BREAKING: HURRICANE Ophelia

[Bluebear]

Wonderful.

CNN: She is just off the Atlantic coast of Florida, completely stationary. No idea what it will do, it could loop out and strengthen and come back.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Where is she now?

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[Corgigal]

9. getting strong and sitting on the east side of Florida

Lovely...I've been watching her for days because I don't live too far from Charleston SC.

We all know we have no Federal response, so I will be gone with the kiddies and pets.

[Bluebear]

14. Think positive, if it affects Florida "W" will be right on it.

:eyes:

[Corgigal]

22. Oh that's true

My bad. Jeb might want to run after his dumber brother.
If it goes near me...bye bye.

[CatWoman]

2. where is she?

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Jinx! *holding up pinky finger*

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[CatWoman]

6. bwahahahahaha

this is HUGH!!!!!!!!!!!11111

[Bluebear]

7. Updated OP you two :)

[CatWoman]

10. Be series now

:D

[Bluebear]

13. I am, this season is chalk full of storms!!!!!!111111

[karlrschneider]

25. It's stocking Florida!

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

28. HAHAHAHAHAHA

That gem takes the cake!

[nookiemonster]

30. BWAHAHAHA

I remember that. Classic.

Stocking, indeed.

:rofl:

[Lex]

38. I take it that "stocking" is another freeperism for "stalking"?

What morans.

[CatWoman]

40. silk or nylon?

:D

[Bluebear]

42. Someone said Cindy Sheehan was STOCKING Bush!

On his vacation, no less! And why couldn't people leave him alone for a month! :crazy:

[nookiemonster]

52. Yep.

It was on a yahoo thread a few months ago, some FReeper said that Cindy Sheehan was "stocking the president". It was a fucking riot. Serious pile-on.

[Hugin]

4. What site are you watching?

Looks like I need to pay attention also.

[karlrschneider]

5. Groan...

:eyes:
No way to guess where it's going...

[davidinalameda]

19. looks like it might make its way up the coast

I hope it doesn't cross Florida to the gulf

[Pithy Cherub]

8. "to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..."

This is shakespearian to the nth degree.

[bookman]

11. Weather.com

I've been unable to get to the weather channel site all day. I suspect many are concerned.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. here

http://www.weather.com/weather/local/32746?lswe=32746&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared

[bookman]

65. The Weather Channel hates me

Thanks.

I did get a look at the page. My page and any attempt to get there on my own fruitless.

I know somehow who is on a (ill advised) cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale and due back Sunday.

DU comes through again.

[AlCzervik]

12. did she stop so she can figure out how to go left and get warm gulf air?

this is very bad news.

[incapsulated]

27. Sometimes it seems that way, doesn't it?

They have a life of their own.

Maybe she will go away. *fingers crossed*

[Extend a Hand]

15. I'm watching that one

my mom lives right there by port canaveral

[Zynx]

17. It looks like it will pull what Jeanne did last year.

Go out to sea and loop back after gaining strength:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT16/refresh/AL1605W5_sm2+gif/205509W_sm.gif

[jjmalonejr]

18. She's still a tropical storm, isn't she?

[Bluebear]

21. No it is a category 1 hurricane

[Sydnie]

35. Nope, just upgraded to hurricane. n/t

[Rainscents]

20. I heard last night on Tucker Carlson, She is just sitting and spinning...

And picking up wind speed... As of last night her wind speed was 50mph

[Bluebear]

26. Wow just like the Press Secretary!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

31. ha HAAAAAAAAAA

:rofl:

[chopper]

32. zing!

[Rainscents]

45. BAWAA!!

:rofl:

[Tammie]

23. I'll e-mail the Monkey Palace to let them know. n/t

[Bluebear]

29. The MONKEY PALACE!!!!

:rofl:

And welcome to DU!

[Digit]

68. Glad I had not taken a sip of my diet coke when I read that!

Monkey Palace, INDEED!
:rofl:

[DoYouEverWonder]

24. We have been having the weirdest weather for the last 5 days

This storm has just been hanging out off the coast and it been windy most of the time. Not much rain with it, apparently that's been going back into the ocean, but for it to continue to strength is a surprise.

This isn't like a regular hurricane, it's more like an early norhteaster.

Time to check NOAA and go fill up the gas tank I suppose.

[rodeodance]

33. gee, what t type of people would live in hurricane paths?

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. Certainly not any freepers

Wait a second, this state is full of freepers. So much for that theory.

Anyway this thing looks like it should go back to sea, so in all likelyhood the weather will actually get better. It's really sucked lately, just weird and depressing weather.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT16/refresh/AL1605W_sm2+gif/205509W_sm.gif

[DemocratSinceBirth]

46. yeah but the five day map has it doing a crazy loop...

Three evacuations last year was enough for me...

[DoYouEverWonder]

55. Well that certainly sucks

Three evacuations heck, I was in three of them. My truck got smashed in the first one and we lost our electric for 5 days in each of the next two.


Here's the 5 day map. Definitely going to have to keep on eye on this one, crap.


http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT16/refresh/AL1605W5_sm2+gif/205509W_sm.gif

[DemocratSinceBirth]

56. my mom is eighty seven with health challenges

i can't afford to be without electric for five days lest my mom end up like those poor old folks in new orleans...

[DoYouEverWonder]

58. That's the part the real freepers never consider

the hardship that it puts on all kinds of people. Hurricanes don't discriminate. Plus, unless you have flooding like in NO, which is an unique situation, most of the damage is usually close to coast where more of the rich people live. They just don't get it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

61. i'm blessed in that respect

i can afford to get out of the storm's way....


that's what happened in new orleans.... those with money fled... those without money were left behind....

i read an interesting story about new orleans.... in most situations money goes to water(rich folks like to live on the water) but in new orleans it was the poor folks who lived closest to it because of the danger it presented....

[Pithy Cherub]

50. Saint Sanctomonius Santorum has all of their info....

[Qibing Zero]

67. Yeah it's been some interesting weather for sure

As it has sit on my exact latitude for DAYS now, haha.

[Katarina]

73. Funny you should say that

The head of our emergency operations that posts on a local board started out saying this was a nor'easter.All I know is that it's made me pay attention. I went out tonight and stocked up on snacks and dry goods, filled water bottles, filled my empty propane tank, filled my gas tank ($55...ouch) and am sitting here biting my fingernails. After last year the slightest wind scares me. Every time an update comes out, I am THERE. It's a pain in the ass that all the models show different projections. No one knows what it is doing and it is driving me crazy! I do know that after the rain we got from this a couple a days ago, if we get much more I am stuck. Our roads won't be able to handle much more. I live in the country and the ditches are up to the road as it is. Much more and our roads out here will not be drivable. I am keeping a close ey on this storm. It's unpredictable and that scares me. We are already ebing told to conserve our energy...I don't think it would take too much for us to lose power completely, we already had the power flicker out once tonight. Be vigilant everyone. Otherwise we'll be the ones being told to "pull ourselves up by our bootstraps". :puke:

God I hate that phrase.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

34. I guess us Floridians are in deep doo-doo w/ the Bush Brothers & Brown

running the show.

I wonder how many of the Repubs here are going to be saying that Brown should be kept on when the hurricane is bearing down on US.

My own die-hard Repub. mother was saying that Brown needs to be fired and isn't qualified.

If we have problems in SW FLorida or the panhandle (two Bush bastions) and the people here get po'd that things weren't handled properly the Repub. party will be in biiiig trouble. They get a lot of money from the people here - not to mention the votes.

[Lex]

36. The various computer models

Link here for more info:
http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200516_model.html

[Bluebear]

39. Well at least they all agree!

hehehe

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. At Least None Of Those Models Show It Hitting Florida...

I hope it goes out to sea....


Three evacuations last year was enough for me....

[Bluebear]

47. I know, you deserve a break DSB nt

[Lex]

49. They sort of do agree about some sort of hook or loop

occuring which sends it back inland after strengthening in the Atlantic for awhile.

Worrisome.

[Zynx]

48. If it follows the yellow path it could loop into the gulf and we could

have Katrina part II. I think, knowing nothing about it, that the green path seems most likely which means that it will probably hit Georgia or Florida.

[Lex]

51. The computer models change throughout the day so

it's interesting to see what they do.

Before Katrina, about 24 hours before landfall, they all lined up together and showed New Orleans almost directly in the path. I remember saying outloud "Oh shit."

[Zynx]

54. It may not have hit directly, but it was close enough.

Lord knows it was close enough...

What worries me about Ophelia is that no one seems to be paying attention to it and we have no good idea about what it might do intensity wise.

[Postman]

41. Ophelia, you're breaking my heart.....

n/t

[Bluebear]

43. Well that was Cecilia.....

but take heart, with this season we may get around to the C's again! :)

[DancingBear]

60. "Ophelia " is by The Band

"Oh Ophelia - what went wrong.."

[RubyDuby in GA]

53. Now lookey here Ophelia!

If you even think about ruining my day next Saturday by dumping massive amounts of rain on my outdoor reception, you'll have to deal with me and I will make Katrina look like a newborn kitten! :grr:

Rubyduby's gettin' hitched next Saturday :)

[NYC]

64. Best wishes.

:party: :hi:

[kydo]

57. Ophelia was a tempest, cyclone, a god-damned hurricane

Your common sense, your best defense lay wasted and in vain
For Ophelia'd know your every woe and every pain you'd ever have ...

Natalie Merchant; Ophelia
--

I don't know something about that song made me type this ...

[DoYouEverWonder]

59. Maybe she'll hit DC?

Pay back is a mother they say.

[KoKo]

62. Maybe to Cheney's new 2 Mil Mansion on St. Michaels in Maryland!

The one he and Lynn were negotiating when Katrina Struck...Payback for sure..

[Warren DeMontague]

63. Now Ophelia, She's 'Neath The Window...

For her, I feel so afraid
on her twenty-second birthday
she already is an old maid

To her, death is "quite romantic"
she wears an iron vest
her profession is her religion
her sin is her lifelessness

And though her gaze
is fixed upon
Noah's great rainbow

She spends her time
peeking in on
Desolation Row

[Lex]

66. She's still out there and driving the computer models crazy . . .

[Nikki Stone 1]

69. What the hell is BEHIND it?

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/browsh.html

[Blue_In_AK]

70. Yikes! Good question.

That other thing out in the middle of the Atlantic looks huge.

[Be Brave]

71. That's hurricane Nate. It's not going to make US landfall. It's gonna

stay in the Atlantic.

[Nikki Stone 1]

72. Hope so--that a huge frigging storm!

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