Hurricane Patricia, strongest ever recorded, bearing down on Mexico

[Zeph]

MONTERREY, Mexico — Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated Friday from Mexico's Pacific coast as the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere bore down on the popular tourist area packing sustained winds of 190 mph, down from 200 mph earlier in the day.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted the Category 5 Hurricane Patricia would make a "potentially catastrophic landfall" in southwestern Mexico later in the day.

The center described the storm as the most powerful ever recorded in the eastern Pacific or Atlantic basins. It warned of powerful winds and torrential rain that could bring life-threatening flash flooding and dangerous, destructive storm surge.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said during a radio interview on Friday that he didn’t want to create panic in the western states of Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit that are in Patricia’s path, but that it’s important for people there to understand the magnitude of the historic storm.

Nieto said Patricia has surpassed the constraints of the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, which defines a top-rated category 5 storm as having wind speeds higher than 156 mph.

“If there were a category six for hurricanes, this would be a category six,” he said. “It’s a hurricane that hasn’t been seen before, not just in Mexico, not just in the United States. It has wind speeds that are greater than the most intense, strongest hurricanes ever recorded on the planet.”

Nieto said the entirety of the federal government is responding to the storm, working with state and local officials to coordinate evacuations and position emergency personnel to respond. He told Mexicans that they have some difficult days ahead, but urged them to follow the instructions of their local authorities to survive the oncoming storm.

Continued at: Hurricane Patricia bears down on Mexico as strongest storm ever

 

[Zeph]

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[SongExotic2]

 

[Jesus X]

I actually had some relatives leave puerto Vallarta in Jalisco ,MX usually the stronger storms hit the gulf and not this part of Mexico in the Pacific .

 

[check it]

that's a bitch of a storm.

good luck, mexico.

 

[SongExotic2]

Has anyone ever been in a hurricane? I've been in a monsoon but never a tornado or hurricane

 

[wizzlioni]

thanks cern

 

[Jesus X]

Has anyone ever been in a hurricane? I've been in a monsoon but never a tornado or hurricane

I saw tornados in texas and in Carthage, MO they scared me more than earthquakes, never seen a hurricane.

 

[check it]

Has anyone ever been in a hurricane? I've been in a monsoon but never a tornado or hurricane

i'm from florida..been in a couple 2s and a 3. it was enough to knock down trees and kill the power for over a week...and we didnt' even get a direct hit..but had the dangerous quadrant run over....nasty storm surge flooding because florida is so flat.

just double checked...charley was actually a 4. that's a pretty bad one.

 

[Zeph]

Has anyone ever been in a hurricane? I've been in a monsoon but never a tornado or hurricane

As a kid back in 89. I slept through it, but the next day was carnage, trees down everywhere.

 

[jimmy23]

I was at ground zero for Hurricane Katrina


I hope that everyone in its path understand just how dangerous this storm is

 

[Jesus X]

I was at ground zero for Hurricane Katrina


I hope that everyone in its path understand just how dangerous this storm is

Katrina was pretty bad they even had blackwater mercenaries go in. the infrastructure and police force in Jalisco is pretty decent but in those other mexican states it will be post apocalyptic if shit hits the fan especially the state of Guerrero.

 

[jimmy23]

Katrina was pretty bad they even had blackwater mercenaries go in. the infrastructure and police force in Jalisco is pretty decent but in those other mexican states it will be post apocalyptic if shit hits the fan especially the state of Guerrero.

we had Mexican mobile hospital troops land here in Mississippi (not something widely known). Katrina was bad as hell, and while this one is smaller, those wind speeds are truly lethal

 

[b00ts]

I was at ground zero for Hurricane Katrina


I hope that everyone in its path understand just how dangerous this storm is

Was in NOLA for it. We had a mobile HQ right down from Blackwater. Twas something that will stay with me forever.

 

[jimmy23]

Was in NOLA for it. We had a mobile HQ right down from Blackwater. Twas something that will stay with me forever.

Katrina hit a freaken HUGE area, for a long time. My dad worked for the Mississippi Power during Camille, and he said after 6 hours the storm passed and they let them go home to check on their families. Katrina, at least here in Biloxi/ Gulfport, lasted about 13 or 14 hours


That being said, sustained winds over 200 mph or more are a recipe for total destruction

 

[Priziesthorse]

 

[check it]

you're not kidding, jimmy...ocean springs got jacked up by katrina.

 

[jimmy23]

you're not kidding, jimmy...ocean springs got jacked up by katrina.

wait......are you in south Mississippi ? Because I am too, and that is cool and rare that two folks from the same small area are here on this board

 

[b00ts]

Katrina hit a freaken HUGE area, for a long time. My dad worked for the Mississippi Power during Camille, and he said after 6 hours the storm passed and they let them go home to check on their families. Katrina, at least here in Biloxi/ Gulfport, lasted about 13 or 14 hours


That being said, sustained winds over 200 mph or more are a recipe for total destruction

Believe it or not, the scariest hurricane I went through was Andrew back in '92. We thought we'd be fine in my grandma's brick house, but a flash flood hit. While we were trying to wade through the water, to get to the loft in the barn, and ridiculously high winds in the dark, two 100+ year old pecan trees fell within feet of us. I was 6 years old and remember that night like it was yesterday. I was literally screaming in fear and couldn't find my parents. My uncle and I rode the brunt of the storm out in one of the fallen pecan trees because we couldn't find the damn barn. We were without power for a couple weeks and were eating food brought to us by a Red Cross van. It was brutal.

 

[SongExotic2]

Man that's fucked up I can't imagine what it's like. It sounds terrifying tbh. Screw hurricanes I want Nunn that

 

[b00ts]

 

[jimmy23]

Believe it or not, the scariest hurricane I went through was Andrew back in '92. We thought we'd be fine in my grandma's brick house, but a flash flood hit. While we were trying to wade through the water, to get to the loft in the barn, and ridiculously high winds in the dark, two 100+ year old pecan trees fell within feet of us. I was 6 years old and remember that night like it was yesterday. I was literally screaming in fear and couldn't find my parents. My uncle and I rode the brunt of the storm out in one of the fallen pecan trees because we couldn't find the damn barn. We were without power for a couple weeks and were eating food brought to us by a Red Cross van. It was brutal.

2 factors here...being right where the most severe part of the storm hit, and it hitting at night. Folks who have not been right there, in the center of the storms energy, ahve no idea what it is like.


Glad you survived

 

[jimmy23]

Andrew was no joke

 

[b00ts]

No, it wasn't. The wind, dark, and my 6 year old imagination of what was in that water made it the most terrifying experience of my life. I just remember my uncle holding onto the tree and pinning me next to it so I wouldn't go anywhere. My parents were screaming for us, but we couldn't hear or see anyone until the winds died down and dawn broke. Longest fucking night ever.

 

[Zeph]

This could be really bad. It intensified into a cat 5 really quickly, meaning they haven't had time to evacuate properly and there are plenty of dirt poor villages and areas in the path.


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