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Hurricane Dorian

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  • #392
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Thank you for the last two posts. We lost extended family in the big tsunami and those working with them who survived never recovered. This is on my mind with every bad weather news here. Not read this thread for days because of that. All I can do is pray, and that I do.

    Again, thank you


  • #393
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Sky news showing footage from grand bahama.
    Utter devastation


  • #394
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Causing a lot of bother in Nova Scotia;

    https://twitter.com/CBCNS/status/1170430734831706114?s=20


  • #395
    Oneiric 3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Typhoon Faxia closing in rapidly on Tokyo region:

    https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/14W/html5-vis-short.html

    New Moon



  • #396
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,495 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Oneiric 3 wrote: »
    Typhoon Faxia closing in rapidly on Tokyo region:

    https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/14W/html5-vis-short.html

    There's a separate hurricane season thread that might be more appropriate


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  • #397
    amandstu
    Registered Users Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭amandstu


    https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0908/1074615-hurricane-dorian/
    Is 20 metres a misprint for waves in Canada?

    Sounds horrific.


  • #398
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    almost looks fake, i assume not

    https://twitter.com/OrgPhysics/status/1169880444961050625

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #399
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    silverharp wrote: »
    almost looks fake, i assume not

    Fairly sure that's fake.


  • #400
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,097 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    silverharp wrote: »
    almost looks fake, i assume not

    https://twitter.com/OrgPhysics/status/1169880444961050625

    Yup that's an artist's 'impression'


  • #401
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,750 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Spinning clockwise for starters. Elementary mistake. Poor effort at 'fake news'


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  • #402
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,495 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    silverharp wrote: »
    almost looks fake, i assume not

    https://twitter.com/OrgPhysics/status/1169880444961050625

    100% fake - that's never what the view of a hurricane looks like - you're always enveloped in cloud and rain long before the 'eye' becomes visible. And the eyewall doesn't look like a tornado like that.


  • #403
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    We are still without communications or contact with extended faith family in Nova Scotia after Dorian decided to visit. Utter chaos along the east coast of Canada


  • #404
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    some sites are attributing last night's gales and deluges to ex-Dorian with ex Gabrielle to repeat... we always get some backlash out here. It was very bad out here last night.

    Still no word from family but we think we would have heard any bad news. They get buried in snow every winter.

    west mayo offshore island


  • #405
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Josh Morgerman's account of being on Abaco Island during Dorian.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157257013954597&id=52553204596


  • #406
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    East coast Canada communications are still erratic; died on me earlier. Still no word from the stranded ones.


  • #407
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,951 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Don't want to start another thread, but I heard this morning that Ireland's rugby squad is landing at Tokyo today for the WC, and that it had just been battered by a typhoon (Tokyo that is, not the rugby squad).

    I didn't see much on this in the news.

    Is there more reporting here of severe weather in the US than other parts of the world?


  • #408
    Mortelaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Don't want to start another thread, but I heard this morning that Ireland's rugby squad is landing at Tokyo today for the WC, and that it had just been battered by a typhoon (Tokyo that is, not the rugby squad).

    I didn't see much on this in the news.

    Is there more reporting here of severe weather in the US than other parts of the world?

    I saw it reported on sky news,bbc news,ITV news and RTE

    Buildings in Tokyo are built to withstand earthquakes
    So much easier to be safe versus a shanty town
    I saw one death reported where a woman was blown into a wall


  • #409
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,495 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Don't want to start another thread, but I heard this morning that Ireland's rugby squad is landing at Tokyo today for the WC, and that it had just been battered by a typhoon (Tokyo that is, not the rugby squad).

    I didn't see much on this in the news.

    Is there more reporting here of severe weather in the US than other parts of the world?

    It was mentioned in the general Atlantic Hurricane season thread -
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057995753&page=2

    I don't think it's anything to do with the USA per se, so much as there's not as much interest on here about Pacific hurricanes/typhoons. Probably because we spend more time looking at the Atlantic in general, and those storms usually have the potential for future effects on Ireland.

    Probably also the language barrier in regards to the reporting and media that's created when the storms are ongoing.


  • #410
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    If it doesn't feature the US it doesn't feature. The only reason why Dorian got so much media coverage was its projected effects on Florida early on. Had it never been forecast to affect Florida (or Alabama!) you can be sure the Bahamas wouldn't be getting as much coverage. Sad to say it but it's true.


  • #411
    TTTT
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭TTTT


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-PLJq4HD4


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  • #412
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Thankfully finally heard from our stranded ones in Nova Scotia.

    All are safe but their dwellings are destroyed, and now all hands fully busy erecting insulated cabins before their early winter hits as they get deep snow. a race against time...


    Graces7 wrote: »
    East coast Canada communications are still erratic; died on me earlier. Still no word from the stranded ones.


  • #413
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Thankfully finally heard from our stranded ones in Nova Scotia.

    All are safe but their dwellings are destroyed, and now all hands fully busy erecting insulated cabins before their early winter hits as they get deep snow. a race against time...

    That's sad to hear


  • #414
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    That's sad to hear

    after hearing of the casualties elsewhere, we are deeply thankful they are all safe.

    Folk out there tend to help each other so they will be protected by the time the snow comes. We have a flag signal system in winter to keep us aware they are safe.

    But Dorian really was a monster; reading the report from Josh was hard.


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