Sigh. This is yet another warning of an impending Irreal outage due to a hurricane. This time it’s Milton, which intensified very rapidly into a Cat 5 hurricane. There are two very bad pieces of news for the Irreal Bunker.
- Milton is forecast to hit Tampa directly
- The winds are currently 180 MPH, although they may diminish as the storm approaches Tampa
As usual, the real danger is storm surge. The bunker is probably safe from that: it’s not in a flood zone (and believe me, Florida understands flood zones).
It’s still a little early to say exactly what’s going to happen but we will almost certainly lose power, possibly for several days. If that happens, I’ll try to post updates using broadband if the broadband network stays up. If not, Irreal will disappear for a while but we’ll be back and resuming our quest for world domination forthwith.
For those of you interested in the details, Milton started as a wide area low in the Gulf of Mexico just like Helene but it intensified much more rapidly and the steering currents are sending it right to Tampa instead of North Florida. Here’s the latest track from the National Hurricane Center.
UPDATE
I’m publishing this today although we won’t see any effects until Wednesday night. Right now, Marvin has weakened a bit to a Cat 4 but it could restrengthen when it moves over the loop current (an area in the Gulf of very warm, deep water). I’ll probably be able to push at least one more post before Marvin arrives.