Well, shit. Seems each forecast model keeps moving the forecast a little closer to the coast. Connecticut hasn't seen a real Hurricane since Gloria in 1985. I was just a wee lad then. Anybody else being forced to keep a watchful eye on this one? You live anywhere near the coast Tamar? Anywhere from North Carolina up to Maine is a possibility now. Attached is the Path Gloria took, something that now in the realm of possibility for Earl.
The news just said something about it kissing the eastern part of Long Island this weekend. Didn't even predict rain for the NYC area.
I'm going to be down in Philly on Sunday night (for an investigation) and the Weather Channel is calling for lots of sunshine and 77 degrees.
Is it too much to ask that this hurricane travel up Chesapeake Bay and scour DC from the face of the Earth?
Shit, I hope this simply devestates Manhatten. At least then I won't have to hear about the fucking Ninth Ward on the news anymore.
I don't want to split hairs here, but wasn't this supposed to be a HUGE hurricane season? That's what the experts were predicting back in May or so. We better pick up the pace before the season is over. It's been a real snooze-fest so far.
These same experts have been claiming it was going to be a big hurricane season every year since Katrina. Eventually they'll be right, simply because the odds will finally play out, and we'll hear them on every news stations going on and on about how the earth is doomed...neverminding all the years they weren't right. If only I were king for a day...
Ok so I live in Florida, hurricane capital of the world. So I am up in PA on business. I should be safe, right? For fucks sake.
Aye, September is the peak of hurricane season. Just checked to see that my generator is operational.
The fuck is up with the names of these things? They're getting more and more hillbilly with each one. What's next: tropical storm Lurleen? Hurricane Jim-Bob? Fuckin' stoppit, assholes!
So, this is it, killed by a natural disaster named after the titular character of a TV show everyone else loved, but I didn't much care for, and never had time for. Well, guess it beats being killed by Hurricane Sex & The City, or Hurricane Battlestar Galactica....
The nice lady said on the news tonight that by the time it hits NYC, it should just be a tropical storm. It is probably much ado about nothing. (Crossing fingers)
Floyd was the biggest I remember hitting NJ. My wife and I spent the whole day shopvaccing water out of the basement, trying to keep the level from rising. I evacuated the models from their basement shelves. It was the first and only time water covered the entire basement, 4" deep at the low corner, and juuuuust a little at the high corner. Had to throw the basement carpet out. We got drains and a sump pump installed right after that.
Why, yes, yes I do. Not only near the ocean but a tidal river is practically in my backyard. Worse, my parents live on an island and are the type of older people who never evacuate for any reason. I just found out about it ...got a stubborn case of cellulitis, about to start round 2 of antibiotics and percocet Which is also why I have been here not much lately. Right now it's tropical storm warnings but as always with hurricanes, it could change 5 more times before it arrives. One projected path has it make landfall in Maine...that doesn't happen much though...odds are it will turn before that happens but we'll see.
CNN muttered something about extra-high tides in the Bay of Fundy. Which of course is like saying "extra-powerful nuclear explosion."
