Re: Definatly prepared
 

The question has to be asked ...

in my reading of the above statement ("my husband's a Mormon") I infer that while your hubby's a Mormon, you are not ...

How'd you manage that one? I thought the Saint's didn't hold with marryin' outside o' the faith ...

(I also note that you didn't phrase it as "was raised as a Mormon," or anything similar, and by either habit or decree of the elders he still has the survival goodies.)

Well, she's been downgraded to a 2, and from the statellite images, loops and rocks I've seen, she appears to ME (imho) to be starting to stall and dissipate somewhat.

We can only hope for a pressure system to come in and nudge
her more north than west, keeping her out to sea.

Wow, be careful, friend. The wind and rain are bad enough but the idiots running for batteries and bread will be distracted for sure. :(

Use your head Brian, its losing steam but it'll still have a lot of juice....

I'm in Seattle, Pugetropolis, Doc Maynard and the Denny's Flying Circus, Jet City, etc. Don't get much in the way of weather. It rains lightly but steadily from October through April. We have the ocassional earthquake and volcano. Not much else.

I hope you East-Coasties all come out okay!:(

View ocean data bouy readings even 150 miles out. Ocean temperature is 82 degrees. Good water temperature to intensify any hurricane.

Always maintained that the Jersey shore has long been in need of a category 1 or 2 hurricane. Complacency is long too widespread. One small hurricane is absolutely necessary to bring sanity back to the east coast communities - and to see if we really are building properly.

A worst case scenario might be a landing on Asbury Park. Or in a hurricane this large, a landing in the Barnegat Light or Little Egg Harbor region. The resulting winds and storm surge would drive water into a bottleneck of NY Harbor, Raritan River, and Shrewsbury River. The resulting flooding would be widespread in Red Bank, New Brunswick, and througout NY Harbor. How many of these regions could withstand a 10 foot storm surge?

Better landing would be in sourther NJ coast. Damage would not be as major, but the lessons should affect every east coast ocean community.

A landing on the NC coastline would not teach much since they already have had numerous storms. Complacency is not so widespread there. Damage is mostly an acceptable event on outer banks. But the Jersey shore needs to learn a serious lesson about building million dollar homes directly on the dunes and beach.

Weather folks around here have started up with the tornado talk. I don't like that kind of talk.

Tornado?

I sure hope not.

I live in the VA burbs of DC and that PMSing wench, Isadore, is scheduled to pass through our 'hood at 2:00 am on Friday (Thursday night). Last night, I went down and checked the battery charger on the backup sump pump so I guess we are ready - I spent an hour in Shoppers last night grabbing stuff to eat that doesn't require any prep and, of course, some water. I stop by the state-controlled liquor store today to get one last thing :)

I was living in East Honolulu in 1992 (Iniki) so I've been through this drill before although that one was a bit scarier. I'll never forget the TV images the night before Iniki hit: This collosal swirling vortex and these teeny, tiny little islands. It was like looking at those pics of the sun with the earth superimposed for reference; one of those pics that's usually followed by a "gulp."

Gonna be a long day tomorrow.

Just filled up the Subaru in case of heavy rain; last time we got a storm through (Floyd), I had to drive through floodwaters in a Miata. A little extra water clearance and four drive wheels will make me feel MUCH better.

Not worried about the house; it's pretty high up on a hill, plenty of vertical displacement between it and the nearest stream, but not on the very top where the worst winds would be. Unless she tracks eastward up the bay and manages a direct hit, I don't see any problem there.

Where you live, Beestie? I'm in Fairfax.

Hang in there, Onyx. I live just west of you and I'll be filling up the bathtubs tonight in case we lose power (well=electric pump=no water when electric goes out).

Cool! I live right next door in Burke.

Hope you got the womenfolk good 'n hid and your hatches battened down (whatever the heck that means!) :eek:

Aw crap, I battened down my woman and hid the hatch!

Careful UT, lose any more weight and you might blow away. :D