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Just reading this, [url= http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/23/hurricane-patricia-strongest-ever-measured/74446334/ ]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/23/hurricane-patricia-strongest-ever-measured/74446334/[/url]
Possible strongest ever hurricane, would be cat 6 if it existed. Must be pretty frightening being over there in the path of a storm bigger the whole UK.
Indeed, the power of nature. Thoughts and hoping any casualties are kept to a minimum
Lowest pressure (879mb) recorded in the eye of a storm in over 30 years. It sounds like a [i]really[/i] big one.
Anyone ever experienced a hurricane first hand? I'd love to.
I lived in Havana for a couple of years, been in a lot of hurricanes and a few typhoons in Manila.
My favourite was probably in 2004 when Ivan hit. As usual I'd left Havana and popped over to Nassau (its a nicer place to be in just after a hurricane - less dead people and animals in the drinking water) and was sat in the beach in onshore 100mph winds with a pair of goggles on and a 4 pack. Everything was fun and safe until the walk back to the hotel. Halfway down the beach road a coconut came past me a chest height at a speed of around 60mph.
I sobered up, stopped dicking around and went back to the hotel bar. True story...
Gonna be pretty scary and my thoughts are with them.
It's not just the storm hitting that's the worry, it's the preparation and angst of not knowing how bad it will actually be that's the most stressful thing to consider. The clean up is the realisation of it passing and in some way is the easy bit 😕
Winds of 240mph, waves and sea swell hitting low lying beaches and prefab hotels and houses is gong to be devastation..
I lived in Fort Lauderdale as a kid and we used to get hurricanes in November and whilst dramatic and scary and beautiful all at the same time we were always prepared for them so could actually "enjoy" them...
It's the folks that aren't prepared who will suffer, even if you are prepared for this one, it's strength and ferocity may have the upper hand.
😕
I'm with Bikebouy, it will be truly catastrophic for folks that have no where to go to in such a storm, 200kph sustained winds with 230 gusts are the types of events that planners and engineers say they plan for but deep down know that they are really at the mercy of nature and can do little about it in reality
As i type this from Florida, Hurricane Patrica is battering the life out of San Patricio, kinda ironic really
That is huge.
Seen a few hurricanes, Tropical cyclones etc and some pretty horrendous weather in the North Atlantic and Pacific and Southern Ocean in winter wind speeds upto 120knots and waves 15m plus
But speeds of of 230mph thats's about 200knots ...holymotherofgod!
Its causing far less damage than expected, weakened pretty swifly on landfall.
Yes cat 2 thankfully.
Understanding the possible dangers, I still would like to experience a hurricanes effect. Must be very strange to feel threatened and afraid of weather.