beachseeker

Batten down the hatches, grab some extra batteries and get a few extra provisions. Hurricane Irma is on it's way to hit the leeward islands and further to the west... Hurricane Irma to strengthen as it eyes the Leeward Islands ~ WIC News

uk_grenada

Keep safe, my current weathermap says, looks like antigua, barbuda, is ground zero... then puerto rico and dom rep, bad line this time... Tuesday night...

uk_grenada

Heres a link to the tues night weathermap info

https://1drv.ms/i/s!AmGOE7Vj85OKpgB2Q2yKFDwJd8bZ

beachseeker

Here is a another link to a satellite map of the hurricane entering the Caribbean area: Intellicast - Caribbean Satellite in United States

BEVS

Oh goodness.
You guys stay as safe as you can

beachseeker

Thank you BEVS... this is a huge hurricane and it's going to do some damage. Everyone in the path prepare yourselves and get to safety. Very powerful winds and a massive storm - growing larger by the minute - now a category 4. God help the small islands....

Gordon Barlow

HURRICANE IRMA
I always find this (above link) a useful site, and reasonably accurate.

beachseeker

Thank you Gordon - I also like this one as it's interactive... just drag the map to where you need to look and zoom in and out for a better look. Intellicast - Weather Active Map

BEVS

I'm concerned for all you guys in that path.
Try to touch base and let me know if you can.

chawkins99

Florida Gov. Rick Scott declares state of emergency ahead of Category 4 Hurricane Irma | Fox News

I'm due to fly to the UK from Orlando on Sunday. I'm guessing this is going to screw up my plans.

Gordon Barlow

HURRICANE IRMA (different page from the other)

Cutting it a bit fine, but you might be lucky. Maybe you could change your ticket to fly via somewhere a bit further north - fly across the ocean from Atlanta or Charleston, maybe.

moneypenny20

Stay safe guys.

chawkins99

Flying from elsewhere is not really an option as the airline (Thomas Cook) don't fly from many locations and I would need to get there if that were an option.

To further complicate things, if Irma chinks further west, it could head directly to us in Pensacola. As my wife is not travelling with me, I wouldn't want her to have to deal with that alone.

uk_grenada

If you are booked on a flight thats going to be impacted by a hurricane don't worry about it it's the airlines job to get you where you going or to the nearest practical airport they can but not necessarily in your time scale. They will either cancel the flight and refund you or more likely they will delay 24 hours or redirect to somewhere nearby and just leave you there, in some jurisdictions they do have a duty to get you a taxi or bus or whatever to where you going.

uk_grenada

Looking at the current map, it seems to have slowed its movement west? Thats also not good i think, over antigua frim tonight, but still there weds midday?