Storm tracker thread

[mark02tj]

Our local "Ohio Task Force One" just sent a team to SC yesterday. Their only focus will be water rescues.

Local branch of the Red Cross is packing up several food service trucks to send to the area as well.

Whenever storms hit the East Coast, the military always sends planes from the coastal bases to WPAFB here in the Dayton area. We'll probably end up with a few dozen extra planes parked on the tarmac here.

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Just listening to the radio right now. Storm is approx 500 miles off the coast right now and winds are 130 MPH. I think that's dropped from a day or so ago when I heard that the winds were 160. (My memory could be incorrect on that though)

 

[Soundguy]

Our local "Ohio Task Force One" just sent a team to SC yesterday. Their only focus will be water rescues.

Local branch of the Red Cross is packing up several food service trucks to send to the area as well.

Whenever storms hit the East Coast, the military always sends planes from the coastal bases to WPAFB here in the Dayton area. We'll probably end up with a few dozen extra planes parked on the tarmac here.

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Just listening to the radio right now. Storm is approx 500 miles off the coast right now and winds are 130 MPH. I think that's dropped from a day or so ago when I heard that the winds were 160. (My memory could be incorrect on that though)

I hear that the cajun navy has mobilized and is sending boats north to assist in water rescue as well.

 

[Thomas]

Strong prayers/thoughts for those about to face this nasty storm.

 

[Inspector507]

The Air Force and Air National Guard in Hampton VA have started bringing F-22 Raptors and T-38 Talons to Rickenbacker Air Base here in Ohio. Some of them arrived yesterday.

 

[BAP]

Some of the larger Fire Departments in New Hampshire have gotten together and sent a bunch of rescue trucks with boats and crews to the Carolina’s

 

[mark02tj]

The Air Force and Air National Guard in Hampton VA have started bringing F-22 Raptors and T-38 Talons to Rickenbacker Air Base here in Ohio. Some of them arrived yesterday.

You're getting the cool planes at Rickenbacker!! They're sending the C-17's to Wright-Patt.

 

[Sigarms]

Four seasons mall area, Greensboro. Pic doesn't do it justice. About a 200 yard x 200 yard section of parking lot filled with utility trucks. Coming back off I 40 about an hour later, the off ramp for this exit was packed with even more utility trucks getting off...



Stopped for Lunch in Winston...



I've never seen so many utility vehicles on the road BEFORE a storm hit.

This morning, dropped down to a Category 2 from a 4.

 

[Jstpssng]

Strong prayers/thoughts for those about to face this nasty storm.

Amen.

 

[dmccarty]

I have been watching Flo since last week. The European ensemble has been more accurate than the US GFS ensemble. The European models have been mostly going into SC since last week. The last update I saw has Flo on the south side of the storm cone from NOAA while the GFS ensemble is on the north edge so says the NOAA discussion.

The interior of NC looks like it might have dodged a cannon volley but SC will get it instead. :shocked:

Fran hit NC back in the late 90's and came into he interior and did massive damage to the forests and trees which took out the power grid. Many areas were without power for weeks. Thankfully, flooding was minimal compared to Floyd.

Then Floyd hit. Floyd was a 500 year event and flooded out much of eastern NC. If I remember correctly, the forecast was for 15 inch of rain, but some areas were 20-24 inches. I went down after the storm to help clean up and you could see debris from the flood dozens of feet up in trees. It was unreal. Houses floated off foundations. Car floated on top of cars. Caskets floated out of graves. It was like a horror movie.

Flo looks like it is going to be Floyd on steroids with Fran added. :thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:

They are forecasting 20-30 inches of rain over a large area of NC with some areas getting 40 inches! :shocked::shocked::shocked: Floyd was a major disaster with 20+ inches....

If the forecasts hold, I would guess I95 will get flooded out again. Seems like I95 was just fixed from Mathew. Looks like NC is going to get the water/flooding and SC is gong to get the wind.

We have been prepping since last weekend and still have a few more things to do but we are mostly done. Winds starting to pick up.

Later,
Dan

 

[om21braz]

Strong prayers/thoughts for those about to face this nasty storm.

+1! Thanks Thomas and others!