Hurricane Matthew

[Handley_Page]

Apparently the Space Center, which reputedly was located where it was because that location had always escaped hurricane damage, won't escape it this time.

I saw this report a little earlier.

 

[TxRad]

I saw this report a little earlier.

The storm passed about 25 miles off shore from the Cape and they recorded winds up to 107MPH at the top of some of the taller structures. Most of the original building at the cape were designed with 105 MPH winds in mind. Later ones, 115 and 125 MPH.

Other than some power failures, no damage of significance.

So far Daytona Beach has been the hardest hammered as the storm has moved within 10 miles of the shore.

 

[trysail]

Quite. I see the daily state records and they may range from below-freezing snow a little ways north to scorching heat a little ways south. Main problem here in the dry season is dodging wildfire smoke. Wet season suffering brings floods and blizzards. With our new RV, we can outrun those. Or at least fire up the generator and sit-em out.

There's probably an online table somewhere listing average annual natural-disaster damage per state. (Well, maybe...) but what I see is a swathe of mid-continent damage from Wyoming and the Dakotas to Louisiana. Yeah, the USA heartland is a disaster zone. Hurricane Alley ain't far behind. The most climate-change-denial states beg for the most weather-related disaster relief. Funny about that.

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[SgtSpiderMan]

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[sr71plt]

Someone's cat comment seems to have wiped out the media coverage I was following on Matthew. Rain and wind outside my window now, but I think Matthew is too far away to be blamed for this.

 

[TxRad]

Someone's cat comment seems to have wiped out the media coverage I was following on Matthew. Rain and wind outside my window now, but I think Matthew is too far away to be blamed for this.

What you are probably getting is part of the cold front moving across. The same front is steering Matthew in a more easterly direction.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I hope everyone was safe.

 

[Hypoxia]

<anti-climate-change cartoon>

Ya think extreme weather doesn't happen elsewhere on earth? Ya think this isn't the hottest year on record, with energetic weather to match? Maybe not in your backyard, but in someone else's. Like storms wiping out villages in Guatemala, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, you name it. Island republics submerging in rising sea levels. Florida will drown in a few years and good riddance.

But no, don't blame humans for the direct correlation between industrial (carbon emission) output and global temperature rise over the last couple centuries. Don't believe 99% of climatologists, and property insurers, military planners, and others who have to deal with changes. Go with Rush Limbo and Senator Inhofe and other well-paid deniers. But keep a canoe handy.

I hope all LITsters in this storm's path pull through. Luck, y'all.