Ida has strengthened rapidly into a high end Category 4 major hurricane and additional strengthening is still possible as it moves across the northern Gulf of Mexico today...
They say it's the worst storm ever seen. They're also saying it's worse than Katrina, and brutha - that's saying something.
This is as of 11:30 Sunday. They're getting hit by the outer bands right now, but unfortunately, this storm has a very highly defined eye, so the back end of the storm, combined with the tidal surge, damn. This is gonna fuck up a lot of people.
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It's coming in at CAT4 strength. That's huge when you
have so many low-lying areas like that part of the south has.
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All the preparation in the world doesn't help.
I know from experience.
Hurricane Marilyn, September 16, 1995.
Hurricane Marilyn was the most powerful hurricane to strike the Virgin Islands since Hurricane Hugo of 1989, and the third such tropical cyclone in roughly a two-week time span to strike or impact the Leeward Islands, the others being Hurricane Iris and the much more powerful and destructive Hurricane Luis. The thirteenth named storm, seventh hurricane and third major hurricane of the extremely active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Marilyn formed on September 12 as a tropical depression from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on September 7. After formation, the storm quickly became a tropical storm, and steadily intensified into a hurricane by the time it struck the Lesser Antilles on September 14 at Category 1 strength. Entering the northeastern Caribbean Sea, rapid intensification ensued and it peaked on September 16 north of Puerto Rico as a Category 3 hurricane shortly after it had impacted the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Marilyn was so powerful, at one point it actually tossed
a Coast Guard Cutter on to dry land on St. Thomas.
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We knew we were fucked when we saw stars
in the clear-blue sky in the middle of the storm.
My house (with us in it) was destroyed in a matter of seconds by a micro-burst right after midnight that took the entire house - right down to the slab - and threw it scattered all around my neighborhood. This is what that kind of wind is capable of:
PS - we did NOT have windstorm insurance.
The house (the structure) was a complete loss.
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I don't wanna look like some kind of shill here,
but I'll tell ya this one thing. We had nothing like
this back then. This would have been a god-send.
I leave the one I have now out in the lanai now and it stays fully charged all the time. I just plug my phone in to it whenever I'm out there - and it keeps the phone at 100%. It's impressive. I bought another one this morning to keep on the dash of my truck.
For under $ 19 bucks, it's crazy not to have one. Even comes
with the charger cord. Click on the picture or this link:
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