09-20-2017, 03:54 PM
Quote:Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm Wednesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
While the storm's maximum sustained winds had dropped to 145 mph by 9 a.m. ET, it still threatened to do severe damage to the U.S. territory. A Category 4 storm has not hit the island since 1932.
Maria was moving at 13 mph and the storm's eye was located about 15 miles away from Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, as of 9 a.m.
A weather station near Arecibo, some 43 miles from San Juan, recently reported a sustained wind of 71 mph and a wind gust of 91 mph.
"This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation," the National Hurricane Center warned.
Storm surge was predicted to be 6 to 9 feet in coastal Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Rainfall totals for Puerto Rico were projected at 12 to 18 inches, with as much as 25 inches in isolated areas.
Maria is also forecast to approach the Dominican Republic, where conditions will deteriorate Wednesday evening as Maria passes just north of Punta Cana around midnight.
Forecast models currently show the storm traveling east of Florida and the Carolinas.
The storm did severe damage to multiple Caribbean islands over the past 36 hours, including Dominica, Guadeloupe and the Virgin Islands.
Guadeloupe confirmed two people were killed and two others were missing due to the storm.
There was widespread damage across Dominica, as seen in the first aerial video from the tiny island taken Tuesday.
(Click on the bottom picture to see the video)
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All this crazy weather and the earthquakes have me a bit on edge. Utah has had a lot of swarms lately too.
Does anyone else feel more anxiety lately?
Could it be those super cosmic energy waves hitting us that are affecting the weather and peoples' anxiety levels, the ones that some of the whistle-blowers have talked about?
I remember also something about the weather was predicted to go crazy after a solar eclipse. Is that it?
Just a reminder, September 23rd is this coming Saturday. I don't think it will be the end of the world, but I am curious to see if anything happens.