2024 Tropical Weather Thread (5 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

Started raining here about 10:30am. I don’t expect it to stop in any meaningful way until maybe Thursday night.

 

[TXSAINTFAN]

Also check where the in-bound aircraft are coming from.

We got back in from Italy on Saturday afternoon and it was a mess. A line of storms down the east coast and Debby impacting south Florida. Our inbound was from MIA and never made it. They rebooked us on a flight to CHS coming in from Detroit but after multiple delays we just decided to drive the 3 hours home. In the rain. When it was basically 2AM for us with the time change. I was up almost 24 hours. Suuuuucked

Be safe! Please keep us posted on how you're doing.

Where in Italy? Headed over to sorrento again in a couple weeks after meeting up with wife in Munich for Adele show. She"s a big fan.

 

[efil4stnias]

Pro tip: if you are a National emerald club member (definitely the best car rental system) and you are an at airport with a National emerald aisle and can drop off at a National emerald aisle at another airport, just do a local rental on the app. Then you can go straight to the car and leave - no lines.

Then when you can return it at your local airport (presuming it has an emerald aisle) you just call them and change the drop-off.

I have done this three times now in the past couple of years - the most I was charged in change fees was $100 and twice I wasn’t charged anything. I think because it’s emerald aisle to emerald aisle, it’s not a big deal in their system (whereas a more remote drop off requires more work on their part). Even if the charge had been more, it still likely wouldn’t have been any more than the one way rental fee.

But in these situations with mass delays and cancellations, it can be very hard to get a one-way rental in my experience. And the lines to get them are brutally long.

When it happened to us, we got dropped at Houston Hobby at 8pm.

Their rental car counters ( in airport ) close at 7pm. Go to main lots who close at 9pm and 50 ppl in line. Even trying to do online was a disaster.

It wasnt IAH- Hobby has 1/3 of the rental places with 1/10th of cars available. Ended up w/ Budget who charged me $100 more to drop at MSY- at 10:30pm- home by 4am lol

if that happens again, we would just get a room. It was a trip during school time ( Dec 2023 ) and both girls had tests that following day.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Opinions on flights through ATL late tomorrow afternoon?

Small batch bourbons?

 

[buzd]

Small batch bourbons?

If I didn't have a 2 hour drive when I land, most definitely.

 

[superchuck500]

Cowan’s Monday afternoon update

 

[livefromDC]

Started raining here about 10:30am. I don’t expect it to stop in any meaningful way until maybe Thursday night.

Does your area flood easily? Stay safe, hoping all goes well.

 

[superchuck500]

Does your area flood easily? Stay safe, hoping all goes well.

No, I should be fine - thanks

 

[St. Widge]

If I didn't have a 2 hour drive when I land, most definitely.

Since when are you allowed the brown liquors?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Started raining here about 10:30am. I don’t expect it to stop in any meaningful way until maybe Thursday night.

I don’t want all of it
But I would take a taste atm

 

[buzd]

Since when are you allowed the brown liquors?

Let’s not bring all that into this.

 

[superchuck500]

Forecast has improved a bit - at least as far as possible re-intensification goes. We’ve had a good bit of rain today but it has been more of a steady light rain with moments of thicker bands, rather than longer duration bands that cause problems. Being over land for a while seems to be keeping the rain intensity down.

But of course it’s still early in this for us. A lot left to deal with but the forward speed remains pretty decent through the updates. That’s key for us.

Charleston floods easily but the water also moves out fairly quickly too in most places. I dug some crude channels around my yard in some known ponding places but apart from that and a stocked fridge, not much to do as far as prep goes.

I’m cautiously optimistic that

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Forecast has improved a bit - at least as far as possible re-intensification goes. We’ve had a good bit of rain today but it has been more of a steady light rain with moments of thicker bands, rather than longer duration bands that cause problems. Being over land for a while seems to be keeping the rain intensity down.

But of course it’s still early in this for us. A lot left to deal with but the forward speed remains pretty decent through the updates. That’s key for us.

Charleston floods easily but the water also moves out fairly quickly too in most places. I dug some crude channels around my yard in some known ponding places but apart from that and a stocked fridge, not much to do as far as prep goes.

I’m cautiously optimistic that

I kid, but this is heartfelt
To go from (what I hope was a fabulous) Italian vacation, to a nightmare travel home right into a TS and potential cat 1
That’s no bueno
I hope your memories of Italy are strong enough that they don’t get overwritten by this silliness

 

[superchuck500]

I kid, but this is heartfelt
To go from (what I hope was a fabulous) Italian vacation, to a nightmare travel home right into a TS and potential cat 1
That’s no bueno
I hope your memories of Italy are strong enough that they don’t get overwritten by this silliness

Aw thanks buddy.

The trip was great - this other stuff is manageable. Coming home to a Cat 4 barreling toward the coast would have been a bummer.

 

[superchuck500]

Looks like a thicker band is approaching.