Strongest hurricane in recorded history slams into western Mexico.
It's really annoying all the news can talk about is that the tourists had to evacuate and not much about the people who are about to loose everything and possibly even their lives.
Yeah the ramp up on this storm really only sprung up in the last 24 hours I swear.
Crazy power coming out of this thing. Small blessing I suppose that it is a narrow-ish path of destruction. Even then, there's going to be so much water the after math is going to be insane.
I was in Jamaica for Hurricane Sandy. Fortunately it hadn't wound up to much at that point, but it was still pretty freaky.The Hurricane Party in the pool was pretty fun though. Until the chez lounge chairs started flying at us...That was the end of the party...
Part of the issue is the speed at which it strengthened. It gained 64 knots in wind speed (just short of 75mph) in 24 hours. It'd be like a storm not existing one day and then the next it's a cat 1 hurricane. The pressure drop that just bombed out in this thing is kind of fascinating.
I'm a weather dork, ignore me.
Edit: reading up more on the storm, in a 26 hour period the pressure inside the system dropped 103mb. That's a record for strengthening, which is probably why no one had heard of this storm until today. It went from a tropical storm to a Cat 5 monster in about 28 hours. That's just unreal.
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The one time I was ever outside Canada was a trip to Cozumel. We got to stay in a gorgeous house in town, across the street there was a family who lived in a tiny house. Their house was made from mud brick with a corrugated steel or tin roof, they had a well out front that they had to drop a bucket into to get water. They also had a turkey tied up out front that was obviously going to be and was Christmas dinner. That house was the most abject poverty I have ever seen with my own eyes.
I shudder to think of the sheer destruction that this hurricane could bring to a house like the one I was staying in, when the reality is it would completely erase the home and people who lived in the mud brick house. I sincerely home that the Mexican authorities are doing everything they can to aid such people, though I doubt it.
The one time I was ever outside Canada was a trip to Cozumel. We got to stay in a gorgeous house in town, across the street there was a family who lived in a tiny house. Their house was made from mud brick with a corrugated steel or tin roof, they had a well out front that they had to drop a bucket into to get water. They also had a turkey tied up out front that was obviously going to be and was Christmas dinner. That house was the most abject poverty I have ever seen with my own eyes.
I shudder to think of the sheer destruction that this hurricane could bring to a house like the one I was staying in, when the reality is it would completely erase the home and people who lived in the mud brick house. I sincerely home that the Mexican authorities are doing everything they can to aid such people, though I doubt it.
If they have the means and help to get away from the storm, something like that can be rebuilt fairly quickly. One of our houses on the other hand would take weeks and probably months.
If they have the means and help to get away from the storm, something like that can be rebuilt fairly quickly. One of our houses on the other hand would take weeks and probably months.
True, but I question if they have the means to get away, and then if they do, do they have the means to rebuild too.
Hurricane Patricia
