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How about that weather?

Humberto and the East Coast

by David Anderson|  September 12, 20197:04 am| 85 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads

The most recent ECMWF model has a dramatic shift in Invest 95L track.

Gone is any hint of Gulf of Mexico, instead developing a powerful Hurricane off the Southeast Coast in 3-5 days.

This is a surprising turn of events. pic.twitter.com/xXAmuClLEJ

— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) September 12, 2019

Right now, there is a possible tropical system that is projected to develop. And if it does develop, it could roughly tag along Dorian’s track. So if you’re on the Southeast Coast or in the Bahamas, time to start keeping an eye on the weather again.

Humberto and the East CoastPost + Comments (85)

Friday Morning Open Thread: We Do What We Must

by Anne Laurie|  September 6, 20195:53 am| 181 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads, United Kingdom

This Florida resident parked his Smart car in his kitchen so Dorian wouldn't blow it awayhttps://t.co/q3bddJAgGo pic.twitter.com/2SUGtSPjhS

— David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) September 5, 2019

Holding good thoughts for those still in Dorian’s shadow! Per the Washington Post:

Hurricane Dorian spawned damaging tornadoes and flooded low-lying communities in the Carolinas on Thursday, in what officials hope will be the closing chapter of a storm that devastated the Bahamas and has panicked East Coast residents for the past 10 days.

The center of the storm, which weakened to a Category 2 on Thursday, crept northward just offshore for most of the day, sticking largely to its forecast track, as it delivered heavy rain and hurricane-force wind gusts to Charleston and Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Ocean water poured over sand dunes in some communities, but officials cautioned it could take until Friday to assess the damage.

As it whipped up the coast, Dorian’s final blow was still aimed at North Carolina, and forecasters warned it could make landfall Friday near the Outer Banks. The trajectory was expected to produce what the National Hurricane Center called life-threatening storm surge in the Outer Banks, where four to seven feet of water could wash across the barrier island from two directions…

Even as officials warily eyed the possible effects of Dorian in the United States, federal officials announced Thursday that they are marshaling additional resources for the Bahamas, where the death toll continues to climb. The U.S. Agency for International Development announced it will send “shelter materials” for 35,000 people there…

Regarding a certain metaphorical disaster, this actually is the most plausible explanation I’ve seen so far…

It seems so clear to me that he read a bulletin that said “All Bahamas” & thought it said “Alabama.” And now we have to live through this ridiculousness. Sending love to everyone who is being affected by this hurricane while this goober tries to spin & save orange face.

— Caissie St.Onge (@Caissie) September 5, 2019

***********

You and me against the world,
Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world,
When all the others turn their backs and walked away,
You can count on me to stay. pic.twitter.com/TLmUVhPVHg

— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 5, 2019

He just chooses not to. https://t.co/9suU6T6b1n

— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 5, 2019

(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)
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Friday Morning Open Thread: We Do What We MustPost + Comments (181)

Open Thread: The Toddler-in-Chief Will *Never* Stop Talking About Alabama

by Anne Laurie|  September 5, 20199:48 pm| 58 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Excellent Links, How about that weather?, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, All Too Normal, Good News For Conservatives

They should have called this hurricane "Donald" instead of "Dorian" because it's slow, it has no direction, and it destroys everything it touches.

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) September 3, 2019

If proof were needed that the conspiracy theories about HAARP are complete bullshite, the fact that Trump hasn’t busted out the weather-altering technology to force Dorian to threaten Alabama would be it. At least it’s great fodder for comic geniuses like David Roth:

It can be difficult to remember given that he routinely appears on television with toilet paper on the soles of both his shoes and at least one of his hands stuck in a big jug of peanut butter, but Donald Trump’s opening position in all things is that he has never been wrong. He has been wronged, and is in fact wronged constantly—by terrible nasty TV actresses and fake cable news anchors and the other antagonists he’s collected over a lifetime of nonstop blowsy public feuding. But that is just the price he pays for always being right and never being afraid to speak out on whatever he has just seen on television. He carries that weight lightly, give or take the fact that he whines about it constantly. There is an entire cable television network devoted to telling this story over and over again, and every day Trump parks his ass in front of it and watches embalmed-looking septuagenarian newsreader types talk about how correct he is and heatedly demand apologies on his behalf, for hours on end. It’s the treatment that he has always believed he deserves…

The issue here is not that Trump doesn’t believe in things like truth and untruth; he absolutely believes that some things are true and other things are false, but what makes them true or false to him is grounded entirely in how he feels about them. Once a belief is lodged in the sodden Nerf of his brain it becomes true to him, and remains that way forever. These things tend, if anything, to become more true over time, or at least become larger. There is probably some latent impulse from his days as a real estate huckster that powers this—in the same way that he once added floors to the oafish towers he developed, he now adds years or billions to the oafish tales he tells from the front of his trade war with China. It also cannot be ruled out that the guy just likes saying large numbers. When Trump authors one of his really avant-garde falsehoods, it’s this impulse that’s generally behind it. He just likes things to be big, if possible “much bigger many say than anything that we’ve ever seen” but always and everywhere as big as he can get away with making them.

And then, eventually, even bigger than that. This was a problem last week, when Trump took one of his favorite parts of the presidency—the constitutionally enumerated power to tell everyone about the weather, and how large it looks like it might be—too far. Hurricane Dorian, which is indeed big and terrible, was moving towards the southeastern United States at the time, and the forecast called for moderate-to-large amounts of destruction in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Trump evidently found this insufficient…

"Just because you slept with someone named Stormy, it does not make you a weatherman."

Joy Beher, on The View.

— Kona Lowell (@KonaLowell) September 5, 2019

A 'mumpsimus' is a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong. https://t.co/ZxeSqVQr02

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 5, 2019

Even Fox News is pointing out the stupidity of #SharpieGate. https://t.co/UJLrjXXoTu

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 5, 2019

The chyron writer at @CNN gets it.#willnotnormalize #SharpiePresident #HurricaneDorain #rescueefforts pic.twitter.com/ohqPAzhcbi

— Janna Bastone (@janna_bastone) September 5, 2019

OMG! The White House released a new photo of President Trump golfing. #sharpiegate #sharpie pic.twitter.com/BZz1lUUUqL

— Mark Novata (@mark_novata) September 4, 2019

Open Thread: The Toddler-in-Chief Will *Never* Stop Talking About AlabamaPost + Comments (58)

More On #SharpieGate

by Betty Cracker|  September 4, 20194:23 pm| 101 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Trumpery, Assholes, General Stupidity

In the downstairs thread, we were discussing an absurd thing that happened earlier today: Trump hosted a “hurricane update” in the Oval Office, seemingly for the sole purpose of whipping out a days-old National Hurricane Center map that one of the low-quality hires altered by crudely extending the “cone of concern” with a Sharpie to include part of Alabama.

Why would anyone do something so idiotic, especially since the actual hurricane has since killed probably lots of people and threatens many more thousands right now? To make it look like Trump wasn’t wrong on Twitter last week when he said Alabama was in the path of Dorian. (Narrator: It wasn’t!)

So, the press got a hold of it this afternoon, and Trump doubled down:

REPORTER: That map you showed us today, it looked like it almost had like a Sharpie on it.

TRUMP: I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. pic.twitter.com/d2oZemOshh

— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 4, 2019

More lies and a promise that “better maps” will be “presented later.” Someone should tell him the National Hurricane Center archives forecast maps, and they are available to anyone with an internet connection. Jesus Christ, y’all. I knew a Trump presidency would be non-stop stupid and mind-bogglingly incompetent, but…damn.

Open thread?

More On #SharpieGatePost + Comments (101)

Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Tis the Season

by Anne Laurie|  September 4, 20194:57 am| 127 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome

Island of 50,000 People in the Bahamas Is 70% Under Water. Dorian storm impact "may be the greatest ever experienced by any populated area in the Atlantic basin," https://t.co/jbpppkbVUh @mjbristow @ezrafieser via @business

— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) September 3, 2019

On the one hand, yeah, I’m sorry to be so repetitive. On the other hand… Stay safe, y’all…

Before and after pics of Grand Bahama. Pics from @Google & @iceyefi. #dorian pic.twitter.com/wYzosLS428

— Christina Ginn (@NBChristinaGinn) September 3, 2019

This footage from a pilot surveying the damage on Abaco is heartbreaking… @opmthebahamas officials able to see for first time. I am hoping to land there this afternoon with sandwiches and fruit, and @WCKitchen will try to establish relief kitchen immediately. #ChefsForBahamas pic.twitter.com/cQ3zbpZUG0

— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 3, 2019

Small good thing: Chella Phillips and her 97 ‘Voiceless Dog’ refugees came through battered but (relatively) safe, per the Washington Post:

… Dorian lingered in the Bahamas for much of the weekend. Phillips told news outlet WFTS on Monday that she lost power and water came into her home at one point, but that all inhabitants — human and canine — were doing okay.

She posted another update to Facebook a few hours later, noting she and her brother had passed “a stressful night” trying to combat serious flooding. All her TVs were “fried” from the lightning, Phillips wrote, which meant “no more cartoons for the sick dogs.”

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Her brother slept just an hour, and Phillips went without sleep, she wrote. She stayed awake all night to dry the house and care for the “terrified” animals.

Phillips’s online fundraiser for her refuge, which she launched in August and was unrelated to Hurricane Dorian, had raised roughly $63,000 as of Tuesday morning, far surpassing her original goal of $20,000…

And it’s not over, by a long shot…

Busy times in the #Atlantic Ocean right now: Tropical Storm #Fernand in the western Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Depression Eight in the eastern tropical Atlantic, Hurricane #Dorian off the Southeast coast, and there are still two other areas we're monitoring: https://t.co/oIHbH6pDGF pic.twitter.com/4IylxeRGw0

— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) September 4, 2019

Um, who invited Fernand to this party? National Hurricane Center has it going toward Mexico, but way too close to Texas for my comfort. pic.twitter.com/XpM62lRtZK

— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) September 3, 2019

Trump invited him to Alabama.

— Houseboat Laura ¯\_(?)_/¯ (@EllisLauraLee) September 3, 2019

Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Tis the SeasonPost + Comments (127)

Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Hurricane Dorian

by Anne Laurie|  September 3, 20194:43 am| 105 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads, Pet Rescue

This is what Hurricane Dorian looks like from space https://t.co/wTEuaMH97Z pic.twitter.com/pvHvABJEDJ

— CNN (@CNN) September 3, 2019

We've never seen a satellite loop like this and hope to never see anything like it again.

It's hard to even conceive of something this horrific. https://t.co/XInyqpFBXv

— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) September 2, 2019

Shocking to see that despite #Dorian remaining over the Bahamas, flooding has already begun in #Florida #HurricaneDorain #DorianHurricane #Dorian2019 https://t.co/sGe6Zq403G

— Kelly Nash?️ (@KellyNashRadio) September 3, 2019

Stay safe, everyone in Dorian’s path — hope those of you who’ve had to, or will have to, evacuate are able to check in when you get the chance.

For those of us watching and worrying from a distance:

Quick Report from The Bahamas! We @WCKitchen getting food and water into containers to deliver to Abaco and Grand Bahama. We also hope to land tonight or tomorrow morning by air when #HuricaneDorian moves. Whatever it takes support the many families impacted, we will be there… pic.twitter.com/LUNZHKhDri

— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 2, 2019

We’re in touch with our partners in the Bahamas and #HurricaneDorian has done catastrophic damage. Please donate to support local relief efforts and RT to spread awareness -> https://t.co/8ribEWIwni pic.twitter.com/ni3Y1AIMR0

— GlobalGiving (@GlobalGiving) September 2, 2019

And, because this is Balloon Juice…

These are some of the 97 dogs Chella Phillips is safely harboring in her home during Hurricane Dorian. She says 79 of them are in her master bedroom! Chella runs a dog rescue called The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, Bahamas. pic.twitter.com/agMvsDtcME

— Travis Herzog (@TravisABC13) September 2, 2019

Chella Phillips said the dogs are going to the bathroom "nonstop…but at least they are respecting my bed and nobody has dared to jump in." https://t.co/hJK8amLJ3m

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) September 3, 2019

… She continued: “We may not get hit as hard as other islands and the saddest part is that after the hurricane leave the Bahamas, some islands will take a long time to recover…Each island has [an] abundance of homeless dogs, my heart is so broken for the ones without a place to hide.”

Phillips told ABC News she has spent 15 years rescuing homeless dogs and finding them homes in the United States. Her story has been widely circulated online, prompting an outpouring of support and financial donations to support her rescue efforts…

?? This amazing woman, Chella Phillips, rescued more than 100 homeless dogs before Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas!! Please check out her Facebook page and donate if you can! ????https://t.co/v7iGX1npk0

— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) September 3, 2019

Chella Phillips: if you wish to help financially, the PayPal is: [email protected]

— J????son (White Rabbit) (@JpClark819) September 3, 2019

Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Hurricane DorianPost + Comments (105)

Monday Evening Open Thread: Floriduh Man (Dorian Edition)

by Anne Laurie|  September 2, 20195:27 pm| 54 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Floriduh Man

Donald Trump’s new FEMA administrator. Because Florida. pic.twitter.com/ktMk8fKk2l

— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) September 2, 2019

I am a native Floridian, so I know he’s (most likely) a transplant from the Northeast. But he became a Florida Man the moment he put that shirt on.

— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) September 2, 2019

Floridian is a mentality, not a birthright

— Senator Swann Ronson, frmr Ambassador to Zamunda (@strat_nick) September 2, 2019

To carry out this intellectual exercise to its inevitable conclusion: the only way for the U.S. to amass sufficient ice supply to stop hurricanes would be…to buy Greenland. pic.twitter.com/bOPntASHgQ

— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) September 2, 2019

Monday Evening Open Thread: Floriduh Man (Dorian Edition)Post + Comments (54)

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