Posted on 10/29/2012 10:21:35 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Late season Hurricane Sandy approaching the Eastern U.S. coast.
Sea Surface Temps
Local Radar & Weather: Wunderground Severe Wx Northeast
Philadelphia/New Jersey Current Wx
Delaware: Dover Air Force Base Current Wx
New York: Long Island Current Wx
Buoy Data: Current Observations
Mt. Holly NJ NWS Briefing Package for Hurricane Sandy (pdf file)
INTERESTING comments on that story! Couple of lib trolls are getting their butts handed to them...most posters are DISGUSTED with Obamugabe! IMO I see PA going for Romney, and NJ, IL and even CA will at least be purple;)
Had this storm hit Florida instead, half of the posts here would be about flood insurance and how Floridians should move back 100 miles from the coast. Funny, I haven’t read any such directives for those in the path of Sandy.
You can count on our prayers!!!!
6:45 pm. Port Tobacco, MD. Hard by the Potomac River.
Hard rain, gusty wind. No damage, still have power.
Local newscasters trying hard to find any damage to report.
6:45 pm. Port Tobacco, MD. Hard by the Potomac River.
Hard rain, gusty wind. No damage, still have power.
Local newscasters trying hard to find any damage to report.
I saw him on TV. I could only watch a few minutes before I couldn’t stand him and had to shut it off.
The storm is expected to loopdyloop.
. . or maybe, for the moment, yer sittin’ the eye of it, dummy !
Good imagery here.
http://www.myfoxhurricane.com/
Beer is helping the situation.
Allegedly I’m sitting in the eye of this thing.
It’s very rainy and very windy but honestly folk, I’ve been through way worse.
Elec flickers from time to time but our electric is pretty good here in the swamps of Delaware, bout 17 miles from Cape May NJ, which is the alleged landfall spot.
Biggest thing gonna come from this storm is ENORMOUS flooding. so far the winds have been way calmer than expected, it’s moving faster than expected. But the storm surge is enormous.
BUT....the only places flooding are places that have flooded before or near where there’s been floods before. Water might rise higher but even the might of Sandy won’t suddenly drop a new lake in the middle of Nevada.
They got a Fox guy here in Rehoboth Del. He’s showing the big holes in the sand caused by the rampant waves and yeah, they’re big.
But every dag year Rehoboth’s filling in them holes; heck a little Nor’easter blows that beach apart. They got little Peter Doocy all at Rehoboth and seriously, that’s a beach nature wants to reclaim.
So far, ah....so good here in the eye of the ‘cane.
Storm expected to male landfall shortly. Rain and wind gusts picking up in North Central CT from a lull around 6.
Or, as per my astounding and belated grasp of the obvious above would suggest, the eye of the thing is currently skulking around my house.
Little Peter Doocy has been there since 7 a.m. this morning!
>>Biggest thing gonna come from this storm is ENORMOUS flooding.
Locally in Conn. at least, that was always the biggest concern. The winds not as much, and we were on the windy side of the storm. Inland in the Appalachians, the snow, and closer to DelMarVa, the rain, but here it is the storm surge, high tide, and full moon combo that had people concerned.
Just looked out my window and folks are casually strolling to the sports bars in the n’hood...I mean, aren’t we having the storm of the century???
Southern VT has about 13,000 without power. Light wind and rain in the Northeast Kingdom. My Mom is in Southern N.H. - still has power, but she (and we are) is worried because she’s right on the Merrimack.
My OB told me years ago that storms always result in a active maternity ward. He didn’t know why then either, but they knew it.
It’s the worst storm in the history of the universe... bigger than the big bang even!
A local restaurant built in 1929 is floating away due to coastal flooding. Pretty direct testimony to the level of coastal flooding that is happening in this area—it survived one of the worst hurricanes to hit New England (est to be a cat 3, in 1938), and yet is going out to sea tonight.
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