Gonna be a lively weekend.
You're so right. Trees grow really tall in some of these areas. I'm pretty worried about the 100 foot tulip poplars surrounding our house. They're poorly rooted trees, and we've already had a lot of rain here in SE Pennsylvania. We can deal with power outages, but trees falling on the house or cars are a problem, to say nothing of the 6-8 inches of rain in our forecast. We've had trees fall on or near the house during Bertha, Floyd, Isobel, and during nor'easters. This time of year, they're in full leaf so the winds will be brutal on them. The generators and chain saw are ready . . .
A Chainsaw with extra chains and at least a 5 gallon supply of mix ready to go. If you survive the storm, you want the ability to free yourself.
We are in SE Pa also. Tulip poplars a plenty. Fortunately, when we built the house we tried to clear most of them out to keep them from the house. My 1800 foot long driveway, that is a different story.
Gonna be a lively weekend.
A week or so ago, Louisville had some straight-line winds of ~ 60-70 mph... they lasted all of 10-15 minutes.. and, power was knocked out for more than 150,000 people for several days.
People forget: A hurricane doesn’t HAVE to be a Cat 4 to cause significant disruption in urban areas that haven’t seen this kind of weather in 70+ years.
Thankfully, Irene seems to be sucking in dry air from the west and southwest quadrants. Looks to me like she will NOT be getting much stronger. But, people will KNOW, and remember that she was there.