Help!
California surfers have been glued to various wind finder applications, overnight, witnessing their very first hurricane twisting and turning just off the southern tip of Baja Mexico. Hilary be her name. Meteorologists are predicting she will make landfall, in San Diego, as a tropical storm sometime on Saturday being the first to do so since 1939.
Currently she is a category 4 and predicted to strengthen.
The combination of heavy rainfall, the potential for flash flooding and strong winds could very well make this a high impact event for Southern California,” Samantha Connolly, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San Diego, wrote in a Thursday morning forecast.
Exciting but what about waves, boarding up windows with plywood, hoarding and other such activities? The aforementioned California surfers are used to all. manner of disaster including, but not limited to, traffic jams, the U.S. Open, Jonah Hill’s ex Sarah Brady moving to Hawaii and gloomy weather in June but never a hurricane.
Many are frantically calling brothers and sisters in Florida, as state that sees many of them, and asking advice.
The CDC reccommends:
Write down emergency phone numbers and keep them on the refrigerator or near every phone in your house. Program them into your cell phone too.
Prepare an emergency supply kit.
Locate the nearest shelter and different routes you can take to get there from your home. If shelter locations in your area have not been identified, learn how to find them in the event of a storm.
Pet owners: Pre-identify shelters, a pet-friendly hotel, or an out-of-town friend or relative where you can take your pets in an evacuation. Local animal shelters may be able to offer advice on what to do with your pets if you are asked to evacuate your home.
But the CDC is… sort of discredited now, no? Like we don’t trust, yes?
Florida brothers and sisters, help!
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The eye appears to be right over San Clemente, and the cams are showing zero wind as you would expect.
looks like it’s been pissing down.
If you have kids put life jackets on them an also write your name an number an address an maybe even a family members name an number as well on there back or for arm so if for some reason you get separated they know who they belong to… Make sure to have water an canned food the first 72 hours your on your own born an raised an lived my whole life in Florida an it’s not fun but it doesn’t have to be that bad if your smart about it have gas food water an supplies for your kids …. us Florida people are praying for y’all an hope the best for you .
I’ve been California dreaming my entire life! Ain’t letting the tent city out side my building scare me so this Nancy style storm ain’t gonna get me either! We can only hope big red (mayor of our blocks tent city) has good plans for his constituents
Hurricane Party !! That’s what we do in Florida ! Get plenty of bottled water and Beer .. Gas up your Generators 3 days worth of Fuel and a few propane tanks for your Grill and 3-5 days worth of Food Canned Food is a Must and again Plenty of Beer and Munchies
I can’t believe Anne down voted this effort. Any abuse directed a politician, regardless of the side of the aisle they grift within is worthy!
This article is borrid. So many weird assumptions that don’t make sense. I am guessing this was written by AI.
Is borrid a combo of boring and horrid?
Board up the windows and head for Atlanta. But in your case I’d try Vegas.
I pray that there’s not about to be a “New Orleans” situation.. A category 4 hurricane in Cali?!?!… Basically take what u know about hurricanes and heed to it!!. Try to be as safe and prepared as best you can bc there’s not much u can do against “nature” (if u call it nature)-.. This weather is already showing its capabilities in places where its awfully rare to happen there- like if it were to snow in Texas.. It’s crazy bc feels intentional due to the housing crisis there.. I just hope it doesn’t take too long for people/businesses to recover afterward.. And hopefully if they need to declare a state of emergency they get it going promptly.. FEMA and govt programs took forever to help for those impacted tornadoes in Mississippi – tornadoes werent common there jus like hurricanes aren’t common there
The emergency rooms will be full of surfers with broken collar bones, arms, legs. Please stay out of the water! Hurricanes are sooo much bigger than your capabilities and the rescue, 911 force will be needed elsewhere! Like evac ing folks that can’t walk let alone surf. Flash floods are real!! Park your cars in the higher levels of parking garages. Your storm will be a water/flooding and no electricity event! Prepare for that! Have Cash, go to an inland hotel now if you can’t handle any type of hardship and no power. You’ll be charging your phones in the car, have battery operated radio. Signed , firmer FEMA, CAT adjuster.
8-19 12PM:
S-line spying on OB cam in SD. with fair-type booths (looking like contest booths but with more aplenty) on the wet sand, scores of groms toying in the ankle-biters, umbrellas atop full day squaters, and a steady stream of boat & yachts framing the horizon…all is calm. (No warnings were heeded.)
Cabo is a mess of storm waves starting Thursday and ongoing now…
My prediction…cancel code red on Cali beaches. But stay out of the flash-flooding canyons and deserts!
Wow just as I was reading that the gay guys popped up on my screen that was weird.
Funny how the use the picture of the “Panic Room” movie and made it seem like “California surfers (pictured) huddling” come on guys get more creative than use a movie still… Anyways good luck to all
Dude. That’s renowned Californian ripper, Jodie Foster. Haven’t you seen her cutback?
You’re gonna need Milk, Bread, and Batteries!!
Dear God. Spell check…proof read…make an effort.
I’m going to surf all of the secret spots, all of them
Hurricanes need very warm water. Water off northern Baja and southern California is too cold right now. It will be a non-event in Southern CA.
Lived in socal, for nearly 50 yrs, never a problem with weather, even though we live VERY near the beach. Paid cash for our 2/2/2 850 sf hse. Will likely go to heaven when we die, as we’re pretty close to it already. 😉😉
REI should go to the gaslamp quarter, and hand out tents. This is how you test a f tent!
Retransplanted Floridain here….just in time for Ian & Nichole last year.
Check your generators & pray cell data & wifi don’t go out. Your teens will go batty without.
Monopoly, Life, Aggravation, Operation….
I hope it doesn’t hit Lemoore.