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Stay safe, all! I hope it becomes a fizzle of a storm, but you never know. Stock up on water, batteries and the basics. Better to be over prepped than under.
Good advice. Home Depot Honolulu was down to 8 propane tanks earlier today, when 2 customers showed up to buy some.
On a side note, a simple head lamp will keep your hands free if you need light during a power outage.
"By concealing your desires, you may trick people into being cruel about the wrong thing." --Steven Aylett, Fain the Sorcerer "You gotta get me to the tall corn." --David Mamet, Spartan
"Amateurs talk technology, professionals talk conditions." --(unknown)
A crank-it-to-power flashlight never needs batteries, and is a great backup for long power outages. We bought a 2-pack from Costco years ago, and they still works fine.
Now run along and play, but don’t get into trouble.
Never take such a storm lightly. We are all holding the Big Island up to the light, that's for sure! Make that the entire state, in case Flossie has a chip on her shoulder for being given such a monniker.
Looks like they are recycling names. Strange the things that stick in your head. I remember this post by Lavagal, Flossie still seems like an incongruous name for a storm in Hawaiian waters.
I know that they recycle storm names and the weather service has a list of names to use based on what region and the order of when a storm is generated.
I know a storm name gets retired if it causes deaths. I'm not sure if gets retired if the storm makes landfall and only causes damage.
Very little floss on Copacabana during the Pope's visit.
As to Flossie...this morning's predicted track has it north of the Big Island, hitting eastern Maui, then into O'ahu. Winds dropping to minimum tropical storm strength but big rain expected. People who went to bed last night with the predicted track taking it over the Big Island and missing northern Maui & Oahu are in for an unpleasant surprise this morning, arrival time about 10 or 11 hours. Good luck everybody!
They don't just recycle names: they recycle entire lists. There is a set number of lists of names (I want to say 4 or 8 lists for some reason, but I might just be making that up), and each list is designated for a specific year. So not only is Flossie a repeat, but it's very likely that the first five named storms of the year in this region were also repeats, and they were repeats in the same order of the same year as that other Flossie, unless, as helen points out, the storm is notorious, in which case it is retired and replaced.
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