Hurricane Irma is heading our way with winds that have reached 185mph. The potential for unprecedented devastation is great. If you have positive vibes, we can certainly use them.
Irma, please go away
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Sending along my positive thoughts and prayers to all in the path of this monster! Ai-yi-yi will the US ever get a break?
I'm really hoping it loses significant strength before it makes landfall. <3
...I no longer call the power of the White "God", but whatever grants blessings to the fallen away like me, I beg for protection and safety for all in the bullseye...
My sister from Texas said if it heads in her direction she is leaving the state. Maybe she'll come up here and stay awhile. She said she would but I know it would be hard to leave her home and go far away and have to worry about what she would come home (if it's even still there!) to.
'This climate change is a bunch of malarkey!' 
You have been and will be kept in prayers and positive vibes. Irma is one nasty (insert the word). Be safe. Her next stop in my state. Please ck in as you can. Safety shield in place.
fake news my foot!!!!'This climate change is a bunch of malarkey!'
Steering currents are wrong for Irma to go to TX and I think the one down by Mexico with twist south and cross over into Pacific.
keeping you and many others in my prayers.
Good luck out there prufrock21! I hope it winds down quickly and that all are safe and dry, mal.
Please, everyone. You, your pets and your loved ones are more important than things. Get out and be safe if you can. Just keep in touch with us as soon as you can so we know you're all okay.
Key West. Get out now.
Feeling terrible about USVA and all the other Islands they are not covering.
Feeling terrible about USVA and all the other Islands they are not covering.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the eye is going to miss Florida and spin off across the Gulf?
Florida and the islands are going to take one hell of a pounding (so stay safe, folks, if you can't get out of the path of this thing), but is Texas in for more bad news?
And if so, what's going on? Hurricanes used to make landfall in Florida or the Carolinas, then head up the seaboard and out into the north Atlantic (we'd usually cop the remnants). Now, it seems increasingly common to see them make landfall further south and/or head into the Gulf of Mexico (at least from way outside, it does).
Shifting streams?
Add in the fact that category 4 and 5 hurricanes used to be pretty rare, but now one follows the other (with Irma reported to be a record-breaker, with wind speeds of at least 180 mph though they've long since gone off the chart), and it should be pretty bloody clear that something is going on climate-wise, regardless of whether you believe we're entirely to blame or not.
(Personally, I would say we're not entirely to blame but we're certainly not helping. And of course we have an impact, to whatever degree, simply because we are part of the system, not separate from it (or any of the planet's other systems, come to that).)
Florida and the islands are going to take one hell of a pounding (so stay safe, folks, if you can't get out of the path of this thing), but is Texas in for more bad news?
And if so, what's going on? Hurricanes used to make landfall in Florida or the Carolinas, then head up the seaboard and out into the north Atlantic (we'd usually cop the remnants). Now, it seems increasingly common to see them make landfall further south and/or head into the Gulf of Mexico (at least from way outside, it does).
Shifting streams?
Add in the fact that category 4 and 5 hurricanes used to be pretty rare, but now one follows the other (with Irma reported to be a record-breaker, with wind speeds of at least 180 mph though they've long since gone off the chart), and it should be pretty bloody clear that something is going on climate-wise, regardless of whether you believe we're entirely to blame or not.
(Personally, I would say we're not entirely to blame but we're certainly not helping. And of course we have an impact, to whatever degree, simply because we are part of the system, not separate from it (or any of the planet's other systems, come to that).)
I've lived on the East Coast of Florida all my life and have been through several hurricanes and had a zillion close calls. I don't notice more hurricanes but it does seem that there are more major ones. Until the early 2000s, I can only remember being threatened by 2 cat 5 storms. Hurricane David in 1979 which stalled over Cuba and weakened before it hit us as a cat 1 (Castro almost drown in that storm) and Andrew in 1992 (?) which narrowly missed me.
Prayers on the way for all in the path of Irma.
The stores are already out of many items (like water). Since there are a few days before we start to get bad weather, I'm sure they will get more deliveries. This is about as picked over I've ever seen the stores this many days away from a storm.
I went to Walmart this morning at 6:00 and there were as many people in there as there would be in the middle of the afternoon.
I went to Walmart this morning at 6:00 and there were as many people in there as there would be in the middle of the afternoon.