Wilma - Strongest Hurricane ever recorded..

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » October 19, 2005, 11:36 am

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/ ... ml?ref=rss

3rd Cat 5 this year in the gulf coast.

This one seem to be headed into the Yucatan channel then veer north/northeast and may hit florida saturday.

Hopefully it will lose power before it makes landfall...

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » October 19, 2005, 2:29 pm

Well it's prolly gonna smack the Yucatan and/or Cuba as a 5 which "should" drop it to 4 then get caught in a strong eastern flow. But it dropped 100mb in 24 hours...that is just stupidly fast...It could easily rebuild to a 5 post 1st impact...Let's hope for shear to keep it at or below 4 after 1st impact. South of the the impact on the FL Gulf Coast...well don't be below 25 feet this weekend...Bad surge...very very bad surge...

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 19, 2005, 4:13 pm

Wilmaaaaa!!!

masteen · Post by **masteen** » October 19, 2005, 5:27 pm

The only good news is that there's a cold front pushing down that should suck some of the juice out of this storm.

GOGO 2 MORE PAID DAYS OFF!

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 19, 2005, 9:45 pm

Glad I live 43 feet above the river. The people at the end of the street have to evacuate for everything.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » October 20, 2005, 12:43 pm

Wilma is gone down to a Cat4 and has also slowed down in movement. Now they are predicting an early monday morning hit.

More sleep for me! Woo

Tuddi2 · Post by **Tuddi2** » October 20, 2005, 4:17 pm

so like .. fuck cuba ?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 20, 2005, 5:37 pm

How's Jeb looking? Presidential?

He sure gets a lot of face time with all of these hurricanes.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » October 20, 2005, 6:02 pm

he passes the forbes test.

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » October 20, 2005, 8:15 pm

i severely doubt this country will elect another bush.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » October 20, 2005, 9:33 pm

Fuck Jeb Bush.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » October 20, 2005, 11:56 pm

Aslanna wrote:Fuck Jeb Bush.

StupidMcDupid · Post by **StupidMcDupid** » October 21, 2005, 1:16 am

Aslanna wrote:Fuck Jeb Bush.

/agree

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 21, 2005, 3:26 am

Early polling shows McCain and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading among Republican voters and suggests either could be popular enough to beat a Democrat if he could get to the general election. McCain is regarded as such a popular bipartisan figure that Republican Gov. Schwarzenegger, who faces an uphill vote on several initiatives on an upcoming ballot, tapped him earlier this month to stump for him in Democratic California.

McInturff also predicted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., would enter the presidential contest with a 43 percent unfavorable rating.

McCain's real-world opportunity might be to rescue the Republican Party from disaster as the 2008 presidential candidate. The appeal for much of the electorate would be obvious: a genuine hero, a blunt-spoken (adopted) Westerner untarnished by the unfolding Bush debacles, and no sissy on national security issues. If he could get through the primaries, it's hard to imagine any Democrat he wouldn't thrash on Election Day.

The primaries are the rub, of course. Candidates in both parties must pass a gantlet of powerbrokers representing ardent, often single-issue activists.

So-called movement conservatives have rarely trusted McCain, even with his unimpeachable (and for Arizona, unfortunate) record of fighting "pork barrel" spending. Social conservatives, who have assumed commanding power in the party since the days of Reagan, have little love for McCain. Primary victories won't come easy.

A more potent force comes from the partners of the social conservatives, the force that has made possible the right wing's continued electoral success in a closely divided nation: big money.

The top fifth of income earners overwhelmingly contributes to the Republicans. GOP policies have helped them become far richer since 1981, and they've also become more politically involved. Not coincidentally, they benefited most from the Bush tax cuts. The same is true for big industry, which has enjoyed historic rollbacks in regulation, anti-trust and tax enforcement, and worker protections. This is the other, unseen "base" of the Republican Party, and without it the victories of the past 11 years wouldn't have been possible.

Now you understand why GOP activists were so hysterical in denouncing McCain's campaign finance reform bill. The money bosses will neither forgive nor forget.

But with the majority of the country, which is neither Christian conservative nor rich, behind him, McCain might not need to make lasting peace with these constituencies.

McCain can recall a real hero: Theodore Roosevelt. At the turn of the last century, TR fought the old guard of the Republican Party that had presided over the age of robber barons and corrupt government.

Our time is starting to resemble that Gilded Age, with added perils of historic consequence. The country is in trouble. Have the moment and the man met in John McCain?

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » October 21, 2005, 5:44 pm

Who was talking about mccain?

miir · Post by **miir** » October 21, 2005, 7:13 pm

Fuck Jeb Bush

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » October 21, 2005, 8:39 pm

okay I am begging you wilma: please wipe out the whole fucking state of florida and everyone within.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » October 21, 2005, 9:57 pm

And go up to Canada and take out the 2 igloos too

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » October 21, 2005, 11:26 pm

Sionistic wrote:And go up to Canada and take out the 2 igloos too

Why no one gives a flying monkey fart about that 3rd world country!!!

Tuddi2 · Post by **Tuddi2** » October 22, 2005, 1:21 am

Cartalas wrote:
Sionistic wrote:And go up to Canada and take out the 2 igloos too
Why no one gives a flying monkey fart about that 3rd world country!!!

or 2nd rate citizens like some people.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » October 22, 2005, 8:03 am

Tuddi2 wrote:
Cartalas wrote:
Sionistic wrote:And go up to Canada and take out the 2 igloos too
Why no one gives a flying monkey fart about that 3rd world country!!!
or 2nd rate citizens like some people.

I dont think your a 2nd rate citizen, Have you always felt this way about yourself?
Want to talk about it?

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » October 22, 2005, 1:09 pm

What was the atmospheric pressure of the storm at its lowest point? I think i saw 892mb. Thats a shitload of moisture.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » October 22, 2005, 1:27 pm

882 was the lowest I saw on Wednesday or Thursday I think.