Yikes! This storm has really picked up speed steadily in the last 24 hours. It's currently got 150 mph sustained winds (cat 4) and they think it could even accelerate to a cat 5 before it hits land. Devastating storm surge expected... with impacts felt as much as 30 miles inland... along with the usual potential for tornado activity. Bad mojo all around!

Weather forecasters screw up all the time, but a storm this large won't just "poof!... disappear" in the next several hours. So, let's say a prayer for the many folks who live in the region. It doesn't seem like "shelter in place" seems like the best plan with this one (at least for those on the coast), but I realize not everyone is readily mobile either... and the severity of this did speed up pretty quickly which could leave many people scrambling. I would imagine it's quite the vulnerable, foreboding feeling to know that a storm that massive and powerful is bearing down on your town... to know that your life and your loved ones could be at risk, along with everything you've worked for your whole life. I really feel for those people! 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/the-latest-on-hurricane-laura-as-it-makes-landfall/ar-BB18pdK8?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds

I under stand they maybe looking @ 20 foot swells. thats crazy Godspeed to anyone involved

My office is on the north west side of Houston, in the Woodlands. They are bracing for impact. 
Everyone I’ve spoken to has told me they are leaving the area until the storm passes. Thank God...it’s gonna be brutal. 
 

 

Looks like they are projecting it to come this way. 

Just looking at the storm track on Fox News...it looked to me that Houston wasn’t hit....Lake Charles La is getting hammered though. 

Damn, Trump, it's your fault.  They're going to force us to wear raincoats in our homes now.  

2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Oh, shit.  There going to force us to wear raincoats in our homes.  

Murphy says that it's the right thing to do!  Don't forget your hip boots, too!

Just now, CMJeepster said:

Murphy says that it's the right thing to do!  Don't forget your hip boots, too!

Probably a good thing in NJ...you need the rain coat and hip boots to step through all the bullshit Murphy spews...

6 minutes ago, Displaced Texan said:

Probably a good thing in NJ...you need the rain coat and hip boots to step through all the bullshit Murphy spews...

I'm wearing a pair of waders right now!

3 hours ago, Displaced Texan said:

My office is on the north west side of Houston, in the Woodlands. They are bracing for impact. 
Everyone I’ve spoken to has told me they are leaving the area until the storm passes. Thank God...it’s gonna be brutal. 
 

 

How far and which direction do you go to evacuate, to Kansas?  That is a problem in Florida, they don’t know which coast it’s going to hit until the last turn is made. Last year they said will go up the east coast, so people fled north-west to panhandle, well it changed course and hit the west coast and panhandle. Also, weirdly enough that south-east Georgia is like one big flood zone, where my little northern corner of FL is not. 
I hope they are safe!

3 hours ago, Handyman said:

Looks like they are projecting it to come this way. 

As long as we don't get this, we should be OK:

What round for Sharknado?

57 minutes ago, Displaced Texan said:

What round for Sharknado?

I'm still waiting for the murder hornets!

1 minute ago, CMJeepster said:

I'm still waiting for the murder hornets!

Flamethrower is the weapon of choice for the Murder hornets. 

2 minutes ago, Displaced Texan said:

Flamethrower is the weapon of choice for the Murder hornets. 

Or:  https://wolfhillammo.com/