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HOPS! Earthquake?
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: teartracks on August 26, 2011, 09:31:57 PM ---
How is everyone faring up the coast from the hurricane?
We got a nice rain and a little stronger than usual breeze.
tt
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Still waiting........
sKePTiKal:
Started raining around 5:30 (last night) here in Kitty Hawk.
I slept a few hours... then the thought of tornado warnings got me up around 1:30. Had a stupid dream that I was feeling guilty for things I KNOW I've never done... sigh....
Anyway, so far all is well here. Even down the beach, what I'm seeing on the Weather Channel & local news isn't too bad at all - yet. The center of the storm is just now coming into the Pamlico Sound between Hatteras & Beaufort... and probably won't get close to me for hours yet. It's predicted to turn east, just south of us (yeah, right - this one wobbles big time).
Bones is gonna have a long wait before it gets "interesting".
Hopalong:
Lots of love and mental plywood to those brave coastal folks!
Be safe, everyone!
Haven't caught the news this morning but I hope NYC fares all right....
Mother Nature is in charge and she's pissed.
Hops
sKePTiKal:
Thanks Hops - I think I'm working on elevating "safety" to an art. But I need to work on napping too. Been up since 1:30 am.... sheesh!!
At my house, it's not all that awful - however... a mile or so away the town has cut off the water east of the bypass due to the risk of water main breakage and cross contamination. The town fire station has no power. And lots of folks sans power (so far, not me). Curfews in place in a couple towns - and it's quite likely by the time the wind shifts to the west... there will another inlet cutting Hatteras Island off from road travel again, like in Isabel.
Here's the kicker: the storm is so big - Bones & B'more areas are starting to see a little rain - and it's STILL raining/blowing down in Atlantic Beach, Ocracoke & Hatteras. So it'll still be 12 hours before the west winds make their mark on the soundside... right now the pictures are of a sound with no water -- it's all been pushed west by the wind and once it shifts, the water will come sloshing and flooding back. That's why the skinnier parts of OBX are in huge danger of being cut off right now.
Scuttlebutt has it that no one (except residents with proper docs) will be allowed in until Tuesday. There will be a huge effort to get as close to "normal" as possible for the big Labor Day weekend.
[And Bones - if you want to document Ns... you should see them come out of the woodwork when their vacation week is threatened! Then there was the guy who said anyone who stayed, should take a sharpie & write their SS# on their torso, to ID the bodies... I told him I was saving them, for their intended purpose - to address care packages to the folks in big cities who are next, who don't have any idea what they're in for if they get THIS...]
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: PhoenixRising on August 27, 2011, 12:04:32 PM ---Thanks Hops - I think I'm working on elevating "safety" to an art. But I need to work on napping too. Been up since 1:30 am.... sheesh!!
At my house, it's not all that awful - however... a mile or so away the town has cut off the water east of the bypass due to the risk of water main breakage and cross contamination. The town fire station has no power. And lots of folks sans power (so far, not me). Curfews in place in a couple towns - and it's quite likely by the time the wind shifts to the west... there will another inlet cutting Hatteras Island off from road travel again, like in Isabel.
Here's the kicker: the storm is so big - Bones & B'more areas are starting to see a little rain - and it's STILL raining/blowing down in Atlantic Beach, Ocracoke & Hatteras. So it'll still be 12 hours before the west winds make their mark on the soundside... right now the pictures are of a sound with no water -- it's all been pushed west by the wind and once it shifts, the water will come sloshing and flooding back. That's why the skinnier parts of OBX are in huge danger of being cut off right now.
Scuttlebutt has it that no one (except residents with proper docs) will be allowed in until Tuesday. There will be a huge effort to get as close to "normal" as possible for the big Labor Day weekend.
[And Bones - if you want to document Ns... you should see them come out of the woodwork when their vacation week is threatened! Then there was the guy who said anyone who stayed, should take a sharpie & write their SS# on their torso, to ID the bodies... I told him I was saving them, for their intended purpose - to address care packages to the folks in big cities who are next, who don't have any idea what they're in for if they get THIS...]
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Thanks, P.R.
We're getting bands of rain in my area and I'm still waiting for the winds to pick up.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the history of two other hurricanes I remember experiencing....Hurricane Hazel and Hurricane Agnes. With Hurricane Hazel, I was a little over two years old but I remember the flooding, the rowboats for evacuation, and that flood-stench that stays in the memory forever. I remember wanting to play in the water and my Dad preventing me from doing so. I was too little to understand how dangerous that could be. Hurricane Agnes was NASTY!!!!!!! Both of them came through the DC Metro area and left a lot of damage behind!
Bones
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