hurricane coming...

high-rise building swinging :o

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/hurricane-category-6-this-is-how-world-ends-book-climate-change

The footage of cranes an scaffolding coming down is scary as shit.

what a delightful read

man, that thread of videos is something

A bunch of my coworkers are in Shenzhen right now. I had a plane ticket to be there too but an unexpected passport issue made me miss the trip :/

I can't tell if this is real or a clip from an upcoming Pacific Rim sequel

All my friends in #HongKong, #Shenzhen, #Guangzhou and #Macau, stay safe! 🙏🙏🙏 #typhoon #manghkut pic.twitter.com/i1bxK4Pbg6

— Pavel Šídlo (@PavelSidlo) September 16, 2018

So I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this hong kong footage. Thoughts to the millions of people who live there

uh

The wind is here 170km/h 😔 #Shenzhen, #HongKong, #Guangzhou, #Macau stay strong! #typhoon #manghkut pic.twitter.com/0LRNKL1tjl

— Pavel Šídlo (@PavelSidlo) September 16, 2018

Ok, pretty convinced at this point that clip I posted is fake. It's not any more terrifying than some of the legit clips floating around, though.

oh. i was more shocked by the footage of like, wind ripping up paving stones and knocking cranes off skyscrapers

3 more months. If the season goes by the old pattern .
I don't remember hearing much about the summer months in it. So is this about the heaviest time normally or doies it actually tend to get worse as the season continues.

I mean hurricane season is listed as June to November so a nice polite squall should stick to that schedule innit.

Not really that reassuring but there's some comfort in knowing that those swaying buildings are doing exactly what they're supposed to

^^^

what would winds like that do to brooklyn with its aging infrastructure?

Wait I thought godzilla was set in japan

Gulf hurricane season is generally at it's worst august-september.

One of our entire call centres is based in northern phillipines and is offline - most of them cant come to work, everythings wrecked.

We have one in Tarlac :(

Halfway through the China business day and I have 3 emails in my inbox. Normally by now I’d have idk 40. Did hear that everybody from the Asia office is ok and so are the visiting US folks* though they’re stuck in other cities and can’t get to SZ/HK.
*incl my manager

so this is just murder

Two mental health patients were left to drown after sheriff’s deputies drove their van into floodwater

BREAKING: APNewsBreak: Duke Energy says dam breached at plant in North Carolina; coal ash may be flowing into Cape Fear River

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 21, 2018

fuuuuuuuck

this one, i guess?

nope, it's the Sutton Steam Plant

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/09/21/dam-breach-reported-former-nc-coal-plant-raising-fears-that-toxic-coal-ash-may-pollute-cape-fear-river/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.27dcc2eaee50

NC journalist friend:

"This is a mega-disaster unfolding right in front of us. coal ash reaching not just the Neuse River but the Cape Fear. these are drinking water supplies, BTW."

pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2018/09/21/duke-energy-reporting-another-coal-ash-breach-at-sutton-shuts-down-nat-gas-plant/

sorry

https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2018/09/21/duke-energy-reporting-another-coal-ash-breach-at-sutton-shuts-down-nat-gas-plant/

Michael is another monster, 7 MPH shy of category 5 at this point.

I'm terrified for the Panhandle. Rapid intensification is normal these days. Only a matter of time when one heads for Miami-Dade and Broward.

two days ago i saw a mild headline about this tropical storm and now it's turned into a Katrina. it's shocking how fast they develop into catastrophic storms now, yeah.

live cam from Sharky's in Panama City Beach, the spot Michael seems to make making a direct run at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p6VgSxvh5c

Hurricane-force wind gusts, torrential rains, and a massive storm surge are belting Florida’s Panhandle as extremely dangerous Hurricane Michael closes in on an afternoon landfall. At 11:30 am EDT, the hurricane hunters found that Michael was still intensifying, with sustained winds of 150 mph and a central pressure of 923 mb. A storm surge of over seven feet was already affecting the Panhandle, inundating many escape routes. Michael is poised to be one of the most top-ten most intense hurricanes on record to make landfall in the U.S.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Potentially-Catastrophic-Hurricane-Michael-Nearing-Landfall-Florida-Panhandle

It's not even raining here in Lecanto.

Stations now reporting 116 mph gusts as eyewall comes ashore. Landfall will officially occur when the center of the eye (lowest pressure) transects the coastline ... just southeast of Tyndall AFB and NW of Mexico Beach. pic.twitter.com/JajQBWyyoC

— Ryan Maue | weathermodels.com (@RyanMaue) October 10, 2018

Goes to show you that you really should not be focused on the intensity forecasts 5 days out and should focus on the trajectory and err on the side of caution.

Forecasters have admitted intensification is hard to predict many days out and some were dismissive of the storm on Sunday as it was forecast to be only a Cat 1 before coming ashore.

Not as if a Cat 1 wouldn't have also been dangerous for coastal areas...but you pretty much can't bank on a storm being weak just cos an early forecast guesses so

Unbelievably horrifying strengthening continues. Hurricane Michael will likely be the 3rd strongest to hit continental United States in last 167 years. Central pressure down to 919mb. Only stronger storms have been 1935 Labor Day and Camille. pic.twitter.com/ngqoovoMNm

— Ryan Hanrahan (@ryanhanrahan) October 10, 2018

looks like the Sharky's cam switched to the Pineapple Willy's cam now

whoa

Watch closely and you'll see the beaches surrounding Saint Andrew Sound pass underneath the eye of #Michael pic.twitter.com/nx24eqKnAx

— Dan Hawblitzel (@dhawblitzel) October 10, 2018

HURRICANE DESTRUCTION: Hurricane Michael is tearing through Panama City Beach, Florida. Ripping away roofs, flooding condos and throwing debris everywhere. pic.twitter.com/7tuHkPGIvI

— ABC 13 News - WSET (@ABC13News) October 10, 2018

I've relatives who live here. It's Deniersville, so I frankly hope for limited loss of life, but sufficient loss of wealth to change some minds.

Since 1990, meterologists have gotten way better at predicting where a hurricane is going.

But forecasts of hurricane *strength* haven’t really improved.

That’s why Hurricane Michael’s speedy transformation into a record-breaking Category 4 is alarming. https://t.co/iDeUx5JLqs

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) October 10, 2018

It traveled the yellow hot ocean road. No surprises for the physical modelers.

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2018/anoma.10.8.2018.gif

this is that sweet sanpaku content i pay $50/month for on ilx premium

sanpaku is mvp at these times

Reading that article in the economic environment it’s smashing, i keep angrily thinking trump can go free-throw some paper towels and see how popular he is.

that first video posted by mookieproof is something

it was extremely odd recently to look up in the sky to the south/southeast of Los Angeles and see these massive, strange-appearing storm clouds and knowing that they were from a rare Pacific hurricane that was dissipating after coming ashore in Mexico. Los Angeles was actually grazed by a hurricane once, in 1858. i wonder if we might see another one at some point, considering everything w/climate change.

a lot of people who stayed behind remain unaccounted for right now

some of those scenes in FLA are horrific

Here's a weird one-

Hurricane Leslie has been wandering around the Atlantic for a while now (not as a hurricane). It's now heading toward Portugal (!).

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/233734.shtml?cone#contents