Storm Now a Dangerous Category 5 Monster
Measurements Show It’s the Most Powerful Storm of the Year
By FREDDY CUEVAS, AP
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (Oct. 19) - Hurricane Wilma strengthened into a Category 5 monster early Wednesday packing 175 mph winds, and forecasters said a key reading of the storm’s pressure showed it to be the most powerful of the year.
Here we go… yet again. 
The Weather Channel said this morning Wilma packed 175 MPH winds and had a pressure of 884 Mb. Wow! It should slow down over the Yucatan or Cuba. In either case the Florida Keys may be in trouble.
Jeepers. It became a Cat 5 overnight??!!
Overnight. I am quite impressed!!! Hopefully, the cooler water in the gulf will aid in reducing it’s force and energy before it makes land fall along the Florida gulf coast.
If it remains a cat 5 and looks to be headed my way, I’m gonna order a mandatory evecuation of JES, his wife and his little dog too! 
Chiff & Fipple Orders Mandatory Evacuation of Irish Musicians From Florida, Kansas.
Florida because of Hurricane Wilma. Kansas because…hey, what are doing in Kansas anyway?
That is all.
Thanks for your concern, Dale, but I’ll be OK. I’m in Houston for the nonce and will likely remain so until landfall.
But anything you can do to help keep people out of Kansas would be greatly appreciated by those of us who already live here. Perhaps you could pass this on.
Attention, people: Do not come to Kansas. It is dangerous here. We have tornados every day.
Do you hear that? Every day.
Thank you for your cooperation.
The last thing we want is a bunch of Californians moving here and driving up the property values.
I’d like to evacuate Michigan too.
Are you sure that’s 884 MEGAbars? Normal atmospheric pressure is one bar. Maybe 884 bars, but I doubt it’s Mb. The pressure underneath 5km of the Earths crust is only about 1.5 Kilobars, enough to induce metamorphism in many rocks! The pressures in the center of the Earth’s core don’t even reach 884 Mb. I don’t remember exactly, but I think it’s around like 3.5Mb
Doesn’t take that much pressure for me to metaporph…I just wake up every morning and metamorph from Dr. House to Mr. Hyde! 
Ok, just for JES…
Button down your hatches…
board up your windows…
duct tape your pets down…
lock up your daughters and your wives…
it’s Cat Five…
That would be millibars – mb.
A millibar is one thousandth of a bar, just as a millihelen is the amount of beauty it takes to launch one ship.
Huh, apparantly, Wilma is the last pre-chosen name for a tropical storm.
If there are any more, they’ll start naming them from the greek alphabet.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0923_050923_stormnames.html
Have we ever run all the way through the names before?
I suppose we have, but I don’t remember it…
edit: Answered my own question:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/76ECC1B5-A415-4896-9A43-DB0380B985E1.htm
Somehow, I missed the Cat 5 bit when I checked the NHC website this morning.
We’re all coming to C&F headquarters, Dale.
Sigh. A word of warning to y’all in Florida . . . no matter where you are, tank up now. This storm is coming from a direction that will prevent tankers from unloading at one facility and maybe two. And, as I recall, the tanks have to be full in order to prevent damage to them, so the facilities will fill and not release any gas before the storm hits. Then the roads will be out, and the only available gas will have to come in from Georgia.
Stood looking at a cute pair of clogs yesterday after work, but couldn’t bring myself to even try them on. One more thing to blow away. Sigh.
Tonight, I’ll have to rush home and do laundry. I wouldn’t want to be shamed when the rescuers break down my door looking for survivors.
Sound advice.
For all you satellite buffs… http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-vis-loop.html
Joseph, are you going to post the traditional map depicting where all of us reside, so that everyone can see who, exactly, is getting whanged and when?
White Trash Hurricane Survival Kit
Toilet Paper…check
Bud Light…check
Keystone Ice…check
Budweiser…check
Red Dog…check
Misc. other bottles of alcohol…check
Piece of styrofoam paneling to float your chick and booze on…check
Next time let’s all be more prepared.
The good news about Wilma
With a 175 mph hurricane heading straight for South Florida, here’s the only good news I can find about Hurricane Wilma:
Wind shear and the westerlies will probably weaken Hurricane Wilma after it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, so Florida won’t get 175 mph winds.
The storm is small and compact and the hurricane force winds only extend 15 miles from the center.
Hurricane Wilma is expected to move faster before reaching Florida, so it shouldn’t have a chance to dump too much rain on the region.
Of course, all this can change in the next few days as the forecast solidifies. Now is a good day to review your hurricane plans and make sure you have water, food and supplies ready.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/weblog/hurricane/archives/2005/10/the_good_news_a.html
And get cash from the bank. Isn’t it supposed to be fairly small bills?
Denny, that picture is the craziest thing I’ve seen in a long time. 
Yup, because retailers may not be able to make change.
Here are a couple of us, there a more, just not exactly certain where everyone is.
