Hurricane Laura

[KMart]

Most everybody on the Gulf Coast has been tracking this for a while and this is not about those of us presently in the "cone".
In the next few days this storm is going to start affecting some of you way further north. Future track shows:
Thursday night shows 50 Kt winds in the Shreveport La area
Friday noon shows 30 Kt winds in the Little Rock area
Friday night shows 25 Kt winds in the Springfield Mo area
Sat noon shows 30 Kt winds around Louisville Ky
It then crosses VA and goes back into the Atlantic and starts strengthening again.

https://www.metoc.navy.mil/fwcn/fwcn.html#!/warnings_tropical.html

 

[jackieschmidt]

Since I have lived on the Gulf Coast my entire life, I have been through countless Tropical Storms and Hurricanes.

It is something you live with.

Here in Houston, it looks like we will be on the “clean side” of the storm. That’s good. But this Hurricane seemed to be taking the same path as Hurricane Rita a number of years ago. That will make the area at the Texas Louisiana border and Western Louisiana a bad place to be.

 

[TC260]

Keeping my fingers crossed Lafayette stays outside the worst of it. Too close for comfort.

 

[dfrosch]

The good and the bad of it is that it's a fast moving storm. It's not going to dump 50 inches of rain on any area like Harvey did, but the storm surge is huge and the hurricane force winds will carry well inland.

Pray for those in its path.

 

[ditter]

Im in Miami, so were no stranger to these storms. They say we Floridians dont take storms seriously if they are a category 1 or 2. That's probably right. This one may hit as a 4 and that is no joke. The worst part of these Gulf storms (as opposed to Atlantic storms) is that Gulf storms bring tons of storm surge. You can hide from wind. You cant hide from water.

 

[outasite`08]

To everyone in the path,you`re in our prayers.Go with Gods` safety. Jeff

 

[okie]

just saw guy from beaumont here in SE OK--mandatory evacuee. had 3.5 inches rain here today and still coming down---probably gonna get several feet at coast. bad stuff

 

[okie]

5.1 inches now since 6 AM

 

[Bill Norris]

Act safely and get out of the way of this thing if possible. Living in coastal N C all my life I've seen some of these things too. Not a pleasant thing to witness by no means.

 

[Dub]

thoughts and prayers for all in the path. Please evacuate if instructed.

 

[farmerjohn]

just saw guy from beaumont here in SE OK--mandatory evacuee. had 3.5 inches rain here today and still coming down---probably gonna get several feet at coast. bad stuff

Hey Okie, how far from Dequeen or Waldron are you, I'm bout 50 miles east on I30. That thing blew through here bout 4 this morning and didn't do much, just settled the dust. We're doing a drainage project and I watched the thing on radar hanging around over on the border and then it started back about 2, rained us out while ago, we liked about half a day being done but at least we got where it'll drain. My daughter is the county agent and they're telling us to get the cattle on high ground, supposed to get rough tomorrow... John

 

[farmerjohn]

Never mind, I looked you up and your like me, you don't mind telling fokes where you live, your over there pretty close to Jim Shoulders country...

 

[Siko12]

Prayers to all in danger.

 

[Shooter13]

I'm an insurance adjuster (independent) and have worked in a lot of the areas that will be affected, just returned from IA, no one talked about them and they had 140 MPH winds! Grain bins doubled over, brick building blown apart, roofs missing, it's just a mess.

 

[okie]

Hey Okie, how far from Dequeen or Waldron are you, I'm bout 50 miles east on I30. That thing blew through here bout 4 this morning and didn't do much, just settled the dust. We're doing a drainage project and I watched the thing on radar hanging around over on the border and then it started back about 2, rained us out while ago, we liked about half a day being done but at least we got where it'll drain. My daughter is the county agent and they're telling us to get the cattle on high ground, supposed to get rough tomorrow... John

yeah--about 15 miles from DeQueen. I moved my cows out of bottom. Guess we will see what happens today...

 

[okie]

Never mind, I looked you up and your like me, you don't mind telling fokes where you live, your over there pretty close to Jim Shoulders country...

yeah Freckles Brown and Lane Frost also-- both buried over here at Hugo I believe??

 

[okie]

I'm an insurance adjuster (independent) and have worked in a lot of the areas that will be affected, just returned from IA, no one talked about them and they had 140 MPH winds! Grain bins doubled over, brick building blown apart, roofs missing, it's just a mess.

yeah--when we booked corn it was definitely discussed by the broker with us---no one is real sure what the impact of that is yet. Scouts are out and reports starting to come in, looks like maybe 20-30 bu. down on corn alone...

 

[Twicepop]

I'm an insurance adjuster (independent) and have worked in a lot of the areas that will be affected, just returned from IA, no one talked about them and they had 140 MPH winds! Grain bins doubled over, brick building blown apart, roofs missing, it's just a mess.

The news media totally dropped the ball on that, "fly over country" doesn't count I guess. Iowa reportedly had 1 million plus acres of corn destroyed, not to mention the property damage, and nothing but crickets from the "news media". My brother lives north-east of Ft. Wayne Indiana and they got hit there also. That wind storm ran out of steam about the Indiana-Ohio line (I live about 70 miles east of that) and we luckily didn't get any of the blow.

 

[Cemetery21]

I'm an insurance adjuster (independent)

Retired staff claims manager here. I don't miss hanging on every weather report and workloads going from 80 cases to 2000 per adjuster overnight.

 

[DRNewcomb]

My cousin told me that they needed rain in Brenham. Looks like they might get a touch but not much more. Comes from being on the west side of the storm.