Atlantic hurricane season

Concerning Matthew vs. northeast coast, it is appropriate to say that Dr. Phil Klotzbach sees a greater risk than I expressed above. This came from Gizmodo. In a hurricane thread it should not be necessary to mention that Klotzbach is an expert on the topic.

So yeah, bisco, you and the birds might need to keep watching how things develop.

 

A good single source of hurricane anticipation is

Hurricane MATTHEW

Time-course runs of many different models are presented elsewhere, but I assume that PriusChat is not the place for all that spaghetti. See weatherunderground or tropicaltidbits.

For Matthew, NHC is now at advisory #28, with full updates every 6 hours. The probable spread, sometimes called 'cone', is now (for the first time) one half onshore in Florida. That is a pretty big deal. Read more in NHC text messages.

To my eye, Matthew would to the most (US) harm with its center deftly following coastline, FL-GA-SC-NC. Digging into FL would mess those folks up, but spare others further north.

 

Well it was a kw, but I fused it down lower, not wanting to melt the daddy-fuse in engine bay. Which would turn the whole thing into a 4-wheeled nothing 'until further notice'.

But this is old territory. Now with many hybrid cars, and electric cars, what is the landscape for them? To what extent have cars gone beyond transportation to fill in other energy gaps?

 

Power outage prediction

Hurricane Matthew could leave 7 million in the dark | Michigan Engineering

 

This forecast is for storm center to ride up FL coast, 2AM to 2PM Friday.
Hurricane MATTHEW

All bad enough, but what's causing fits at 'spaghetti sites' is possibility of Matthew circling around for another go.

 

I am off to parts rural and wish all the best for storm-affected folks.

 

Never seen the like. First, Matthew undid quite a bit of Haiti's infrastructure, and they'll not fix that without help. Which you already knew of course.

Matthew nicked hundreds of miles of US coast with hurricane winds, is aligned to that that some more, and then circle around for another shot. Somewhere, but much weaker, but still with lots of rain to offer.

How much rain and coastal storm surge has there been? Still sorting that out. What stands out for me is the notion 'no hurricane has struck...' With a sufficiently motivated definition of 'struck', we could still be there! Just like Sandy!

Almost as if hurricane-god (I made that up) wants it to seem that US hurricanes are over. Wants us to keep heating the ocean while chanting 'nope not here'. A nasty little god that would be. Not casting aspersions on followers, mind you

But one could not imagine a more disruptive event, keeping its eyewall tidily offshore. Never seen the like.

 

Many humanitarian organizations are already well known. Adding to that list

The Lambi Fund of Haiti

That appears to have more local folks in the loop.

 

All done but the cleaning up. Hurricane names get retired for having been bad enough. This one was not, in the US (I'd say). But expecting this name crossed off based on damage to Haiti.

 

Cleanup continues. I suppose most electricity service has been reestablished (?). If for any reason FL voters did not get a chance to register:

Federal judge extends voter registration deadline, rebukes state for 'irrational' decision | Tampa Bay Times