2020 Hurricane Season w/ special guest Covid-19

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

10 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

This is just absurd.

Eta may still be around for the 2024 election at this rate

 

[Hate 20108]

[Brew 3049]

Rain on the west coast of FL ended up not being as bad as expected. Wind has been blowing hard, but skies are blue at the moment. It blew through quickly, we’ll see what the turn back causes I guess.

[Telegraph_it 3357]

Eta you are drunk.

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

Eta just out there cruising around the gulf, seeing the sights, telling anyone who'll listen what a badass it used to be.

[Js1 85337]

 

[Stella Link 534]

8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.  I Eta Theta.  

[phdhorn 6224]

Surprised no one got the newbie:



This guy could be a problem, although waters are getting cooler in the Caribbean now.

[phdhorn 6224]

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Oh, that one's not Theta, which won't bother anybody and isn't really a pure tropical system.

This one's new and will almost certainly go tropical within 24 hours.

[Dnaguy 11964]

Who would have thought that global warming was going to somehow teach me the Greek alphabet.

All it took was the destruction of people’s lives, property, and billions of $’s in damages.

I guess life is full of trade offs. 

Edited November 10, 2020 by Dnaguy

[Hate 20108]

Meanwhile, ETA still moving westward.

[Stella Link 534]

Did Florida sign a deal with the devil this year??  If so, when that bill comes due, it's going to be catastrophic.....

[miguelito 11266]

Eta's not going to fuck with the Master is she?

[Hate 20108]

1 hour ago, miguelito said:

Eta's not going to fuck with the Master is she?

No. 

[miguelito 11266]

Oops, I meant the Masters golf tournament.  I don't know who the Master is, but it sounded kinky.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

4 hours ago, miguelito said:

Eta's not going to fuck with the Master is she?

So this is you?

 

[miguelito 11266]

Fuck around and find out

[utee94 15823]

49 minutes ago, miguelito said:

Oops, I meant the Masters golf tournament.  I don't know who the Master is, but it sounded kinky.

[UTexasFight 9450]

11 hours ago, phdhorn said:

Surprised no one got the newbie:



This guy could be a problem, although waters are getting cooler in the Caribbean now.

So you’re saying:

theta: give zero fucks

this yellow x guy: give one iota 

 

 

got it 

[Dewey 3286]

17 hours ago, Hate said:

Meanwhile, ETA still moving westward.

 

[Dnaguy 11964]

 

So we’re back to the easterly track.

 

[phdhorn 6224]

8 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

So you’re saying:

theta: give zero fucks

this yellow x guy: give one iota 

 

 

got it 

Yup.  Headin' to Nick-E-Rog-Wa agin.

[Dnaguy 11964]

 

[Dnaguy 11964]

 

Why Iota!

[Hate 20108]

Damn, what did Honduras ever do to anyone? Two major hurricane landfalls in November??

[Bevo 13577]

31 minutes ago, Hate said:

Damn, what did Honduras ever do to anyone? Two major hurricane landfalls in November??

MS-13

[Brisketexan 105139]

31 minutes ago, Bevo said:

MS-13

MS-13 is Salvadoran.  Honduras is too poor for an MS-13.  They can maybe spring for an MS-5 or 6.

[InkaUtexas 25940]

11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

MS-13 is Salvadoran.  Honduras is too poor for an MS-13.  They can maybe spring for an MS-5 or 6.

LOL, but although MS-13 started with Salvadorans living in LA and then deported, it has spread across Honduras. 

 

[Brisketexan 105139]

5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

LOL, but although MS-13 started with Salvadorans living in LA and then deported, it has spread across Honduras. 

 

I know.  I just wanted to make a "Honduras is poor" joke.  Gimme that.

Although, they get style points for being the last country in the world to use a fucking awesome Corsair in combat:

The last three air-to-air kills of piston engine fighters in history.  

[InkaUtexas 25940]

Yep, for sure about that! Shot down P-51's! 

I remember when the Honduras were given F-5's the first thing they did was strip two and mount them. A cheap way to get spares! 

[Parliament 14260]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I know.  I just wanted to make a "Honduras is poor" joke.  Gimme that.

Although, they get style points for being the last country in the world to use a fucking awesome Corsair in combat:

The last three air-to-air kills of piston engine fighters in history.  

The Soccer War?

[Dewey 3286]

La guerra del futbol, what an amazing time it must have been.... and we sit around arguing college football rivalries.  Sheeeet. 

[staboner 4969]

goddamn Central America taking it in the ass in November. again. poor fuckers

[Bert Orange 1120]

At least there’s only one Iota. 

[Zonahorn 8079]

The 2nd recorded November Category 5 hurricane in Atlantic history, for posterity

[AUS-97HORN 11762]

holy shit... 195 miles per hour wind gusts with 155 sustained winds.... HOLY FUCK.

 

 

[smuggs 9353]

Fucking nightmare. Good lord.

[Dnaguy 11964]

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm had maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (260 kph). It was centered about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east-southeast of Puerto Cabezas, also known as Bilwi, Nicaragua and moving westward at 9 mph (15 kph).

Authorities warned that Iota would probably come ashore over areas where Eta’s torrential rains saturated the soil, leaving it prone to new landslides and floods, and that the storm surge could reach a shocking 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6 meters) above normal tides.

https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-iota-cat-5-central-america-6abd22f849896c7c3070de5ce5383615

 

[smuggs 9353]

Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. A Cat 4 and a Cat 5 landfall 12 days apart. That is fucking unbelievable.

 

 

[staboner 4969]

11 minutes ago, smuggs said:

Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. A Cat 4 and a Cat 5 landfall 12 days apart. That is fucking unbelievable.

 

 

damn. is that a bullseye for both just some of the storm? haven't been following eta or this one too much but damn that's crazy

at least eastern Nicaragua is quite unpopulated. at least that's what I remember seeing. it will still powerfuck Honduras like Mitch did. 

fuck I feel so bad for those folks there. they have such a hard life. 

[smuggs 9353]

5 minutes ago, staboner said:

damn. is that a bullseye for both just some of the storm? haven't been following eta or this one too much but damn that's crazy

Yeah, Eta made landfall 15 miles south. Iota coming from a more southerly route and looking to make landfall in almost the same exact location. 

Puerto Cabezas taking the length on the North/East edge of the eyewall x 2 it appears.

[phdhorn 6224]

Almost stretches credibility that Mitch was barely in the headlines after killing 19,000 people in 1989, hitting roughly the same area.

I think the only reason that these storms won't is because they're probably are very few people in that area right now.

At least half of the people killed in Mitch were killed by 20 to 30 foot walls of mud that came down like a water surge and just buried people. Not my preferred way to go.

[staboner 4969]

2 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Almost stretches credibility that Mitch was barely in the headlines after killing 19,000 people in 1989, hitting roughly the same area.

I think the only reason that these storms won't is because they're probably are very few people in that area right now.

At least half of the people killed in Mitch were killed by 20 to 30 foot walls of mud that came down like a water surge and just buried people. Not my preferred way to go.

The rains from Mitch hit Tegucigalpa like a mofo and there is where most of the folks died I think. '98. Yeah, a wall of mud. fuck me.

I was there in 2005-ish I think. Traveling through and there was still damage. and the people still talked about it. 

well, its barely in the headlines now I think. sadly, no one cares about Central America much. At least not on our algorithms 

[staboner 4969]

26 minutes ago, smuggs said:

Yeah, Eta made landfall 15 miles south. Iota coming from a more southerly route and looking to make landfall in almost the same exact location. 

Puerto Cabezas taking the length on the North/East edge of the eyewall x 2 it appears.

damn that's just crazy. there has to be some weather nerd out there trying to put this into historical context

[phdhorn 6224]

Well at least y contrast, so far they've estimated "only" ~120 deaths from Eta. Obligatory every death is tragic but I think even in those places improvements in communication and the internet, and logistics make it a little easier to get people away as much as possible.

However, doesn't mean that they would get that lucky this time around, there still are a lot of little towns that could get decimated. Hopefully having some precautions last week will make it easier to ramp up again now.

Eta is supposed to head over to the western part of the country and rain itself out there which is it going to be too good for Tegucigalpa or Managua.

Edited November 16, 2020 by phdhorn

[Blotto 23511]

eye coming ashore now

 

Edited November 17, 2020 by Blotto

[smuggs 9353]

Iota image with Eta track for comparison. Shifted another 15 miles south of town. Hopefully the extra distance gave them a little cushion but those winds coming around the northeast edge of the eyewall are insane.

 

[phdhorn 6224]

Yech, worst place to be - NE quadrant.  There's not gonna be much left standing there.  

1,000 year rain event between Eta and this... over 80 inches of rain in many parts within 2 weeks.

[UTexasFight 9450]

I tried to make a Puerto Cabezas/ Pets heads falling off joke but probably already been done somewhere in this thread and just not in the laughing mood with all of this.

just terrible terrible terrible 

 

 

[Dnaguy 11964]

5 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

I tried to make a Puerto Cabezas/ Pets heads falling off joke but probably already been done somewhere in this thread and just not in the laughing mood with all of this.

just terrible terrible terrible 

 

 

It’s just muy loco in the cabezas if you ask me!