Day: October 23, 2015

Catastrophe expected .. Patricia landfall..

Hurricane Patricia set to create devastation after impact :

This from the AP: The National Hurricane Center in Miami says that Patricia continues to be the strongest eastern north Pacific hurricane on record and is heading toward a “potentially catastrophic landfall” in southwestern Mexico later Friday.

The storm is going to be devastating.. Historic.. Dramatic. And as these events would go, deadly.

240+mph gusts. Over a foot of rain. And so many in the impact zone..

‘THE FINAL FIRLS’:

I have heard some good things about THE FINAL GIRLS..

The film is a horror comedy, a slasher with laughs.. It’s directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson and written by M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller. The film stars Taissa Farmigaand Malin Åkerman in the two leading roles, with supporting performances from Adam DeVine, Thomas Middleditch, Alia Shawkat, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Chloe Bridges, andAngela Trimbur. The film follows Max, a young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, who finds herself and friends pulled into the world of her mom’s most famous movie Camp Bloodbath. Reunited, the women and others must fight off the film’s maniacal killer.

It received a March 2015 film festival premiere and had a limited release on October 9 in the United States.. 

The film is even getting attention from the NEW YORK TIMES, showcasing some of the most important ‘final girls’ ever in horror, such as Jamie Lee Curtis in HALLOWEEN and Amy Steel in FRIDAY THE 13TH part 2

The TIMES also writes,

A game changer arrived in 1996, when the winking “Scream” featured an in-control final girl who knew what a final girl was. Time travel in the new film “The Final Girls” introduces two fresh twists: mother-daughter final girls and a tear-jerker ending.

Here is a fun website you may want to peruse a bit in free time: Stacie Ponder writes a blog called FINAL GIRL, which explores the way 70s and 80s slasher flicks led to a female hero at the movie’s end.. there’s also a TUMBLR.

Hurricane Patricia in new images ..

One of the hurricane itself and he other of a forecaster I follow from Accuweather, Henry Margusity, on how just how dramatic this storm is..
200 mph winds.
Over a foot of rain.
Gusts to 245mph

We are about to see weather history and, that my friends, is always scary

HURRICANE PATRICIA TO HIT MEXICO–AND IS NOW THE STRONGEST STORM EVER RECORDED IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC!

This is a quickly and urgently developing weather story..

Hurricane Patricia is now reading as the strongest hurricane on record.. It’s A category five. It’s packing 200 mile per hour winds .. -200! And as seen from this map, it’s on a course to strike Mexico as a very strong storm before it diminishes in intensity over land..

This is the amazing part; This storm intensified quick–24 hours to go from a Cat 1 to a Cat 5..

MORE..

The estimated central pressure of Patricia dropped to 880 mb, breaking the record of 894 mb from Hurricane Linda set in 1997. The maximum sustained winds of 200 mph (160 knots) breaks the winds from Linda (185 mph) for the strongest surface winds ever in the eastern Pacific and in the area of responsibility of the National Hurricane Center.

There are high degrees of risks associated with this storm–property and lives are in the eye of the system..

The red area, along with winds, will also see 12 inches of rain or more..

Developing story..
As the storm churns..The eye burns.. and the earth warms.