Posted on 08/26/2011 9:40:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Approximately 65 million people are likely to be directly impacted by Hurricane Irene as the storm takes aim at the densely populated Eastern Seaboard. Evacuations are underway for high flood risk areas.
Mass transit cancellations, schedule changes and road/bridge closures are occurring throughout the storm warning areas. Please check with local news and Emergency Management Operations to determine the recommendations for your immediate area.
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Radar Images & Loops (interactive maps short/long range) Southeast
Northeast (Cape Hatteras to NE)
Satellite Images Still Images/Loops (both Flash & Java)
Buoy Data: Florida
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Northeast US
Local News Coverage: WWAY 3 Wilmington NC
WRAL Raleigh NC
WETC Wilmington NC
WAVY Portsmouth VA w/Live Stream coverage link
WTVR Richmond VA
WUSA Washington DC
WBAL Baltimore MD
CBS Local Baltimore
WPVI Philadelphia
WTXF My Fox Philly
WABC NYC
WTNH New Haven CT
WHDH Boston
I notice that folks which are following this storm via TV are freaked out, and folks who are watching the charts and data are calm and well-balanced.
Hello, Pat. We just got our electricity back a few minutes ago. Hope you’ll get through with minimal inconvenience and damage. As bad as it is, we have caught a break because Irene weakened substantially as she came ashore. I also hope the folks in the Northeast corridor don’t take this as an excuse to get complacent. Hurricanes are unpredictably deadly.
Before I get outside to start damage assessment I just took time to make myself a seafood omelet. Sauteed mushrooms and blue crab meat with a touch of sherry wine topped off with Sargento 6-Cheese Italian mix. As Grandpa used to say on Hee-Haw, “Yum, yum”!
... and it jumped to 632,731 when I refreshed.
Here in CT, the initial number of power outages increases due to overloading on the remaining systems and the need to shut down larger areas for repair.
I was wondering why landfall didn’t weaken it until I realized that it has in the sense that it’s not intensifying. Once it gets back over water then it might get worse.
We had a storm go through a week ago that dumped 11 inches of rain.
Heavy rain in Philly ping
Honestly, if I had been in Andrew, I might have moved too. We evacuated, I know many people that stayed and they said it was more horrible than you could imagine. I saw the devastation afterwards, then Katrina, I know what these things can do and I have been through several of them. Irene is no Andrew but they media is behaving like it is.
I have a great idea...you’ll need to hurry...take your boat and your weather station and head up to VA/MD/PA/NJ/NY/RI/MA. You can take your own trustworthy weather measurements. Log them into your trusty notebook or spreadsheet. We can discuss your experiment when you get back next week. We’ll wait for you. Heck—I’ll start a whole new thread for you. Bon yoyage!
I had to break out my chainsaw and control traffic after ELANA. My goodness what a mess.
From your fingers to God’s ears. Unfortunately the Pinelands you speak of have turned into Swamplands. So maybe some will now have lakefront?
Fox News just said that this storm has set a record for the number of people having to be evacuated.... more proof of just how huge this storm is!
Just another link with lots if info:
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201109_flashtool.html?extraprod=flashtool
The “WON” is about to piss off 65 million people.
Landfall in that region is a misleading concept, more water than dry land across the area and very warm water, shallow bays and sounds. Once it gets out over the Atlantic, it’ll be past the warm Gulf Stream also; it collides with the much cooler Labrador Current off Cape Hatteras, which typically weakens the storm.
Ever hear of Allison? Allison was 'just' a tropical storm when it hit east Texas.
You are so fixated on wind speed that you fail to see the other destructive possibilities of this storm. It started raining in Philly at noon - with the center of the storm still down in NC.
Those rains are going to dump probably at least 10 inches here - on top of an already-record monthly rainfall.
And the size of the storm and the angle of its approach means Cat 2 surge into the coastal areas. And if that happens at high tide, add another foot because of the new moon.
In other words, if you bothered to inform yourself, you might see there are very nasty potential problems from this storm. But you haven't.
Nesco right outside of Basto NJ here.
Joe Bastardi was mentioning barometric pressure on FNC last night, talking about using it as another criterion for judging the danger posed by a hurricane. He mentioned two or three other storms, very costly in terms of monetary damage, that had pressures the same or very slightly higher than Irene. FWIW :)
It's much more likely to go across or slightly east of Ocean City (MD). The slow curve to the NNE has already started.
Hope you’re battened down, MissD, and prayers
all remains safe with you and yours.
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