At 1:12 AM, high tide will reach 2.8 feet in Palm Beach, Florida. Current storm tracks for Hurricane Matthew show it skirting up the Coast of Florida. If that stays true, the damage to Florida may be flooding more than wind damage. Storm surge is much worse if it happens to coincide with high tide.
Rush Limbaugh may not have a home tomorrow. His home is at the far North end of Palm Beach Island, right on the Beach.
After skittering along the coast, the storm is going to be pushed back South by a cold front and could end up hitting Florida again a few days later.
Rush is doing his show today from Los Angeles
The storm is past Palm Beach, staying a bit offshore… mostly power outages. They’re mostly talking about Haiti
Ah… another barrage of an “act of god” that will allow the Haitians to sit back and pathetically stretch their hands for help. The millions spent by both public and private funds only whet the appetite for free money for these people.
Amazing how, although sharing the Island of Hispaniola with the Dom. Republic, the Haitians are way worst that they fellow islanders. I have been to both places (the cigars from the DR are fantastic), and the contrast is unbelievable. While Dominicans enjoy pretty much the same things we do (baseball, apple pies, and Chev), and work hard to attain them, the Haitians just simply mill around without an apparent purpose in life. Earthquakes and hurricanes increase the “humanitarian aid” and instantly activates their “needs” for more international (read American) assistance.
A very large percentage of this aid stays in the elite stratosphere of their government. The same money that financed Papa Doc, Baby Doc, and the Ton-Ton Macoutes.
This may be the storm that wasn’t. I hope so. The longer it stays off shore, the better for the mass population. You are correct on the storm surge. That is the elephant in the room for Matthew. If it hits Savannah, GA it will flood a substantial portion of the city. Savannah is low elevation, has the Savannah River and unfortunately some gorgeous historical homes.
We are never far from crisis. Look at the havoc it wreaked on the Caribbean.
Ominously, the hurricane track is now “N”, not “NE”. The hurricane is colliding head on with a cold front (it will be in the 50s overnight in Charlotte by tomorrow). Saturated warm clouds + cold air = massive rainfall. Charleston SC is not the place you want to be.
Two people died in a car accident in Eastern North Carolina. It was described as a car hydroplaning, but that was incorrect. A stream had washed out a road and the driver didn’t realize it. Judging from the front end damage to the car, he was probably going 55 mph and hit the opposite bank and then sank.