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re: Hurricane Irma - Spinning Down
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:52 pm to member12
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:52 pm to member12
AF uses C130's. NOAA uses Orions. I've asked, but never found an answer as to the difference between what the AF does and what NOAA does. What's amazing is they've never lost a plane in one of these weather missions, not even when they were using piston driven aircraft shortly after WWII.
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Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:52 pm to member12
I get that moving that many prisoners is a big deal, especially when you can't be 100% sure where to take them right now, but that seems like a huge risk.
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:53 pm to HogX
...POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE IRMA NEARING THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS... ...WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE OVER THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS SOON...
5:00 PM AST Tue Sep 5
Location: 17.1°N 59.8°W
Moving: W at 15 mph
Min pressure: 926 mb
Max sustained: 185 mph
5:00 PM AST Tue Sep 5
Location: 17.1°N 59.8°W
Moving: W at 15 mph
Min pressure: 926 mb
Max sustained: 185 mph
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:54 pm to GetCocky11
What a view. If you are going to be locked up, this is where you want to be.
1 hour outside includes snorkeling and beach volleyball
1 hour outside includes snorkeling and beach volleyball
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:54 pm to Duke
Can't even comprehend the power of a storm like this.
Those poor islands.
Those poor islands.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:55 pm to slackster
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If it stays with 185 mph winds, no one will stream from the eye wall. Wind gusts will flip a vehicle with ease, and the majority of structures will fail.
Some ppl out there don't seem to get the gravity of how catastrophic a storm like this could/will be. It's all fun and games with storm chasers and such, and then a Cat 5 strikes, and suddenly nobody's joking anymore. This is the real deal.
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:55 pm to LaBR4
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what a view. If you are going to be locked up, this is where you want to be
I don't see many windows.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:55 pm to member12
So they say it is Cat 5 proof....So has it been tested in a real Cat 5 with no people? If not I'm hoping (if Irma hits that area...hopefully it doesn't hit anywhere) that they get everyone out of there to let this be the test....I'm hoping they don't do a manned run as the first test....that would be dumb.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:56 pm to LadyTigress
NOAA2 is now in the air headed to Irma
hopefully doing lower level recon
hopefully doing lower level recon
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:56 pm to LSUGrrrl
That prison may be built to withstand some cat 5 winds but not cat 5 storm surge. Whoever decided to build a prison there was a moron, and whoever decided not to evacuate the prisoners is a moron. Now would be the time to do it long before shite gets real and personnel would be needed elsewhere.
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:56 pm to Jim Rockford
I can't for the life of me understand how an airplane can fly through 200mph+ crosswinds. It seems like it would flip the plane on its side.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:56 pm to lsuman25
How far out from the eye do the most extreme winds reach?
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:56 pm to lsuman25
LSUMAN why does the track only say west when it seems to have gained some latitude since the 2pm NHC positing? appears to have moved .2 north .7 West.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:57 pm to LaBR4
Unless that thing is watertight it wont withstand a storm surge. RIP drowned prisoners.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:57 pm to Duke
Noaa plane just took off for Irma I am kinda nervous what they will find.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:58 pm to HogX
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I'd imagine his street cred is off the charts currently. He'll be running his own prison gang by the time it's over
I don't think we'll see that kind of streaming in the direct path of this one. At least not near the eye wall.
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:58 pm to LSU5508
It's so strong it's gonna wobble, it could wobble south, north but the general motion will still be west.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:59 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:59 pm to Jim Rockford
That jail doesn't hold a candle to the one in Plaquemines Parish down in Pointe a la hache, it raised probably 30 to 40 feet.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 4:00 pm to lsuman25
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It's so strong it's gonna wobble
Get in there, yeah, yeah
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