The latest radar puts ol' Matt at a CAT4 with winds at 140mph about 120 miles off the Florida coast. It looks as though it's puffing its chest and getting ready to chew on the mainland.
I hope all of our loose knit community here that is anywhere near this mess is safe. Anybody that can please keep the rest of us informed.
Hurricane Matt just closed Disneyworld so it must be a huge storm, of course they expect to be open for business on Saturday morning.
Just listening to Bastardi on Hannity. He says that Eastern NC is in for major, major flooding. Very similar to Floyd in that respect.
Meanwhile, the top 0.005% may hurt, too.
MathTeacher, post: 394207, member: 7674 wrote:
Got me wondering: Do you follow the town's flood management program on a 47k square foot house? Or, do you get your own community panel and manage a local program for yourself?
Eastern NC, watching and waiting for now. Hope everyone stays dry.
paden cash, post: 394187, member: 20 wrote: I hope all of our loose knit community here that is anywhere near this mess is safe. Anybody that can please keep the rest of us informed.
Making the wild assumptiom I might be included as one of the "loose knit" participants, all is well so far..just waiting. Will post pics.
I have a PWS on Wundurmap here: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KFLSANFO30
Click on "Radar" and zoom out.
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Stay safe buddy. Let us know if you wind up with webbed feet...;)
Is your wind speed monitor broken? Seems to be recording something in the neighborhood of 5mph. Zoom out on the map and your neighbors are recording in the seventies. Cool weather site!
He's keeping it inside the house so it won't get blown away.
I think that is temperature shown on the maps. Could be wrong though.
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R.J. Schneider, post: 394270, member: 409 wrote: Is your wind speed monitor broken? Seems to be recording something in the neighborhood of 5mph. Zoom out on the map and your neighbors are recording in the seventies. Cool weather site!
As Scotland says
Those are the temps not wind
Holy Cow, post: 394272, member: 50 wrote: He's keeping it inside the house so it won't get blown away.
You mean they are supposed to go outside?????
Seriously though, Matthew has puckered itself out so we are no longer under a Hurricane warning, just a Tropical Storm Warning. We were extremely fortunate. The unfortunate part of this whole deal is that all the newbies will think they have been through a Cat 4 storm and will not be prone take another one seriously which could cost them their life. Us old timers donÛªt need the National Hurricane Center because if Disney World Closes we are in for it, but if they are open, no worries.
And as a side note, O Devine One, the National weather service has attributed the downgrading of Matthew to a methane anomaly in the atmosphere that drifted in from the west. Thank you for your contribution and keep Uranus pointed Southeast.
@RJ
IÛªm gonna test the wind gauge with my leaf blower when it quits raining. HereÛªs a pic this morning of the weather station. SWMBO wonÛªt let me buy a better one ÛÒ have to wait until Christmas 2097.
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My daughter and her husband moved to Orlando from North Carolina last week. She began her new job as a vice president of Valencia College on Monday.
As of an hour ago, she and hubby and the three dogs were fine. I hope it stays that way.
MathTeacher, post: 394311, member: 7674 wrote: She began her new job as a vice president of Valencia College on Monday.
WOW! Congratulations! Quite an admirable position.
It's still windy and rainy but nothing like a real hurricane.
If she lives in a new house we probably surveyed it! 😎
Called my folks last night (Sarasota). They were having light drizzle at that time and about to go out for the evening.
My folks have lived there since 1995 and never had any major issues with hurricanes. Part of their house flooded only once...... due to a washing machine hose that broke.
I have family between the St. Johns river and the ocean. The latest models pit them slightly above the probable surge. Fortunately my soon to be Brother in law built both houses in the last few years. They are made to take a beating. Once he decided which one he was staying everyone followed him..
FL/GA PLS., post: 394315, member: 379 wrote:
If she lives in a new house we probably surveyed it! 😎
They're renting for now. They have a house near Reidsville, NC that needs to be sold. Beautiful place near the end of a dirt road if anyone in that area is interested in country living.
Robert Hill, post: 394276, member: 378 wrote: As Scotland says
Those are the temps not wind
Na h- it can't be 5å¡ there...
Hope y'all along the East Coast fare well. Looks like SC is having record unprecedented flash floods. Be safe, not sorry!
Scotland, post: 394273, member: 559 wrote: I think that is temperature shown on the maps. Could be wrong though.
You're right. I saw these windflag symbols and thought the numeric value represented the wind speed.
I'm sure that it could be worse, but it's plenty bad in Eastern NC. Seven people dead at the last count I saw, water rescues in the hundreds, helicopter rescues and power outages.
Stay safe if you live east of Raleigh.
