Posted on 10/04/2016 9:53:05 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
4 things you need to know about Hurricane Mathew
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Will you post a link then?
Oh well. I got the link off this wiki page that I thought was his....it’s at the bottom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bastardi
It comes over my phone. Not sure how to make a link out of that.
Oh- But I have the wrong Joe and it’s not @BigJoeBastardi?
“If it hits New England it won’t be my first hurricane by a long shot.”
Nor mine.
I still remember the fearsome howling of the 1939 hurricane and 2 windows blowing in.
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Looks like our servicepeople at Gitmo are starting to get hit.
(Maybe they can leave the detainees outside for a “shower”?)
(Did I say that?)
Ooops,1938 !
““Bermuda is about 600 miles due east of Savanna Georgia and well out of the proposed track of hurricane Mathew. “”
I am in Savannah. We live on a 36ft sailboat in the ICW.
As of now, we’re staying put. We’ll put up some heavy lines across the slip and ride it out.
Unless the forecast changes again, and we may move the boat inland.
I can remember the unforcasted 38 Hurricane,while I was living on the top floor of a three decker in the Dorchester section of Boston, and a brick chimney being toppled on the roof right over the room I was in, covering me with ceiling plaster.
Here is the latest proposed track.
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Just did a little research and found that the typical homeowner's policy doesn't cover things like flooding which,of course,can happen during a hurricane.But my research seems to indicate that wind damage and a tree falling on your house would be covered.Given that my condo's on the 3rd floor I'm not likely to experience flooding so I suspect I'd be OK.
I think.
One thing I did find is that policies in Florida can be different from those in other areas.That's pretty understandable given how susceptible Florida is to hurricanes but I'm not in Florida.
I just got this e-mail from a North Carolina friend, who lurks on FR.
"I guess so!!!
I'm dead center in the path of the storm for Saturday afternoon if today's model holds true.
Thank goodness I'm on a little higher ground in a very sturdy complex. I also have an enclosed garage for my car, bike and kayak.
I will be taking my herbs and planter boxes off of the porch railing though.
Walmart's down here is already selling out of stuff.
Stay safe!"
My God,we were top floor,3 decker also-—in Brighton. (Remember the dreadful summer heat we had under those flat rooves?)
We had just moved there 2 weeks earlier,my father had died 5 months earlier,and my mother knew few neighbors.
Tough times !
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We were on our way to Bermuda on the Norwegian Dawn during hurricane Fay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fay_(2014)
It was wild. I couldn’t walk across our room.
I certainly do remember the heat, and no one mentioned global warming then.
Some very hot summer nights people went down to the beaches to sleep.
It was hot all right.
Those hot nights made it seem impossible to believe that in a few months you would be facing winter northeast snowstorms and then getting blasted with cold NW air after they passed.
Those days you didn't get a few days notice that disaster was heading your way as we do now. Weather forecasting is big business today.
Undoubtably saving lives.-Tom
I’ve got family in South Carolina, one in Savannah. Their governor just announced that coastal residents should evacuate.
No matter how big those cruise ships are they can get tossed around.
If I remember correctly one of the larger ones tried to push through some bad weather and faced 100 mph winds and big seas and beat up the passengers.
I believe it was a trip from NY to the Bahamas. -Tom
That must have been really scary. The ocean is incredibly powerful.
Although I expect to safely arrive in Bermuda Sunday AM, my family and friends and my house and 3 boats that I operate are still in the water here on the coast in eastern Mass."
I'm off to bed now and will check Mathew out in the AM.-Tom
My grandmother once told me the same year NYC got hit by the blizzard of 1947, the worst of the 20th century, they had one of the hottest summers on record. From one extreme to another in a matter of months. Other than a few mansions in Riverdale and the then brand new postwar luxury high rises built on Park Av, even most well-to-do people didn’t have AC yet. People who suffered in those old walk-up apartment buildings were sleeping on the roofs and fire escapes.
I was 12 years old in 1947 and remember that wild weather year in Boston.
I will have to check on the latest Mathew track as it seemed to have changed from last nights proposed racking prediction.
It looks like eastern coastal Florida is going to be hit hard.
If Mathew stays close to Florida in the warm Gulf Stream it probably won't weaken.
Let face it Mathew is an unpredictable Hurricane beyond 2 days of proposed tracking models. -Tom
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