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Hurricane Melissa

notsoencrypted said:
Aso very worried about people in Haiti, as while Jamaica is taking the brunt of this, they at least have an actual government to spearhead recovery.
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It doesn't sound too good, per at least one Haiti correspondent at Storm Carib.

And I hope the Jamaican correspondent at 3500 feet is right about the protection of those 4000-foot mountains.
 
Ozonelayer said:
Dont be shocked if we see 880s next pass through the eye.

This is, and possibly will be, the worst hurricane I have and possibly will ever track for a long time. This is a once in a generation event.
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I'm afraid this is just the beginning in terms of historic hurricanes. The ocean certainly isn't getting any colder and we've been shattering SST records for years. This type of storm is very likely the new normal.
 
Smokedevil said:
The loss of life is going to be tremendous. If it's below 1,000 I'll be shocked.
In fact, I'd be shocked if it was below 1,000 if it was about to hit the u.s.
I've worked numerous aftermaths of tornadoes and hurricanes. This will potentially be as bad as I've seen. And that includes Katrina that I worked.
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really it just depends on the exact path of the eye and where there are mudslides.

the catastrophic winds will hit a pretty small part of the island.

sad that quite a few people probably will die when they could have just gotten over to kingston yesterday and ridden it out.
 
sak said:
really it just depends on the exact path of the eye and where there are mudslides.

the catastrophic winds will hit a pretty small part of the island.

sad that quite a few people probably will die when they could have just gotten over to kingston yesterday and ridden it out.
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I know. It makes ZERO sense to me when you know days ahead of time what's coming, but stay anyway, or decide to leave as it hits, then call 911 and expect to be rescued. Not that they have our version of 911, but you know what I mean.
 
Smokedevil said:
I know. It makes ZERO sense to me when you know days ahead of time what's coming, but stay anyway, or decide to leave as it hits.
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Life is complicated. Some people are just foolish. But others, it's a much more complex calculus that has to take place, and unfortunately, for some, there's no choice but to stay and hope for the best.
 
There are only two Category 5 hurricanes in the modern historical record to make landfall on a mountainous location:

- David which hit Hispaniola in 1979
- Maria which hit Dominica in 2017

Neither was anywhere close to as intense as Melissa, but closest comparison I can find to this event.
 
First Eye pass from NOAA mission 23 coming in here in a few minutes
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And a loop of this incredible monster
 
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