Strongest Hurricane Ever Measured To Hit Western Mexico

[KG1]

Looks like a major catastrophic event may have been averted as Patricia weakens to a Cat 1.

Mega-storm Patricia drenches Mexico as it weakens

 

[Indyhd]

All I can see coming is Hillary trying to figure out exactly how George Bush pulled this off after he was out of office...

 

[chipbennett]

For the sake of the potential lives impacted, I am glad that there was no major damage and (thus far) no deaths reported. But this must have been the most over-hyped storm in history. It petered out as quickly as it surged (thankfully).

 

[Wild Deuce]

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[SSGSAD]

Here's hoping for the best for the people in the path of this monster. A Cat 5 storm with sustained winds of over 200 MPH. Hope folks can get out of the way.

Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Storm Ever Measured to Hit Mexico - NBC News

Americans, and others, vacationing, are "trapped" down there..... Couldn't get out early .....

 

[OutdoorDad]

Wow ... talk about over-hype. I still can't get over how much of a non-story this became overnight. Don't get me wrong ... I'm glad it looks looks like the initial blow was not as bad as they were predicting. However, I was expecting to see pictures of grand resort hotels being reduced to rubble and floating out to sea. We'll see what the rains bring in the next few days.

Hurricanes aren't really a Midwestern thing. I'd like to add some perspective as someone who's been through a bunch of hurricanes.

With sustained winds of 200 mph, that's an F3 tornado that is 30 miles across! And it lasts for hours. And it travels hundreds of miles inland after all the forces that created it are gone.

An F2 tornado hit a K-mart near where I was living. The only thing left was the slab it was built on and the office safe that was bolted into the slab. Total devastation. Imagine that. Except it starts as a storm, builds to tornado strength and the. Subsides back to a mere storm. ( the calm in the eye is a real thing. And spooky)


I would expect that even though this missed major population areas, the devistation will be evident a decade from now in the destruction of the natural landscape.

Imagine the tornados that hit southern Indiana several years ago. Times a million. That's what a hurricane of this size and magnitude is like.

I sat on a small sailboat through a category 1 hurricane. It was no fun. Something of this size and power, you are hoping to survive. You aren't planning to survive. Because if you had planned, you would be nowhere near it.

 

[printcraft]

It fizzled fo shizzle.

 

[Wild Deuce]

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[rob63]

The photos that astronaut Scott Kelly took are pretty amazing:
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[OutdoorDad]

Yep. I understand what you are saying. I lived in North Carolina during the 90's (1996 Hurricane Season was the most memorable for me) and was part of the response to Louisiana immediately after Katrina in 2005. My comment was about the story itself and how quickly it fizzled ... as well as the reports of no deaths or serious injuries (24 hours later).

It was a very good thing that the worst of the storm missed the most heavily populated areas and that it did, in fact, weaken almost as fast as it strengthened.

Still waiting to see what later news reports say. A lot of that terrain will be hard to assess for a while yet and there's still the rain.

yep, the 90's were a happening time to be in NC!! NC is where the majority of my hurricane experience comes from.

Floyd absolutely sucked. And coming on the heals of some blown calls by the NWS, I suspect the loss was amplified. People just didn't expect it to hit that hard since so many fizzled.

One one aspect I don't miss about living there.

 

[cobber]

For the sake of the potential lives impacted, I am glad that there was no major damage and (thus far) no deaths reported. But this must have been the most over-hyped storm in history. It petered out as quickly as it surged (thankfully).

The global warmists are praying for the storm that will vindicate their Gaiaist, crypto-Wiccan superstitions.

 

[OutdoorDad]

The global warmists are praying for the storm that will vindicate their Gaiaist, crypto-Wiccan superstitions.

Who are they praying to?

 

[woowoo2]

Who are they praying to?

Obama.....

 

[printcraft]

Who are they praying to?

Manbearpig.

 

[cobber]

Who are they praying to?

Obama.....

Manbearpig.

Ironic isn't it. I'm sure they will decry that it's "science" and not religion.

Actually it's a variation on the theme of original sin, with a dash of progressivism thrown in for good measure.

(Xianity: man is evil, but may be saved through Jesus. Progressives: man is bad, but may be saved through scientific socialism, or in this case "science".)

Salvation (old school) = Socialism (new school)

:yawn:

Better luck next time, Gaiaists.

 

[PapaScout]

Manbearpig.

Stop making fun - he's super serial...