Hurricane season 2016

[Guest]

o'o but you never called my name ... LOL 2 X

ETA ... This is another of your typical PUNAweb members Rob

[Kenney]

Some people are polite and don't point fingers . Others, not so much.

Glad to say that you are not a "typical" Punawebber.

Most people here offer info, support and advise instead of insults.

If you want a pissing contest, please take it somewhere else. This is a Hurricane thread.

[Guest]

Yep, you tell him Kenny

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

The CPHC 5 AM update is not good news. The projected storm track has moved north since the previous update, bringing it closer to the Big Island.

Chance of 39 MPW winds in Puna is now 80-90%.
Chance of 58 MPH winds in Puna currently is in the 60-70% range.
One forecast I saw yesterday said we could get 5-10 inches of rain.

On it's present course, which is subject to change over the next two days, Madeline will pass just a few miles off of South Point. Let's hope our friends in Na'alehu and Pahala are ready.

- Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. - Work slowly. - Refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration. - Hold conferences. - Make travel as inconvenient as possible. - Haggle over precise wordings of communications. - Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and avoid haste. (Excerpts from the WWII OSS Simple Sabotage Manual)

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hawaii is now in the direct path of national news reports. This one made some interesting historical and meteorological observations:

In what’s being hailed a meteorological first, two back-to-back hurricanes are marching toward Hawaii, both of them threatening torrential rains and rip-roaring winds this week. The closer of the two, hurricane Madeline, could break a second meteorological record as the first hurricane to strike the Big Island since bookkeeping began in 1949.

“What’s concerning is that even if Madeline stays offshore, that’ll put the Big Island on the righthand side of the storm,” Henson told Gizmodo. “That’s more dangerous because of how winds rotate in a hurricane, and because those winds will be pushing up very high mountain slopes, which will squeeze out a torrential amount of rain.”

For Hawaii, there is one silver lining to this ominous situation: Nearby cyclones tend to spin around each other, in a phenomenon known as the Fujiwhara effect. “What this means is the one ahead in line gets angled a little to the left, while the one behind is angled slightly to the right,” Henson said.

In other words, the Fujiwhara effect could turn Madeline a bit further to the south while nudging Lester slightly further north, steering both storms clear of the Big Island. “The irony is, if if only one of these storms were there, there’d be a bigger chance of a direct hit,” Henson said.

http://gizmodo.com/two-unprecedented-hur...1785935499

- Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. - Work slowly. - Refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration. - Hold conferences. - Make travel as inconvenient as possible. - Haggle over precise wordings of communications. - Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and avoid haste. (Excerpts from the WWII OSS Simple Sabotage Manual)

[ElysianWort]

Hey how many of you guys board up your windows? I did it one time in my 30+ years of existence on the big island and experiencing storms. Did it for Iselle.

[hilodiver]

I boarded up my windows for Iselle. Probably saved one of my windows from breaking from falling tree debris! My boards are ready for this one but watching latest updates and will decide at the end of today if I'm going to put them up.

Aloha!

[kimo wires]

I boarded up my entire house for Iselle. But I realized that I needed to only board up the windward side. Going to board up the windward side for this one. It saved me from the horizontal, wind driven, rain.

[Kiana]

Hawaii News Now website, "meteorologists predict impacts worse than Iselle"

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/32877...-ts-iselle

We were without power for nine days after Iselle, here in lower Puna. Be prepared for perhaps something similar and stay safe everyone.

[Chunkster]

The HNN headline borders on fear mongering. If you read the text, the Hurricane Center meteorologist says "potentially" in reference to Madeline being worse than Iselle. Having said that, I am taking Madeline seriously and making preparations for the worst possible scenario. Stored lots of food, water, and gas for our little generator and will be taking down the "Hawaiian garage."