Hurricane 2023

[BmillsSkier]

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You can lead a horse to water and all that.

[Not DJSapp]

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It seems like god is tired of Florida's shit too and his aim is improving.

[doebedoe]

It seems like god is tired of Florida's shit too and his aim is improving.

This section of the FL coast is one of the few parts of FL worth visiting. Because it has so few Floridians.

[BmillsSkier]

This section of the FL coast is one of the few parts of FL worth visiting. Because it has so few Floridians.

Yeah, you're not wrong. One year on a trip to 30a we stopped over in Apalachicola for a few days. Did some fishing, some paddling through mangrove forests, and basically just enjoyed a very un-Florida place surrounded by wildlife preserve. Very rustic, cool area.


Storm is a big one now that it's loosening up.

[MontuckyFried]

Yeah, you're not wrong. One year on a trip to 30a we stopped over in Apalachicola for a few days. Did some fishing, some paddling through mangrove forests, and basically just enjoyed a very un-Florida place surrounded by wildlife preserve. Very rustic, cool area.

Hope you tried the oysters there! Apalachicola oysters are out of this world. Best in the Gulf by far.

[BmillsSkier]

Hope you tried the oysters there! Apalachicola oysters are out of this world. Best in the Gulf by far.

Sure did, ate my weight in them that first day overlooking the bay with a bucket of Miller High Lifes on ice. That was a good afternoon.

I will say that while they're some of the best oysters I've had in the gulf, they're usually a bit too big for my tastes (I like small and briny) but the littler ones were great.

[hawkgt]

I out near DFW attending a conference. The Florida Gators came in yesterday and stayed at the hotel last night due to the hurricane. Heading out to Utah this afternoon for the game tomorrow.

[LongShortLong]

Dude, that's cool and all, but like a million years ago the whole thing was an ocean man.

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Math time. At a typical tectonic plate movement rate of 50mm/year, 1 million years produces 50km of movement, insufficient to close those gaps, accrete LA, shift it north to SF, etc. Looks like the western halves of the Pacific states are still out of frame, floating in the ocean somewhere to the south and west.

Also, as a Zentnerd, the correct number for that image is closer to 100 million years ago.

Continental thread drift

[warthog]

Continental thread drift

Badump bump.

[Timberridge]

Math time. At a typical tectonic plate movement rate of 50mm/year, 1 million years produces 50km of movement, insufficient to close those gaps, accrete LA, shift it north to SF, etc. Looks like the western halves of the Pacific states are still out of frame, floating in the ocean somewhere to the south and west.

Also, as a Zentnerd, the correct number for that image is closer to 100 million years ago.

Continental thread drift

You're saying Wooley is a liar?

[m2711c]

It seems like god is tired of Florida's shit too and his aim is improving.

Looks like he may just take a second swing at ‘em while he’s at it…

[ötzi]

It's probably gonna follow that one blue line at the top in the left image that leads exactly here.

[evdog]

Looks like he may just take a second swing at ‘em while he’s at it…

Florida man gets a reach-around

[The AD]

I out near DFW attending a conference.

Is it a conference for cavemen?

[BmillsSkier]

Looks like he may just take a second swing at ‘em while he’s at it…

Nah, it's gonna hook up with Hurricane Franklin and loop back right at the SC/GA coast if my luck is any predictor.

[SumJongGuy]

Nah, it's gonna hook up with Hurricane Franklin and loop back right at the SC/GA coast if my luck is any predictor.

I also catastraphised that scenerio. How's your weather so far there? Business is about to pick up I would think. I just took down down the patio umbrella myself. Wife's gonna WFH tomorrow. Hope I don't have to set up the generator again but it is close at hand.

[hawkgt]

Is it a conference for cavemen?

Based on all the PHDs in the room, I guess I’m the caveman but yeah, fuck TX.

Did someone say reach around???

[BmillsSkier]

It's been weird here all day. From the view from my office tower I've watched the outer bands rotate by to my south but not actually drop any rain where I am. On radar it looks like the storm keeps bumping up against ATL's perimiter but not moving just that much north to soak us.

Talked to fam in HHI earlier and the airport is closed as is the US 17 bridge to Savannah; bridge from HHI to Bluffton is still open and SAV has cancelled most of its flights. Lots of wind, rain and debris, combined with the King Tide made for high water earlier, overall no where near as bad as Matthew.

[gravitylover]

Yeah this thing is gonna loop around and get the FL east coast. It's an equal opportunity destroyer.

[Toadman]

Looks like he may just take a second swing at ‘em while he’s at it…

Where's that danged Sharpie when you need one!?

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Talked to fam in HHI earlier

i would have thought they'd get a evacuation notice, did they not?

[BmillsSkier]

i would have thought they'd get a evacuation notice, did they not?

No evacuation notice was given in Beaufort County (or the rest of the state to my knowledge) as is typical if the storm isn't making landfall on the SC coast like this one coming from inland.

[SumJongGuy]

A little noise out from Kure/Wilmington up the banks in NC. Nothing to speak of in DURM. But as usual they closed all the schools from Central NC to the coast.

[neufox47]

Hurricane Lee is a monster but currently well out to sea. Any potential landfalls are far in the future and past the point most models look but the few that do go out that far are starting to put Canada and Maine in the cross hairs. If this thing goes any further West the east coast has a problem.

http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/storm...=2023&storm=13



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[heckacali]

Fuck that turn to the north, keep heading towards FLA.