You’ve never had wind and water come from the Ocean before?
Sorry, this is a slow moving rain maker, and the news media is scaring people crapless just for ratings.
And before you tell me I don’t know what it’s like...
Survivor: Camille.
Survivor: Andrew.
Survivor: Katrina.
Survived Camille, Andrew, and Katrina ? you are bad luck. Where do you live ? (so I don’t move there)
This Benghazi buster is also shutting down NYSE and all the media inside of it. I think some big news about Benghazi will break on monday.
I know what I’m talking about too — hurricane/nor’easter hybrids are far different than gulf ‘canes. We take nor’easters far more seriously.
There is no media scaring me or anyone in my area - we don’t rely on them.
Survivor Camille here too...as a 12 year old...at Pass Road in Long Beach...near Rich Ave...190 MPH sustained....the train tracks hump saved a lot of folks in that area..anyone beach side of tracks was in trouble...floating homes and what not
28 foot sustained surge with velocity over a flat coastal sound plain...water rolled up from the Mississippi Sound which averages 12 foot depth
the sound and the fury...you never forget the sound
Rich ave has been dirt since Katrina..old bungalows all gone..a few of the live oaks left
I hope am I not wrong but this is a media event compared to big killer storms
24 hour weather and news pumps up everything..not just hurricanes
a storm like Camille or Katrina or Andrew is a whole nother matter
something like that hit Long Island coast and it would be the catostrophe they all imagine but given the latitudes that is just never likely....rare
something like 3 truly big storms since early 1800s to make landfall above the Carolinas
not to say a lot of rain can’t make problems
or Sheepshead bay or the Rockaways might not get flooded or inland folks get flooded and lose power...yes
but a strong storm with biblical implications it is not
yet every single time anything from 50 miles an hour up hits at 75 degrees west the media in the path makes it all about them
the Mississippi Gulf Coast is still a wasteland mostly 7 years later...that is a bigger story...but never was
but if the NE megapolis ever does have another true serious storm...not so late season
given how much their demographics are questionable...I would get my family outta there...and it’s so damned crowded...it gives a scenario right out of Matt’s books
down here we know how to deal with threats...up there folks rely on the govt
You must have driven a couple counties over to get out of the way of Andrew and Katrina.