My co-workers in India are evacuating, right now....but the roads are too crowded. I could just cry. I hate this ****. Hope all is well with your friends and family in India. As well as friends on cfnet from the Philipines who already got hit.7
Progected 167 MPH winds this is the Bay of Bengal (with warm water to heat hurricanes)...which is like twice as big as the Gulf of Mexico
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-24487130 Cyclone Phailin: Mass evacuations in eastern India More than 400,000 people in India have been evacuated as a massive cyclone sweeps through the Bay of Bengal towards the east coast. Cyclone Phailin, categorised as "very severe" by weather forecasters, is expected to hit Orissa and Andhra Pradesh states on Saturday evening. The Meteorological Department has predicted the storm will bring winds up to 220 km/h (136mph). A deadly super-cyclone in 1999 killed more than 10,000 people in Orissa. But officials say this time they are better prepared, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi reports. However, the US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii is forecasting even stronger winds, predicting sustained speeds of up to 269 km/h (167 mph).
Tropical Cyclone Phailin intensified rapidly in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday and is now headed for a landfall along the eastern coast of India. Estimated top sustained winds increased from 65 mph to 155 mph in just 24 hours, according to Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground. As of Saturday morning (U.S. time), Phailin was rated as the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, with maximum sustained winds around 150 mph. According to a NOAA weather satellite, Phailin's central pressure bottomed out to 910 mbar, allowing winds to reach 175 mph on Friday evening. Phailin will landfall shortly along the coast of the state of Odisha or the far northeastern Andrha Pradesh state, northeast of the town of Visakhapatnam in India. I'll say that NOAA has a weather headquarter here in Boulder, and my buddy is saying based on field data that 170 is more likely than 150.
take shelter. For the next 3 hours....bring Houston strength to our friends in Odisha , India take care...brothers and sisters
I tried to imagine what 12 million people trying to evacuate would look like compared to the gridlock I have seen on the ultra-modern Beltway 8 and I-10 in front of Katrina, Gilbert and Ike. The panic must be armageddon-like. The super extra bad thing will be what happens on the backside of this when it slams into the Himalayas. There will be walls of water crashing down densely populated canyons. Then massive flooding in Bangladesh.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...lin-nears-east-coast/articleshow/24022853.cms Their newscasts look oddly familiar.
The gridlock was not Katrina, Gilbert and Ike The gridlock was Rita. Why does everyone forget that Rita was the gridlock?
You are correct sir, Rita. I just forgot, but how could I? It was a dystopian nightmare. Here is a map showing that the millions and millions of people in India that live in the Ganges River basin at the foot of the Himalayas.
Thank you for raising awareness about this matter. Prayers are being sent. I hope we don't encounter what we expect. Please continue to update this thread. Thank you.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/14/world/asia/india-cyclone-phailin/ Looks like India did a good job of preparing for it. Surprised how little coverage a storm of this size is getting.
I'm not. If there's one thing America and its media can be relied on to do, it's to not give a s*** about what happens outside its borders....unless it involves a war we're in, and even then....
