Hurricane Delta

[Snow Queen one]

Lol he made jt

[crimsone]

It was at this moment that he realised, he screwed up. Not catastrophically, mind you, but there's nowhere to go. The Gulf of Mexico is lapping at his parking ramp in the middle of the eye of a hurricane, and there's nowhere to go. I'm sure he'll be fine, but he's pretty stuck at this point. Thank god he made it there.

Edited October 9, 2020 by crimsone

[matty40s]

Storm surge up to 13 feet in certain places, did he not realise??

[matty40s]

So he decided to set off again, going dark...numbskull

[Lauren]

8 hours ago, crimsone said:

It was at this moment that he realised, he screwed up. Not catastrophically, mind you, but there's nowhere to go. The Gulf of Mexico is lapping at his parking ramp in the middle of the eye of a hurricane, and there's nowhere to go. I'm sure he'll be fine, but he's pretty stuck at this point. Thank god he made it there.

When he was driving through the surge you could see his car getting taken by the water. He's lucky he found that spot when he did as the car was about to get swept away

[crimsone]

21 minutes ago, Lauren said:

When he was driving through the surge you could see his car getting taken by the water. He's lucky he found that spot when he did as the car was about to get swept away

He was just on the phone with "Oh yeah. Just been lookin at the storm surge. I'll be there in just a few minutes".

He wasn't.

Just looking at his follow up video (I think his signal cut out some hours into his drive in the dark through storm surge/debris country)... 
 

What he finds at 7min 10sec explains perfectly why he's been a fool. I can't deny that it's darned interesting though.

Edited October 10, 2020 by crimsone

[summer blizzard]

Not mentioned in this thread but Delta was declared as making landfall at 23:00 our time last night

...DELTA MAKES LANDFALL NEAR CREOLE LOUISIANA...

 

National Weather Service Doppler radar imagery, Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft data, and surface observations indicate that Delta has made landfall near Creole, Louisiana, around 600 PM CDT (2300 UTC) with estimated maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h). Delta is a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The minimum central pressure estimated from Air Force Reserve reconnaissance aircraft data is 970 mb (28.64 inches). A Florida Coastal Monitoring Tower near Lake Arthur, Louisiana, recently reported a sustained wind of 77 mph (123 km/h) and a gust to 96 mph (154 km/h). A NOAA National Weather Service water level gauge at Freshwater Canal Locks, Louisiana, recently reported storm surge inundation of over 8 feet above ground level.

SUMMARY OF 600 PM CDT...2300 UTC...INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------

LOCATION...29.8N 93.1W ABOUT 0 MI...0 KM E OF CREOLE LOUISIANA ABOUT 10 MI...15 KM E OF CAMERON LOUISIANA

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...100 MPH...155 KM/H

PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 15 DEGREES AT 14 MPH...22 KM/H

MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...970 MB...28.64 INCHES

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Back half was a bit devoid of convection from shear and dry air unfortunately so it has weakened rapidly overnight (down to 45mph) but it at least gave us a fun week of tracking and a pretty wind history chart, also pumped up our ACE total. TS>Cat 4>Cat 1>Cat 3>Cat 2 landfall.