at me with 15ft feet of water and I can get out, I'm getting the hell out of dodge.
 
Latest trends and models are trending towards no official landfall in Florida. It could still happen, and a narrow miss will still be damaging, but not nearly catastrophic as it could be. There's still plenty of time for things to change, and it doesn't mean that it won't do a bunch of harm farther up the coast (or if it does this crazy loop that some models predict and comes in for a 2nd pass).

Also, the storm currently has some organizational problems or changes occurring right now, which will likely have a large effect on the outcome of the next 24 hours.
 
cstrunk said:
Latest trends and models are trending towards no official landfall in Florida. It could still happen, and a narrow miss will still be damaging, but not nearly catastrophic as it could be. There's still plenty of time for things to change, and it doesn't mean that it won't do a bunch of harm farther up the coast (or if it does this crazy loop that some models predict and comes in for a 2nd pass).
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It's a Cat 4 literally 60 miles off the coast of major population centers. A near miss would be a miracle.
 
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dcorbatt said:
Seems like the biggest event out of this is the rescheduling of a football game... Typical over embellishment. Boring.
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Yes because when I hear about a natural disaster/massive storm, my first concern is how entertained I am as an observer.

Plus it's much better to overreact and have nothing happen than the opposite. And I don't think talking about a massive hurricane in which over 250 Haitians have died is an "over-embellishment"
 
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MeanDean said:
It's a Cat 4 literally 60 miles off the coast of major population centers. A near miss would be a miracle.
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And it's tracking nearly parallel to the coastline, so a change in course of 10-20 miles absolutely is possible and will be the difference in hundreds of millions or billions of dollars worth of damage.
 
Oh well, you are the perfect audience for this. I'm sure you will be get all excited for the snowmageddon that happens here in the Midwest every year, really exciting stuff! It's the knee jerk reaction I find irritating. "Jacksonville hasn't been hit by something like this in a 120 years"; jebus, I'm pretty sure there have been improvements in water management and construction since then... just silly. Yes, Haiti, that sucks; typical though.
 
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MeanDean said:
Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Hurricane prediction is better but still not perfect. Better safe than sorry. Yes, you can over hype something too often such that it causes people to ignore the warnings. I get complacent about storm warnings, tornado watches here. When there's one everyday you just get complacent.

Better safe than sorry...
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I said the same thing about floods and people beat me up for it.
 
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cowgirl836 said:
saw the Nightly News and interviews with multiple people riding it out because "it won't be that bad" "we can handle it" "Florida has had hurricanes before, this will be no different"

It's like natural selection via hurricane.

If I've got multiple days' warning that a devastating tornado-esque storm is coming straight at me with 15ft feet of water and I can get out, I'm getting the hell out of dodge.
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And if nothing happens they'll be right.
 
dcorbatt said:
Oh well, you are the perfect audience for this. I'm sure you will be get all excited for the snowmageddon that happens here in the Midwest every year, really exciting stuff! It's the knee jerk reaction I find irritating. "Jacksonville hasn't been hit by something like this in a 120 years"; jebus, I'm pretty sure there have been improvements in water management and construction since then... just silly. Yes, Haiti, that sucks; typical though.
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Ever been to Jacksonville? I'm confident the answer is "no".
 
Me with this thread

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