Pssssssssssssssssst - Irma has company

[malaise]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. gonna get real interesting, looks like.

We may have to make a human sacrifice to appease the weather gods.
when is what's his name gonna be in the again???

[malaise]

2. Impeach the Con

[B2G]

3. I'd actually be more concerned about potential Jose

right behind Irma.

[malaise]

4. We're paying attention

to whatever comes our way but right now I'm sending all the vibes I can to my Caribbean sisters and brothers.

[B2G]

12. Jose just became a Tropical Storm. nt

[malaise]

13. Thankfully Jose looks like a fish storm

Early days

[MuseRider]

18. I am freaking out

about Tortola. Of all the places in the world I want to end my life in it is Tortola. That is not going to happen but I love that island with all my heart, the people and their wonderful villages up in the mountain, the sailing tourists who have such a wonderful time, the color oh the colors, the hours and hours and hours I have spent underwater off Tortola. It is a beautiful island full of wonderful people. I am so worried.

I am , of course, worried about all of you. I have been to so many of the islands to dive but Tortola was the one that felt like home.

Good luck, stay safe malaise.

[malaise]

21. Will be messed up

My good friend returned to JA yesterday - said he has no plan dying in a hurricane.
I don't know how those islands will recover from this one.

[MuseRider]

23. I just saw that Irma is now 185 :-(

The only thing that might possible minimize some of the damage to Tortola is it is surrounded by other islands. Virgin Gorda could absorb a bit as it is East of Tortola and the littler islands I do not remember well enough to know if there is enough substance there to slow anything down. We always were right around Road Town. With that little inlet there they could get clobbered. I hope there are enough slips that the boats can be moved to Soaper's Hole. I don't know if that will maybe be a better place, I know tornados intimately but the only hurricane I was in was just the early evacuation of the Bahamas. Rough small plane ride and a lot of rain but not a hurricane yet.

*Oops, I just checked myself, Soaper's Hole is not on the other side, I was thinking about Long Bay Beach. *sigh* Holding that island (all actually but that one specially) in my heart.

[malaise]

24. With gusts at 220mph

[MuseRider]

25. This is making me cry.

I spent a long part of my life hanging out around the Caribbean once or twice every year. If things had gone the way they were supposed to go I would have been living in Tortola for the last 10-15 years. If I could find a farm sitter and was not expecting my first grandchild I would find a way there to help them clean up.

I also had a spot on the Big Island Hawaii in an arts community but it was still so USA in most parts and the native Hawaiians did not want more non native people moving in so we dropped that.

Hoping you stay safe through this season. I never got to spend any time in Jamaica

[Hortensis]

30. Someone else here lived through a string of hurricanes in 2005.

She's no longer living down there, but your post immediately reminded me of her. Perhaps she also still would be if only...

[MuseRider]

38. I think I remember but cannot pull up her name.

She lived in St. Lucia right? We did have a poster who lived in St. Lucia but I lost track of her during one of my absences. Is that who you mean?

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Tracking map indicates Jose will go north, might not touch land at all.

We are seeing what used to be a normal pattern of a sequence of storms being born off the coast of Africa, and tracking towards the west.
Hurricane season typically runs from June to Nov, and this is the most active time, historically.

[RKP5637]

5. OMG, malaise, this is getting scary. I'm preparing now in case Irma hits the US, which I think it

will, someplace.

[roamer65]

6. Any opinions on that clump of clouds to the ESE of Disturbance 1?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2

It looks a lot like Disturbance 1 did 3-4 days ago.

[malaise]

7. The experts say it will be TD11

at 11.00am

Holy shit I was wrong - it's now Tropical Storm Jose

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/051454.shtml

[roamer65]

10. I swear there is something forming behind Jose.

We may have a 4th forming.

Al Gore tried to warn us.

You be safe, Malaise!

[malaise]

11. You too

[HipChick]

8. Irma to Harvey: Hold my Beer,Watch this...

Jose to Irma: Really? Hold my Beer..

[malaise]

9. LOL

What a season - hope Irma devours Jose

[spanone]

14. K&R...

[malaise]

16. Sadly Puerto Rico looks likely to take a direct hit from

Irma unless it turns North and quickly

[Cyrano]

17. Stay safe, Malaise

We're preparing here in south Florida also.

All we can do is prepare and wait.

May you and your loved ones be well and come through this safe and sound.

[malaise]

22. Back at you Cyrano

[greytdemocrat]

19. Key West

Could also be devastated from the looks
of some tracks. From Irma that is.

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. Trailing storms generally don't get enough energy to be as powerful as the one in front of them.

[area51]

26. It's getting way too busy out there right now.

[Miles Archer]

27. "I want my wall! I want my wall! I want my wall! I want my wall! I want my wall! I want my wall!"

Gonna be hard for him to extort that money from Congress while America is bleeding. He'll just have to yell louder.

[Jane Austin]

28. Thanks for the info.

All of you stay safe, okay?

[FloridaBlues]

29. Nice cousin Jose is tagging along please take another way

[salin]

31. Be safe, malaise!!

Thanks for your reporting/sharing. Now take care of you and yours!

[malaise]

34. We're not in the cone athough I don't know what that means

with a storm this size. Friends in Barbados say they're seeing ocean swells and they are some distance away

[salin]

39. *Sigh of relief* in hopefullness that you aren't in the cone,

but still ... be safe. I know that you know how to 'be safe' - as you live through variations of these storms more frequently than we land locked DUers. But still...

You are a treasure - you give insight and compassion to the DU community. We need/appreciate you!

[DFW]

32. What kind of a name is "Thirteen?"

Is that some kind of code name for "Olivia?"

Seriously, I wonder if the next time I'm in the States, I'll need a car or a canoe?

[malaise]

33. Tropical Depression #13

Not a TS yet

[DFW]

35. Ah, got it, thanks

I thought someone in the weather service was a "House, MD" fan or something

[malaise]

36. LOL

If it becomes a Tropical Storm, it will be Katia.

If Irma stays West for much longer, we might have a Tropical Storm Warning

[Hortensis]

37. Oh,...no. Irma's already the strongest storm recorded in its location.

Please, enough.

[suffragette]

40. Stay safe malaise.

[phylny]

41. malaise, I loved Jamaica when I visited (honeymoon, 1981 at the Jamaica Inn - can't afford it now!)

And the Caribbean is my chosen vacation place. I have been to St. Maarten, St. Kitts & Nevis, and Antigua, with plans to go to St. Croix next year. I love them all, want to see more and more.

How do people on the islands ever stay safe?

(Jamaica story - a gentleman at the Jamaica Inn was named "F.S. Ellis - for fast and sweet." Every night when I came down for dinner, he would go on and on: "You look ravishing tonight, ma'am, but if I say it again, your husband, he will kill me, ma'am.&quot