Posted on 09/07/2007 8:02:09 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Looks like you’ll be maintaining three hurricane threads concurrently soon.
Yikes!
I’d like to know where the guy was holding the meter. None of the buoys reported anything over 40 knots and that sucker darn near ran right over 41036.
Most of the readings all day were 27ish to 31ish.
Oh, well, was hoping for some rain. Still blue skies here.
Tune in next week for a whole new round of storms!
Yep, and I consider this nothing more than panic mongering by the media. It is this kind of "run, something is coming to get you that causes people to not listen when something dangerous is coming to get you.
It's making me madder by the minute.
By Lindell Kay
Daily News Staff
SURF CITY — Tropical Storm Gabrielle may not have brought much rain and wind by late afternoon Sunday, but it did deliver one last summer business boost to the Topsail area.
“Our business has never been better,” said Teresa Weigand, manager at Buddy’s Crab House and Oyster bar, which sits on the beach in Surf City. “We would have been open anyway; we are the last to close and the first to open.”
Surf City reserve police officer David Beaver said he had seen regular thunderstorms cause more rainfall and damage than Gabrielle.
“If it hadn’t been in the news, a lot of people might not have even known it was here,” he said.
And while emergency officials in Pender County said they were continuing to watch the storm, it appeared by afternoon as if it had moved on without much notice.
Molly’s Restaurant in downtown Surf City also saw an increase in business over what a normal weekend would be like right after Labor Day.
“There are more people in here today,” said Jamie Donhue, an employee at the business. “It was busy for a Sunday.”
Weigand said she was having a better Sunday because so many surfers and fishermen flocked to the beach to take advantage of the mild storm conditions.
“Yeah, the waves are a little higher, the water is choppy and the sun ain’t beating down on you,” said Matthew Olsen, a University of North Carolina at Wilmington student who drove to Topsail for the day.
And he was not the only one. The water held dozens of surfers who were taking advantage of Gabrielle.
The fishermen were in on the act as well.
Surf City Ocean Pier was busy with anglers who sought to take advantage of the storm’s effect on fish.
Fuquay-Varina resident Mark Thomas said he planned his fishing trip to coincide with the approach of the storm.
“When a storm comes in the water cools off, and the fish think it is time to head south so they bite all they can,” he said. “The temperature did not drop as much as I would have liked, but it beats sitting at home.”
As a slight drizzle began to fall over the pier, the fishermen put on hats or pulled their collars up.
“I have worked 19 out of the last 21 days,” Duplin County resident Harry Sholar said. “I was coming fishing today no matter what.”
He said had been catching blues, mullets and puppy drum all day, all thanks to Gabrielle.
Sholar said he was doing a little better than normal for this time of year and figured the storm had something to do with it.
Danny Honeycutt, a resident of Coats, said he usually fishes out the Cape Fear River, but made the trip to the beach because he had heard how much better fish bite before a storm.
“Fish sense a change in the water and they bite,” he said.
The herd mentality for weather forecasts is pretty amazing. The reporters who dress up in rain gear and go stand out on the coastline to show you that the wind really is blowing 75 m.p.h. are pretty comical. As if we couldn’t see the sattellite photos and the radar images.
Have they no idea that the entire internet and almost every newspaper in the world mocks them every time they do it?
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