Ed Piotrowski has videos from outside the Space station of the storm.
https://twitter.com/EdPiotrowski
His ready, set, go plan seems like people would already know this, but maybe not.
READY 5-7 days ahead - put a kit together or stuff you will take with you or that you need if you stay where you are.
SET 3-5 days ahead - if in the cone, plan, prepare property and get ready to leave.
GO 1-3 days ahead - evacuate if ordered to or if you are along the coastline, if inland shelter.
If you home is not secure enough to withstand the wind, rain that may come to you area. LEAVE. Look at the video of the woman in Abaco. There is nothing she can do.
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Brad Panovich has his impact map, so you can understand what is coming your way.
https://twitter.com/reedtimmerAccu
https://twitter.com/ExtremeStorms
https://twitter.com/JimCantore
He has some video from 7 hours ago.
https://twitter.com/BlueLAskies
Shelf cloud in Vero Beach
You got a lot of people on this storm, lots of places to go for info. Utilize it. I saw reports that suggest when Dorian gets close to Florida it will be near Port Canaveral. You all know that is where they launch space shuttles from. You may also know that Trump wants to weaponize space, sending nukes up there to use at places down here if he thinks we are in a Space War. Well, God has to draw the line somewhere, I really don't think he wants us putting more stuff up there to launch on other nations. If Port Canaveral gets hit, I think we can assume God has spoken. Have a good night whippin' post.
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South Florida Representative Shevrin Jones has family in the Bahamas and put up footage on his twitter of their home.
Https://twitter.com/shevrinjones
Very scary.
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Dave Mackey in Freeport Bahamas reported his house is 15 feet and the water is 8 feet high. Officials are telling people to find anything that will float and grab hammers so they can break out of their attics where people are trapped. Others are stranded on rooftops.
The airport at Grand Bahama is under 5 feet of water and high tide has not hit yet.
Storm chaser Josh Morgerman has not reported in since yesterday when he left to go to Marsh Harbor to higher ground and holed up in a school his blog is
Https://www.twitter.com/icyclone
He tweeted fellow storm chasers he is okay but banged up.
Https://www.twitter.com/EarthUncutTv
James Reynolds site
Kris Jackson reportedly heard from him.
Https://www.twitter.com/Krisjack81
There is video from Abaco from Javier, no houses standing, just cars. The whole place levelled.
Https://www.twitter.com/drpavitol1
Https://www.twitter.com/EricBlake12
Abaco had 13,000 houses and 16,000 people. Mass deaths
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Melissa Tomlin has a great idea, Norwegian, Carnival and Royal Carribean cruise lines who benefit from Bahamas tourism should help bring supplies and give back to the islands that have given to them. The Royal British Navy is coming but the devastation is surreal.
For locals in the Bahamas who need rescue they can text to:
3595142
Officials have set that up for them.
Update: Royal Carribean is sending 1M [million] dollars to help with relief efforts.
Carnival Cruise Line will also send relief money.
If you are not following Miami Herald you should be.
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OMG the eye from the Space Station.
Https://www.twitter.com/AstroHague
Nick Hague, Astronaut on the Space Station.
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Good night Whippin' Post, and yes there was a tornado on Long Island today not near me though. Don't think it did much, we get these horrible what I call weather terror storms, torrential downpours, cloud to ground lightning, winds more than 50 mph. We don't have normal weather anymore.
Space weather is influencing regular weather with this storm per Tamitha Skov.
Https://www.twitter.com/TamithaSkov
A Happy Hurricane story.
https://www.causes.com/actions/1768789-pledge-to-help-the-voiceless-dogs-of-nassau-bahamas
These sweet animals did not even try to get in the bed with her, they were just thankful to find shelter, food and love in the storm. They will need to be adopted. This lady has also helped at least 1,000 dogs over the last four years when storms came.
Storm surge for Carolinas can be 7 feet. Hurricane force winds about 60 miles inland, tropical storm force winds 175 miles in. The wind-field is expanding due to the cold front. They say Long Island should be okay. So should Little Rhody. Connecticut had a tornado tonight. I have to start snoopin' on what's going on in the troposphere. There might be things going on that we don't know.
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Some islands were not effected. People can travel there. People could be rescued and taken there. Some airports are open.
There has been looting on Abaco and Grand Bahama. The Royal Bahama Defense Force Marines deployed and restoring law and order. The US is sending DEA agents and others to help out per Senator Marco Rubio's twitter page.
Https://www.twitter.com/bahamaspress
Https://www.twitter.com/marcorubio
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Https://www.twitter.com/WCKitchen
Https://www.twitter.com/chefjoseandres
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200,000 people are already without power. There is significant flooding in South Carolina, but what is worse is tht there are multiple tornadoes from within the storm that will be heading to North Carolina as it gets there. These are NOT water spout tornadoes, these are tornadoes from within the hurricane in the outer bands. At least 5 of them.
The eye is at least 50 or 60 miles wide and the windfield is 175 miles, will be more as it makes it's way up the coastline.
South and North Carolina you are looking at 6-12 inches of rain.
Sotheast Virginia 3-8 inches of rain, Norfolk and Virginia Beach can expect Hurricane Force wind GUSTS, your tropical storm winds are 39-72 mph, hurricane is above that. The storm is a Cat 2 105 mph winds with 125 gusts.
Northeast can expect 2-4 inches of rain.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT5+shtml/052051.shtml
Updated slosh forecast
https://slosh.nws.noaa.gov/psurge2.0/
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In the Bahamas there are victories and tragedies still occurring.
https://twitter.com/bahamaspress
The government got 200 body bags, they are telling people not to talk about all the dead people, but there are dead people floating in waters, there are sharks in the water also.
Good news:
20,000 meals have been loaded onto an “explorer vessel” that is being sent from Florida here to the Bahamas at the request of @chefjoseandres & his @wckitchen team. Meals will be prepared on the boat as the food is being brought here.
They delivered 2,000 sandwiches today, and planned 10,000 more tomorrow. They are even going to make the food on the boat while it is on it's 8 hr. trek to the Bahamas.
"Reporting in after a long day on Abaco and visiting Green Turtle Cay, where all 550 people survived! We @WCKitchen brought hot meals and heard incredible stories....They need a few things, but otherwise are okay!! #ChefsForBahamas"
AND 6 hrs. ago they already started delivering meals to Columbia County, North Carolina.
These guys are organnized.
While the storm has passed the Carolinas and the east coast, there may be people trapped in the Outer Banks of NC that need help. Flooding in South Carolina happened in just two hours.
007 "Shaken not stirred"
Sean Connery rode out Hurricane Dorian in his Bahamas home.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/06/sean-connery-says-he-was-lucky-to-survive-dorian-in-bahamas/
In an interview from his home there, he told the Scottish Daily Mail that he and his wife, artist Micheline Roquebrune Connery, were “both fine” and thanked people “for their concern.”
“We were lucky compared to many others,” said Connery, whose home is in the gated community of Lyford Cay on New Providence Island, which is about 95 miles from Great Abaco, which saw the greatest destruction. “The damage here was not great.”
He continued, “We had been prepared for the storm, everything was ready in advance — we weren’t taking any chances and knew what to do. It comes with living here, I suppose.”
https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/articles/sean-connerys-bond-lifestyle
He has a mansion in a gated community of Lyford Cay in New Providence Island, 95 miles from Great Abaco.
Since the Bond days he is now involved in activisim of a sort.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/bahamas-bond-beach-peter-nygard-home-battle
He is happily married but did he ever live the life like James Bond? Carly Simon reportedly said a few things.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hurricane-dorian-sean-connery-bahamas-mansion.print
In her new memoir, “Boys in the Trees,” Simon claims that in 1965, when she was 20, she and her 22-year-old sister, Lucy, met Connery aboard the SS United States traveling from England to New York. The sisters became friends with the then-35-year-old actor, and after having drinks with him one night, met him in his cabin.
There, he proposed having the ménage-à-trois — or as one of Carly’s friends called it, a “Simon sisters sandwich,” the book says. They turned him down.
Lucy, however, spent the following night with Connery, who was married to actress Diane Cilento at the time, and didn’t come back until 5:15 a.m. the next day, Carly Simon writes.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/carly-simon-reveals-who-inspired-youre-so-vain
[Warren Beatty]
Remarks: Hollywood will do that to you.
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Okay now you've had your morning Latte and entertainment, now it's time to get back to the seriousness of the situation in the Bahamas. The only people who will definitely survive are the ones getting on private charter boats. People are waiting in long lines to get on boats in Freeport to go to Nassau. Marco Rubio and a Florida delegation visited Abaco and says only the Department of Defense can get in the heavy logistical support needed to re-establish some sort of survival for these people. Rand Hospital has 10 beds that are filled, and the rest of the rooms are flooded out; even the hospital cannot provide normal services for injured people. You need some field hospitals, but the most basic thing is WATER. People have no food or water, in 3 days with no water, a person goes into kidney failure and dies. This cannot wait.
Can someone send in desalinization equipment to help provide water. Can someone send in construction equipment to move the debris, so that tents can be set up? Can you provide generators and gas to help power up food tents? Sleeping bags, tarps, cots, blankets, pillows basic things, toothpaste, toilet paper, dumpsters for refuse removal? FOOD: BOOST liquid nutrition 30 grams protein supplements can help. What about storage sheds that could be set up quickly like PODS to help store materials? Pre-fabricated structures that could be erected quickly?
Why can't the cruise lines show some concern and send some boats to shelter people? Can ferries be sent to help get people to safe lands?
You have 70,000 people who have no food, water or shelter. It really cannot wait, and I HATE to say this but guess what, the European weather model has another wave forming in TWO WEEKS around the 19th or 20th, the response to Dorian will take time to get things back to normal, unfortunately those people are under the gun for survival and if there is another hurricane in 2 1/2 weeks, they will probably die if it goes thru those islands again.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article234822797.html
Miami politicians went to Freeport, Bahamas Friday
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article234814477.html
people waiting in Freeport to board a cruise ship to Nassau
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article234833727.html
Thousands wait in Marsh Harbor Grand Abaco for transport off the island, private boat.
https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres
World Central Kitchen delivered food to St. Francis Shelter on Abaco
José AndrésVerified account @chefjoseandres 3h3 hours ago
Dear friends of the @uscoastguard We did 14k meals yesterday, 20k today we could do 30k if we had your support if you had a heli free. We goa marked sites and names of the places we need to bring food!
https://twitter.com/bahamaspress
Bahamas Press @Bahamaspress 1h1 hour ago
BP BREAKING| A 4th person has died in a wave of shootings in the capital last night. The mass shooting exercise has climbed the homicide count to 73.
https://twitter.com/marcorubio
Marco RubioVerified account @marcorubio 23h23 hours ago
Only the @DeptofDefense has the heavy lift & logistical capability to deliver &!distribute large amounts of relief aid in conditions such as those currently found in #Abaco. This is an URGENT need.
Marco RubioVerified account @marcorubio 20h20 hours ago
Marco Rubio Retweeted Marco Rubio
Great news. @USAID has formally requested that @USNorthernCmd provide heavy lift aerial support to bring in desperately needed aid to #Abaco #Bahamas. First task will be to get an airfield open & ready for large airlift of supplies.
https://twitter.com/ExtremeStorms
Jim EddsVerified account @ExtremeStorms 5h5 hours ago
#HopeTown a community that easily handled Hurricane Irene in 2011 was no match for Cat 5 #HurricaneDorain - on the egress. They need supplies. Let the floatplanes land for starters.
Other remarks: There has been a lot of money put out to help the victims, there is also some belief that there is corruption with Bahamian officials so the money/food is not getting to the people. You really need boots on the ground for this sort of thing. One person said they were just collecting the bodies, we have seen them being loaded on pick up trucks, and it is believed the govt. may just be burning the bodies, like garbage.
Trump needs to authorize waiving the visa requirement for the victims so that some of them can be transported here. Those cruise ships should sail some boats in there use portable ramps so docks can be set up to help them get on board. Feed them, house them, relocate them for now. WHY CAN'T THIS HAPPEN? These people have nothing.
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At least Royal Carribean is delivering some food.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/07/hurricane-dorian-survivors-bahamas
FREEEPORT, BAHAMAS 9-7-19
Phillip Smith, the executive director of the Bahamas Feeding Network, fronted efforts to deliver 20,000 meals to those most in need in Freeport. The aid had been provided by the cruise line giant Royal Caribbean earlier in the day. At present, he said, no aid had been provided directly by the government of the Bahamas, although assistance was being given by its National Emergency Management Agency (Nema).
The Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line is evacuating some 1,400 hurricane survivors, ferrying them from Freeport to West Palm Beach, Florida.
FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT, the islands are not livable and people have to be gotten off them.
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The next storm that we will have to keep a look out for is # 3 from the wunderground article. This may become something around September 23. The European model [and this is quite far out at this time] thinks it would be an Atlantic based storm.
We can't get all crazy about this, but you need to be aware of it. And even though some weather modification takes place with cloud seeding etc., remember that it is God who has the final say so, so let's say some mad scientists want to try to direct it one way of the other of have it hit some place to save some where else, utlimately God either allows it or not. When he allows disaster it is because people will be drawn back to him, and it is also an opportunity for others to help those who are sufferring from the disaster. He may not cause it, but he allows or does not allow it. That is the point and that is why.
[Sept 30 is Roshashannah - the Jewish New Year and there are many who believe Jesus was born in September.]
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While Dorian is away from our shores, it is still hurricane season which for us is now September thru November since the sub Saharan dust layer doesn't significantly decline till around now.
Trump has been probed for his map with Alabama in the cone of uncertainty while the people live with the stench of rotting bodies in the Bahamas. Cholera has been reported there as well.
There is another wave coming off Africa around September 23, I hope everyone gets over sharpie-gate by then. The models change all the time, even in the same day. With the next tropical storm/depression/hurricane all I would say is everyone in the oval office or anyone with access to it, should just step away from the sharpie. Let the naval research folks do their estimates and the nhc issue the warnings to people. As the changes happen, the President could update his twitter page since a lot of people go there.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2
More rain and gusty winds for the Bahamas.
60 percent change of formation by Monday next week.
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Every week there are more hurricanes and they keep going to Cat 3. Do they just want to get us used to the idea of them coming 2 or more a week, then start obliterating cities and coastlines?
When I can barely keep up with the long range forecasts it's bad. We have 3 on the map this week. 2 more next week and I think another one is rolling off Cape Verde.
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Karen:
Cat 3 or 4
Next Up:
While Lorenzo is scheduled to NOT hit any land here, the models better be right because it will be a Cat 4.
http://www.ral.ucar.edu/hurricanes/realtime/current/
Is that all? For now, but we having a bumper crop of hurricanes this year.
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Montana going to get something like 50 inches of snow.
Wyoming, not so much. 4.7 inches
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/1st-major-winter-storm-season-112831893.html
😉
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Hurricane season is NOT over yet. There will be a little something in the Gulf by the end of the weekend and there are a couple more waves that will be coming along that are not on the main stream maps yet.
As to the snowcast, this is what they say is normal, but we do not get normal anymore.
So wind, rain and tropical type stuff the end of next week, Thurs, Fri, and then Oct. 20 or later, I don't want to say a Sandy is possible, but I ain't likin'' the look of the possibilities. [maybe God doesn't like all this impeachment stuff!]
Whippin' Post!
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/misc/wxdisc11.txt
TROPICAL WAVES...
An Atlantic Ocean tropical wave is along 24W from 15N southward,
moving W at 10 kt. Clusters of scattered moderate to isolated
strong convection are from 04N-13N between 18W-30W.
An Atlantic Ocean tropical wave is along 47W/48W from 16N
southward, moving W at 10 kt. Scattered moderate convection is
from 05N-10N between 43W-55W.
An E Caribbean tropical wave is along 64W/65W from 20N southward,
moving W at 10 kt. Scattered moderate convection is over the
northern portion of the wave from 18N-23N between 60W-65W.
Scattered showers are elsewhere within 120 nm of the wave axis.
It ain't over yet.
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While the mid west got a blizzard with temps dropping 60 to 80 degrees in 24 hrs. Here we had some weird tropical storms trying but not succeeding in becoming a hurricane off the coastline whipping up 60 mph winds off the east end heading north towards Boston. Later today Tokyo getting a Cat 3 typhoon. Evacuations happening. Nobody has a plan for the 1.5 million in California who had the power turned off. How long will that go on? Will it effect Election Day?
[Edited on 10/12/2019 by gina]
Yep that was crazy that blizzard out west last week - we had an Oct 2005 blizzard in northern NE, Wildcat ski area turned on its lift for the occasion
Colors should be pretty near peak this wknd - thanks for the posts/links etc, cool knowing what the weather’s doing & where - that situation in Calif is strange alright - hopefully the typhoon in Tokyo isn’t too awful
