Hurricane Idalia could be the strongest
storm to hit the Florida Big Bend for
a century and hit Category 3 strength
with gusts up to 150 mph
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Joe Hutchison
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/29/2023 3:40:56 AM
Hurricane Idalia could be the strongest storm to hit the Florida Big Bend region for a century, with projections it could become a Category 3 storm with 150mph winds and a 12 foot storm surge.
The large storm is currently churning around 80 miles off the western tip of Cuba and is barreling north towards Florida with winds now at 70mph. At 8pm on Monday the National Hurricane Center said Idalia had almost reached hurricane status.
It's projected to grow into a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph sustained winds and gusts up to 150 mph before making landfall while also producing storm surge up to 12 feet.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/29/2023 4:24:55 AM (No. 1544889)
There they go again. hyping up the next thunderstorm like we have never had one before. Every new one seems to be the biggest and the worst.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 8/29/2023 4:50:20 AM (No. 1544900)
The greennies are creaming their jeanies..
It's hurricane season in FL. Happens every year.
Kinda like blizzards in winter up north.
It's possible you'll get one.
Get a grip.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 8/29/2023 5:43:17 AM (No. 1544927)
Hit enter too soon,
TV stations here in SWFL are in their glory looping all their Hurricane Ian destruction footage from a year ago
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/29/2023 6:49:44 AM (No. 1544949)
Here we go again. Apocalypse now will occur tonight and tomorrow. BTW, Andrew went through Homestead in 1992 and damaged it severely. Florida experiences Cat 3's and Cat 4's quite often. Wind and flooding cause the most damage. We survive.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
philsner 8/29/2023 7:44:57 AM (No. 1544974)
Or not.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hisself 8/29/2023 8:23:37 AM (No. 1544990)
Hurricane Michael hit Florida's Big Bend region. It was a Cat 5. Cat 3 is mild in comparison.
As an aside, I lost my roof from Michael. G-d is good, I found most of it in my swimming pool!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
joew9 8/29/2023 8:47:43 AM (No. 1544997)
We are still trying to get the insurance company to pay us for the Ian damage. They assign a claims adjuster and we talk to them. Then nothing. No response to email and phone calls only go to answering machine. Finally after a couple months we go back to the agent and we get told that adjuster quit and you've been assigned another one. And then it starts again. Same thing. One phone call then no contact for another couple months. I think we are on our 4th adjuster.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/29/2023 8:57:43 AM (No. 1545003)
The 'climate specialists' will me mightily overwrought tonite and tomorrow.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
downnout 8/29/2023 9:24:49 AM (No. 1545021)
The weather prostitutes at the Weather Channel are positively orgasmic about this. Just think, folks, only a few more days until we see Jim Cantore hanging on to lamp posts.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 8/29/2023 10:39:43 AM (No. 1545073)
Once it hits Tampa, traverses to Jacksonville and up towards GA will it be renamed Hurricane VIDALIA?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 8/29/2023 10:44:04 AM (No. 1545078)
Sorry folks, just because the media overhypes everything and the climate cult is reveling, doesn't mean people don't die or otherwise take a real hit with this stuff. We took Ian right up the ying-yang last year. People DID lose everything, including their lives.
Show a little compassion. We're supposed to be the good guys.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
FLCracker 8/29/2023 10:48:27 AM (No. 1545081)
Well, at least Florida does not lack for sand.
My father's family has lived in Yankeetown (mostly in the suburb of Crackertown, hence my moniker) for more than 100 years. Facing storms in South Florida as a child, my mom would reminisce about the hurricane (Hurricane Easy, 1950) that hit Yankeetown (just inland from Cedar Key) a couple of years before I was born.
From Wikipedia: "Rainfall totals include 24.5 in (620 mm) in Cedar Key in 3 days and 38.70 in (983 mm) in Yankeetown, Florida, in 24 hours ..." Mom particularly recalled all the roads being covered in downed pine trees.
She was never too concerned about any of the storms that hit Miami.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/29/2023 11:18:23 AM (No. 1545113)
While I don't hope for a hurricane, it may put out the 'climate change' fires in Louisiana.
At least two dead as ‘unprecedented’ 450 wildfires scorch Louisiana Posted above.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/29/2023 11:30:11 AM (No. 1545131)
For people who aren't familiar with that part of coastal Florida, it is very sparsely populated, primarily because there are essentially no good beaches over a huge stretch of the coast, only endless miles of coastal marsh, with an occasional tiny, low island. Coastal marshes are ideal for absorbing tidal surges and hurricane waves with minimal damage.
The only communities at risk will be the vulnerable tourist/fishing island of Cedar Key, and a nearby small fishing and tourist town of Steinhatchee. There are a few other even smaller tiny little communities, literally a quarter or half a mile size along the coast, originally fishing communities, now some tourism and sport fishing guides, some housing for retirees seeking the low pressure lifestyle. I hope that everyone along that coast is evacuated. You'll probably be hearing a lot more about Cedar Key and Steinhatchee in the news soon, since they are likely to be the only places where they can show photos of destruction, since there aren't thousands of homes right on the shore in this part of Florida, almost begging to be wiped out in the first hurricane that comes ashore where they are.
Inland, miles of coastal marshes....kind of like a soft, padded shore to absorb the waves and tide. After a long day of cave diving, a friend and I have several times headed west to Steinhatchee for a fine seafood dinner at a tiny local redneck restaurant, right by the boat docks. I remember a quiet, pleasant little town....but I was last there almost 30 years ago, perhaps the character has changed. But it's so far from the main centers of tourism, I hope it hasn't changed much.
Best wishes to all of them to get through this with minimal property damage and no loss of life.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 8/29/2023 12:20:23 PM (No. 1545186)
Oh, another storm of the century. NOT
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 8/29/2023 12:23:52 PM (No. 1545189)
Sorry for the second post. Is Jim Cantore already over at the beach showing the wind primarily made up with a fan like last time????
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 8/29/2023 12:38:04 PM (No. 1545201)
Re #16, he'll have a lot of trouble even finding a piece of beach to stand on. I expect he'll have to stand on a road or in a parking lot.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
garyhope 8/29/2023 1:22:19 PM (No. 1545237)
Oh poo.....It's that darned "Climate Change" thingy again.
Weather,....whadda ya gonna do about it.
I'm gonna have to give Mother Nature a good talking to.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
downnout 8/29/2023 4:13:24 PM (No. 1545347)
Just because we Floridians tend to make fun of the Weather Channel clowns doesn’t mean we aren’t concerned about friends and neighbors going through storms and hurricanes. It’s that we are prepared and resent the endless fear-mongering we see on TV.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 8/29/2023 6:58:22 PM (No. 1545422)
My relatives are prepared. I helped them get generators after the last big one when we drove down with our generator and kept their refrigerator and freezer, and AC in one room, going. Now they have generators, and one home is wired to an easy plugin from a house wiring to the generator, all to code, and easy for the lady of the house to accomplish.
Extra gas, extra water and food. Batteries for flashlights. Water rarely goes out for one, very small town, big water tower, and a gasoline city backup pump to keep the tower filled.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/29/2023 10:07:19 PM (No. 1545524)
Hurricanes........ The hazard of living in a southern state. The west coast has its earthquakes and volcanoes, the northern states have their blizzards and floods. We adapt to our environment and move on.
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