Hurricane Wilma In-wind Thread!!!

[The Lovedoc]

Looks like its down to 10mph to 165mph... Wow, this storm is massive!! It looks so beautiful on tv...perfect shape and everything... By the looks of it, if you have seen the projected path of the "eye", Sustain Dan and i will be the only ones in the path here at the BC family that i know about... I however will not be leaving... I will be bunkering down taking care of my grandma... They expect it to hit florida as a 3..but a possible 4... They didn't expect to to be a cat 5 already, but it is.. So who knows how hard this will hit us..

Keep us in your prayers!!

[rwall]

I am so sick of this SHIT!!!

[The Lovedoc]

I am so sick of this SHIT!!!

If it takes more of a southern route... We will both get nailed

[bhs4life]

Me And Jbc Will Be Fucked If It Goes North

[Tony Vegas]

Me And Jbc Will Be Fucked If It Goes North

first time for everything!

only joking guys! hope you it misses you.

[The Lovedoc]

Me And Jbc Will Be Fucked If It Goes North

LOL...j/k

[Spark]

This is horrible news guys ... Pls keep us posted

[10DimeBry]

first time for everything!

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BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

LMAO

[vinnyvegas]

Good luck guys...wish you'd all just bail out & come back after it tears FLA a new AHOLE...what a freaking year...hopefully it misses or calms down...

[vinnyvegas]

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/

[The Lovedoc]

Just heard that the keys have been evacuated..... I would never leave Irish Kevins!!!! Bry on the other hand would stay at Aqua

[savage1]

This is what I said in the non gambling thread for anyone interested:
When I was a kid in the fifties, the talk was there was a talk of a way to seed hurricanes to diminish their strength.
Here is it 50 years later, and the problem still remains.
It doesn't make sense to me;there are all kinds of launches to outer space and very sophisticated equipment to bring the vehicles back, take photos, etc. and yet nothing can be done about hurricanes.
Somehow I think that if the best minds had put their heads together over the last 50 years, hurricanes like Katrina would be broken up before they could wreak their destruction.
I think there is more here than meets the eye-perhaps the big business interests who profit bigtime from hurricanes don't want them completely eliminated(yeah I know that is pretty cynical, but sometimes I wonder this in the same way I do when I think about cars, and why there are not a lot more fuel efficient cars on the road in this day and age).

[Spearit]

This was my response to you Savage- and it doesn't matter which thread is used to support those in harms way.Savage - we are of like age and never before has the storms been this bad in recorded time. Seeding never panned out for whatever reason-. I believe we should go where the storms begin and add barriers to the sweep off of cape horn. This would not allow the storms to gain momentum on the kickoff.

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Visitors were ordered out of the Florida Keys on Wednesday as Hurricane Wilma briefly exploded into the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, with meteorologists warning that it could maintain devastating power as it crosses Florida from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic.

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The storm, which was menacing Cuba and Central America, could be a weakened but still significant threat to the state by this weekend, forecasters said. Its sustained wind blew at 165 mph Wednesday afternoon, down from 175 mph earlier in the day.

Wilma was expected to come ashore in southwestern Florida, threatening coastal areas like Punta Gorda that were battered by Charley, the Category 4 storm that was the first of seven hurricanes to strike or pass close to the state since August 2004.

Monroe County officials ordered visitors out of the Florida Keys. Tourists are generally told to leave ahead of others on the lengthy chain of islands connected by one highway.

On the state's southwest coast, Collier County officials hadn't ordered anyone to leave the Naples area, but "we are telling those folks who are more comfortable evacuating to go ahead. If they wait there could be road congestion and other problems," said Jaime Sarbagh, a county emergency management spokeswoman.

Early Tuesday, Wilma was only a tropical storm with wind of 70 mph. With wind more than 100 mph faster by the same time Wednesday, it had shown the most rapid strengthening ever recorded in a hurricane, said Hugh Cobb, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

By afternoon, Wilma was being disrupted by upper atmosphere wind in the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said. As the storm moves north into the gulf, it will encounter water temperatures that are 1 or 2 degrees lower than those in the Caribbean, which should inhibit its strength more, Cobb said.

Still, it's forecast to be a potentially devastating Category 3 or 4 hurricane when it makes landfall in Florida, although experts acknowledge they have little skill in making strength forecasts. A Category 3 storm has wind of at least 111 mph, a Category 4 has wind of 131 to 155 mph, and a Category 5 is anything above that.

At 2 p.m. Wednesday, Wilma was still in the western Caribbean, about 520 miles south of Key West and wobbling toward the west-northwest at 7 mph. However, the storm should eventually make a sharp right turn toward Florida and pick up forward speed in the Gulf of Mexico because it will get caught in the westerlies, the strong wind current that generally blows toward the east, forecasters said.

The White House promised to remain on top of the situation. "We are closely monitoring what is an extremely dangerous storm," said Scott McClellan, spokesman for President Bush. "People should take this hurricane very seriously."

Wilma was expected to move across Florida rapidly, which means it wouldn't weaken much over land, Cobb said. That makes it possible that Atlantic coast cities such as Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach could be hit by wind nearly as strong as on the west coast, he said.

Paul Malbon anxiously watched Wilma's progress from the five-story Best Western waterfront hotel he owns and runs in Fort Myers Beach, on the west coast south of Punta Gorda. Hurricane Charley's storm surge shoved sand and water into the ground floor last year but everything was quickly repaired.

"I don't wish bad luck on anybody else but I hope it doesn't come here," he said Wednesday.

Asked if he feared the area might get slammed again, he replied: "Only the man upstairs knows the answer to that one. It don't look good at the moment."

Charley was the first of six hurricanes to strike the state since August 2004, causing more than $20 billion and killing nearly 150 people.

The state routinely replenishes emergency supplies of water, food and ice at staging points so no additional action is needed, emergency management spokesman Mike Stone said earlier. Supermarkets and home-repair chains stocked extra food, ice and other supplies.

Many Punta Gorda homes and businesses have been rebuilt in a construction boom, but some are still boarded up. More than 6,800 federal trailers and mobile homes remain scattered around the state as temporary housing installed after the six storms, with 934 in Charlotte County alone.

Wilma made history before hitting land. It is the 12th hurricane of the season, the same number reached in 1969, the highest since record-keeping began in 1851. It is also the 21st named storm, tying the record set in 1933.

The six-month hurricane season ends Nov. 30. Wilma is the last on the 21-name list for storms this year. If any other storms form, letters from the Greek alphabet would be used for the first time, starting with Alpha.

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On the Net:

National Hurricane Center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
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[savage1]

Spearit-I understand what you are saying, but I still maintain that in 50 years more progress/effort could/should have been made to control these nasty storms.

[JBC13]

these hurricanes suck! im sure we will be getting hit since the damn thing is so big hopefully it turns more towards lovedoc and rwall...j/k. Stay safe guys!!