Hurricane Irene to Hit Raleigh this weekend - Page 9

Gheez

3 Posts

August 23 2011 03:22 GMT

#161

Raleigh is a few hours away (something like 130-150 miles) from the coast. I'd say we'll see rain and very average tstorms. A hurricane hitting this town is a rare event :D

Could certainly create some stream issues though..

dejahu

United States83 Posts

August 23 2011 03:22 GMT

#162

i live in N Raleigh, but I'll most likely be attending alone. ( No friends who like SC2 here ) If anyone wants to meet up let me know.

unsoundlogic

United States391 Posts

August 23 2011 03:22 GMT

#163

Well that sucks...I live in FL and am flying to RDU on the weekend. Weather hates me -_-

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

August 23 2011 03:23 GMT

#164

This sucks, live in MI so never had to deal with a hurricane before. 0_O

StarStruck

25339 Posts

August 23 2011 03:23 GMT

#165

On August 23 2011 12:17 Empyrean wrote:
I was in Chapel Hill through Hurricane Floyd, a Category 5 hurricane. We got lots of rain, but that's it.

Category 2 means nothing, especially three hours inland like Raleigh is.

EDIT: Expect lots of rain though.

Floyd was a category 2 by the time it NC. It really hit hard in the Bahamas though.

Glenstorm

United States69 Posts

August 23 2011 03:24 GMT

#166

Another Florida resident here.

In areas where the building codes and infrastructure are designed with hurricanes in mind, a category 2 hurricane is very nearly completely harmless. Just stay inside where flying objects won't smack you, and you should be ok. Nobody here worries about a hurricane until it hits category 3, and we've been through a lot of hurricanes.

Raleigh is pretty far inland, so I would think even with the hurricane making landfall at category 3, it will weaken enough that it won't be dangerous by the time it hits Raleigh. Make sure to fly in ahead of the hurricane, and prepare for lots and lots of rain, and you'll be fine.

redFF

United States3910 Posts

August 23 2011 03:25 GMT

#167

what was the title before

StarStruck

25339 Posts

August 23 2011 03:26 GMT

#168

Right now they're saying category 3, but by the time it gets to NC I think it will be a category 2.

taintmachine

United States431 Posts

August 23 2011 03:26 GMT

#169

On August 23 2011 11:58 danson wrote:
has finland ever even seen a hurricane?

i'm in florida. hurricanes are always something you should prepare for even if it's a cat 1, at least in this state. the guy that said hurricanes under cat 3 are a joke is acting tough or something imo.

Yergidy

United States2107 Posts

August 23 2011 03:30 GMT

#170

CAT 2 hurricane shouldn't be too much for anyone who is used to hurricanes, but can be scary for someone new to hurricanes. MLG may want to consider rescheduling the event because keeping up satellite signal in the middle of a hurricane is going to be one tough task.

Pvvned

United States405 Posts

August 23 2011 03:32 GMT

#171

I had a nice chuckle reading through this thread.

Having lived in Florida all 21 years of my life, I can tell you that people only get extremely worried and over-prepared when a category 4/5 hurricane rolls around. And it's the coastal cities/areas that get affected the most. Not to say of course, that inland areas don't have some after-effects too, but it's not as major as the coastline.

With Raleigh being so far in-land, I imagine you wouldn't have to worry about much except a breeze with gusting, and rain. If it's your first time experiencing a hurricane, then do take caution, but I can almost guarantee you it won't be as devastating as you might think.

envisioN .

United States552 Posts

August 23 2011 03:39 GMT

#172

Hope everyone gets to Raleigh safe and doesn't have any travel problems!!

Hopefully this weather wont cause lag for the competition because of a lack of LAN support from Blizzard =.=
And on that same note, hope the streams run as well as they did in Colombus, Anaheim.

Headnoob

Australia2108 Posts

August 23 2011 03:39 GMT

#173

well maybe it'll be a good thing, lightning might strike any terrans who 1/1/1

Tennet

United States1458 Posts

August 23 2011 03:42 GMT

#174

On August 23 2011 12:23 iCCup.Diamond wrote:
This sucks, live in MI so never had to deal with a hurricane before. 0_O

Same, hope I never do. Doesn't seem to be too much fun.

BobbysBack

United States77 Posts

August 23 2011 03:45 GMT

#175

On August 23 2011 11:58 Secret05 wrote:

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On August 23 2011 11:48 BobbysBack wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:43 Secret05 wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:34 Lordwar wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:31 Whole wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:29 Lordwar wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:28 Whole wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:20 Lordwar wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:14 Candadar wrote:

On August 23 2011 11:11 holy_war wrote:
A category 2 hurricane is a pretty big deal. Best case scenario will mean a shit ton of rain and pretty high sustained winds and gusts of 70+ miles.

Tropical Storm - lol
Category 1 - lol
Category 2 - Put some wood around some big windows if you live in a mountain of small rocks, otherwise just dick about
Category 3 - Shutters up!
Category 4 - Shits going down, expect something to go wrong.
Category 5 - Leave town.

Category 2 is a joke.

Not sure if trolling but anyway, category 2 is certainly not a joke. This is serious stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir–Simpson_Hurricane_Scale#Category_2

I live in Southern Louisiana (extremely south) and Cat 2 isn't that big of a deal. The only way I can see a Cat 2 lifting a house is if the house is shitty and it is at the worst possible part. For Cat 2 Hurricanes, no one in my area evacuations and a lot of people actually play in the hurricane. The wind is really soothing.

Now of course, depending on the path, it might be a mild thunderstorm, and we'd get unlucky to get the power knocked out, but it is no wreaking havoc matter. Although no electricity would suck for MLG. Candadar is 100% correct though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Marty_(2003)

100 million dollar damages seems pretty big deal for me

That is one Cat 2 hurricane out of a bunch...and it is in Mexico, so maybe they don't have the best infrastructure. Either way, I'd consider it an extenuating circumstance.

It proves still, that category 2 is something that should not be taken lightly. It can be very serious threat.

I dont even understand why i need to teach this kind of stuff to people. People are really fucking stupid, im sorry but this seems to be the case. Every fucking time i need to teach people even the simpliest things.

This guy says it exactly how i feel. A category 2 hurricane has winds around 100 mph. 100 mph winds are very dangerous and are a big threat. Whoever is saying that a category 2 hurricane isn't a big deal, is going to get themselves killed. By no means do I think that this is the end of the world, but I think a great amount of caution should be taken and because it's such an early stage in the hurricane it could intensify even more or it could actually just dwindle out and never even touch land. But seriously guys for the sake of your lives, don't say that 100mph winds are nothing lol.

Compared to where he's from it's perfectly reasonable..Being that far inland, too....I mean really. Just don't get all pissy because someone is giving perfectly reasonable explanations. He's NOT the only one that thinks that way. Many people stay in town in New Orleans duing the lower tier hurricanes. I don't know about playing in them, but sure.

I absolutely understand what you're trying to say. My apologies if I came off rude and pissy, that was not my intention and was truly on accident. I definitely think that yes it's not that big of a deal, but it's definitely nothing to take too lightly.

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If you look at the picture linked above, Raleigh is roughly just right and in the middle of the "I" in "WILMINGTON". So I don't know if Raleigh is too far inland like people are saying. It's right on the border between High and Med threat level.

Ah, I'm sorry. I think the guy you quoted's language just kinda threw me for a loop. I'm sorry, and I do understand what you are trying to say.

Herculix

United States946 Posts

August 23 2011 04:16 GMT

#176

i mean, anything strong enough to be called a hurricane can potentially do work... there's a reason they start calling it a hurricane and not a tropical storm. another FL resident here, the worst hurricane i had in a long time was either 2 or 3. it broke a really old tree on our front yard that nearly landed on me in my sleep, and it snapped multiple telephone poles which knocked out power in many of the surrounding areas, i'd say at least a quarter of broward county, for 2 weeks. we were a very hurricane proof area but the telephone lines just "happened to not be" redone for a few years too many.

it wasn't as bad as new orleans where people abandoned the area, but there were almost no active police and it took like 5 days for my friends and i to find a very specific spot that caught a cellphone signal, and it was on accident. you could pretty easily steal from stores and stuff like that. forget about running any kind of event that requires electricity without a mass amount of expensive as fuck generators. even then, good luck with the internet and hope the ISP had their generators running in anticipation and are able to do even close to as good of a job as they normally could with people likely taking work off.

power outages could totally ruin raleigh, and while you might not be worried about trees being uprooted left and right and falling on people or some shit, it's still serious business.

Bouo

United States55 Posts

August 23 2011 04:21 GMT

#177

While it's very possible that much of Raleigh and the eastern coast of NC will lose power, its very unlikely, the power near the venue is pretty stable and not open to the elements. It is however looking like a potential category 2-3 when it hits the Raleigh area which is not a laughing matter if you're not from around the area. Bring an umbrella or two or even a poncho as umbrellas snap like toothpicks in 100+ winds.

Empyrean

17056 Posts

August 23 2011 05:33 GMT

#178

On August 23 2011 13:21 Bouo wrote:
While it's very possible that much of Raleigh and the eastern coast of NC will lose power, its very unlikely, the power near the venue is pretty stable and not open to the elements. It is however looking like a potential category 2-3 when it hits the Raleigh area which is not a laughing matter if you're not from around the area. Bring an umbrella or two or even a poncho as umbrellas snap like toothpicks in 100+ winds.

I definitely recommend against umbrellas during hurricanes. Get a good raincoat.