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Hurricane Dorian

#31
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(Sep 6, 2019 08:40 PM)Yazata Wrote: Dorian has cleared the Carolinas and is back out at sea.

Interestingly, it now seems headed for... Canada! The US National Hurricane Center's 2 PM EDT Friday 9/6/19 cone projects it striking Halifax head-on while still at hurricane strength. (It's called karma, Kim Campbell...) Most of Nova Scotia is under hurricane warning and the rest is under both hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning. Prince Edward Island is under a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning and there's even a hurricane watch for the west coast of Newfoundland! (Hurricanes... in Newfoundland?!)


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Is Dorian ever going to die? A few days ago there were these speculative forecasts of it reaching Iceland, Ireland, the UK. Seemed facetious at the time, but now one starts to wonder. Surely that part of the Atlantic is too cool to feed it at hurricane strength.

Will Major Hurricane Dorian strike the UK next week?
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-b...k/70009240

Ireland could be hit by tail-end of lethal Hurricane Dorian early next week
https://extra.ie/2019/09/02/news/irish-n...nd-weather
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#32
Yazata Offline
(Sep 6, 2019 09:02 PM)C C Wrote: Is Dorian ever going to die? A few days ago there were these speculative forecasts of it reaching Iceland, Ireland, the UK. Seemed facetious at the time, but now one starts to wonder. Surely that part of the Atlantic is too cool to feed it at hurricane strength.

I doubt that it would be an organized cyclonic storm by that time. More likely just a low pressure area. It could bring a lot of rain though and blustery winds. (But what else is new for the British isles?)
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#33
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Dorian briefly was raised from category 1 to category 2, but has since been downgraded to a post-tropical storm. But it's still packing tropical storm force winds as it hits Nova Scotia this afternoon. Reportedly 300,000 people in Nova Scotia are currently without electrical power. The entire province has about 960,000, so its approaching one in three. That includes the majority of Halifax. Outages are all over the province and seem to be spotty. A neighborhood here will be out, while the neighborhood over there still has power.
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#34
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(Sep 6, 2019 06:52 PM)Yazata Wrote:
(Sep 6, 2019 05:40 PM)C C Wrote: And yet in the months ahead it might be the outside international community (primarily the US, its administration, etc) that will be blamed for the aggravated woes actually resulting from the Bah-gov's sluggishness, ineptitude, and paranoia. Volunteer humanitarianism on a large scale rarely goes unchastened? (brother's keeper)

I don't want to be too critical of the Bahamas. Logistics in the wake of a disaster like this is a real problem.

That sounds like a cop-out. The US military could only aid logistics...if only the Bohemian government gave their okay.

How many times have the current administration been blamed for a slow response because those in charge of places like Louisiana or Puerto Rico didn't give their aid prompt permission?
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#35
Yazata Offline
RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) C-130 photographed at Nassau airport in the Bahamas. Canadian news media suggest that this aircraft will be used to fly Jamaican Defense Force soldiers from Jamaica to the Bahamas.

https://globalnews.ca/news/5870491/canad...y-support/


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US AID/OFDA (Agency for International Development/Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance are setting up a base of operations on Abaco, transported in on what appear to be large CH 53E Super Stallion helicopters belonging in this case to the US Navy (this aircraft type is flown by both the US Navy and the Marines). The helicopters also delivered an urban search-and-rescue team from VATF-1 (Virginia Task Force 1), the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue from VA.


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Here's a search dog and handler in Florida I'm guessing, prior to the flight.


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Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue loading their gear into a helicopter. (You can see how big these helicopters are.) This particular urban search and rescue unit is world renowned. They started out as part of the Fairfax County Fire Department, but now are 200 strong and are associated with FEMA and the Dept of Homeland Security. (They aren't federal employees or federally controlled though. They just help out when needed.) Wikipedia says, "The team is composed of emergency managers and planners, physicians and paramedics and includes specialists in the fields of structural engineering, heavy rigging, collapse rescue, logistics, hazardous materials, communications, canine and technical search." Whenever there's a disaster anywhere in the world with collapsed buildings or people that need rescuing, they are called out.

Here's a description of the kind of gear they use.

https://www.fema.gov/task-force-equipment

They are just one (perhaps the best known) of a number of similar units all around the United States.


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#36
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(Sep 7, 2019 10:45 PM)Yazata Wrote: Reportedly 300,000 people in Nova Scotia are currently without electrical power. The entire province has about 960,000, so its approaching one in three.

Correction: That's 300,000 customers, not 300,000 people. Since each customer typically includes more than one person, it's estimated (by CBC) that 70% of the people in Nova Scotia are in the dark. CBC reports that the Canadian military has been called out to help.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot...-1.5274741

https://twitter.com/cbccolleenjones/stat...4679804930

https://twitter.com/cbccolleenjones/stat...5666352128

https://twitter.com/cbccolleenjones/stat...4176234497

I expect that in the Bahamas they be sayin' "Dats nuthin mon!"
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#38
Rainbow  RainbowUnicorn Offline
(Sep 7, 2019 11:18 PM)Yazata Wrote: RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) C-130 photographed at Nassau airport in the Bahamas. Canadian news media suggest that this aircraft will be used to fly Jamaican Defense Force soldiers from Jamaica to the Bahamas.

https://globalnews.ca/news/5870491/canad...y-support/


[Image: ED0UB6QXsAEp9xN?format=jpg&name=small]
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US AID/OFDA (Agency for International Development/Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance are setting up a base of operations on Abaco, transported in on what appear to be large CH 53E Super Stallion helicopters belonging in this case to the US Navy (this aircraft type is flown by both the US Navy and the Marines). The helicopters also delivered an urban search-and-rescue team from VATF-1 (Virginia Task Force 1), the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue from VA.


[Image: ED3_5j9WkAEV5-g?format=jpg&name=medium]
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Here's a search dog and handler in Florida I'm guessing, prior to the flight.


[Image: ED3qiOpWsAEc_rD?format=jpg&name=medium]
[Image: ED3qiOpWsAEc_rD?format=jpg&name=medium]



Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue loading their gear into a helicopter. (You can see how big these helicopters are.) This particular urban search and rescue unit is world renowned. They started out as part of the Fairfax County Fire Department, but now are 200 strong and are associated with FEMA and the Dept of Homeland Security. (They aren't federal employees or federally controlled though. They just help out when needed.) Wikipedia says, "The team is composed of emergency managers and planners, physicians and paramedics and includes specialists in the fields of structural engineering, heavy rigging, collapse rescue, logistics, hazardous materials, communications, canine and technical search." Whenever there's a disaster anywhere in the world with collapsed buildings or people that need rescuing, they are called out.

Here's a description of the kind of gear they use.

https://www.fema.gov/task-force-equipment

They are just one (perhaps the best known) of a number of similar units all around the United States.


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#39
Yazata Offline
Some of the things that remind Americans that Canada is a foreign country:

Canadians are so nice (except when they are watching hockey or criticizing the US). Here's a woman in Halifax who still has electricity who has set up a charger on a card table in front of her house so that neighbors can charge their cell phones. She says she is working on coffee. And coffee is apparently a very big deal...

https://twitter.com/LisaRobertsHfx/statu...5154997248

There's the incomprehensible (to Americans) matter of Tim Hortons. Everyone in electricity-starved Nova Scotia has headed for their local Tims to get coffee and pastries, and lines outside the drive-throughs of the few Tims that have electricity and are still open extend for blocks.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/coffee-mad...-1.4583397

https://twitter.com/TheResistor3/status/...0946008064

https://twitter.com/EmilyBCCTV/status/11...6729478152

The Halifax police say it's gotten so bad that they are asking people to stay off the streets for the time being to clear the way for emergency vehicles.

Here's an ambulance trying to make its way through a Tims traffic jam:

https://twitter.com/haligonia/status/117...3774891008

It isn't helping traffic matters that most of the city's traffic lights are out. Halifax regional transit says that all of their bus and ferry lines are out of action for today as well, and a decision has yet to be made for Monday.

But all and all, it looks like Halifax will recover quite nicely. (Unlike the northern Bahamas.)
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#40
Yazata Offline
Prince Edward Island got hit pretty hard too. Currently about 50,000 people there are without electricity, in a tiny province of only 150,000 people. Many trees down etc. Photos of houses and barns destroyed by the wind. (I don't think that's very widespread.)

Dorian had already weakened into a more normal sort of storm before it hit Newfoundland. Still, big waves and stuff. Newfoundland is used to storms so I expect that NF will be fine.

As we speak the remnants of Dorian are passing out through the Straits of Bell Isle into the north Atlantic, bidding Canada goodbye. I expect that's the last we will hear of it.
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