Urgent! Hurricane Patricia at category 5 heading for Mexico has landed! Potentially catastrophic storm! Biggest Hurricane recorded!

GLP can be a good place for up to date Conspiracy information or news, but it is also a spider web of all kinds of disinformation and hate. I wonder, is it possible that many of the people posting on this site are only here to make it almost impossible to try to find the truth? Not just fools and morons, but a focused effort to make this site almost useless? I think so.

It takes some intelligence and time to sort through what is useful on GLP and what is B.S. I have no problem with people trying to track this storm and offer all kinds of opinions. But when people on here just hate people and say things like Mexicans are bad people...I hope most people know this is not how the average American thinks. I'm against illegal immigration and I don't like seeing Mexican people flood into this country without going through a proper citizenship process, but I don't hate people for being Mexican. In fact, I had a Mexican construction worker in Colorado save my ass one day when I was hiking in the mountains and I needed help. Not only was he kind and very helpful, he told me he makes enough money working in the U.S. to send money to his family in Mexico and they live a good life. I asked, "How good?"

He told me about his town, his family, and the geography and he truly wanted me to come visit. I knew he was a good man and illegal in the U.S. but he was working his ass off 12 hours a day in hard labor. I can't blame him for trying to survive and working hard. But that is the point, he was working hard for a construction company in Vail, Colorado and he was doing the work most Americans won't do, and that is hard labor in the hot sun. I'm all for giving a person a temporary Green Card to work, even if we have many citizens who need jobs...but won't work. The Mexicans I know have been very kind, and work hard doing jobs like cleaning dishes in restaurants that would hire a U.S. citizen, but none apply. Lot's of lazy ass Americans who think their college education in Art History makes them too good for hard labor.

There are some bad Mexican gangs in the U.S. but from my experience, they don't care about me because I have no business with them. I see a Mexican gang style man once in a while, and that's it...I know he is a bad dude, probably belongs in jail, and we look at each other and he might try to give me a tough guy look, and I just smile, while looking him in the eye and nod my head hello. He knows, I'm not his friend, but I'm not a cop, and I mean him no harm. I also hold my ground, alert yet relaxed. But someday, I can see an incident happen where one of these thugs and his pals want me to bow down to them. That day might come my way; but overall I don't ride the city buss, I don't stop for gas in bad neighborhoods, and I don't go looking for trouble. But African American's can be worse, much worse. Black teenage boys in the city act like dangerous thugs. They intentionally try to intimidate white people. They wear their pants hanging around their knees, and the act very gangster and dangerous. And these Black dudes can be a real threat.

So, what is my point? I don't care if you are Mexican or Black or Chinese or from anywhere. I just want to see that you are a nice person, hard working, not a thug, and you respect the culture. If you are truly a refugee from war, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. But you can't just come into the U.S. You can't. But with Mexico and Canada we share this continent and we can and do work together. But Canada is not flooding across the U.S. border (except in winter to go to Florida for a few months...and then they fly back in the spring). The Mexicans coming to the U.S. are simply poor people looking for gold...it's a gold rush. But the Mexicans who have money, they are not trying to get in. In fact, I was shocked to meet a beautiful redhead with freckles and green eyes who was Mexican and she was not happy with me when I doubted she was Mexican. After she decided I was not actually a bad guy she asked me, "Have you ever been to Mexico?" I said no. She shook her head in disgust. Typical American...I've never been to Mexico City. I know, I'm so bad..I'm so stupid and ignorant and I just don't understand. But, she did buy me a Corona because I said Mexican beer tastes like piss...and she said, "Drink this and shut up." OK. Free beer is good. I'll shut up.

not the largest storm ever, just the largest hurricane recorded on the west coast/Pacific

its not as powerful as a super typhoon, nor is it the largest hurricane ever recorded in the atlantic

It is the strongest hurricane ever recorded - Atlantic Ocean included.
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What sets Patricia apart from the others

Of all of the above monster storms, none of them struck land at peak intensity. They either weakened or, in Linda’s case, stayed out to sea. Patricia is forecast to make landfall very near if not right at peak intensity.

The closest analog to Patricia in recent decades would probably be Super Typhoon Haiyan which hit a high populated portion of the Philippines when it was very close to its maximum intensity. Its death toll was over 6,000 people. The area of Mexico that Patricia is forecast to impact is not as densely populated, which should reduce the amount of destruction and numbers of human casualties.

Yikes! photoshopped!

I see it hit the peninsula. Changes everything. That area will be a mess.

I'd be singing dancing in the rain. Harden up.

YIKES! Not everything is a conspiracy!

What a stupid thread. 100+ pages of nothing.

Whenever I see lots of hype, it means the actual thing will be far short of the hype.

They did this with Hurricane Sandy, calling it a "Super Storm". They are doing it again now.....

This "Biggest Hurricane" will dissipate into nothing by tomorrow or a couple of days.

You people never learn.

What a stupid thread. 100+ pages of nothing.

Whenever I see lots of hype, it means the actual thing will be far short of the hype.

They did this with Hurricane Sandy, calling it a "Super Storm". They are doing it again now.....

This "Biggest Hurricane" will dissipate into nothing by tomorrow or a couple of days.

You people never learn.

What a stupid thread. 100+ pages of nothing.

Whenever I see lots of hype, it means the actual thing will be far short of the hype.

They did this with Hurricane Sandy, calling it a "Super Storm". They are doing it again now.....

This "Biggest Hurricane" will dissipate into nothing by tomorrow or a couple of days.

You people never learn.

This is not Patricia, this was Typhoon Maysak in April, 2015

I totally understand where youre coming from, it's just that to me, living in a country where cyclones hit every year, and have taken many lives, towns, houses etc, (and I've personally experienced the after effects) I think people should put aside all the bitching and help those in need.
Some on here just have no empathy or idea what it's like to lose your home, belongings etc and have no water or power for weeks, it takes months, or years for some to get back on track



No news of deaths from this hurricane is great :)

Am I the only one who doesn't get people? Super storm sandy was horrible. Manhattan was flooded and nj and Long Island devastated and Patricia was a lot worse. The weather channel just said we don't know the extent of the damage until dawn. The worst hurricane to make landfall and so many people are acting like it was nothing to see! Unreal katrina caused levies to break. If this hurricane hit say New York or Louisiana I wouldn't even want to imagine. Or anywhere more populated

Pillar. Those wind speeds were AT landfall. Re The unconfirmed report: there will have been embedded tornadoes. Something to add to the mix.

Not near the eye you wouldn't. You'd be knocked off of your feet.

Yikes! photoshopped!

There's a video in here that seems to be more of a tornado than a hurricane. So I will bet that there were tornados in this.

Sandy was a "Super Storm" and Sandy did a lot of damage. Patricia IS the strongest hurricane ever recorded.

Try separating fact from hype - both exist. Your perspective or analysis of the situation is your own personal reality.

I like to ignore (or point out) the hype, and focus on the facts. The Facts Are that this is the strongest hurricane ever recorded, it was at nearly peak intensity when it made landfall, it made landfall (thankfully) in an area of low population density, and we will have to wait for a full accounting of the impact in terms of loss of property and life.

As with any thread, this thread is packed with a combination of hype, ignorance, AND Factual information. Sorry that it isn't separated out neatly for you so you don't have to do any work to sift the BS from the truth/facts.

Would appreciate seeing that very much!

Precicely. Thanks for pointing that out.

My aim here is to rid people's dangerously inaccurate perceptions of wind speed, strength and damage. There is such a high misconception. I have yet to see actual footage of Category 5 winds in videos posted here. You could not survive in Cat 5 winds as even the tiniest projectiles would shred the skin on your face - yes, sand would!