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Here are 6 terrifying reasons to fear Miami ‘won’t survive’ Hurricane Irma
6
September, 2017
Hurricane
Harvey was a tragic nightmare that hit the Texas shores with force
and then lingered for days dumping massive amounts of rain on a city
ill-equipped to handle it. Florida is next and if predictions are
accurate, Hurricane Irma is going to be far worse than Houston and
worse than anyone has prepared for.
Already,
Irma is setting records and being named the
strongest storm the Atlantic Ocean has
seen on record. Here is a short list of things meteorologists and
experts at the Hurricane Center have already seen from Irma that
should give everyone pause:
1.
The wind speeds broke the measuring tool:
The
wind was so strong when Irma passed over Barbuda the monitoring
equipment used to measure the wind was damaged and couldn’t report
an accurate account of the wind speed. It tapped out at 151 mph.
2.
What 185 mph wind looks like should strike fear into the hearts of
anyone.
The
gusts for the Category 5 storm have reached 185 mph. That’s the
equivalent of an EF4 tornado sitting on an area – nonstop for
hours. To put that into perspective, the photo below is of the
damaged sustained by residents of Garland/Rowlett, Texas after an EF4
tornado blew through in 2015.
Hurricane
Harvey was a tragic nightmare that hit the Texas shores with force
and then lingered for days dumping massive amounts of rain on a city
ill-equipped to handle it. Florida is next and if predictions are
accurate, Hurricane Irma is going to be far worse than Houston and
worse than anyone has prepared for.
Already,
Irma is setting records and being named the
strongest storm the Atlantic Ocean has
seen on record. Here is a short list of things meteorologists and
experts at the Hurricane Center have already seen from Irma that
should give everyone pause:
1.
The wind speeds broke the measuring tool:
The
wind was so strong when Irma passed over Barbuda the monitoring
equipment used to measure the wind was damaged and couldn’t report
an accurate account of the wind speed. It tapped out at 151 mph.
2.
What 185 mph wind looks like should strike fear into the hearts of
anyone.
The
gusts for the Category 5 storm have reached 185 mph. That’s the
equivalent of an EF4 tornado sitting on an area – nonstop for
hours. To put that into perspective, the photo below is of the
damaged sustained by residents of Garland/Rowlett, Texas after an EF4
tornado blew through in 2015
7:15 PM - Whoa. Dropsonde in NE eyewall 196 knot winds just 19mb above the surface, 167 knot winds in lowest reported level. #Irma
3. No one has heard from the tiny island it hit in hours.
Barbuda is
a tiny island with barely over 1,000 residents. The top elevation on
the island is 38 meters or 125 feet above sea level. Storm surges,
however, predict waves
will reach seven to 11 feet in the Northern Leeward Islands. That was
worse for the Turks and Caicos Islands which is expected to see 15 to
20 ft. storm surges. As long as the surges are under 10 feet, Barbuda
will be fine, but if they saw storm surges like what is expected for
Turks and Caicos, it will literally destroy the island.
Already,
what scientists have seen from Barbuda is leaving them
speechless. Tide
sensors in Barbuda recently
reported 7.89 ft above what the
average height of
the top tide is each day.
“I
am at a complete and utter loss for words looking at Irma’s
appearance on satellite imagery,” tweeted Taylor Trogdon, from the
National Hurricane Center.
I am at a complete and utter loss for words looking at Irma's appearance on satellite imagery.
CNN
meteorologist and the severe weather expert Chad Myers reported on
air that there were parts of Barbuda that saw vegetation ripped
from the soil the winds were so strong. The claim hasn’t been
reported by other outlets and there aren’t yet photos or video to
see the full extent of the damage.
5.
Miami isn’t prepared — no one is.
Florida
is as good as it gets at handling hurricanes. It’s similar to
states that are accustomed to navigating tornadoes or earthquakes.
Citizens who live there know what to do and how to prepare for a
storm. However, the strength of this storm seems to dwarf more recent
hurricanes.
Already,
the city of Miami is being forced to raise their roads to accommodate
rising waters creeping into their city. A report
from The Atlantic details
that the last major hurricane to hit Miami was in 1926 and 400 people
were killed. Back then, the city boasted 100,000 residents, but today
that number is more like 6 million.
Disaster
planners have long been concerned about a natural event of this
magnitude hitting a major U.S. city. If Irma turns toward Florida,
this will be the horrific event they’ve feared.
“It
won’t survive,” said former top emergency manager Craig Fugate in
2014.
6.
President Donald Trump only barely understands the crisis.
During
a meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders, Trump acted as if
he had some special insider information on the severity of Hurricane
Irma. All he could manage was to tell them it is “not good.”
"(Irma) looks like it could be something that will be not good. Believe me, not good," Trump says in Oval.
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