IVAN - Holy Shit!
 

Cat 5 Hurricane. The latest forecast track is straight through Florida. The State of Florida just issued a mandatory complete evacuation of the Florida keys by Friday.

Who's sticking around for this one?

:helpme

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...F/090853W5.gif

not looking good. hopefully the high pressure in the Atlantic weakens and it takes a wider turn towards the east and misses Florida all together.

what did fl do to piss off god?

.. yeah .. I didnt board up for Charley or Frances (I'm in South East FL) .. but tonight I'm heading to home depot .. this guy scares me .. :helpme

Bush visits the place on a regular basis. :(

Holy shit when will it end! best of luck to you KRL, and everyone else in the area. The goddesses blessings and protection on you and yours, all of you.

Cuba must look more like a parking lot than usual

Shit this is just getting ridiculous

Wow when is this going to stop? :eek7

The worst thing about this track is that it puts all south florida in the North East sector of the storm which has the most powerful violent winds and heaviest rains.

We haven't even recovered from Frances yet. 600,000 people still have no phone service, 90% of the traffic signals aren't working and won't be fixed for at least 3 more weeks, 700,000 people still have no power, 20% of the cell phone towers aren't working, over 300,000 have no cable TV.

:321GFY

doesn't it lose steam going through cuba? might only be a 4 when it hits florida. would suck for a 5 to go through right now

I am in Central Fl and will be staying for this one as well. I am hoping it takes a turn towards the gulf and misses FL. I live about 15 miles northeast of where Charlie and Frances crossed paths.
Good luck to everyone and be safe.

Wow, it can hardly get worse can it? Man take care of yourself.

everybodyshould move

Let George Bush become president... :1orglaugh

This shit is really getting freaking old.. I'm still with out my truck that was wrecked during Charely and they are saying at best the end of next week before I get it back.. But that was if this storm dosen't hit.

Add that with no power sofar for a total of about a week for both storms and it's starting to really tick me off.

no power, no phones?? but you still have an internet connection??:helpme

best of luck to all of you down there...

we got our power back on yesterday.. but my cable service never went down. So if I would of had a generator I could have browsed the net :)

Damn.. the russkie is going to invade Florida.

I hear there might be another Hurricane after this one yet.. September is the busy month.

dang, Ivan is going crazy :helpme

I just talked with a friend in Orlando..

He says the state just cant take it...
if IVAN tracks as they have it going now.. it will kick the shit
outta Florida.

My friend is a long time resident of Florida... (20yrs) and he
said he had never seen anything like Frances.
He states.. the ground it just saturated.. puddles and mushy
ground everywhere... IVAN will blow down trees galore because root structure will not be able to hold onto wet soil...

I heard on radio that evacuation will start at 600pm tonight!??!!

Where does/can everyone go?


BIG B

I'm about 1.5 hours north of Atlanta and OUR hotels were full over Labor Day weekend. Granted, some were tourists up here for vacation, but they usually rent cabins. The vast majority were from FL escaping Frances :(

Amazingly, they did have to come this far. Trees uprooted, schools closed and power is STILL out for thousands as far north as Atlanta from Frances.

I slept in my concrete closet and when the wind made my place rattle all kinds of shit fell on my head.

Damn this is going to be crazy

I dont know how florida is going to survive if this one hits dead on too

All this happened right when I moved here, so I think it's because of me. I'll move away for the right amount of money....

Someone pointed out that this one isn't as big as Frances and will PROBABLY do the sort of damage Charley did - more intense but in a smaller area. Not good for those in that area but hopefully damage won't affect as many people as Frances. :(

I've been waiting to close on my house for weeks now, first I delayed during Charley, was going to do all the final paperwork this week, now I'm going to put it on hold again.
(I'm buying the house I've been renting)

god when will it stop... I feel for the people in FL.

Time for another party :winkwink:

Tampa is still hurting from Frances.....places in the middle of the state are devastated......and this one could be the worst of them all.....

Ah fuck, my friend lives in Florida. I hope he'll be ok. :( :( :(

Got a jet on standby for Friday for my son.

After Florida it'll be going straight towards Atlanta on this current track forecast.

more intense in a smaller area ... more like Andrew .. one more bad thing to add to this storm is that the worst part is the north east side of it .. so if it tracks up the state on the west or middle .. we'll get the worst the storm can dish out .. it'll devistate the whole state

how many hurricanes has it been so far?

Time for another road trip.:helpme

well they name storms by the alphabet Ivan would be the 9th named storm in the Atlantic this season .. but it could potentially be the 3rd to hit florida in a little over a month!

my stomach is in knots. we are in for an even worse go around than what Frances did to us (i am speaking for fort lauderdale here). this one is going to rip right thru the upper keys and head straight for where we are at. again, i still don't have electic from the last one (been a week) .. but losing my electic is the last of my concerns.
it's damn near impossible to attempt to drive north, as the complete grid lock is bad, but the complete non-gas situation is even worse. so we could get as far as a tank of gas will get us, and then try to find a place that actually has some for sale ..
my 2 oldest brothers want to fly me up to Canada pronto, but then what leave my parents?
i was born and raised in fort lauderdale, so these hurricane seasons have naturally just become a normalcy of my life. this year has changed all of that.
i am beginning to think God has too much confidence in us Floridians.

Update. PUNTA GORDA is fucked again. . Fort Laud looks safer now


http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/atcf_web/...4.04090900.gif

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...F/070303W5.gif

Another hurricane hitting Florida? Did you guys piss of God or something...

Wanna see something scary .. this was in the 6:35am update from NOAA .. .. basically .. if you were on the 35th floor of a building around the eye of this storm at 6:30am today .. you would experience winds of 210 MPH!!

Best of luck to everyone..this one looks really bad :(

This storm is gonna be some scattered showers. I don't know why everyone is getting all scared. i live here in Tampa and when Frances came through it rained pretty good and that's about it, oh yeah it was windy too.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF FLORIDA NOW

Baghdad Bob retired to Florida?

Latest from the NOAA

A
FLIGHT-LEVEL WIND OF 154 KT IN THE NORTHEAST QUADRANT. THEY ALSO
REPORTED A LOWER CENTRAL PRESSURE OF 920 MB...SUGGESTING THAT IVAN
MAY CONTAIN SURFACE WINDS A LITTLE STRONGER THAN THE 160 MPH
INDICATED IN THE 5 AM AST ADVISORY. DROPSONDE WIND REPORTS ALSO
INDICATED WINDS OF NEAR 210 MPH AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 350 FEET
ABOVE THE OCEAN SURFACE.


And this track puts Miami in the north-east quadrant. 35 story high-rise buildings are going to get 200 MPH winds!

Frances was a pain in the ass, but this one is making me queasy....I may just get in my car and drive to DC or NY.:(

I was watching channel 8 in Tampa this morning. They had a clip from the hurricane hunter plane that flies into the eye of the storm. They dropped some tube down into it, and it recorded gusts of up to 210 mph.

Now, our house is new, and built to the new hurricane standards of 2001... but 210 mph? I don't think it'll stand up to that.

We've fared well through the last two, but this one looks really bad. Here's hoping for the best!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh


yeah.....in Greneda 95% of all structures were damaged or destroyed last night......:helpme

hahaha .. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I feel bad for the FL peeps and it will surely suck when this thing hits hard.

The upside to this is I'm moving to Ft. Lauderdale in about 3 months so maybe property values won't keep going up so fast. :Graucho

Lex Luther bought up land in Nevada and tried to make California slide into the sea so he will end up with beachfront property. Maybe Tennesee et al are up to something.

Yo, I told you guys days ago this storm was gonna be a Godzilla.

A very famous man I know told me on the phone last week that Hurricane Ivan was the weirdest hurricane on record. It started in the south Atlantic farther south than any storm on record and he said then that it would stomp Grenada flat. Everything he predicted this storm would do has happened to a 'T'. He lived through Hurricane Frances but his ass is headed out of Florida NOW.

If that fucking storm hits Jamaica at a Category 5 only God can help the Jamaicans.

It's predicted to head straight up through Florida but although the forecasters are saying once it passes Cuba it will strengthen, we're hoping it will do something to diminish itself.

It's a scary, fucked up scenario no matter what.

If you're in S. Florida just fucking split. 200mph winds are tornado winds. There are also gusts higher than that PLUS it's gonna spawn tornados too.

Just fucking leave. Don't take a chance.

Once you see what it's gonna do to Jamaica I'm sure you'll be on the first thing moving to get out of it's way.

Just think, we have 3 months more of Hurricane season to go...