Combining the shutdown with this transactional and rascit admin, the odds of the US helping after this have got to be near zero. This is something where we would send humaitarian aid in the past, instead we are sending a dick waving fleet to Venezuela.
Yea Jamaica is absolutely fucked. Parts of PR were out of power for a year after Maria. Hell, my neck of the woods in rural Florida between Ocala and Gainesville was flooded for 6 months after Irma. Mike Johnson will be holding a press conference next week saying the Jamaicans are Godless and oh they should have prayed harder. Nothing we can do folks. 
Only hope is a couple of them have their 5th house there
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Is this saying that its going to essentially sit on top of Jamaica for 3 full days?
No, itās probably going to be about a 12-18 hour event on the island once it makes landfall. The effects previous to landfall may be 2 days starting tonight depending how slowly it moves.
The latest projected path moves it even closer to Kingston. A little over 2 million people live in Jamaica and all will be catastrophically affected by this hurricane. Haiti might get completely decimated and the DR wonāt be much better. Iām wondering if this going to be the worst hurricane to hit the Caribbean in terms of damage and loss of life.
Gilbert in 1988 was Jamaicaās worst hurricane and it went east to west across the island at 20 mph. Miraculously, very few people died and were injured in that hurricane which was a high 3 at landfall. This one is expected to be a 4 and could be a 5. Kingston is projected to get 2 to 3 feet of rain. 2 to 3 feet!
Pretty stiff breeze this morning that I thought nothing of and didnāt even make the connection. Now thereās white caps on the Crystal river and palm trees starting to sway, almost getting that familiar lean. Iām 1300 miles from Kingston
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Itās insane how slow this thing is moving.
It went up to 5 mph in the last update I saw. Iām guessing it will be a hurricane in the next big update.
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Melissa is officially a category 1 at 75 mph. It is now moving WSW at 1 mph.
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Itās not even raining in Kingston yet.
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That means itās obviously a hoax. Whatās a little rain? Grow some balls.
-future DJT truth post
He doesnāt care about that area, so he wonāt even notice
Is it wrong to want it to go another 100 or so miles further west. (West Palm)
I want it to go another 100 miles west of Jamaica first.
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A piece of very bad trivia is that bad hurricanes in Jamaica are kind of like the IT clown.
The first worst hurricane in Jaās recorded history was Charlie in 1951.
Gilbert was worse than that in 1988.
This will be worse than Gilbert in 2025.
Each one of those storms was exactly 37 years apart.
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Itās up to a category 2, 100 mph winds with 115 mph gusts. Itās moving at 3 mph to the west.
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Thereās several storm chasers (they usually chase tornadoes) that are in Jamaica. Like these guys have zero experience with a major hurricane let alone a Cat 5 on an island thatās going to lose a ton of infrastructure. They could be stuck there for weeks if not months.
ICyclone is there but he has 2 meteorologists on his staff that tell him if itās safe as far as elevation and surge. He knows what heās doing. But these other chasers are in over their heads.
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interesting, link to their content?
ICyclone doesnāt do live shots. He tries to get data from the eye making landfall. We probably wonāt hear anything from him until heās safe after the storm. When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, he was MIA for a week. Hereās his video of Dorian. If I come across live footage of the other guys Iāll link it.