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4 minutes ago, mattie g said:

This is the never-ending debate around here. Do we root for the most extreme solution or do we hope for the less exciting solution out of concern for safety? We always hear that weather's gonna weather, and no amount of hoping it does one or the other ultimately matters, so might as well root for the extreme solution. Not sure I buy that since that extreme solution could end up IMBY. Extreme weather is exciting, but it also usually results in bad sh*t happening.

Yep that's the crux of it...I think many of us here have a truly divided mind over this (like the proverbial good angel/bad angel on the shoulder, lol)

4 minutes ago, AdamHLG said:

^^ and more recently than Snowmageddon, we talk about severe, but only a few weeks ago lightning struck a house in Frederick County and a firefighter was killed.   

And that's terrible...see that's what you hate to hear. Not as tragic, but still kinda bad...last month lighting struck the steeple of the church where I just became Music Director...fire coulda burned down the whole church had it not been for someone, Praise God, being there at the right time (and it being next to a fire station). So in that instance, it's like...yeah ya love the weather but when bad things happen? Ya hate that! It's a strange psychology...

44 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

Not really. It’s called having some humanity. It’s one thing to be fascinated by extreme weather. We all are. But to actually be disappointed if it doesn’t happen, to me, is just somehow not ok .

The psychology doesn't make sense, but it is possible to feel both. It's like...you want no one to get hurt. But yet...you want that extreme weather too. Like when we got Snowmageddon...someone died walking in the street due to unplowed sidewalks. Did ya want that to happen? Of course not! It's awful. But were we happy with the legendary snow? Absolutely. Same with hurricanes...awesome to see powerful ones, yet awful to see the results.

So the humanity feels for the victims of such and wishes no harm. But yet...something in the brain also wants the extremes for excitement too. So when that part of the brain/psyche doesn't get the extreme weather, there's disappointment. And yet you're happy nobody gets hurt. If I had a magic button I'd make it so you could have extreme yet no damage, lol

Ya know, I had planned to disengage from here this fall/winter so I wouldn't have to see the typical nina screw jobs coming...but this beat me to it! Smh Ya know, no matter how well you know this region and it's tendencies, it still kinda hurts anyway...but so it goes. But still it's better not to see it beforehand!

32 minutes ago, Weather Will said:

WB 12Z NAM.  Complete disaster if this had been a snow storm.  Lot of forecast busts on the way…

I just don't understand how this happens in the summer time with tropical...smh How do we STILL miss north and west...and this has nothing to do with elevation? Those folks up there get everything, summer AND winter. (although I'm gonna guess this is gonna be a flooding threat). It's like somebody put a bubble around us, smh (I mean sure you could see it as protective...that we don't get the bad things that come with flooding, but...still want some fun weather at the same time).

La Nina screwing us early this year, apparently...north, west, east, smh

7 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

WPC has mentioned the door being open for a high risk upgrade, especially in parts of PA. That in itself is incredible. 

Western MD, WV and PA needs to pay close attention to this one. 

Same folks that get all the snow...now get all the tropical...of course

10 minutes ago, Imgoinhungry said:

3+ inches of rain is missing out?

From a weenie perspective, yes...OF COURSE you'd love to see 6-8"! Tbh part of me doesn't like seeing that huge swath north of us...kinda feels too much like winter seeing that, lol

1 minute ago, lilj4425 said:

Looks like the media completely forgot about this hurricane already thanks to Afghanistan. Oh well. 

Dude NBC Nightly News just spent a third of their broadcast covering it...no they didn't "forget"...It's just a bit of an unusual time where two huge events are happening at once. 

7 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

Man NOLA got hammered pretty good and they never even really got into the inner eyewall, some of the videos outta NOLA downtown are wow. 

Dang...so 95% power outages was them getting off easy, smh

Just now, tiger_deF said:

Ida, nearly 5 hours after landfall

Ida: "Land? What land? I don't see any land!"

But seriously folks are saying it's not really "land" because of all the marshes/wetlands and such...but I didn't know a hurricane could still feed off a just a half-wet environment!

11 minutes ago, BYG Jacob said:

Aged like milk

Pew...will someone please throw out those "won't get there" posts from yesterday? They're stinkin' up the joint...lol

35 minutes ago, jewell2188 said:

We get shafted….seems legit. 

Probably woulda had to have tracked further east to start! (But then it would stayed south knowing our fortune, lol)

8 minutes ago, Wmsptwx said:

All those takes last night of it going east we’re premature.

There was a lot posts last night that were premature, smh

13 minutes ago, Will - Rutgers said:

lol this absolute colossal dip**** is walking his dogs in the middle of this eyewall, i genuinely do not understand what goes through people's heads.  he is going to die out there.  meanwhile the guy streaming is on the phone with someone saying he's recording gusts up to 200 mph.  which, idk maybe that seems high to be but whatever.  the spirit is there.

200 mph gusts, gonna go walk my dogs.

edit: idk what i'm thinking, there's no way these are 200 mph gusts lmao

How would that even work anyway, lol Your dog's poop and pee would be blown in your face so fast it would sting, lol

5 minutes ago, turtlehurricane said:

Underwater cam in Grand Isle is definitely back live https://www.severestudios.com/storm-chasers/john.humphress2.html

That is incredible!! Gotta be the greatest camera in LA right now, lol

Someone in the other thread said it was a Samsung S20 Ultra...Samsung gonna get some great publicity off of this if that's true, lol

6 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

It’s spending more time under water than above 

You almost feel like it's gonna go completely under and still be running, lol

9 minutes ago, user13 said:

This is insane...

It's basically going underwater now

Heck of camera! But it's giving us great shots of what happens inside of a storm like this!

Looking at how this thing bombed out...and looking at the comments yesterday about Ida "sputtering" and "not gonna be as crazy as we thought"...I think it's a reminder for all of us: don't underestimate forecastes RI when a storm goes through bath water with few limiting features!

The hurricane category system is kinda wonky...it's like no difference between 150 & 157 yet it won't be a Category 5...but may as well be with the damage!

2 minutes ago, Chinook said:

interesting note: Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Aug 29, 2005 at 11:10z at the Mississippi River delta.(Monday morning). Hurricane Ida will be making landfall on Aug 29 2021, most likely a little west of the Mississippi River delta, on a Sunday.

That is an insane coincidence...wow!

19 minutes ago, Prospero said:

Granted I accept it could even be a Cat 5 tomorrow morning. But I along with many expected 4 or 5 today. I did have my doubts being a "Gulf" storm, but probably deep down thought I was way wrong.

When I went to bed last night I thought I'd wake up to a solid 2 or 3.

I will be up early tomorrow and can't even take a wild guess right now. Might be the same as it is now, give or take a Cat.

Does look good now though...

Did you just say "give or take a Cat?" Hahaha 

I'm just picturing a met giving a forecast..."Yeah so we got a hurricane about to hit us--gonna be 3...give or take a Cat" Lol

5 minutes ago, Prospero said:

Ida looks strong, but still not perfect. I'd be concerned being in its way, but relieved the hype so far is fading.

Good thing it hasn't reached where we were thinking it would be, at least so far. Dry air trying to come in.

Now hang on...if this still ends up reaching a Cat 4...what hype would be faded? Has that not been the forecast? As @40/70 Benchmark alluded to...even intensification at the rate of the last several hours would still put us there!

2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Which still ends up cat 4.

Which would be exactly as forecast...which means it won't matter too much if we got there steadily or quickly!

7 minutes ago, Amped said:

The open eye is misleading.  There's a robust circular CDO on IR which is probably more important than the exact eye shape, which changes every 10 minutes.

Is it just me or do we get way too OCD about a hurricane's appearance sometimes?