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[Frumple]

I mean... it is, the history book part, least for a bit. It's already broke at least one world record for hurricanes.

Scary is relative, I guess, but I'd be pretty comfortable saying irma is indeed fucking terrifying, sure. At the least up to this point. Persistent hope it turns out to be less so by the time it actually hits florida (not that that's going to do much for the caribbean-area islands, the poor bastards), but...

E: Also yeah, current recon flight looks to be seeing 160+ mph winds in the part of the eyewall they've covered so far. Signs increasing it's strengthened back into a solid cat 5 or in the process of it, rather than hovering as a still-disastrous cat 4 or low-end cat 5.

Also it's about to make landfall on cuba. Probably only able to make things worse for 'em by so much, at this point, but... yeah. Hope things go as least bad as possible for 'em

[smjjames]

It's slated to hit make landfall sometime Sunday morning, NOAA estimate is 8AM.

[Frumple]

... yeah, looks like the NWS is starting to outright plead that anyone left in the keys gets the hell out while they're still alive. Partially in tweets or not, been a while since I've noticed something coming out of the NWS sounding that desperate

[RedKing]

... yeah, looks like the NWS is starting to outright plead that anyone left in the keys gets the hell out while they're still alive. Partially in tweets or not, been a while since I've noticed something coming out of the NWS sounding that desperate

For reference, this was an NWS Florida Keys tweet:

***THIS IS AS REAL AS IT GETS***

***NOWHERE IN THE FLORIDA KEYS WILL BE SAFE***

***YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO EVACUATE***

I'm expecting the next to go something like

***ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US***

***YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME***

[H4zardZ1]

I'm expecting the next to go something like

***ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US***

***YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME***

That's what would the hurricane say to florida.

[RedKing]

Spoiler: New landfall projection. (click to show/hide)

[smjjames]

That image looks like it's gone through several JPEG conversions.

[sluissa]

Good to see South Carolina taking the opportunity to capture part of Georgia while they're otherwise distracted.

[RedKing]

Yeah, the map is kinda herpaderp now that I look at it.

[Frumple]

Hey, for what it's worth, it's georgia and SC. There's like maybe four or five places anyone cares about between the two of them. Casual border trading by means of storm confusion might be able to go unnoticed...

[Folly]

I'm looking at the video of Barbuda...that place is just gone. The commentator keeps saying 95% destroyed, and that may be a slight exaggeration...but only slight.

Haven't heard anything in a while about the hurricane that was chasing Irma. Did it just fizzle out, or is it still looming?

[Frumple]

Last I saw anything it's on its way but fairly strongly projected to not make landfall or, if it does, will be hitting the cap and state a further up the coast.

[martinuzz]

Not sure if you can play this outside of the Netherlands, but this news broadcast shows a video of the utter destruction on St. Maarten

https://www.npo.nl/dominique-moest-verloofde-achterlaten-op-sint-maarten/08-09-2017/episode-id/POMS_AT_10697719

video of Irma from St. Maarten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhb2AsYJG3s

Just. don't go outside when it hits you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zlAzmiF8Eo

[scriver]

I'm not sure I was ready to watch a man get crushed by a truck.

[martinuzz]

Sorry. There's no gore, so I didn't think it needed an explicit warning.