Posted on 09/30/2015 6:31:11 PM PDT by rdl6989
While there are still scenarios that would take Hurricane Joaquin out to sea, the possibility of the hurricane reaching the Eastern United States coast is gaining merit. Hurricane Joaquin is rapidly intensifying.
(Excerpt) Read more at accuweather.com ...
I hope it will hit Washington DC with 300 MPH winds and wipe it off the map.
LOL!
Now upgraded to CAT 3.
Mom is blessed to have you...just tell her she’s moving to TX ;-)
Have fun in NV...good luck if it’s Vega$.
A few days will be there and the rest with family.
I hate the heat!!! or i would have gone with boss 12 years ago.
Should have gone :(
I tortured my mother as a youth so I owe here :)
Of course you say that in jest. There are a lot of good hardworking people in DC, to say nothing of the many men and women in the armed services and their families living there.
52 years ago, I met my husband who was stationed there.
He’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
BA
But whoever decided to build a city below sea level and then fill it with democrats deserves a medal...
What was Sandy ?
“Just maybe we’ll get lucky and it will wipe out Washington D.C. and we’ll have a hay day!!!!”
I’m in the DC suburbs and the latest track puts it right in my backyard.
Take a look at this and see if it’s what you’re looking for.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/modelsummary.shtml
I will pray for your safety and the safety of other FRiends, but it could wipe out the rest of the town and I wouldn’t even care....
So God take care of all the FRiends and keep them safe...
Thank you very much!
It was the surge that counted, not the winds, and it was something not seen for a very long time in the NY-NJ area ... a lifetime event.
No!! That’s where I’m at...but I understand the feeling, anyway.
You just think that.
In fact, I just read an article a few weeks ago in which the National Hurricane Center stated it was not a hurricane when it hit land in NJ.
What made Sandy so damaging was not the winds, it was the storm surge. Because of its huge size, it was able to push so much water onshore, but it was not a hurricane.
Check out the Hurricane's center website: "Sandy transitioned into a post-tropical cyclone just prior to moving onshore near Atlantic City, NJ. For a complete summary of Sandy, view the National Hurricane Center Sandy Tropical Cyclone Report."
Since it was a post tropical cyclone, which means it lost all characteristics of a hurricane, there were not even any hurricane or tropical storm warnings issued by the NHC. There were high wind warnings and there were peak gusts mainly in the 60s and 70s mph. A hurricane is sustained winds of 74 mph for at least one minute.
But again, the damage was caused by the storm surge not wind.
No, but it wasn’t a hurricane....hardly anyone experienced even a hurricane worthy gust. But as in most coastal storms (including northeasters), the damage is caused by water and not by wind. I have often thought that helped Obama win reelection and I read some part of a research paper that was published that claimed it helped sway a small sliver to vote for him, but I guess we will never know for certain.
The potential to saturate the ground so heavily that trees topple onto power lines even without heavy winds is possible with this storm where the ground is already saturated....Virginia’s already calling for state of emergency since they are already dealing with flood waters after their recent rain storms.
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