billybob Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 13 minutes ago, JohnJ said: Can you still see the remnants of the Flagler railroad buttresses beside the road south of Key Largo? If you go down there you should at least be cognizant of that storm about a hundred years ago. Never been below Marathon but, think there are remnants of the old road to the keys and some railroad presence from awhile ago in history. A tourist would know maybe for sure or a south Florida native. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 9 hours ago, JL Sargent said: Right now most models predict this storm will go right up the Eastern Seaboard or over land and not in the Gulf of Mexico. I think it's safe to say that Florida if Fk'ed, she'll be a Cat 10 by the time she reaches FL. I feel an IBC wind code change in the not to distant future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted September 6, 2017 Author Moderators Share Posted September 6, 2017 185 Mph winds Pressure 916 mb. The only "good" outcome.for.S. Fla is ot hits Cuba, or South of Cuba and then it het sucked into Gulf where it can regroup and slam into us somewheres else. I agree with @Gilbert, I think they are going to have to reconfigure the Saffir-Simpson scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted September 6, 2017 Author Moderators Share Posted September 6, 2017 3 hours ago, JohnJ said: Can you still see the remnants of the Flagler railroad buttresses beside the road south of Key Largo? If you go down there you should at least be cognizant of that storm about a hundred years ago. Yes, there are many sections left and they are incorporating those into the Flordia Overseas Heritage.Trail. I think that Huricane that wiped out a lot of Flagler's Folly was.the Labor Day Hurricane. When did they start naming them? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted September 6, 2017 Author Moderators Share Posted September 6, 2017 I thinknthey are going to run out of names soon Alphabetical List of Retired Atlantic Names Agnes 1972 Alicia 1983 Allen 1980 Allison 2001 Andrew 1992 Anita 1977 Audrey 1957 Betsy 1965 Beulah 1967 Bob 1991 Camille 1969 Carla 1961 Carmen 1974 Carol 1954 Celia 1970 Cesar 1996 Charley 2004 Cleo 1964 Connie 1955 David 1979 Dean 2007 Dennis 2005 Diana 1990 Diane 1955 Donna 1960 Dora 1964 Edna 1968 Elena 1985 Eloise 1975 Erika 2015 Fabian 2003 Felix 2007 Fifi 1974 Flora 1963 Floyd 1999 Fran 1996 Frances 2004 Frederic 1979 Georges 1998 Gilbert 1988 Gloria 1985 Gustav 2008 Hattie 1961 Hazel 1954 Hilda 1964 Hortense 1996 Hugo 1989 Igor 2010 Ike 2008 Inez 1966 Ingrid 2013 Ione 1955 Irene 2011 Iris 2001 Isabel 2003 Isidore 2002 Ivan 2004 Janet 1955 Jeanne 2004 Joan 1988 Joaquin 2015 Juan 2003 Katrina 2005 Keith 2000 Klaus 1990 Lenny 1999 Lili 2002 Luis 1995 Marilyn 1995 Matthew 2016 Michelle 2001 Mitch 1998 Noel 2007 Opal 1995 Otto 2016 Paloma 2008 Rita 2005 Roxanne 1995 Sandy 2012 Stan 2005 Tomas 2010 Wilma 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Not sure, my mother remembers being scared at Flora McDonald College (NC sandhills) by Hazel in `54. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 To my Florida friends: stay safe! IF you find yourself needing a place to retreat to I can offer my unoccupied home in Dallas, GA (Atlanta area) sans furniture but has appliances. This house is on the market but if you need a safe haven for a bit it can be made available. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickdj1 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Fellows, none of these things coming our way are good and should not be taken lightly. These storms of 2017 are monsters and Jose is right behind Irma. This will be a devastating hurricane season. I was in Puerto Rico 6 months ago and that Island paradise will not be the same experience for a longtime. The upcoming devastation marks an historic hurricane seans that has a later half to it. Stay safe my friends and get out of harms ways. No second guesting mother nature, she does not loose! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Latest computer models as of this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 When I was working in Greenland in 1973 we had a storm of 168 knots (not mph, that's when the anemometer blew away which was documented on the recorder) that blew the metal roof off the steel/concrete reinforced building including the radar antenna and the 60 ft. fiberglass/plywood radome. The wind would pick up small stones and hurl them at the building and sandblast the metal shell. The windows were triple pane, each pane 1/4" thick with wire reinforcement and the stones would just bounce off. I don't know what the glass was made of. I did take 16mm films of it but the furious nature of the storm was not apparent on the film. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 This is most likely scenario apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Yeah, I agree. Here is one from my NOAA app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 2 hours ago, JL Sargent said: Latest computer models as of this morning. I don't like the green line to the right. That's Wilmington, NC. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Don't trust any prediction that's more than 3 days out. They're virtually always wrong. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 I don't know. This thing is so big, the only way it's going miss anything is by taking a hard right back out to the Atlantic - which isn't likely to happen. I think Florida is screwed - hopefully the thing loses some steam before it gets there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 That's the big question. How much strength will Irma have when it hits South Florida? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 20 minutes ago, Tarheel said: I don't like the green line to the right. That's Wilmington, NC. My son is in Law Enforcement in N Myrtle Beach. LE has already let everybody know it's all hands on deck starting this week. If you follow that green line it goes right through Baltimore/DC area. Not good. Speaking personally there is a red line that reaches into southern West Virginia! We've had rain from dissipated hurricanes but never hurricane level wind and rain, at least not that I can remember, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 12 hours ago, dwilawyer said: I think that Huricane that wiped out a lot of Flagler's Folly was.the Labor Day Hurricane. I have relatives who live there and as a kid I spent a summer in Key Largo. They still talk about that hurricane. It literally scraped the topsoil off the coral. Many bad decisions were made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 There is a movie about that in black and white. Key Largo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 35 minutes ago, Deang said: I don't know. This thing is so big, the only way it's going miss anything is by taking a hard right back out to the Atlantic - which isn't likely to happen. I think Florida is screwed - hopefully the thing loses some steam before it gets there. It IS big but the farther you are away from the eye, the less damage you'll see. I know that sounds obvious but 50 miles can make a huge difference in what type of conditions you'll see and eye predictions aren't that accurate at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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