Coopdog

Nobody said it was Andrew...OP asked for info on storm damage outside of SJ. There has been little to no info outside of San Juan.

Thanks, but all the catastrophic LF were at night? Rockport, St Maarten, Tortola, Barbuda, and Dominica?

It will at least be making landfall during daylight hours versus night. At least people will be able to see what the hell they're doing while all hell is breaking lose and have to find other shelter. Correct me if wrong but during this horrendous hurricane season this will be the first daylight LF? All others were at night?

Thanks, thought it was relatively close. As far as the infrastructure in PR, it's about to get destroyed. They have already said expect to have no power for months and no drinking water for weeks. The islands electric provider filed for bankruptcy in July. Most commutation towers were built 20 plus yrs ago to withstand 135mph.

Anyone able to post were Irma was in relation to were Maria is now? Just curious as I imagine Irma was no more than 100-150 miles more northeast?

Will it be 175mph at 8pm?

Thanks! Hopefully the students can get some info out.

We are now 16-17 hrs in from the last communication out of Dominica. Has anyone heard anything? The situation would appear to be dire. With the sun setting soon it appears less likely to hear anything the rest of the night.

Not a chance it gets down to 130 by LF in PR. You expect a ERC to take 35mph off it? Or do you feel there is something else not being mentioned that will reduce wind speed?

Pretty scary as there has been no communication out of Dominica for a solid 12-13 hrs....this has St Maarten type of destruction written all over it.

@DaDaBuh he is definitely not fraud. Just wondering how reliable.

Want disagreeing with you, just posting info to back up your post of the port area being most likely to take on surge. I believe this area that you posted is what locals call "new" San Juan as the most recently modern development in San Juan vs the downtown old San Juan.

Just examined my vaca pics of San Juan. The pic you posted of the area around the port is probably one of the few areas that could take on large amounts of storm surge. The majority of San Juan is protected by high enough elevations that the surge will not impact. In addition in old San Juan there are many streets that have high elevation that will keep them safe from flooding. The areas around the forts and downtown old San Juan should be ok from surge but the port area could take on lots of water.

Keep in mind that there are still 60,000 without power in PR from Irma.

Thanks! Anyone follow this guy DaBuh on twitter? Evidently he hit Irma spot on and is now saying due to atmospheric changes that will occur perhaps fla is in play for Maria?

How do you follow him? Thanks

Did Maria wobble farther north over the island of Dominica than expected? Could this possibly help SAN Juan and hurt the Vurgin Islands? Obviously there are many wobbles left but I feel she is further north than expected.

The eye is determined to hit every portion of this small island, now going up the middle. The only part that might not come into direct contact is the far southwest portion of the island.

Real life perspective for people of Dominica. I will use fla as example, understanding it will never likely happen. 27 hrs ago Maria was a TS, people in fla would brush it off. now 27-30 hrs later you have a cat 5 barreling down on you that is full speed ahead vs a slowing cat 5 when it hits lands. this would create mass chaos in fla. Imagine how many people would be unable to evacuate. in Dominica that is what happened today with much less supplies, support . This is going to be catastrophic and just as bad as st Maarten if not worse.

Cruise lines have made several stops in st Maarten and st Thomas with provisions. Just about any ship that has gone by has dropped something off.

I read an article on Friday. They evacuated Barbuda for Jose, everyone. As of Friday nobody had returned to the island. Not sure if/when people will return as they are lacking the dollars and supplies to rebuild there infrastructure. On another note this has put a huge hurt on eastern Carib cruising. As of now St Maarten, St Thomas have been shut down. Many cruises now headed toward Dominique and St Kitts to replace affore mentioned islands. These islands rely on cruising as a major part of there economy and if Dominique and St Kitts get shut down for awhile it could really be bad.