Posted on 09/22/2023 7:45:18 PM PDT by NautiNurse
TS Ophelia is poised to make landfall along the NC Coast Saturday morning.
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1100 PM ET Update
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About 70 MI S of Cape Lookout NC
About 70 MI ESE of Cape Fear NC
Max Sustained Winds...70 MPH
Moving...NNW at 12 MPH
Minimum Pressure...984 MB
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 310 miles from the center.
“’To be, or not to be: that is the question’.”
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:
A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for...
* Bogue Inlet, North Carolina to Chincoteague, Virginia
* Chesapeake Bay south of Colonial Beach, Virginia
* Neuse and Pamlico Rivers
* Portions of Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds
A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for...
* Surf City, North Carolina to Bogue Inlet, North Carolina
* Remainder of Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for...
* North of Surf City, North Carolina to Ocracoke Inlet, North
Carolina
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Cape Fear, North Carolina to Fenwick Island, Delaware
* Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds
* Tidal Potomac south of Cobb Island
* Chesapeake Bay south of North Beach
Is it time for the DC area to panic and evacuate or just run out and get bread, milk, eggs and toilet paper?
Don’t know about DC but 80 miles north in drought stricken southern PA it’s time for me to move any planters partially under roof to a spot where they can receive unimpeded rain.
Kind of ironic...
My daughter and son-in-law live just north of Philadelphia.
He had a work conference he had to attend in Tampa, FL, so
my daughter took some days off to tag along and go to the beach.
So they left Pennsylvania to go to Florida,
and while they are gone, PA gets hit with a tropical storm!
Reminds me of the song from the 80s
Ophelia by “Tear Garden”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfO-gfTM8lc
Currently sitting on a ship anchored off NYC and waiting to ride the storm out. Our trip to Nova Scotia was cut short yesterday afternoon and our ship sent back to NYC where it’s supposedly safer. Watching the waves get bigger and the wind is picking up...
Went to the Phils game tonight. Don’t think they are playing tommorrow.
Been raining pretty hard and steady the last few hours. It’s a bit on the windy side tonight too. I am in NC, I-95 corridor area about an hour from the NC/VA state line.
Hatteras should be interesting about now.
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven.
Now *that* is the way to time a vacation!
I got a bit of chocolate - I’m supporting our friends up the East coast:)
That’s the spirit!
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