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At the time of this writing, the National Weather Service's National Hurricane Center reports Eye of category 5 Dorian moving little while over Grand Bahama island. That page also contains several other views and forecasts of the storm.
Though it no longer looks like Florida will get a "direct hit", the storm's currently-predicted run up the US Atlantic coast promises storm surges, very heavy rain with potential flooding, and of course high winds.
For those who lie in the path of this beast, please accept my personal best wishes for you and your loved ones making it through safely.
What sites have you found to be the most informative, timely, and useful? Special credit for those which are minimally sensationalistic. Any webcams to recommend? How are things in your area? What preparations are you making?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @05:32PM (9 children)
"We don't even know what's coming at us. All we know is it's possibly the biggest. I have -- I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a Category 5. I knew it existed. And I've seen some Category 4's -- you don't even see them that much," Trump said at a briefing with officials at FEMA's headquarters in Washington, DC.
Just wait until hurricane Donald comes in 2020.
(In really bad Trump voice) - I'll be the biggest baddest hurricane you've ever seen, yugest. I will be a great CAT 6 hurricane.
(ducks)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @05:37PM (6 children)
Trump should be impeached for this!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @05:51PM (5 children)
Your other choice was Hellary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @06:12PM (4 children)
If someone more electable than Trump was running as competition the democrats wouldn't have been so overconfident that they fixed the primaries against Bernie.
So yea, he should be impeached for that too.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 02 2019, @07:48PM (3 children)
And here the Democrats are poised to make the same mistake again. And once again the principled rank-and-file will do nothing about it but grumble and do what their masters tell them.
What the base should do is find a candidate like Trump who can triumph despite what the DNC wants. If the rigging still prevents that, then the base should walk and start a new party to flip the bird to the DNC Establishment.
It would be funny if the base resisted the DNC so hard that everything winds up in a brokered convention, with blue hairs clashing with Antifa and BLM storming the stage to seize the microphone. It would turn an eminently winnable election into an absolute clusterfuck.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @07:59PM (2 children)
Even the "most socialist" candidate has a history of siding with wall street banksters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNuHRyip3iA [youtube.com]
So don't think it matters much in the long run.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday September 02 2019, @09:34PM (1 child)
Which ought to tell you a lot about who owns your country, and what they use you for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:45PM
They used me to torture small animals to come up with fake drugs they could charge desperate people millions of dollars for. I no longer work for the government after that...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday September 02 2019, @06:24PM (1 child)
I will be a great CAT 6 hurricane.
Is that like a gigabit hurricane?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday September 02 2019, @11:21PM
I can't answer that, but what I can tell you that a CAT6 chimpout is one Giga-niggas, many of them armed with 4 arms each and a chest-cannon like Black versions of the Übermutant in Wolf 3D.
Also, the hurricane is the result of a government-operated weather-weapon utilized conveniently to destroy the evidence buried under all that concrete on Epstein Island. So when the feds finally get the approval to go search for the evidence, it will be in the Land of Oz and the only way to reach it will be to hitch a ride with Hillary on her broom. And Hillary has quite the cackle on those long-distance trips.