[dirtboy]

Look, twerp, first of all, this storm has Cat 3 pressure. Which means it won't lose strength as it comes up the coast. Tree falls will block roads and cause widespread power outages - won't take Cat 3 winds to do that, 70 mph wind gusts are more than capable of knocking down large trees that are fully leafed out.

Second, it is huge and will push the surge of a Cat 3 into back bays and will throw very high surf on top of that surge into barrier islands.

And it will dump a tremendous amount of rain into an area already saturated, and is a major freshwater flood threat.

Folks like me who live in the region understand this is a serious hazard. You might not be impressed. I don't care. We are well aware that this storm will be damaging and highly disruptive. So take your petulant crap and stuff it.

[mewzilla]

Joe Bastardi was mentioning barometric pressure on FNC last night, talking about using it as another criterion for judging the danger posed by a hurricane. He mentioned two or three other storms, very costly in terms of monetary damage, that had pressures the same or very slightly higher than Irene. FWIW :)