Hurricane Erin swelled to a Category 5 storm, the strongest category possible, in the Caribbean on Saturday — and it could cause “life-threatening surf and rip currents” on East Coast beaches early next week. Erin rapidly grew from a tropical storm to a hurricane in just 24 hours, with winds doubling to 160 mph Saturday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.
Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post on Saturday that the storm will remain “rather strong” for the next two to three days — and it’s literally “up in the air” as to how high winds can get.
Having lived in the Carribbean for ten+ years and now in Florida for another ten+, I've learned from experience never to take any storm - or it's projected path - for granted. Spoke to a buddy of mine on St. John this afternoon, and even though they won't get hit directly with the storm passing well north, they were already feeling the effects of this monster. Let that motherfucker head out to sea.
We don't need this shit this early in the season...
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This portable tire inflator is marked down to
$ 18.98 and you can keep in the glove box.
That's almost half price!
We got one for Barbara's car -
even she can use it.
Works great - used it this morning...
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Oh, no!!!! Evil SwirlyWindFiend is going to reach Cat 5, END OF WORLD.... (checks storm track...) Nevermind. Unless you're an idiot in a boat between the US and Bermuda...
ReplyDeleteSeriously, the media and the forecasters are going apeshirt over this, acting like this is going to be another Katrina or Andrew.
Dudes, it's flogging the ocean. It will flog the ocean until it runs out of flogging juice. Nobody except maybe solo sailors and other idiots on the water will be affected. Woooooooo....
I remember when they used to not name them until they looked like they'd hit land. Erin's had a name since forming off of the Africa coast.