PTC 9 ---> Hurricane Helene

[kappykaplan]

This is why Hurricane Helene is going to Cat 3.

They're now predicting Cat 4! Stay safe, everyone.

 

[JamesG161]

They're now predicting Cat 4!

I just corrected Storm Size to Cat 4

Helene is now forecast to be an extreme Category 4 hurricane at landfall. Residents should prepare accordingly.

DAMMIT Jim...

 

[JamesG161]

No joking, but this is Dammit Jim... Telling all SBO folks.

This a VERY BIG and Powerful Hurricane.

Evacuate now, Traffic on Interstate 10 is heavy

DAMMIT JIM...

 

[Kermit]

Kermit now on his way to Helene.

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Notice how @Kermit is hanging

Stay Safe Kermie !!!

It used to just be my First Mate that wanted to hang me. Now my coworkers are standing in line!

 

[shemandr]

We love you Kermie. You're on watch with Miss Piggy. They should give you a better bunk than a noose.

 

[JamesG161]

Fast moving across the Gulf today

Already Cat 2.

Power line trucks staged it Pensacola.

Katrina Storm Surge was 40 feet.

Hurricane Helene estimate > 20 feet.

Pray for them.

Dammit Jim...

 

[smokey73]

I fear too many here in Beaufort are focused on the track rather than the impacts off of the track. Windy is forecasting wind gusts around 50 kts and up to 63 kts (depending on the model) for a period from about 2 am to 10 am on Friday mooring. I have prepared my boat to weather these (I hope) but I am not sure the rest of those our moorings have. I took pictures of my boat and informed the club manager that at least one boat has its mooring lines wrapped around the mooring ball chain under the ball. Can't do much more myself. I also noted that most of my neighbors seem to be ignoring this. Hope I am wrong.

 

[jssailem]

The hurricane landing as terrible as it will be, I think, is just the beginning of this storms impact. It reminds me of Camille when it came ashore in 1969. The storm spawned tornadoes, flooding and destruction all across the south. Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia might want to check their storm preparations. The Gulf states are warned by the Hurricane Center.

 

[JamesG161]

Hurricane Hunters in Storm now.

Note the Buoy number 42036 that has a Camera too

NDBC - Station 42036 Recent Data

Latest data

DAMMIT Jim...

 

[shemandr]

Here in Jensen Beach we have 22 mph from the SE. When a plume of rain hits us it is hard rain - sheets of rain. But mostly if the band isn’t on us, it is dry. Looking at the radar the next plume west of us is on the Florida Gulf coast. That’s about 100 miles. Why nothing in between is a mystery to me.

 

[JamesG161]

This was just posted and what happened After Hurricane Katrina.

There were so many Katrina bodies that could not be ID'd.

DAMMIT Jim...

 

[JamesG161]

And final hold outs.

 

[JamesG161]

Hurricane Helene Just made

Category 4

 

[shemandr]

Thinking of our Gulf Coast sailors including Don from Sarasota. TWC interviewed a women in the Sarasota area who said she was a live abroad on her sailboat, which she recently purchased. She was ashore but described friends who stayed aboard their boats. Seemed OK to me. They were sweating their ground tackle but that would be normal for a moored boat in a storm. The winds were in the mid thirties with higher gusts.

 

[Kermit]

Here in Sumter, SC we’ve had frog-strangling rains. (See what I did there?) I’m glad I brought my Ninja Woodfire Grill in. A limb smashed its table and would have crushed the grill. Other than that, lots of branches all over Sumter. I count my First Mate and me lucky.

 

[JamesG161]

I thought we would post a few things here.

Hopefully all SBO folks had minimals issues.

HHunter Kermit in storm

Note: it takes 2 pilots and one assistant on the air speed.

_______

USCG rescue

Sailor and his Dog

At this point we are trying to present the story of how much

STORED SOLAR ENERGY

Was dumped on the land masses

WORLD WIDE.

Jim...