Here we go again

[Sooner in Tampa]

:grief:

http://icons-ecast.wunderground.com/data/images/at201109_5day.gif

[sooner ngintunr]

****ing Irene!

[NormanPride]

Pfft. You guys can handle a cat 2 no problem. ;)

[jumperstop]

**** yo little ***** hurricanes. You have like a week to prepare for it.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

What do you call a chinese hurricane with one leg?

[Fraggle145]

I wish it would go to the gulf side. Maybe then we'd get some ****ing rain.

[WichitaSooner]

What do you call a chinese hurricane with one leg?

typhoon Irene....

[Sooner in Tampa]

**** yo little ***** hurricanes. You have like a week to prepare for it.

Ummm...today is Monday...it will be here on Friday...that's really not a week :cheerful:

[Pricetag]

Somebody needs to break Nevin Shapiro out of jail. Maybe he can pay this one off, too.

[jumperstop]

Ummm...today is Monday...it will be here on Friday...that's really not a week :cheerful:

Hurricanes only count business days, they're like UPS.

[soonercruiser]

What do you call a chinese hurricane with one leg?

Kungphoon!

[mgsooner]

Sh*t's gettin serious

Hurricane Irene: Prepare for a Category 4 'major hurricane'

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/hurricane-irene-prepare-for-a-major-hurricane.html

[StoopTroup]

Somebody needs to break Nevin Shapiro out of jail. Maybe he can pay this one off, too.

Heh. I hope those of you affected down there weather the storm and come out unscathed. Good Luck and God Bless.

[mgsooner]

Some of the potential tracks are downright frightening.

[C&CDean]

Some of the potential tracks are downright frightening.

DC? NYC?

[mgsooner]

DC? NYC?

Yep. Here's a good look at the tracks: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/hurricane.tracker/?hpt=hp_c2. Click on "possible paths"

Also, here's an incredible picture shot from the international space station

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/581574main_image_2043_946-710.jpg

[C&CDean]

When I was living up there I used to joke "I wish a hurricane would come wipe this place clean and we could start all over." Hope I wasn't being all Nostradamusy.

[mgsooner]

"Huge" Irene on the way
Hurricane Irene has intensified into a Category 3 storm and could threaten much of the U.S. East Coast in coming days. It could reach Category 4 strength by Thursday.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/08/24/tropical.weather/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

[prrriiide]

This storm is looking like an unmitigated disaster for the eastern seaboard. If it stays along the center line of the cone, Virginia Beach/Norfolk, Atlantic City, and NYC will all take direct hits. The most troubling is NYC, with the center of the track moving over western Long Island. The track shows Queens, Long Beach, Oceanside, Elmont, Great Neck and JFK all within the hurricane wind field.

With it just skimming the coast, the bulk of the storm will stay in warm, shallow water from the time it exits land along the NC/VA border until it hits NYC, giving it 10-12 hours to re-strengthen. Worst case, we're looking at a Cat 2 pounding the most densely populated area in the US with the equivalent of an EF2 tornado for 8-10 hours.

Some of the models give it a more rightward track, but unless the right-moving outliers hold true, then Boston gets the hit after the storm has been over water longer and more completely. One of the western outliers takes it directly over the DC/Baltimore megaplex. Another takes it directly over Dover, Philly, and Newark. One of the more reliable models takes it into Long Island at Lindenhurst/W. Islip and then exiting on up to New Haven.

These places don't have rigid hurricane building codes, and the damage is going to be significant. The good news is that if it says west, the major population centers will escape the storm surge. But if it goes on to the south side of Long Island as the current prediction stands, the flooding will be severe for a substantial portion of the outer boroughs/suburbs.

Get ready for the biggest Federal disaster declaration since Katrina.

http://www.stormpulse.com/atlantic

[mgsooner]

Sounds lovely