What are all these people gonna do.
You do understand that the eye of that hurricane, ie the thing that would do the most damage, is almost 200 miles away from the city of PV in open ocean, which is nestled back in the centre of that bay? The city is over two hours away from the mouth of the bay and open ocean, it's not like they're fully exposed!
The city and its people for the most part are well prepared I'm hearing. Emergency services are on standby, windows are being taped up, emergency shelters set just in case, schools and businesses are closed and inventory stored away elsewhere. They are as prepared as they can be, and from the local's posts, they obviously still have power - and yet no rain.
Let's not think this is going to be another Katrina, folks. No need to get crazy. If they were in any kind of severe danger from the eye of that storm rather than just the likelihood of being hit by strong winds and rain, they would have been evacuating by now. They aren't. National Hurricane Centre is showing PV as being hit by winds under 45mph when this passes. To be hurricane strength, they have to be over 73mph.
I would be much more concerned about the people in Cabo, San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan and La Paz, where the winds are predicted to be over 100mph in some areas.
Take a deep breath and relax. None of my local friends are panicking (they're watching and waiting, concerned of course, but nobody's freaking out and heading for higher ground with a pack burro, let's keep some perspective here), so if they aren't panicking, neither am I.Statistics:Posted by Jennybean — Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:44 pm
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