2714

Yep. Three tubs in the house. Mainly for washing and flushing. Bottled water for drinking. If needed. Oops. Two tubs now. Had a shower installed.

2715

This. I remember doing this as a kid.

2716

Uh, those are knots, not mph. The official forecast at 120 hours from the update three hours ago called for 140 mph, just north of 125 knots.

Edit: good lord, 916mb on the update. Wind speed has not caught up yet. And this was while undergoing an eyeball replacement? Are you kidding me? I’m telling you, folks, this is not a normal storm.

2717

Oh, you think you’re pretty smart, Trebek, what with your dago moustache, and your greasy hair!

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2720

Because when the water level gets above your bathtub, you’re out of potable water.

That said, that usually doesn’t happen, especially if you have a 2nd story tub you can fill.

2721

I don’t think dropping MOABs in the eye of the hurricane would actually do anything, but if Hollywood has taught me anything it’s that you always fly into the center of the thing and then blow up the thing in the center. Cue hand-wavy “sympathetic turbulence” explanations. I’m willing to try.

2722

More out-to-sea optimism.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/11L_tracks_latest.png

It’s always kind of annoying when you’re watching a storm that moves 15 mph and it hardly moves between updates every 4 hours.

2723

Plus, we should let a little kid fly the plane. “Now that’s pod racing!”

2724

Or the disgraced drunkard.

2725

“Jimmy, have you ever spent time in a Turkish prison?”

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2727

You know, I always misremember his name as Jimmy. No idea why…

2728

You sure about that?

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Was wondering how these winds compare to tornadoes and found this handy chart:
http://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/fscale.htm#fscale table

Call me worried now.

F2 - Significant tornado - 113-157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars pushed over; large trees snapped or uprooted; light object missiles generated.

F3 - Severe tornado -158-206 mph
Roof and some walls torn off well constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in fores uprooted

I’ve been in hurricanes before, but nothing quite that bad.

2730

I know a guy who works at the weather observatory on top of Mt Washington here in New Hampshire (25 degrees with 70 MPH winds gusting to 85 last Friday!) and he said this morning he’s never seen as much smoke in the atmosphere from Western wildfires as he did today.

Someone else I know moved down to the Virgin Islands a few years ago and opened a business. She and her husband tried to get out ahead of the storm and weren’t able to so they are sheltering in place. Kind of terrifying.

2731

It smells like a distant campfire at my house right now.

I live in Ohio.

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2733

Saw this video posted again somewhere and thought I’d share it. Pretty good visual for categories.

Also Irma is now as big as Florida… so… damn.

And apparently it’s now the strongest Atlantic storm on record? Or maybe it’s just the strongest expected to make landfall?