Hurricane Matthew

Hope it banks out to sea more before SC lol.... We're headed down to Edisto Island next weekend. Hope its still there.

 

The unsung heroes of hurricanes. Left Jacksonville Beach at 5 a.m. for Mississippi and passed 200 or more utility trucks heading for the coast. Thank you for all you do.

 

I feel there is going to be that one person down there like this lol!

 

That could go in the WTF thread as well...

 

Just sitting here hoping for the best,
got mom evacuated to a special needs site!
So now it's me and moms cat, hoping Matthew will turn east!

 

Theres this dude in charleston

 

My brief stint in the power delivery group let me go on a few of these (Hurricane Sandy) but my dad is a lineman, has been for 35 years now and has been on countless storm trips from Detroit (Ice Storm) to Miami (Hurricane Andrew). Growing up, I'd watch him try to pack 3 weeks worth of clothes in a duffle bag and leave.

These guys walk away from their families to help get your power back on, so when you see them in your neighborhoods trying to get your lights back on, whether it's the next day or the 2 weeks from now, tell them thank you.

 

Have you guys heard anything about the eye wall replacement ? This could be a very good thing..

 

Eyewall replacement cycles, also called concentric eyewall cycles, naturally occur in intense tropical cyclones, generally with winds greater than 185 km/h (115 mph), or major hurricanes (Category 3 or above). When tropical cyclones reach this intensity, and the eyewall contracts or is already sufficiently small, some of the outer rainbands may strengthen and organize into a ring of thunderstorms—an outer eyewall—that slowly moves inward and robs the inner eyewall of its needed moisture and angular momentum. Since the strongest winds are in a cyclone's eyewall, the tropical cyclone usually weakens during this phase, as the inner wall is "choked" by the outer wall. Eventually the outer eyewall replaces the inner one completely, and the storm may re-intensify.

The discovery of this process was partially responsible for the end of the U.S. government's hurricane modification experiment Project Stormfury. This project set out to seed clouds outside the eyewall, apparently causing a new eyewall to form and weakening the storm. When it was discovered that this was a natural process due to hurricane dynamics, the project was quickly abandoned.[1]

Almost every intense hurricane undergoes at least one of these cycles during its existence. Recent studies have shown that nearly half of all tropical cyclones, and nearly all cyclones with sustained winds over 204 kilometres per hour (127 mph; 110 kn), undergo eyewall replacement cycles.[2] Hurricane Allen in 1980 went through repeated eyewall replacement cycles, fluctuating between Category 5 and Category 3 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale several times. Hurricane Juliette (2001) was a rare documented case of triple eyewalls.[3] Typhoon June (1975) was the first reported case of triple eyewalls.[4]

 

Just got a call from one of my best buds...he's in the middle of evacuation as we speak.

Be safe fellas! Hope all goes as well as possible for ya. Thoughts and prayers from Oregon!!

 

Gonna be a long night for east coast of FL.

Stay safe!

 

Godspeed to all of you in the path of the storm.

 

Hasn't started raining here yet...

 

Not at all, looks like it's gonna plow through us

 

Good luck and stay safe.

 

No not at all but with the high pressure to the West and the tropical depression to the East this is going to be very interesting to see if this storm merges with another one....

 

JB hows the chaos in SC?