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Just quoting the article. If it's wrong its wrong. If it's right its right.
Why don't you read it.
No need to get all wadded up. Sheesh.
I figured. Maybe my post was dumb. I'm in Cabrera on 10/14 so looking forward.
Glad you seem to be out of the woods, Bill.....
afer a whole day of eating pork our pompom arrived at full capacity so i had to take her out. she was quick to do the deed and we packed her into the car and went around costambar. there are no issues to report apart from the lack of power due to blown transformador. all maria did was to finish off frw branches damaged by irma. the weaves are pretty big tho and the water is entering the street running by the ocean.
few businesses are open: our local super, a bar on the main street and few colmados outside.
few businesses are open: our local super, a bar on the main street and few colmados outside.
about 70W and 21N..... Google those coordinates on Google maps.
Just offshore from RSJ and Cabrera moving NW at 9mph....
www.nhc.noaa.gov will get youa picture
Just offshore from RSJ and Cabrera moving NW at 9mph....
www.nhc.noaa.gov will get youa picture
At 6:15 pm the eye is shown in the picture.
As you can see the rest of the storm still has wind and rain for many. Still a long time to go until the skies are clear and everything is dry again.
Question for Mike.
We have had some increased gusts in recent times on NC and looking at the floater animated, it looks like there is an eye wall replacement going on which pushes out the stronger winds, but also there looks like there is an interaction from the central mountains. Wind flows.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/15L/imagery/vis_lalo-animated.gif
Note the thunderstorm activity heading east and near SD too.
We have had some increased gusts in recent times on NC and looking at the floater animated, it looks like there is an eye wall replacement going on which pushes out the stronger winds, but also there looks like there is an interaction from the central mountains. Wind flows.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/15L/imagery/vis_lalo-animated.gif
Note the thunderstorm activity heading east and near SD too.
The Jamao bridge:
They knew hurricane season was coming, they knew the November rains would be back, and for months I saw very little work done on the new bridge. It should have been completed by now.
you missed the post where everybody switched to Whatsapp group for the people without computers and without power.
we didn't sleep, lol.
and after exactly 24hrs i have my power back.
drinking coffee now, then it gets time for a killing hour on the playstation and alikes.
thunder rolling right over my head, but tonight i give a fock.
Maria se fue.
at least it will be less close tonight, compared to last night.
here's a good look for the ones who think Maria would be finished with DR.
there is still no place on the Isle guaranteed not to get heavy rainfalls.
i bet we will have areas who get evacuated which been fine last night.
cheers
Mike
yes, i see that the same way.
the inner core first got damaged by PR.
coming towards my home it saw my House Dragon and the heart of the Storm comletely collapsed.
I can really feel with da Storm, i have to stand the heat of the Dragon 24/7, lol.
getting in touch with us did completely destroy the Storm's Center,
but it somehow managed thatthe bands kept flowing in good circulation around a wide area of a "Center",
it stayed on high max windpowers all the time.
mre or less when it arrive E of Samana it started to build walls /heavy Thunderstorm barriers around different Imaginary Center areas of different diameters. it all failed and that was good, because due that failure the Storm did not intensify, which a intact storm of those powers easily would have done.
once passed Samana's East to the NW it started to find it's ideal surviving size, a big eye without closed Walls.
the big new eye/Center since then is surround by heaviest thunderstorms, but not the usual thick Thunderstorm walls of many miles thickness, instead it send Thunderstorm activity in areas/Cells/Bursts or such(dont know a name for such packages) out, far out from the Center. those formed their own heavy thunderstorm action areas in the outer bands.
as a effective Area the Storm grew up on size a lot.
the result now is a big eye storm(as opposed of the small eye storm that hit PR and Dominica) muc bigger on over all Storm size, with rainbands very far out over the whole Island. those carry at many sections a lot of rain, more rain than the storm itself carried in it's heaviest rainbands on approach.
we should feel them at different Island Locations all around all night long.
that our mountains bounce the storm winds back so harsh is a main factor that we did not get a Mayor Hurricane Force blowing over land last night.
our mountains safed us from highest destructive winds, but they assisted to bring us more rain and over a longer time period, as we still get rain and we will still get more the next 12-24 hrs, the last areas where it started will of course also finish alst and have it for more than the next 12-24hrs still.
Mike
The wind is picking back up and really howling now. But I think that's mostly because I'm up high and it's always windier after it gets dark. I went upstairs an hour and a half ago for a hot meal and a mudslide and the noise was just too unnerving to stay long. I even took the dog with me because I didn't want to go alone. So back downstairs in the safe room until tomorrow. Got some pics of my pool looking wavy like the ocean and the ocean looked pretty rough, too.
I've had enough of hurricane prep for a while. And I'm going to invest in one of those little weather stations for my house. To hell with the wind scale descriptions and guessing, I want to know what the gusts were.
I've had enough of hurricane prep for a while. And I'm going to invest in one of those little weather stations for my house. To hell with the wind scale descriptions and guessing, I want to know what the gusts were.
i spit my coffee. you are in charge of clean up now, lol
and you get a WOW from me, haha
Mike
on the whatsapp group i sawpictures where it seems to be gone completely,
do i remember taht correct?
what a waste of labour and money to not finish such costy project on time.
Mike
Firstly they need to design a new bridge. But to do that they need a soils investigation.
The design is piled foundations, they formed the steel cages and the piling rig was on site drilling the piles last week.
In the interim they precast all the bridge deck beams which are ready alongside the road.
The idea is you put in the piles and columns form a beam either side and then crane in the already made precast beams.
Programme
Feasibility and funding plus soils investigation and report 1 to 2 months
Design 1 to 2 months
Tender and Procurement of contractor 1 month
Precast deck beams and cure for 30 days 3 months
Piling and bridge support beams 1 month
Place precast beams and pour deck 1 month
Cure and surfacing etc 1/2 month.
So in reality they have wasted maybe two months but as you know in DR nothing happens from December to February in public works.
It is a process for public works which would not happen if the country had a more dynamic competitive business environment rather than a brotherhood.
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