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Hurricane Irma: now a tropical storm, moving into Georgia today
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no doubt. im in hialeah and im seriously thinking about evacating, probably to tampa or some shyt on the other coast
this was a flash flood just last month.... it wasn't even 5 inches
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Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
Florida has had anything major in 12 years, looks like they may not be lucky this time around.
crazy article about direct hit on Miami ... we bout to turn into Atlantis
The Next Houston
The last time a major hurricane struck Miami directly, in 1926, it left almost 400 people dead, making it one of the 10 deadliest hurricanes on the record books in the United States. Yet that storm ravaged a sleepy, relatively small resort town of just 100,000. Today, the Miami metropolitan area has more than 6 million residents.
The scariest scenario is Miami. While the city is practically synonymous with storms—just ask the University of Miami—it has escaped a direct hit for 91 years, and with it the massive storm surge that might deal irreparable damage.
Any comparison with the 1926 cyclone, a Category 4 storm still known as the Great Miami Hurricane, is only somewhat useful. The growth of the city since then doesn’t just put more people in the path of the storm—it also means that the area presents a greater risk of flooding. As Houston has demonstrated, the more built environment a city has, and especially water-impervious structures like pavement, the less water it can absorb. It’s not just that the city has grown and created more pavement; it’s that just as Houston’s expansion has taken over prairies with remarkable capacity to take in water, Miami’s growth has colonized parts of the Everglades, another water-absorbing system.
And as if that weren’t bad enough, the area is already grappling with regular (not to say normal) floods caused by rising sea levels. Part of Miami and its surrounding cities are commonly inundated by high tides.
The Miami area has seen plenty of bad hurricanes since 1926—especially Andrew in 1992, which caused $26.5 billion in damage. But the National Hurricane Center concluded that Andrew did much less damage that it might have if it had been bigger or struck more directly: “Andrew was a compact system. A little larger system, or one making landfall just a few nautical miles further to the north, would have been catastrophic for heavily populated, highly commercialized, and no less vulnerable areas to the north.”
There are different estimates about what a storm equivalent to the Great Miami Hurricane in power and location would do today, but all of them are horrific. An estimate done by the state of Florida came up with a figure of $120 to $130 billion. A 2011 National Hurricane Center study concluded it would be more like $165 billion, the costliest ever. CoreLogic, a real-estate analytics company, calculated in 2014 that reconstruction value of just the homes in the surge zone would be $103 billion.
The Next Houston
The last time a major hurricane struck Miami directly, in 1926, it left almost 400 people dead, making it one of the 10 deadliest hurricanes on the record books in the United States. Yet that storm ravaged a sleepy, relatively small resort town of just 100,000. Today, the Miami metropolitan area has more than 6 million residents.
The scariest scenario is Miami. While the city is practically synonymous with storms—just ask the University of Miami—it has escaped a direct hit for 91 years, and with it the massive storm surge that might deal irreparable damage.
Any comparison with the 1926 cyclone, a Category 4 storm still known as the Great Miami Hurricane, is only somewhat useful. The growth of the city since then doesn’t just put more people in the path of the storm—it also means that the area presents a greater risk of flooding. As Houston has demonstrated, the more built environment a city has, and especially water-impervious structures like pavement, the less water it can absorb. It’s not just that the city has grown and created more pavement; it’s that just as Houston’s expansion has taken over prairies with remarkable capacity to take in water, Miami’s growth has colonized parts of the Everglades, another water-absorbing system.
And as if that weren’t bad enough, the area is already grappling with regular (not to say normal) floods caused by rising sea levels. Part of Miami and its surrounding cities are commonly inundated by high tides.
The Miami area has seen plenty of bad hurricanes since 1926—especially Andrew in 1992, which caused $26.5 billion in damage. But the National Hurricane Center concluded that Andrew did much less damage that it might have if it had been bigger or struck more directly: “Andrew was a compact system. A little larger system, or one making landfall just a few nautical miles further to the north, would have been catastrophic for heavily populated, highly commercialized, and no less vulnerable areas to the north.”
There are different estimates about what a storm equivalent to the Great Miami Hurricane in power and location would do today, but all of them are horrific. An estimate done by the state of Florida came up with a figure of $120 to $130 billion. A 2011 National Hurricane Center study concluded it would be more like $165 billion, the costliest ever. CoreLogic, a real-estate analytics company, calculated in 2014 that reconstruction value of just the homes in the surge zone would be $103 billion.
This piece of shyt hurricane gon ruin my vacay to the caymans this weekend.
Get out breh.
Nothing is worth putting your life at risk.
O.T.I.S.
Veteran
Yeah my boys showed me that shyt. Luckily they had trucksno doubt. im in hialeah and im seriously thinking about evacating, probably to tampa or some shyt on the other coast
this was a flash flood just last month.... it wasn't even 5 inches
But honestly, thats normal in miami. Aint nobody even talking about this shyt down there
why does it flood like that in US cities.. Im from the caribbean we have hurricanes like every year but it's never as bad as you guys even though y'all don't get direct hits 
And how do y'all in the USA die from hurricanes
TF y'all be doing 
And how do y'all in the USA die from hurricanes
TF y'all be doing
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RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
Not to be a fear monger, but start stocking up on food and get your parents to your area asap. Dont take the chance after harvey
why does it flood like that in US cities.. Im from the caribbean we have hurricanes like every year but it's never as bad as you guys even though y'all don't get direct hits
And how do y'all in the USA from hurricanes
Because we overdeveloped the land. Wetlands and prairies naturally absorb all the excess water. Since we overdeveloped everything and have pavement everywhere the water has nowhere to go. As much as we try to live against nature it always wins in the end.
Lifejennings
Superstar
The Motherland seeking revenge.i was on Harvey live youtube feeds all weekend and found out that hurricanes first develop off of the coast of africa
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Category 6.you aint gon like the new projections... although it is not as accurate as other radars . i'd buy some shyt this week asap before n1ggaz start buyin everything out
the big number above the L is bad news...
I used to wave off that kind of talk as Weather Channel hyperbole, but then Katrina happened.
I hope Irma is a bust.
Family Man
Banned
Is this shyt finna hit NC or not? I don't watch the news..I get all my info from the coli. Should I go buy some shyt today? We ain't got no bottle water in the house.
You're comparing a city to states. Come on breh. You're better than that.
Killah Ray
Carolina hail to thee....
As a breh on the NC border, I went ahead and stocked up and made sure my insurance was right this morning....
No use in chancing shyt bruh...besides it's not like water goes bad either way
