re: Hurricane Irma - Spinning Down

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I wonder how many of the 10k people watching are also logged into TD?

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I actually think that viewer indicator is missing a zero in front of the decimal. After Harvey #blueshed they kept reporting >500,000 viewers and his indicator was showing 50.0k all night.
Makes sense as the number of people talking about him and #blue shed seems to be way more than 10k.

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This is me working in North Lakeland a week ago due to rain

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That photo should be titled - "West Nile"

looks like the surge in Tampa though will be well after the eye passes as it gets closer to the panhandle. That's when on shore flow towards Tampa will be strongest

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quote: Perhaps you can provide a little clarification for me. I also read the "above ground" phrasing on the NHC Inundation Map page. Why do they use this nomenclature? I'm guessing they word it that way for people who don't know the elevation of their homes. A friend's home in Cape Coral is in the "greater than 9' " area on the map. His slab is right at 10' elevation. If I heard there was going to be a 9' - 12' storm surge, I'd think he'd have a chance of getting a foot or two of water in his house. But if the NHC's wording is accurate, he might have 10' of water in his house.

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Right now you have literally all the water draining out of any source near this system.
That water is going to come back that will make Katrina look like a joke.
A lot of homes will be under water or their first floors under water.
Surge is the #1 killer of people in Hurricane events.

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I hear reporters saying the storm is "sucking the water out" and maybe the lower barometric pressure at the storms center adds to this effect, but isn't it the wind blowing the water out? Just like the wind will push it back in?

Re: Katrina
The storm surge was ~30' (+/- a few feet) around Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian during Katrina. I personally witnessed water marks 4-1/2 to 5' high in a house with a floor of 23.7' on ground ~21' high. That's pretty close to 30' above sea level (23.7 + 4.75 = 28.45). Almost every one killed in the area drowned. Some trapped by collapsing structures, some making a last minute "run/swim for it". The vast majority of the damage was surge related. There were a lot of shingles blown off by the wind, but water knocked houses off their foundations.

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Usually before and during. Areas to the east of the eye usually fare the worst.

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News here is saying that's not the case for storms making landfall on west Fl. Surge tends to follow because the winds push all the water away.

Jim Cantore is a tool

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I hear reporters saying the storm is "sucking the water out" and maybe the lower barometric pressure at the storms center adds to this effect, but isn't it the wind blowing the water out? Just like the wind will push it back in?

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Surge is a fickle thing. The geography of the are has a lot to do with it, as does the forward speed of the storm and the wind speeds. The low pressure is a big deal too, as is the amount of time the storm has been over water prior to landfall.

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- Lashing the Keys by Schmelly
The news is so dissappointed that there's not more destruction. Interviewing a guy outside a Miami high rise...reporter asked him how he's dealing with this tragedy, trying so hard to get the answers he was looking for. He says "oh I'm good, we have electricity, wifi, I'm really comfortable." So then he asks him about he water in the streets.. "lotta water, but we lucky, coulda been worse. hope other people are fine".... reporter: "what about your car?"..."oh it's on the 10th floor, I'm all good"
Reporter sees another guy and dam near shoves the guy out the way, no thanks, no good luck and runs to catch the other guy. Guy proceeds to say the same shite to him lol

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that's great

fricking Jeff - "120 mph winds right now" , he's 40 miles from the northern eye wall.