Semi OT: Hurricane Florence and Patriots traveling to Jacksonville

[Hyped]

I wonder how it will affect the game on Sunday. The game is at 4:25PM EST...I am assuming a lot of rain and wind....

 

[bormio]

Florence is projected to be Cat 3 on landfall. It will be a tropical depression on Sat. Jacksonville is very unlikely to be near the storm. The plane can fly around it if needed.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

RW, you sparked a memory! A few years ago I was flying home from Ft. Myers to Providence via BWI. I took a bump in Baltimore and got a $200 voucher. Not a great amount, but I was alone and took it. I had about a 5.5 hour wait and made the mistake of going straight to the bar near my gate. Five hours, about ten 22 oz. beers and some food later I stumbled onto my 50 minute flight to PVD. My bar bill, with tip, was about $160, so I netted about $40 for about a 7 hour delay. I'm an idiot...

Let me add my hurricane airport memory. After Hurricane Katrina, I was in Mississippi doing recovery/identification work and a second hurricane Rita blew threw when I was supposed to go home after two weeks. We were stuck in the Memphis airport ( missed connection on 9/25/05) for about 8 hours on a Sunday afternoon. Terrible you say?? Not really. I had been living on MREs for two weeks so the thought of eating Memphis BBQ, drinking beer and watching the NFL on the airport big screen was ok with me... especially since the national game was NE v Pittsburgh and Pats won on Vinatieri FG either at the end of regulation or overtime.. and I got bumped up to first class on the flight home...arriving at 1:00 am in the morning.

 

[BTTA]

I wonder how it will affect the game on Sunday. The game is at 4:25PM EST...I am assuming a lot of rain and wind....

Very possibly not at all.

 

[jimnance]

Your map is looking at the “earliest reasonable time”. If you average all predictions, instead of looking at the single earliest one, the eye is predicted to his landfall Friday morning and just sort of meander around the Carolinas for 2 days (obviously it will weaken significantly when it hits land).

They cancelled/rescheduled Saturday college football in NC.

I'm in the most likely place to be hit and I've been thru a pile of hurricanes in the 26 years I've lived here. This will be a catastrophic 'cane. Anything cat 3 and up is.
But it's not just when the eye hits- the eye is in the center of the hurricane- that means by the time the eye arrived, you've already dealt with hurricane winds for hours. But that not all. You would've also had troplical storm force winds for half a day. By the the time you get slammed by the other half of the hurricane after the eye passes, you're already devastated. I've been in a severe cat 3 here in '96 and it was mind boggling what happened. This is expected to be worse.

 

[bormio]

Jacksonville is probably 6 hours driving from the hurricane path and on the favorable (west) side of the storm. Should not be an issue unless tracks more southerly. The storm timing though is slower than initially predicted.

 

[Drewski]

I'm in the most likely place to be hit and I've been thru a pile of hurricanes in the 26 years I've lived here. This will be a catastrophic 'cane. Anything cat 3 and up is.
But it's not just when the eye hits- the eye is in the center of the hurricane- that means by the time the eye arrived, you've already dealt with hurricane winds for hours. But that not all. You would've also had troplical storm force winds for half a day. By the the time you get slammed by the other half of the hurricane after the eye passes, you're already devastated. I've been in a severe cat 3 here in '96 and it was mind boggling what happened. This is expected to be worse.

My neighbors here in the Triangle have talked about Fran comps since it seemed likely it was heading this way. Power out for a week or two. Couldn't leave their neighborhood for 5 days because of trees down.

Seems the Loblolly Pines make for quite the "force multiplier"

 

[mgteich]

Very possibly not at all.

The forecast for JAX is sunny with a high of 93. Weather is a concern, but it heat NOT rain.

 

[fxmallon]

The forecast for JAX is sunny with a high of 93. Weather is a concern, but it heat NOT rain.

My weather site says 94 and 67% humidity with scattered thunderstorms. No one wants to play football under these conditions should they hold up. Look for a lot of cramping and dehydration. And fourth quarter exhaustion. Maybe lots of penalties because of slower reaction time. It's just way too hot and humid for football.

But I have a sense this prediction will be altered a bit by the massive hurricane.

 

[bormio]

My weather site says 94 and 67% humidity with scattered thunderstorms. No one wants to play football under these conditions should they hold up. Look for a lot of cramping and dehydration. And fourth quarter exhaustion. Maybe lots of penalties because of slower reaction time. It's just way too hot and humid for football.

But I have a sense this prediction will be altered a bit by the massive hurricane.

Do you know what a typical summer day is in the South?

 

[Tunescribe]

Do you know what a typical summer day is in the South?

 

[Patjew]

I'm in the most likely place to be hit and I've been thru a pile of hurricanes in the 26 years I've lived here. This will be a catastrophic 'cane. Anything cat 3 and up is.
But it's not just when the eye hits- the eye is in the center of the hurricane- that means by the time the eye arrived, you've already dealt with hurricane winds for hours. But that not all. You would've also had troplical storm force winds for half a day. By the the time you get slammed by the other half of the hurricane after the eye passes, you're already devastated. I've been in a severe cat 3 here in '96 and it was mind boggling what happened. This is expected to be worse.

Please stay safe, my friend.

 

[jimnance]

Please stay safe, my friend.

Thanks,man. I'm pretty high and dry where I'm at. Biggest danger will be trees crashing down.
My ex-wife and kids found a hotel 300 miles west of here, so theyll be fine. That was my main concern. My next main concern is finding somewhere that has power on Sunday so I can watch the game. Priorities, know what I mean?

 

[Patjew]

Thanks,man. I'm pretty high and dry where I'm at. Biggest danger will be trees crashing down.
My ex-wife and kids found a hotel 300 miles west of here, so theyll be fine. That was my main concern. My next main concern is finding somewhere that has power on Sunday so I can watch the game. Priorities, know what I mean?

That's geat to hear that your kids and their mom will be safe.

Maybe you should just head south to Jacksonville??

 

[jimnance]

That's geat to hear that your kids and their mom will be safe.

Maybe you should just head south to Jacksonville??

I have commitments here that won't allow me to leave, but if not, that would merit serious consideration.

 

[XLIX]

I think more people from Massachusetts live in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle than from North Carolina. It's all biotech in the RTP area, with a couple of world class universities thrown in.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Actually, the Pats have their own jets. They don't even need to schedule a charter.

And they have good depth at the Pilot position too...

 

[KDPPatsfan85]

 

[Clonamery]

I have commitments here that won't allow me to leave, but if not, that would merit serious consideration.

Generators can be your friend in a football emergency.

 

[BTTA]

Flo' is tracking farther south than predicted yesterday, and if it does so one more time, there may be some rain and wind for the game after all.