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Impact from Matthew

fuelair said:
The infernal boredom when the electricity is out is the biggest problem previously - and the heat/humidity. Actually go out (after wind and rain have slowed a lot) and turn on car and its AC...........
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Some booster battery packs for your phones, tablets, laptop would solve that.

Or a car battery. Attach a cigarette lighter socket and a car charger. Lasts for days doing phones and tablets. Add a cheap low voltage solar charger and you have a limited power source indefinitely. You can run lights of them too.
 
Craig4 said:
One of the local channels here showed the storm surge already hitting the islands. You could barely see the islands for all the waves.
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Take a look at Chatham, MA. And Monomoy. The elbow of the cape.

That was all connected the morning of a storm and disconnected ever since. One storm.
 
NoahFence said:
Why wouldn't we believe you? Seems a bit presumptuous.
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Apparently Matt Drudge thinks it is overhyped, by liberals, to push their Global Warming theory.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13192060/hurricane-matthew-drudge-tweet
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...06/matt-drudge-hurricane-conspiracy/91705834/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ing-and-flawed-comments-on-hurricane-matthew/

(Incidentally, did you know that Global Warming was just dreamed up by liberals for ideological reasons? Or maybe by the Chinese so that they could "beat us at trade"?)


On the political angle, Obama should take no chances, especially this close to the election. It seems like he's doing it right so far. If there is major damage he should get down there as soon as he can and meet with the governors of the affected states, like he did with Chris Christie after Sandy. I realize he's not the one running this time, but what he does still probably reflects on Hillary.
 
dudalb said:
I feel about Hurricanes the same way I fell about Tornados:

I will take my chances with Earthquakes in California any day of the week.
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Tornadoes are so hit-and-miss that your chances of getting hit by one are slim. But living on a fault line is like living in a flood plain. You're eventually going to get hit.

Steve S
 
steve s said:
Tornadoes are so hit-and-miss that your chances of getting hit by one are slim. But living on a fault line is like living in a flood plain. You're eventually going to get hit.
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Living in Tornado Alley is like living on a firing range. Sure, most of the bullets go whizzing harmlessly by. But if one hits you...

Living in earthquake country is like living on the beach. Sure, a tsunami might someday eat your whole community alive, but really the waves just lap harmlessly at your feet every day.
 
Puppycow said:
Apparently Matt Drudge thinks it is overhyped, by liberals, to push their Global Warming theory.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13192060/hurricane-matthew-drudge-tweet
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...06/matt-drudge-hurricane-conspiracy/91705834/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ing-and-flawed-comments-on-hurricane-matthew/

(Incidentally, did you know that Global Warming was just dreamed up by liberals for ideological reasons? Or maybe by the Chinese so that they could "beat us at trade"?)

On the political angle, Obama should take no chances, especially this close to the election. It seems like he's doing it right so far. If there is major damage he should get down there as soon as he can and meet with the governors of the affected states, like he did with Chris Christie after Sandy. I realize he's not the one running this time, but what he does still probably reflects on Hillary.
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That was my orignal title (Is Matthew a Chinese Conspiracy?) tongue-in cheek. But my serious point was that since it had/has the potential to be another Katrina/Sandy, the elected officials better be wise.
As it stands, looks like the worst of the storm may stay just offshore, but the tidal surge will still be huge, so the coastal imact will still be catastrophic
 
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Uh Oh...Hurricane dropped from a Category 4 to a category 3!

Is more weakening along the way? Inquiring minds want to know!
 
I'm in Florida riding it out currently (Gainesville, FL). Everything shut down locally as yesterday's reports kept coming in worse and worse every hour. We were expecting to get sustained winds of 58+ mph by 2PM today (Friday) when I went to sleep last night. Those are not the winds you want to be driving in. Woke up this morning and saw it had been downgraded and that winds weren't expected to get above 40mph here (aside from gusts), so all in all, it should be like hurricane Hermine earlier (in terms of impact on my city).

Right now, it is mildly windy and rainy outside. Weird seeing no traffic at rush our Friday morning though. Kind of cool, but sadly I have to work (from home). House is solar powered (assuming we get enough sunlight) and we are pretty well stocked up here with chargers, battery backups, food, and the like (just in case).

That being said, the coast is going to get battered. I don't care much for property along the coast. I personally feel people who build on or near the beaches have it coming to them (what with sea level rising and hurricanes predicted to intensify), and their property often does a lot of harm to the natural habitats. The beach erosion that is going to happen from this storm will probably be pretty bad. Maybe some of the worst we've seen here. A lot of natural habitats will be lost in big part because we've gone and destroyed a lot of the natural barriers through development. I was down in Cape Canaveral last weekend visiting family, and while driving along the coastline there in some of the upper class neighborhoods, just inches above the waterline, I saw Trump sign after Trump sign. :rolleyes: My relatives told me how the properties there flood regularly due to the high tides when they didn't in the past. I can't fathom how those Trump supporters can live in an area where they are literally watching the sea levels rise into their homes, yet support one of the most anti-science candidates ever to run for President of the USA. I hope not a single dime of my tax payer's money goes to bail them out when their property gets damaged from this storm.
 
I see that all the major networks have their reporters out standing in the rain and wind to add that important touch of drama to their reports....

Some years back the cartoonist "Derf" (The City) had the big reporters of the time tied to swaying palm trees while broadcasting....
 
Bikewer said:
I see that all the major networks have their reporters out standing in the rain and wind to add that important touch of drama to their reports....

Some years back the cartoonist "Derf" (The City) had the big reporters of the time tied to swaying palm trees while broadcasting....
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Can any of us forget the moment when Anderson Cooper's hair product failed during Katrina?
 
I'm in Tampa now. We're just getting rain bands and some gusty winds. Schools are closed. I gather some are being used as shelters for people who evacuated from the east coast. No reports of damage yet.
 
 
Actually, my main reason for taking my chances with Earthquakes is a matter of frequency. Last really bad Earthquake we had in California was over 20 years ago;seems every other year we hear about a Tornado or a HUrrican doing major damage.
 
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