Mother Slim, who lives on the Chesapeake, says OC is closed down from about 17th street south to the inlet. (The storm of 1938 is the one that cut that inlet).
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Posted on 10/25/2012 8:53:50 AM PDT by NautiNurse
That's for a snow emergency, BTW.
Chaser guy very nervous - winds gusting to 115mph.
Hwy 35, water will be over dunes, over road by 3PM.
Thanks.
Might as well lock the thread I started, too, with a link to the new thread. No point in having too many threads going at once. It just makes it confusing and is too much to keep track of.
Google’s real-time interactive crisis map for monitoring monster storm Sandy:
http://google.org/crisismap/sandy-2012
Forward speed 18mph. Winds at a sustained 90mph.
You sure about this? Storm Surge COULD reach 14 feet if this were a class 4 storm. But since its barely a class 1 hurricane, this will not be the case.
Mother Slim, who lives on the Chesapeake, says OC is closed down from about 17th street south to the inlet. (The storm of 1938 is the one that cut that inlet).
Storm speeding up now - 30-35 mph. Time for landfall now moved up to 5 - 7 p.m. EDT. North eyewall to hit between Tom’s River and Atlantic city.
Breaking News Storm @breakingstorm
Hurricane Sandy is speeding up, moving northwest at 25-30 mph; could make landfall near south New Jersey around 5 pm -
(And I would argue that the direction of motion is somewhat West of NW now; note that future path projections bring it to a screeching halt in Central PA as it suddenly turns NE mid-late Tuesday)
Believe it. Here's why:
1. Angle of arrival is 90 degrees to the coastline. Worst-case scenario (multiple hours of "pushing water" to shore.
2. VERY large storm. Lots of energy to push over a much wider-than-normal swath.
Also note this new tweet:
(Dr.) Ryan Maue Ryan Maue [meteorologist PhD] @RyanMaue
Largest waves still well offshore, will lag landfall -- tonight's surge looks dire. 45 foot wave/swell east of center pic.twitter.com/pS78EaUA
The rest ain’t gonna last long either.
Geography. Long Island Sound is going to funnel a lot of water straight at NYC, and basically doesn’t allow a lot of water to come back out.
11-14’ ft above high tide is still the local prediction for that part of the CT shoreline.
Goodbye Thrasher’s French Fries! Goodbye Dayton’s Fried Chicken! Goodbye Dolly’s Caramel Popcorn!
Still think this was a non-event? I see you haven't posted for a couple of days, I guess you were one of the millions in New Jersey who lost power from this.
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