Hurricane Warning Issued for NE Coast

[BravoXray]

FEAR is profitable

Ignorance can be fatal.

 

[bcp]

Wind speed probabilities:

POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE RAFAEL

Bruce

 

[Hay Dude]

Ignorance can be fatal.

No fear or ignorance here.
I was in the alleged path of the tropical storm.
Was supposed to rain, flash floods and high winds today.
Nothing.
Theres too much over-hype of weather catastrophe

 

[Jstpssng]

We have so many "storm of the century" warnings which don't amount to a p-hole in the snow that it's easy to become complacent. As somebody already pointed out, our coastline and terrain tends to knock them back pretty quickly, often with a little help from that Canadian air from our neighbors to the north.

 

[/pine]

IMO...the people that will have the biggest problem will be those that did not heed the warnings and get prepared...there was plenty of time...

 

[CalG]

One troubling issue here in Paradise is that it's been raining for a month now. 16 inches in July, and more than 6 so far here in Aug. The ground is saturated.

If it rains, and the winds come, there are going to be many trees down. Big ones.

I set up the generator yesterday. Put a new tank on the grill and fueled up the Coleman stove ;-)

With these hills all around, if the water comes fast, The creeks gonna rise!

 

[Katahdin]

I'm about 150 miles past the landfall point, but only 5 miles from the coast, yeah, predicted to get 2 inches of tropical rain and 30mph winds with gusts of 40mph.

No panic, but I did climb up 25 feet on a ladder yesterday to cover an old barn window that had fallen out with acrylic sheet and mow the lawn which was a week overdue.

I don't expect to lose power, but I picked up 20 gals of gas for the 2K and 5K gennys. My winter fuel stocks have been depleted, I don't usually top them off again until late fall. The 5K is due for a test anyway, I may just run it for awhile even if I don't lose power.

My Yanmar LX is 7 miles away at my Mom's house, a minor inconvenience for me but my Mom is happy her field is getting mowed and brush piles are now burned. This storm wasn't on my radar when I drove it over there a week ago.

 

[Frankenkubota]

We have so many "storm of the century" warnings which don't amount to a p-hole in the snow that it's easy to become complacent. As somebody already pointed out, our coastline and terrain tends to knock them back pretty quickly, often with a little help from that Canadian air from our neighbors to the north.

kinda like crying wolf.....

 

[Oaktree]

One troubling issue here in Paradise is that it's been raining for a month now. 16 inches in July, and more than 6 so far here in Aug. The ground is saturated.

If it rains, and the winds come, there are going to be many trees down. Big ones.

I set up the generator yesterday. Put a new tank on the grill and fueled up the Coleman stove ;-)

With these hills all around, if the water comes fast, The creeks gonna rise!

You must be in the southern part of the state, the NEK (as well as northern N.H.) is still considered to be moderate drought as of late July. We didn't get anywhere near as much rain here as southern New England.

Agree on the flooding...central Vt. really took it in the hurricane that hit in 2010? 11? Most of the major highways into Rutland were washed out.

 

[Hay Dude]

kinda like crying wolf.....

Yep
and the the problem with that is, they keep crying wolf until nobody pays attention, then the “big one” hits and nob paid attention

About this time last summer we had a season full of warnings, watches, blah blah about the weather. Then in one day we had a super red cell thunderstorm mover through with little warning and did extensive flood damage. We got 5-6” of rain overnight. Local river flooded extensively. I lost a lot of hay in that storm.
Im convinced weather forecasters are ok for 1-3 days of predictions, but years into the future? That’s a joke.