OK Dorian is stationary

[malaise]

as in not fucking moving - wind speed 145mph.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT05/refresh/AL052019_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/215101_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png

Spare a thought for the folks in the Bahamas

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. The idea that a rotating ocean tornado can just sit in one place, is weird.

and the consequences of it doing so right now, horrifying.

And night is falling.

[magicarpet]

2. Imagine the water that storm is sucking up out of the ocean and then dumping it on land...

... in one spot,.. those poor people.

[mcar]

3. This is unbelievable, malaise!

It's just fcking sitting there. I saw vid of the Freeport Airport 5 ft under water. How can anyone survive this?

[malaise]

4. Many won't survive this - the death toll is up to five

and Grand Bahama will not recover in our lifetimes.

[mcar]

5. I was there many moons ago

on a college spring break trip. Had a great time but didn't appreciate the beauty - too many rum & cokes!

I hope it can come back, but I so fear for the people.

[malaise]

6. Haven't been there in 40 years

but I sure had a great time in Nassau and Grand Bahama - gorgeous beaches but I need my mountains and trees.

[mcar]

7. Florida 29 years, but I'm a Pennsylvania native

I still get homesick in the fall - I miss the mountains so.

[malaise]

8. I always ask my sis and her hubby how they can live in Florida without

mountains. I know how you feel

[mcar]

14. When Irma hit 2 years ago

I took little dog (RIP) and bugged out to Asheville, NC, to stay with a cousin. SO and DS stayed behind with big dog.

I stayed a week - in September - didn't want to leave. Some things are just in one's DNA, I think.

[Blue_true]

19. Depends upon how you look at things.

We have mountains in Florida that are measured in feet just like everywhere else. The only problem is, our mountains are sort of teeny-tiny.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Floridian "mountains" are its clouds.

Specifically its tall thunderheads that billow every summer. No other state comes close in terms of its cloudscape.

As you say, it’s all a matter of perspective...

[Blue_true]

23. I have always been a lightening scary-cat. I try not to notice thunderclouds. nt

[malaise]

24. That and the summer lightning

It is all a matter of perspective - I do love Anna Maria island

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. it's gotta be maddening to listen to that howling wind

I get a little nuts under 50 mph sustained winds, and that only lasts a few hours, max, here.

[malaise]

10. Agree but watching the water rising outside

and then break through your window and flood your home must be even worse.
Many islanders will have to leave their homes forever as climate change destroys islands completely. Other islands will sink and disappear. It's already happening.

[HipChick]

11. Hope that island does not end up like Montserrat

With an Exclusion Zone, and more or less deserted...

[malaise]

12. I went there in 2006 and am still in shock

I've never seen a population disappear so quickly

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. it's just sitting there like a giant grinder!

[malaise]

15. I have never seen anything like this

Damn!

[Wounded Bear]

16. Maybe it'll be our version of Jupiter's Great Red Spot...

and stay there forever.

[yardwork]

17. Those poor people.

[George II]

18. It's been there for almost 36 hours, not forecast to move until tomorrow morning. I can't imagine.

[Blue_true]

20. Is Dorian introducing a new normal?

A very powerful storm that moves slowly and occasionally stay in one area.

[OliverQ]

21. If Dorian had to just sit in one spot for 2 days, why couldn't it sit over Mar-a-Lago

instead of the poor people in the Bahamas?

[malaise]

29. It would have had to hit way too many Democrats

Justice is coming for the Con

[Polybius]

25. Is there a chance that it could stay like that indefinitely?

Even since I was a kid, I have feared that we could have our own "Great Red Spot" one day, the storm that doesn't stop.

[malaise]

26. I imagine that eventually the water will cool and weaken the storm

That's happening already as it churns

[MuseRider]

27. This is devastating!

I have been around those islands on a live aboard dive boat (what a coincidence that) and we went back once with our boys for their first ocean experience and taught them to snorkel. The people in the Bahamas are so kind and friendly. While we were there with our boys a hurricane decided to head toward the islands. We stayed as long as we could but bugged out almost too late, that one picked up speed. We took off in a little puddle jumper of a plane on a runway that was hard to see for all the rain and standing water. It was an interesting flight the airport we left had not one person around except the person who took our money and exchanged our ticket and Miami was even pretty slow. That plane ride about did me in since I do not fly comfortably anyway. That is one teeny tiny experience that would not even count but I can imagine and I feel just awful for them. I hope the people can survive this. If they do they will still have to wait for supplies.

After last year I am just happy this is not headed your way or towards my precious Tortola. I hope this season stays far away from you all.

[malaise]

28. It's weakening although stationary at 130mph is hell

Don't know what may come our way - the Atlantic is filling up fast.
This is horrific.