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Can't tell if that's touching or anger generating at using the power when it (or the money spent on the excess) could be used for something actually useful.

... also, entirely aware the causal connection is nil, but that people have started doing that about when the storm's started pulling west makes me maybe wish they'd stop. If there's any effect, it's either not doing what they seem to want it to, or causing irma to track the other direction out of pure spite. Which would be an extra helluva' thing considering it's a meteorological phenomena and does not possess the capability to feel or express spite.

Please stop taunting the Texas sized whirligig of doom, people

Ain't panicked yet, mate, just pretty damned worried about a contender for strongest hurricane to hit florida in beyond living memory. Wait till landfall for more than that.

Lotta' folks would be hella' bloody relieved, sure, though it wouldn't help some of the islands much at this point. Not sure if nice is quite the right word considering it would probably have been than even odds of causing a religious revival.

It'd also probably upend meteorological science as we know it, which would be pretty interesting.

Nah, there's stuff specifically for FL now. Buncha' places down south are running out. The traffic map of the state right now is a helluva' thing to see.

Pretty sure you've still got time, if you've got the resources to keep going. Probably really damn well should, too. Don't want to be anywhere in the actual peninsula a day or two from now. If your parents really want to protect you they'd want you way the fuck out of florida right now if it meant hitching a ride with a bus filled with workers from a minority ghetto whorehouse.

Visual representation of some of the current danger areas.

E: Just... seriously, folks. As a floridian to floridians, if any of y'all are still here and have the means to get out, fucking leave. No joke, pack up, get the fuck out, leave tonight if possible if you're anywhere not in the north west part of the state. Get over the border, maybe go straight through alabama and chill in arkansas or missouri for a week or two. This damn storm is giving massive fuck off huge signs of being a few dozen hours out from settling in to kick andrew's shit in, and you want to be goddamn nowhere close to that.

It really is. Just takes pretty massive coordination if it's going to be over enough road to help.

I went to Disney... Now Irma is supposed to roll up the whole Peninsula. Hopefully it should be <CAT4 by the time it gets here.

Last I've seen it's expected to make landfall at cat 5, probably maintain at least cat 4 as it travels up the state -- though it should be noted that irma is fucking huge. Disney's close enough to florida's tip it's going to be hammered shortly after it hits. Also moving plenty fast. It's damned unlikely there's going to be enough time for it to get to cat 3 or below before it passes the top of the state, never mind the area around disney.

If you're saying you're visiting on vacation, I'd heavily suggest you cut that vacation short and get the hell out, like... well, today would be best. Tomorrow would be okay-ish around that area. Saturday or Sunday it might be past the point evac is all that possible. Hopefully it's going to take longer than that, but a disney trip isn't even remotely worth risking it.

E: Though it's also worth noting even cat 3 is a pretty sizeable fuck you to human existence, and generally something you want to avoid being in the main path of. The main path of irma is looking to be "everything in the state except the western quarter-ish of the panhandle". Seriously, damn thing is looking to be one of the worst storms this state has seen, period. If you don't live here and have things keeping you tied to the state, you seriously don't want to still be inside this state's border right now.

E2: Also, last hour looks to have seen a consensus reached between pretty much every major model we have. Landfall in Miami in about 65 or so hours. Pretty close to certainly going to be something that puts fucking andrew to shame. Irma is expected to kick the shit out of the impact of most destructive storm to ever slam into this state. Fucking hell.

Models are still pretty all over the place, for what it's worth. Another 12-24h, I think, is when it'll be less imprecise. Mind, parts of south florida might also have already been pancaked by that point, but...

I can't imagine any company in the area not allowing their workers one or two hours leave to prepare their homes and belongings for the biggest storm ever measured.

Ah ha ha. Then you don't live in the US, obviously enough. It wouldn't be common, per se, but there's probably still companies dead center in projected impact areas that are trying to squeeze out overtime and insinuating workers won't have a job when they come back if they evacuate or blow off work to try to make it less likely they die.

Welp, that's two in a row. Irma has became the second record breaking hurricane we've had this year. Not content to merely break US records, it's confirmed as having now maintained 185+ mph winds for longer than anything our species has noted since we started tracking. Anywhere. Globally.

Conceptually it's not the worst record it could be breaking, but. Yeah.