hurricane coming...

Two sub headlines on the WaPo right now, one hour apart:

Hurricane Laura’s ferocious winds, storm surge could be ‘unsurvivable’ along Texas, Louisiana coast

Some coastal Texas communities appear to have dodged much of Hurricane Laura’s wrath

I know it's happening in real time, but the reporting is not giving me a clear idea of what's happening.

My Galveston friend said she didn't get any storm surge, not even any rain.

Maybe I'm an idiot but what exactly is the metric for "unsurvivable"? Seems like the kind of word that should only be reserved for when the Earth is on course to be swallowed by the sun. I'd just stick with "catastrophic".

Seems the storm surge wasn’t nearly as bad as the Weather Channel hoped it would be.

I didn't even see any reports of fatalities, but maybe it is too early?

A 14-year-old girl in Louisiana was killed, the first confirmed U.S. death from the storm, a spokeswoman for the state’s governor said.

phew!!!

Hurricane Laura entered my state as a Category 1 hurricane.

My state is landlocked, 250 miles away from the nearest ocean.

Maybe I'm an idiot but what exactly is the metric for "unsurvivable"? Seems like the kind of word that should only be reserved for when the Earth is on course to be swallowed by the sun. I'd just stick with "catastrophic".

― Evan, Thursday, August 27, 2020 10:20 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was the forecast, which seems unsurvivable to me

The @weatherchannel making it pretty clear what the National Hurricane Center means when it says "unsurvivable storm surge" pic.twitter.com/y8J93RKHvY

— Brian Kahn (@blkahn) August 27, 2020

jeeeeesus

you should be fine if you have one of those force fields

Lol

t not looked into the marketing possibilities?
Seems about as realistic as most of what he's sold or tried to.

eeeeeeeeeeeee

🔊🔊🔊 SOUND UP

Listen to the wind inside this casino in Lake Charles as Hurricane Laura rips across the region with reports of winds over 120 mph! We're live with team coverage as the storm continues to impact the coastline and move inland. #HurricaneLaura #LAwx pic.twitter.com/1KQjuAiuCk

— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) August 27, 2020

Some inspired sound design by David Lynch, there. I didn't realize he was expanding the format of his daily weather briefings.

Hurricane Laura Dern

That is awesome

feel like as we send airplanes to scout out a hurricane's size and strength, we should send calstars to the bars in the storm's path

as long as there are no children, i mean

"this is a category 5 bar situation - children spread throughout the bar, often unaccompanied. also I bought five beers and didn't get a buyback yet."

Drunken Storm Hunters, premiering this fall

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/xgtwo/two_atl_0d0.png?111737

this is gonna be like 2005 where we go through the entire alphabet :/

feel better about the number of them not making landfall but only takes one

i see your thinking, neanderthal, but it's missing something important: MAGIC!

we don't have to worry about hurricanes getting more frequent and extreme. why? because that's not going to happen come on

i mean how depressing is that, it can't end like that

besides that's how the last one ended

I have such fond memories of Hurricane Wilma.

we didn't take any direct hits in Orlando that year, 2004 on the other hand....oi.

gonna get taken out by Hurricane Aaaaaaaaaa

hard times befallen the sole survivors

Sally needs to calm the fuck down.

Perhaps unprecedented: a tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean.

An area of low pressure over the Mediterranean Sea has developed characteristics of a tropical storm and has been named #Ianos by the National Observatory of Athens. It is expected to come ashore over southern Greece as a vigorous storm on Friday. #medicane pic.twitter.com/a6lF7pjwXW

— Met Office Storms (@metofficestorms) September 16, 2020

Hurricane Agamemnon

Replies on that tweet seem to suggest they usually get a couple each year

Another one set to hit Louisiana.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT26/refresh/AL262020_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/203711_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png

Spaghetti models keep shifting west, with current landfall in largely uninhabited wetlands of Vermillion Parish. If they keep shifting, its another hit (after Laura) on Cameron Parish. Possibly the least developed part of the US Atlantic coast, just what's left of wetlands after the oil companies were done. Abandoned canals through wildlife refuges, only gas stations and gun shops on the highway.

I mean, it's a hurricane. I'm sure it can muster muster to hit them both.

not sure why I repeated that.

shoulda cut the muster

Hey soul suster, ain't that muster muster...

Zeta

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT28/refresh/AL282020_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/151201_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png

Helluva job, brownie!

Grateful that it's moving pretty fast and isn't expected to get stronger than a Cat 1 because it's looking like a direct hit on Nola. In years past it'd be perfect conditions for a hurricane party.

Fuuuck, definitely gonna be a direct hit on the New Orleans area. Checked in with friends and family and everybody's still stocked up and ready from the last few near misses this year.

NOLA has some additional problems as two generator turbines in the century old electrical system (at 25 hertz), which runs half the drainage pumps, are down. The Sewerage & Water Board which runs the system is notoriously inept, probably the most hated government agency in the city.

There were (I think) at least two hurricanes that hit LA earlier this year - doesn't NOLA get hit with the rain runoff from the those? How has it been affected? Seems like a lot of water rushing down the Mississippi River this year. Or maybe not..

I'm a lot less worried about the rain than the wind. Been a long time since an eye passed over the city.

Watching wdsu now and the meteorologist is doing neighborhood by neighborhood breakdowns of how long til the eyewall hits. 10 minutes til it hits my dad's neighborhood. It's really booking it now, though.

Good luck!

Such a fast moving storm, supposed to be off the east coast by Friday!

Sounds like everyone's power is out, hoping for the best <3