Hurricanes Everywhere!

This year's Atlantic ACE will be close to 2005. There is a ton of latent heat on that side of the world.

 

It is pounding Puerto Rico as we speak. Paul Goodloe, of the Weather Channel, was outside, but had to get in to be safe. If you want to know all about the hurricane, this is where I hang out besides here...

storm2k.org...lots of pro and amateur mets hang out there.

 

The damage from Dominca. The took a direct hit, as is Puerto Rico...

Hurricane Maria: Live updates - CNN

 

Statement by Principal Adviser to Dominica PM. He is apparently outside Dominica but got through to the PM by satellite phone.

The country's main hospital is badly damaged and patient care is compromised. Electricity and running water have ceased for the entire country and will be out for some time. Telephone and cell service are out. Roads are impassable. Outlying villages seem to have taken the brunt and people walking into the capital on foot say some have been almost erased from the map. Air photography verifies this. Some of the strong concrete buildings used as shelters have lost their roofs. Farm crops are destroyed.

The PM says he is going to try to make his way outside Roseau today (air photos show most of its buildings still intact) to visit the hard hit outlying regions. He once again is asking for international helicopter support to reach these people and deliver aid to them. They are clearing the runway at the island's airport and say that large aircraft should be able to operate there in a day or so.

The international community needs to help them. The US has a tremendous amount on its plate, from the Texas Gulf Coast to the US Virgin Islands. The UK is busy with the British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos and Anguilla. So it looks like the EU and Canada are next up. Send helicopters, drinking water, tents, food, EMTs, field hospitals, and inevitably longer term aid to assist reconstruction

https://www.facebook.com/DominicaHurricaneRelief/posts/219824968550813

 

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-us-virgin-islands-dominica-caribbean

 

Here is a detailed initial report from the Gov't in Dominica, significant for damaged homes on the Windward side of the Island vs the Leeward side.



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKQOnneXoAEtGpX.jpg:large

 

Puerto Rico (a large island of 3 1/2 million people) is in pretty bad shape. No electricity on the entire island, except where there are emergency generators. Running water isn't available most places. They say it might be months before those services are restored. Stores remain closed. There's a 6 PM to 6 AM curfew. They are still trying to reopen ports and airports to get supplies in.

While San Juan survived with its buildings intact, there's concern about small villages in the hills. Many of them are kind of third-worldish, with wooden buildings with metal roofs. The hills caught more wind than sea level and squeezed rain out of the storm so that small creeks became raging torrents. There's going to be severe damage and perhaps loss of life in those areas.

People are saying it's the worst disaster that PR has ever seen and they don't know what people are going to do, without food, water, light, communications or jobs.

 

The trend has been to leave for the mainland and Maria won't alter that trend.

 

Wow

I'm popping in after a very long gap. One of the reasons for which I'm popping in now was this terrible news; I thought of a friend in the US with connections with Dominica, and my mind wandered back to long ago discussions, and I recalled that you also had connections there. I'm so sorry about what's happened there, and as much with regard to Puerto Rico, from which I know many more people. Peace in the midst of all this, Steve, and hope that rebuilding and restoration can begin quickly.

Peace,

Matt

 

Somebody in Washington is thinking the same thing. The US Navy amphibious assault ship USS Wasp arrived off Dominica on Friday to support the US disaster assistance mission.

RELEASE: USS WASP arrives in Dominica to support U.S. disaster assistance mission > U.S. Southern Command > Press Releases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_(LHD-1)

In addition to several Harrier fighter jets and some attack helicopters, this carries approximately 10 transport helicopters that will be useful in disaster relief. It has a well deck and can launch landing craft, which should be useful too. It has a hospital ship function in wartime, and its hospital has several operating rooms and the ability to treat hundreds of injured. It has vehicles and forklifts, and a number of water purification systems embarked for the hurricane relief mission. It was previously assisting St. Martin after Irma, but the French and Dutch have apparently taken over that effort.

A sister ship, the USS Kearsarge is currently off Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

 

Here comes Nate

U.S. faces threat from yet another potential hurricane

 

It's since left Dominica and is now off Puerto Rico. But I believe that it left ~70 US Marines and a small number of helicopters on Dominica to assist the Caribbean Community disaster relief mission there.

 

another casualty of the hurricanes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/06/hurricanes-thought-to-crush-u-s-job-growth-in-september/?utm_term=.f4c972d7430e

 

Hurricane Nate is coming ashore as we speak. It's clipped the mouth of the Mississippi and appears headed for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. But it's only category 1, relatively weak as Hurricanes go. Rain is heavy from south Louisiana to Pensacola. There appears to be some storm surge, but nothing near as bad as hurricane Katrina did to the same stretch of coast, where places like Biloxi were pretty much wiped out.

 

I've read that Narlins is yet again unprepared for flooding but has so far been spared heavy rains from Nate.

LBJ vowed to correct the problems of the lower Mississippi River region. All these years later the problems remain.

 

Ophelia

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/10/11/Tropical-Storm-Ophelia-expected-to-become-hurricane-by-Thursday/5661507647151/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im&utm_tracker=1736664x84899

 

Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/12/trump-warns-puerto-rico-we-cannot-keep-fema-the-military-the-first-responders-forever/?utm_term=.009bd530f734

 

The negative spin is appalling. Trump did not threaten to "abandon" the relief effort. What he did say is that the responders can't stay forever. Hello!? Are we such flippin' idiots as to disagree with that obvious fact?

Puerto Rico will be left with the mess their lefty politicians have created over decades of maladministration. So Trump should do what about that? Should he lobby to pour another 100 billion dollars into bailing them out so that they can continue on their merry, destructive way?

 

Hurricanes in... Ireland??

Now we have Hurricane Ophelia (love the name) in the Atlantic. Instead of heading west towards the Caribbean and the US, this one is going northeast. Projected tracks take it in between the Azores and Madeira, then northwest of Spain, and toward what looks like a collision with Ireland next Monday. By then it probably won't be a hurricane, but it will still be a significant storm.

HURRICANE OPHELIA

Probabilities of tropical storm force winds in Ireland here:

HURRICANE OPHELIA

 

If it's so obvious then why did the moron feel the need to emphasize it? Oh yeah, btw, that town where he was flipping paper towels to the residents, yeah they still don't have water or electricity.

https://splinternews.com/puerto-rican-town-where-trump-tossed-paper-towels-to-de-1819362247?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark