This is interesting - this is the forecast for Tuesday morning. The two storms are going to be very close to each other! Makes sense they would start to interact and pull each other.
Imelda should be a Tropical Storm soon and will be one over the Bahamas - it will only become a hurricane as it approaches the SC coast, but it should turn away before reaching it.
I’m not at my desktop so it’s tricky to post the update images, but Humberto hit Cat 5 and Nine / Imelda looks more and more likely to head straight out to sea - and a little more quickly than previously anticipated.
I don’t have a snarkimal - but I was joking, really.
It’s a colossal pain and sometimes expensive but rarely the concern it can be in a lot of other places. The worst part is losing power for days when it’s still 85+ degrees out with 85+% humidity. Sometimes we don’t lose it at all, sometimes it’s ages to get back.
Prep is mostly just emptying the fridge & freezer as much as I can, and cooking as much as possible beforehand. Fill a tub, charge every backup battery, tie down the bbq and outside stuff and close the storm shutters.
Living inland and not having much experience with hurricanes (the worst we’ve gotten was with Ike, when he became just a long, sustained windstorm in 2008; otherwise, we typically just get a lot of rain), why is it less of a concern for Bermuda? Smaller target? Already have hurricane-grade buildings? Something else?