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les snyder

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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #70 on: September 19, 2017, 07:54:50 AM »
Rastus... on of my lessons learned was that a power strip to run all of the chargers off a single outlet was desirable, rather than having them scattered about...picked up a power strip, spare chain for my saw, and a 100' extension cord... you never have too many 5gal buckets...other than that the preps worked... had only one night with objectionable heat to sleep in, and the tent fan motor turning my ceiling fan made it bearable...as a courtesy, I did not run the generator after 10pm... we dodged one this time, with wind speeds just shy of 80mph here in New Port Richey

would like to see a weather/short term emergency topic... I have lots of suggestions ...stay safe

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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #71 on: September 19, 2017, 08:09:58 PM »
Still in rough format and am working on getting the UK and European 3 day forecast plotted as well.

Here are my plots on how well the NHC did, or didn't do.  Of course their biggest error was the week before it hit when they said it would go up the east coast, which it didn't.

In fairness the tracks are only with 20-40 miles of accuracy, and I had to interpolate them, since the forecasts are a 3am, 9am, 3pm, and 9pm while the locations are posted at noon, 6pm, 12am, & 6am.



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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #72 on: September 20, 2017, 03:52:29 AM »
It looks like St. Croix and Puerto Rico will be gone as we know them after today. Is there anything left in the Caribbean? These cruise ship companies are going to go out of business. It's going to be years before some of these places return to post Irma / Maria normality. I doubt some ever will.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #73 on: September 20, 2017, 12:48:15 PM »
Quote from: billt on September 20, 2017, 03:52:29 AM
It looks like St. Croix and Puerto Rico will be gone as we know them after today. Is there anything left in the Caribbean? These cruise ship companies are going to go out of business. It's going to be years before some of these places return to post Irma / Maria normality. I doubt some ever will.

Yep.

I read that a couple of the smaller islands lost over 90% of their buildings during Irma's tirade.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #74 on: September 20, 2017, 04:39:46 PM »
They're now saying power is out over the entire island of Puerto Rico. And some areas will not have power for 6 months!
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #75 on: Today at 02:24:32 AM »
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #75 on: September 20, 2017, 05:13:03 PM »
Quote from: billt on September 20, 2017, 04:39:46 PM
They're now saying power is out over the entire island of Puerto Rico. And some areas will not have power for 6 months!

Welcome to the Dark Ages P.R.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #76 on: September 21, 2017, 06:45:40 PM »
They have done such a good job of running their country.  Their young and industrious citizens shagged it for the continent.  Those who are left are pretty much getting what they think they wanted.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #77 on: September 22, 2017, 03:57:19 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on September 20, 2017, 05:13:03 PM
Welcome to the Dark Ages P.R.

3 million residents with 80 billion in debt!

WTF???
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #78 on: September 22, 2017, 06:45:45 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on September 22, 2017, 03:57:19 PM
3 million residents with 80 billion in debt!

WTF???

And they are looking to Uncle Sugar to take care of the problem they built.  Let 'em rot!!!!
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #79 on: September 22, 2017, 07:56:08 PM »
Quote from: fatbaldguy on September 22, 2017, 06:45:45 PM
And they are looking to Uncle Sugar to take care of the problem they built.  Let 'em rot!!!!

Unca Sugar is 20 trillion in the hole, too!
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