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PatrickforO

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128. Geez. The strongest hurricane ever recorded?

Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:14 PM

Oct 2015

That's scary.

Of course, global warming is nothing more than a myth foisted on us by lib-er-al scientists. And we don't need no science, right?

Drill, baby, drill!

You know, an aside. I'm reading a book called 'An Indigenous People's History of the United States.' It isn't cheering me up much. Do you ever wake up at night and wonder if we humans are about to enter the 'failed species' list and go the way of the dinosaurs and the dodo?

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Holy Shit Hurricane Patricia is now 200mph with the lowest [View all] malaise Oct 2015 OP

Looks like it ultimately will give us some rain here too madokie Oct 2015 #1

Gusts are 246mph - I can't even contemplate that malaise Oct 2015 #4

That is just a very large Tornado... Lochloosa Oct 2015 #16

not just a tornado, a low-end EF5 tornado phantom power Oct 2015 #33

A tornado that takes hours to pass. Aerows Oct 2015 #71

Those readings may exceed the 1935 Memorial Day hurricane in the FL Keys. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #86

During Hurricane Andrew, we had sustained winds of 264 MPH for 21 minutes before it blew the Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #22

Wow! malaise Oct 2015 #24

Andrew was one of the rarest forms of hurricanes. Lochloosa Oct 2015 #39

I had a friend in ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #54

I can speak from experience Aerows Oct 2015 #73

It was sad to see. She ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #101

I was in a house on Card Sound Rd. MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #44

I wasn't far from you.. at a motel right at Palm Drive & US 1 in Florida City! I used to frequent Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #48

I love Alabama Jack's MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #49

Better off without it. nt Flying Squirrel Oct 2015 #62

I rode out Katrina Aerows Oct 2015 #72

I spent that night in a walk-in-closet w/ wife & child. Scurrilous Oct 2015 #97

What, you never been on a busa'? snooper2 Oct 2015 #41

Ha malaise Oct 2015 #42

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #59

Do I read that right? KansDem Oct 2015 #78

Yeah, conversions are cool like that snooper2 Oct 2015 #83

How do you even hold on at that speed? n/t leveymg Oct 2015 #98

Man, that's not on MY bucket list. PatrickforO Oct 2015 #130

Better: ret5hd Oct 2015 #137

Very scary. narnian60 Oct 2015 #2

"mantenerse a salvo" safeinOhio Oct 2015 #3

Damn glad I'm not down there yet nt newfie11 Oct 2015 #5

Well I'm betting that if you're planning to head to where Pat is going to malaise Oct 2015 #6

if that is sustained, I'm afraid there is not much that will be left standing where it lands. Ed Suspicious Oct 2015 #20

You are 100% correct malaise Oct 2015 #67

Look at that eye. Scurrilous Oct 2015 #103

I'm thinking your right! Nt newfie11 Oct 2015 #131

I still wish we would get some rain yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #7

Please, people. This is not a rain storm! Ed Suspicious Oct 2015 #21

well duh! yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #55

Texas and Louisiana MelungeonWoman Oct 2015 #37

I saw a house floating down a street near Austin, Texas on TV this morning malaise Oct 2015 #38

San Francisco California yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #56

Wait 'til Wednesday KamaAina Oct 2015 #57

okay looking at the weather forecast yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #58

k and r... Stuart G Oct 2015 #8

This story will be big news by Sunday. B Calm Oct 2015 #9

Landfall expected today muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #10

When I posted about this two days ago, she was expected malaise Oct 2015 #12

Will be big news from today malaise Oct 2015 #11

I hope everyone on the coast evacuated. LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #13

I hope people brer cat Oct 2015 #14

Cut from tornado-facts.com . . . ReasonableToo Oct 2015 #15

Yep then add the storm surge malaise Oct 2015 #18

holy shit restorefreedom Oct 2015 #17

Incredible wind map BadgerKid Oct 2015 #19

Global Met folks say this is comparable to typhoon Haiyan that malaise Oct 2015 #23

I was checking that out of my Living Earth app Blue_In_AK Oct 2015 #66

Olaf malaise Oct 2015 #104

Thank you. Blue_In_AK Oct 2015 #113

Holy cats! 200mph max sustained winds? meow2u3 Oct 2015 #25

From NOAA malaise Oct 2015 #26

This going to be worse than anyone can imagine MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #27

Experts say to expect the devastation associated with Cyclone Haiyan malaise Oct 2015 #28

I was in the upper Keys during hurricane Andrew MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #29

We survived Gilbert malaise Oct 2015 #30

I hop those mountains MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #31

Sadly that will happen after it flattens the coastal areas malaise Oct 2015 #43

I just hope people evacuate and don't try to ride it out. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #92

Agreed. MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #95

Many have no choice - roads are now blocked and airports closed malaise Oct 2015 #100

Oh dear, those poor people. This is going to be awful. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #105

What does that mean? rjsquirrel Oct 2015 #138

This storm is horrid BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #32

They're expecting 39ft waves malaise Oct 2015 #36

I was in Acapulco back in '89 when Cosme passed overhead BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #40

Oh my god... MynameisBlarney Oct 2015 #52

I could not imagine a 6 mile wide tornado of that power. Glassunion Oct 2015 #45

I turned on the weather channel and have been watching for 15 minutes...... a kennedy Oct 2015 #34

They only care about what affects the US malaise Oct 2015 #35

Worse, Bain Capital. Cassiopeia Oct 2015 #107

I pity the poor folks who live in pieced-together shacks. lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #46

Major evacuations are taking place malaise Oct 2015 #63

This storm has my name on it and I don't like it.. mountain grammy Oct 2015 #47

Hurricane Wilma (2005) blew a large tree down on my roof. lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #51

Thank you.. Not being threatened by hurricanes I lose track, mountain grammy Oct 2015 #119

Those unfortunate people in its path are going to catch hell. lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #121

The Pacific has had lots of cyclones this year malaise Oct 2015 #64

Yikes! City Lights Oct 2015 #50

I was in a typhoon on Okinawa workinclasszero Oct 2015 #53

My worst storm was Gilbert malaise Oct 2015 #112

I was in the eyewall of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida. geomon666 Oct 2015 #122

Eyewall -damn!!! malaise Oct 2015 #125

Yeah our house survived too, but the ceiling collapsed in my bedroom. geomon666 Oct 2015 #129

Scary stories guys workinclasszero Oct 2015 #132

Seriously TBF Oct 2015 #60

Stay safe malaise Oct 2015 #65

Weather Channel is showing all of the flooding there, from current storm system countryjake Oct 2015 #70

Dam we are going to get some of that. Rex Oct 2015 #61

Well you're already facing a lot of rain malaise Oct 2015 #68

Thanks malaise. Will do. Rex Oct 2015 #69

That's one incredible image! countryjake Oct 2015 #77

Yes - I hope the ewarning reached all the folks in rural regions and malaise Oct 2015 #80

Since that Oso landslide up here last year, I've decided there's no safe place countryjake Oct 2015 #89

Good post malaise Oct 2015 #90

Yup, I read that, too! countryjake Oct 2015 #99

cue the senator.... spanone Oct 2015 #74

Stupid moron malaise Oct 2015 #81

bwahahahahaaa... spanone Oct 2015 #82

He'll find some gawd forsaken justification malaise Oct 2015 #84

This one is going to be so bad. herding cats Oct 2015 #75

Very scary suffragette Oct 2015 #76

Right workinclasszero Oct 2015 #94

Airports closed and folks are trying to get further inland via roads KeepItReal Oct 2015 #79

Not a good day to fly in to Puerto Vallarta Warpy Oct 2015 #85

Yep I started a thread when it was a TS and said it would be Cat3 malaise Oct 2015 #87

Over at the BBC, analysts are predicting a sharp turn inland Warpy Oct 2015 #88

This is going to be bad malaise Oct 2015 #93

It's like an overloaded, unbalanced washing machine on spin cycle... countryjake Oct 2015 #96

. Liberal_in_LA Oct 2015 #91

For those who want to watch although I can't think of anything worse malaise Oct 2015 #102

That webcam had been out ever since the storm passed through. lpbk2713 Nov 2015 #139

Dear god, and sure as god made little green apples (well he didnt actually) one of these randys1 Oct 2015 #106

One will hit one of our Caribbean islands these days malaise Oct 2015 #108

You are in the caribe? randys1 Oct 2015 #109

Jamaica malaise Oct 2015 #110

Oh man....My great/great grandfather has a highway named after him on Maui, where I belong randys1 Oct 2015 #111

I'm with you. Anything under 80 degrees is freezing! gvstn Oct 2015 #114

I hate the cold malaise Oct 2015 #115

My mom was sick this past winter. gvstn Oct 2015 #126

Having been on Maui several times, I might be able to scope out which one KamaAina Oct 2015 #116

dont say it here, please randys1 Oct 2015 #117

Wouldn't dream of it. KamaAina Oct 2015 #118

Best of luck to the people in the path tonight. geomon666 Oct 2015 #120

ReTHUGs might start by confirming the Ambassador malaise Oct 2015 #123

Rubio is such a piece of shit. geomon666 Oct 2015 #124

One day soon MFM008 Oct 2015 #127

Geez. The strongest hurricane ever recorded? PatrickforO Oct 2015 #128

It made landfall at 165mph - a very serious Cat5 but not the strongest ever malaise Oct 2015 #133

Found this video on Facebook geomon666 Oct 2015 #134

BBC also has videos Warpy Oct 2015 #135

Thanks for the link. n/t geomon666 Oct 2015 #136