[Ed note: for up-to-date info, see also: NOAA National Hurricane Center, Mike's Weather Page, windy.com, NWS - Hourly Weather Forecast Graph - Tampa, and NWS - Hourly Weather Forecast Graph - Miami.]
At 8:28AM September 5, Zero Hedge reported
Irma is now the [strongest] hurricane [ever] in the Atlantic basin, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, in [US National Hurricane Center] records.
[...] meteorologist Eric Holthaus writes that Hurricane Irma is now expected to *exceed* the theoretical maximum intensity for a storm in its environment, or as he puts it "Redefining the rules".
[...] Irma's current path--headed straight for Florida--has prompted the state to prepare for the "catastrophic" system.
Unlike Harvey, which caused widespread damage, power outages and flooding and taking almost a fifth of U.S. oil refining capacity offline, Irma is a bigger threat to agriculture, with orange juice futures surging.
[...] Florida is the world's largest producer of orange juice after Brazil. About two-thirds of the state's citrus crop is located in the lower two-thirds of the peninsula.
[...] Airlines have canceled flights across the Caribbean and are adding planes to evacuate tourists, while cruise-line stocks have tumbled.
[...] Only three Category 5 hurricanes have hit the contiguous 48 U.S. states, [said Bob Henson, a meteorologist with Weather Underground:] The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 that devastated the Florida Keys, Hurricane Camille in 1969, and Hurricane Andrew that cut across Florida in 1992. Andrew was originally classified as a Category 4 storm only to be upgraded years later after further analysis.
"It is obviously a rare breed", Henson said. "We are in rare territory."
At 12:37PM September 5, Heavy.com reported
The Florida governor has declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Irma reaches a Category 5 storm. The Florida Keys are currently in the hurricane's path, although the storm remains unpredictable.
[...] Irma has [...] maximum sustained winds [of] 185 mph. It was moving west at 14 mph and is about 270 miles east of Antigua. The Florida Keys are in the projected path of the hurricane, according to September 4 late evening forecasts.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:19AM (8 children)
Oh, we can talk. You just can't say "we're going to take away your guns" or you're going to get the response "over my dead body".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Touché) by dry on Saturday September 09 2017, @03:51AM (2 children)
I thought all these people claimed to be law abiding.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @05:51AM (1 child)
I doubt all of "these people" actually agree with that. There's nothing inherently good about being law-abiding; it depends on the law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:12AM
Correct. The authors of the Bill of Rights, being a group of very intelligent men as well as veterans of a long and bloody revolution, made it clear that assuring the people the means of last resort to resist intolerable laws is essential to political freedom.
There is nothing in the 2nd Amendment that needs changing. We already have statutory proscription of errant behavior, cf. murder.
Regulatory mechanisms may need some fine-tuning, but the second amendment itself stands as the last line of defense for the other nine.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday September 09 2017, @04:55AM
"Your proposal is acceptable." ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:48AM (3 children)
Coming for your guns, Brousarrd! One of the prerequisites, after all, is a "well regulated militia". Now, you see, this is why we cannot have white supremacy, because nearly every one who believes in white supremacy (Check out the latest on the "Crying Nazi"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpmWo8f7y2c [youtube.com] so sad!) is a fuching coward, much like our Buzzard here. Guns? Do you think guns determine politics? Have you possibly been indoctrinated by the US Miltiary? Oh, you poor sap! No wonder you have no problem with suppressing speech you disagree with! Free Aristarchus! You hypocritical bastard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:27AM (2 children)
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" -Mao Zedong
(Score: -1, Informative) by aristarchus on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:55AM (1 child)
"Grows" : it doesn't start there, it needs seeds of social justice!
It is as Mencius [孟子] said:
http://ctext.org/mengzi/gong-sun-chou-i
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @02:19AM
Oooh! Looks like aristarchus has won the coveted -1 Informative mod! I wonder, which is more prestigious, the -1 Informative, or the +5 Troll?