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Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Hurricane On Record About To Hit Mexico

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ViRGE

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The National Hurricane Center has never issued an advisory for a 200MPH hurricane before; no one has measured a hurricane (or typhoon) with winds that fast before.😱

Puerto Vallarta may be in trouble here...
 
Damn, that's one hell of a hurricane! Hopefully the people in it's path have a lot of time to make preparations, but there's only so much that can be done.
 
Double Trouble said:
Damn, that's one hell of a hurricane! Hopefully the people in it's path have a lot of time to make preparations, but there's only so much that can be done.
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Imagine putting your arm out of a car window going 200 MPH+.

Then multiply that buy miles and miles over an extended period of time all over the area.
 
Wow. That's a wicked storm. 200MPH winds and 40 foot waves...not good. Hope they can get everyone evacuated. That's going to be brutal.
 
MongGrel said:
Imagine putting your arm out of a car window going 200 MPH+.

Then multiply that buy miles and miles over an extended period of time all over the area.
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The winds are especially problematic because they get worse as you go up. It means fleeing to higher ground, even just a few stories to get away from the storm surge, isn't effective because a building isn't likely to survive.
 
I hope most people can evacuate or have a hardened shelter to go to, that thing will flatten about everything in sight.
 
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Holy shit. I'm just imagining how we think ~70MPH winds are bad. I can't even imagine 200MPH. Hopefully they can get evacuated on time. I guess it's supposed to make landfall this afternoon..?
 
That's terrible news. We have been to PV a couple of times, Ixtapa, Mazatlan.
We went there the first time 4 days after the 1995 earthquake. The new hotel at the marina was damaged beyond repair. I heard several people who were there talk about the bravery of the hotel staff who helped them out of the crumbling building. I hope they have good places to keep out of harm.
 
CraKaJaX said:
Holy shit. I'm just imagining how we think ~70MPH winds are bad. I can't even imagine 200MPH. Hopefully they can get evacuated on time. I guess it's supposed to make landfall this afternoon..?
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Yeah, this thing is as strong as an F3 tornado. But instead of it having a damage path that can be measured in miles...it's going to have one the size of Illinois.

F3 tornadoes can lift up cars and uproot trees.
 
So? They hit us with blow all the time.

Too soon?

I'm sorry! I was just kidding! I hope they will be ok.
 
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I hope they set up a giant wall of cocaine in front of it and let it all just blow up into the wind. Imagine how many people would get hooked from 2nd hand blow...
 
Double Trouble said:
Damn, that's one hell of a hurricane! Hopefully the people in it's path have a lot of time to make preparations, but there's only so much that can be done.
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Most of those people went to bed prepping for a Cat 1 hurricane and woke up with a Cat 5, I'll be surprised if many are evacuated before it hits.
 
We have two manufacturing plants and a lot of customers in that path. I'm really curious to see what happens this weekend.

As far as I can tell, it's been business as usual so far today.
 
ViRGE said:
Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Hurricane On Record About To Hit Mexico
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False.

It is the strongest "Pacific" hurricane but not the strongest of all hurricanes recorded. Take deep breaths, relax, we aren't in the middle of a Roland Emmerich movie.

-KeithP
 
So... I'm in Puerto Vallarta.... They evacuated us to a school a few miles inland... Going to be a hell of a night...
 
damn that is crazy. hurricane season is the reason we chose to go to aruba last month over somewhere else in the carribean, because it's out of the hurricane belt. oh and it fucking rocks there.
 
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