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Have you heard from them Marini? I hope they've found some type of safe shelter if they are still in Belize.
I still care, I have friends in Belize
Have you heard from them Marini? I hope they've found some type of safe shelter if they are still in Belize.
Yep, they are trying to get to S.A. while we speak!
Dean washed ashore today as the first Category 5 landfalling hurricane since Andrew annihilated the Miami-Dade area in 1992. Dean also now holds the official record for the 9th most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic basin, and is the 3rd strongest landfalling hurricane in history, behind Gilbert in 1988, and the Unnamed "Labor Day" Hurricane that laid waste to Florida in 1935.
Dean also shares another characteristic with Andrew -- Both hurricanes intensifying right up to the shore before losing strength. It's hypothesized that Andrew was strengthening so rapidly that he actually tightened the eyewall and somehow found a lower pressure after moving onshore. This is important, because a weakening hurricane at landfall will lose strength much more rapidly than one that's holding steady or gaining power.
The damage from this is going to be enormous.
Those of you in Texas, be very thankful you didn't mean Dean at his worst.
Belize only has like 2-3 public paved roads. It's a pretty poor country. They probably got rocked pretty hard. Wonder if there's anything left out on Ambergris Caye.
The mudslides from this storm alone will be more than enough completely annihilate most of Belize. It's sad. There's not a damn thing they could have done to prep for this kind of storm. Heck, we're "rich" here in the States and a Cat 3/4 (Katrina) was more than we could deal with, then Wilma hit us right in the mouth again a month later. A Cat 5 in the States would deal unfathomable damage, let alone in Belize where they have NO shelter from this storm.
Katarina was no regular cat 3. Really it was a lot more like a Cat 5 with Cat 3 winds. However, the majority of damage from hurricanes comes from the storm surge, so the worst part of Katrina was definetly catagory five.
Rita wasn't nearly as bad either because of where it came ashore.
Anyhow, I'm not sure how populated that portion of the Yucatan is. I'm guessing its not very populated so while there will be a lot of deaths (Hurricanes in 3rd world countries always kill a lot of people - weak or strong ) it won't be as bad as it could have been.
Flooding and landslides will be the worst part of this storm and that would have been the same regardless of the catagory it hit the shore as.
Are feeder bands making it all the way up here? It's pouring at my house!
Nope, just a few spotty showers. You must have had one of them.
Regardless, we should have been prepared. The surge from Katrina was incredible, but by no means was it out of our capability to handle. I was just alluding to the fact that this hurricane is even stronger than Katrina was when she washed ashore, and we couldn't handle her. Of course, Katrina had whipped up Cat 5 seas two days in advance, but that's not exactly the point I was making.
This hurricane is presently heading for Mexico City. I'm not sure how the plateau would affect a hurricane, but I doubt it would "shear" it enough to prevent torrential amounts of rain from falling. Convection is refiring around a massive eye as of 11:45 EDT on the IR loop. Dean is getting some strength back for a push inland.
all i know is the yucatan looks like someone put arsenic in the rio grande.
We were living in Baton Rouge during Andrew and it was scary! We had tall thin pine trees in our backyard and they were bending so much from the wind I thought one was going to split in half.
Katrina was a cat 3. But what made Katrina seem worse than it really was, was the old ass levees that New Orleans never decided to upgrade or fix. Once they broke, thats when the city got flooded. Had N.O. of done regular maintinece to the levees alot of distaster would of been avoided.
Get out of the club if you dont like what we talk about HEAD!!
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