2025 Hurricane and Tropical Weather

[Stunned]

I'm also wondering if our country will send help?

 

[TMich6811]

I'm also wondering if our country will send help?

If you mean the US then I believe we will. If no other reason than we vacation there (internal eyeroll but truth)

 

[Mr. Nordstrom]

For those who are interested, Steve Lookner over on the Agenda Free TV Youtube channel has been doing good, live coverage of this storm.

 

[PayrollNerd]

That has to be the scariest job for a pilot.

'Hurricane Hunters' who flew into eye of Melissa had to turn back due to turbulence, NOAA says

Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 5 hurricane nearing landfall in Jamaica.

abcnews.go.com

 

[PayrollNerd]

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[PayrollNerd]

Poor Cuba. I’m glad many of the people moved eastward.

…made landfall near the city of Chivirico in the Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba with sustained winds of 120 mph.

Hurricane Melissa live updates: Storm slams into Cuba as a dangerous Category 3 after devastating Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa live updates: Storm slams into Cuba as a dangerous Category 3 after devastating Jamaica

 

[PayrollNerd]

Headed across the pond now….

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02dt6gYotsc8kckQrmWqYuN6oASRtJJHbtnANVH6zCUBDXd789v2PvnLWDRj5Ed3KBl&id=100050194552558

 

[PayrollNerd]

Disastrous images emerge from Jamaica following direct hit by Hurricane Melissa

At first light on Wednesday, the coastal communities of southwestern Jamaica bore the devastation of being in the direct path of Hurricane Melissa.

abcnews.go.com

 

[PayrollNerd]

I’m surprised the death count is so low and truly hope it remains accurate.

• At least 36 deaths are being attributed to the storm across Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to officials.

Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 2 storm slams into Cuba after devastating Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 2 storm slams into Cuba after devastating Jamaica

 

[TMich6811]

I’m surprised the death count is so low and truly hope it remains accurate.

• At least 36 deaths are being attributed to the storm across Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to officials.

Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 2 storm slams into Cuba after devastating Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 2 storm slams into Cuba after devastating Jamaica

This feels unrealistic

 

[Stunned]

This feels unrealistic

It always feels unrealistic in the beginning. Maybe fleeing to the mountains could keep it lower? The water is what kills.

 

[lonetraveler]

The company I was working for in 1981 was sent to Jamaica to restart the powerplants that were damaged during a major hurricane. My crew stayed in Kingston. We had to travel an hour through the Blue Mountains to get to the power plant. We ran into problems getting to the Blue Mountains. Men with machine guns would run out of the mountains and stop our vehicles, four vehicles. I have stood there with a machine gun pointed under my chin while they searched the cars. Eventually, a guard team was assigned to escort us to the power plant. Anyway, I can tell you that away from the tourist district, the people are living in horrific poverty. Their homes are bits of tin fastened together. I thought I had seen poverty until I saw this. There is no way these people had a way to protect themselves from this storm. I've thought about them during this storm. Great people. I worry about them now.

 

[lonetraveler]

If you mean the US then I believe we will. If no other reason than we vacation there (internal eyeroll but truth)

I know that President Ronald Reagan sent help.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Jamaica formally requested help yesterday.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/29/g-s1-95551/jamaica-melissa-hurricane-relief-usaid

 

[PayrollNerd]

The company I was working for in 1981 was sent to Jamaica to restart the powerplants that were damaged during a major hurricane. My crew stayed in Kingston. We had to travel an hour through the Blue Mountains to get to the power plant. We ran into problems getting to the Blue Mountains. Men with machine guns would run out of the mountains and stop our vehicles, four vehicles. I have stood there with a machine gun pointed under my chin while they searched the cars. Eventually, a guard team was assigned to escort us to the power plant. Anyway, I can tell you that away from the tourist district, the people are living in horrific poverty. Their homes are bits of tin fastened together. I thought I had seen poverty until I saw this. There is no way these people had a way to protect themselves from this storm. I've thought about them during this storm. Great people. I worry about them now.

After Hurricane Irma tormented St Thomas, VI in 2017, my oldest daughter and her classmates at UVI witnessed awful lawlessness. She never had a gun pointed at her but the dead bodies, the looting, etc left an enormous mental load on her.

She was one of the few students with a vehicle. She drove around that island with her roommate finding friends, piled them all in her Toyota Highlander, and took them to UVI’s campus. They literally cried when the Marines stormed the beach.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Gosh Melissa needs to just quit already!

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[PayrollNerd]

Hurricane Melissa live updates: Widespread destruction reported in Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa was one of the most powerful storms to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Stunned]

My son went to Haiti after one of the Hurricanes. He was never the same.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Decades from now they will still be recovering. This is like seeing what Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Katrina did in terms of devastation.

Hurricane Melissa death toll rises to 63 as insured losses in Jamaica could top $4 billion
Hurricane Melissa death toll rises to 63 as insured losses in Jamaica could top $4 billion

 

[PayrollNerd]

I’m so grateful for a quiet year. We are experiencing a drought, likely as a result. We are under a burn ban so we can’t even sit by the fire pit on cool nights.

'Screwball,' 'crazy,' 'strange': As hurricane season ends, researchers note its surprises
'Screwball,' 'crazy,' 'strange': As hurricane season ends, researchers note its surprises