Howdy, my dear Americans So, what are your expectations of hurricane Irma? Prepared yet? Texas lessons learned?
Some of the models have it coming our way like very close by my way--with one right over my city-- and some just have us in what would be the outer bands, so I am waiting to see. Will be a tropical depression at worst if it passes over us. I am not sure how much preparedness one really needs in my situation beyond normal preparedness like having candles, battery powered lights, Muppet bandaids and the like. Worst case scenario is a fifth of 60 year old scotch and several jars of home-grown pickled goodness to get me through the apocalypse.
Mine is over 7000 feet, I just have to worry about snow and lighting up here. Fricken clouds are so low you can almost touch them and when the lighting goes off its horrendous. Can't even go outside its so scary. And it doesn't just snow gently, it dumps, like feet of snow in an hour it seems like. Go into work easily then come out and your car is buried.
You get some very interesting weather up in Flag. You frequently get a lot of winter storms that miss us completely in the Denver - Colorado Springs metro areas. Right now we've got a lot of haze from the fires in the Pacific Northwest and Montana. It's been about a month since we've had any rain. I guess we'll have fires here, too, soon.
Do you guys do controlled burns out there? You can't walk around the forest up here without seeing piles of dead brush gathered up. During burn season you can look at the skyline and see them lighting them all up, its pretty cool. Of course this is timber country, if it goes up there is nothing to really stop it. Getting resources up here would take forever. I've never been to your neck of the woods.
Normally we get remnants of a hurricane that brings needed rain...but Harvey brought us none, and the forecast seems to be dry and sunny. I feel for all those millions of people that have to deal with this....
Still an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane... Weakened Irma Still 'Extremely Dangerous' September 08, 2017 - The National Hurricane Center says Irma is "moving through the southeastern Bahamas as an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane." See also: Mesh Networks Can Keep People Connected During Natural Disasters September 02, 2017 — Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are a threat not only to human life but also to telecommunication systems. When they go down, entire cities and communities are cut off from each other. Mesh networks, however, can get people connected again, and during emergencies they can be a crucial link to information. "It really all boils down to the 'central point of failure' problem," said Daniela Perdomo. "If the central infrastructure goes down, everyone who plugs into it is also disconnected."
Evacuated my relatives and am hosting them while the storm comes in, and will support them until they are able to return.
Thank city liberal tree huggers for no burns. Burn off is routine here. Among the many reasons, burn areas also then are fire walls meaning wild fires can be contained.
You are merely exhibiting ignorance of the situation. Evacuation just wasn't possible. The scale of Harvey was not known until the last minute and during the storm. You are just another armchair quarterback
