[fjsva]

while all eyes are focused on Rita, Phillipe seems to be acting up a little.

The 5 day tracking chart has it heading back to the east coast. Read a article recently that a hurricane coming into the Norfolk/Hampton Roads area on a perpendicular track is the worst possible scenario for flooding.

[Strategerist]

while all eyes are focused on Rita, Phillipe seems to be acting up a little.
The 5 day tracking chart has it heading back to the east coast.

Umm, no it doesn't. It's forecast to dissapate in 24 hours.

[lainie]

while all eyes are focused on Rita, Phillipe seems to be acting up a little. The 5 day tracking chart has it heading back to the east coast. Read a article recently that a hurricane coming into the Norfolk/Hampton Roads area on a perpendicular track is the worst possible scenario for flooding.

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[Moose4]

I can't even contemplate what would happen if they tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people out of Tidewater with a major hurricane bearing down. There's exactly ONE Interstate highway coming out of there (I-64) and in order to get to it from anywhere east or southeast of Newport News/Hampton, you have to cross at least one bridge-tunnel, either the Hampton Roads or the Monitor-Merrimac. It would be a nightmare.

}:-)4

[dirtboy]

The 5 day tracking chart has it heading back to the east coast. Read a article recently that a hurricane coming into the Norfolk/Hampton Roads area on a perpendicular track is the worst possible scenario for flooding.

Which chart? I see nothing of the sort on the NHC forecast page or on Wunderground. Forecasts call for it to either be torn apart or to become extratropical.

[steveegg]

The 11 am discussion for Philippe has it absorbed and dissipated into a larger non-tropical cyclonic circulation in the next 24 hours. Good news for the US, not so good for Bermuda, which has a tropical storm warning up.