Hurricane Patricia: Biggest recorded in this hemisphere

Strongest storm hits Mexico

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More than 7 million residents were told to prepare for the "worst-case scenario" as the ferocious storm was expected to race ashore on Mexico's Pacific coast between 6 to 10 p.m. ET Frid

It's a category five, with winds up to the level of some tornadoes, hitting a place not used to hurricanes, and the army's evacuating, power's cut, etc..

Donate if you can, things are going to be bad.

Holy crap.

Good post; some - like myself - were likely oblivious to this.

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And it's just starting. Here's the path, it'll cut right through Mexico.

Originally posted by Digi
Holy crap.

Good post; some - like myself - were likely oblivious to this.

Oh, and one reason you may have been unaware- it increased in power *fast*.

A lot of the time with big hurricanes, they watch it strengthening out to sea before it hits. This time, it went Tropical Storm (which is not news) to Cat 5 in a day.

It's hit land- fortunately not directly on the most heavily populated areas, so that's a bit of luck (which just means 'less damage, but still a lot of damage). It's going to be at damaging levels and dropping flood-level rain for some time, though.

Dropped to a Category 4, good news but still very powerful.

I was in Jacksonville NC when Hurricane Diana hit and Gloria.

It was crazy the amount of energy they produced and damage thrown around.

I pity anyone in the way of this monster of a storm.

It's looking like everyone got *incredibly* lucky with the path:

Early on it looked like it was gonna hit Mexico's most populous cities, but instead it looks like it went between most cities.

Which still leaves mass flooding, but a giant bullet mostly dodged there.

Clearly God's judgement of all the filthy rapists and murderers. God bless Murica

It's headed strait for Texas, btw.

Yea and we getting the rain, God Bless Texas

I realize in some of these places hurricanes are not common, but in others I have always wondered why people even still stay in areas that seem to routinely get hit by hurricanes every year.

Yeah, too bad it couldn't dump all that rain on a state that needs it, like California.

Originally posted by Surtur
I realize in some of these places hurricanes are not common, but in others I have always wondered why people even still stay in areas that seem to routinely get hit by hurricanes every year.

I'd take living in a hurricane prone area to a tornado prone area any day. While I realize that Florida is apparently ALSO tornado prone, I've personally only ever experienced one tornado, and that was technically a "downburst" mini tornado (still scary as hell).

We have the ability to make it stop raining, maybe one day we'll have the ability to make it start as well.

Originally posted by Surtur
We have the ability to make it stop raining, maybe one day we'll have the ability to make it start as well.

I wasn't referring to that specific instance, but I'm sure it was probably achieved in the same way. I remember hearing about something in the UK getting rid of storm clouds or something.

Originally posted by Q99
It's headed strait for Texas, btw.

Originally posted by jaden101
Clearly God's judgement of all the filthy rapists and murderers. God bless Murica

Apparently the storm has weakened for the most part and the worst is over for Mexico- no deaths reported so far. Glad for our Mexican-bros.

Originally posted by jaden101
Clearly God's judgement of all the filthy rapists and murderers. God bless Murica

I didn't know where else to put this, because it sounds worse then a hurricane.

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Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
I didn't know where else to put this, because it sounds worse then a hurricane.

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