(09-04-2017, 01:45 PM)TurndownforWatt Wrote:

(09-03-2017, 04:08 PM)mvannostran Wrote: Too soon to tell. Could be another Harvey, could spin out to the mid Atlantic and do nothing. We'll see. I'm pretty safe from hurricanes where I am, but I do have family and friends in FL. Hope it steers clear of you all.

HIGHLY doubt it'll be another Harvey..Harvey was a weather anomaly that only comes along once in a lifetime..if even that. It was already a slow moving storm (moved about 2 mph) and the weather systems that were in place when it got here prevented it from just going inland and fizzlIing out, instead it pinned the storm right off the coast and caused it to dump a unprecedented amount of rain on Houston for 5 days. Every possible bad scenerio had to fall perfectly into place to allow Harvey to do what it did, it made 3 landfalls (2 in Texas). It was the Gulf's version of the perfect storm. 

If Irma is moving at a decent speed and is allowed to progress on it's course while the storm surge and wind damage has the potential to be devestating the flooding won't be remotely comparable to Harvey. Irma could potentially be another Andrew though. (But the building codes in that state have drastically changed, because of Andrew.) I do hope everyone stays safe and hope the storm takes a drastic turn towards the north and veers off to nowhere.

While you're correct there, if it happens to take the course that swings it around to Tampa, they're [BLEEP]. 

That city is less prepared for a direct hurricane hit than New Orleans pre Katrina. The counties North of there (Hernando, Pasco) flood from a decent rain and the whole area has been waterlogged for like 2 months now. The most dangerous path Irma could take would be re-strengthening in the Gulf and hitting Tampa, which some models are showing.

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