Max sustained winds 75mph, 960mb
Hurricane force winds extend outward 100 miles, and tropical storm
force winds 450 miles from the center of the storm.
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Anyone think this thing could just blow out to sea and stay there? I have a daughter in Baltimore; this thing has her scared and me too.
There are flood watches in the Pittsburgh area. Because the news has not yet indicated the S word (snow), the grocery stores have not yet been overrun by shoppers buying a month’s supply of milk, bread and toilet tissue.
It’s been raining for about 24 hours now, just a mist type of rain and there are many locations in this area prone to flooding.
I hope everyone takes the necessary precautions.
Just checking in here as I am on the Jersey shore.
Is she head toward DC?
This is a pretty extensive weather site:
Moving NE at 14mph, sustained winds 75 mph, 951mb
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Getting quite breezy around Bethesda, MD.
Looks like PA, NJ, & MD gonna be right in the cross-hairs. Given that so many Pubs are broken-glassers and so many Dims are slackers, any impact on voting efficiency would most likely be detrimental to Obozo. Might be the difference in PA, particularly as Philadelphia looks like it’s gonna take it on the chin.
I live in CT. I am watching and making some final preparations. I was over a friend house and they had on TV on The Weather Channel and one on local news. Couldn’t stand it.
Winds now starting to pick up here on Long Island. Just started to drizzle as well.
Have to be to work at 6:30 am tomorrow. Have my
“bad weather” route to take. Thank goodness I’m only 7 minutes away from work....that is if a tree doesn’t fall on my truck!
Y’all in the northeast should pay this one some mind. I’m in tidewater VA. The storm center is the better part of 400 miles away and we’re already getting some pretty good gusts.
Besides NYC and NJ transit being shut down, NYC schools are closed tomorrow and Zone A is being asked to evacuate. Our grocery stores are all small so when they are mobbed, the lines go all the way to the back of the store—I spent hours getting various items. Most people were buying for the storm; the rest just getting the usual beer and snacks for the game.
In a depaeture from all the concern over the northeast, reports from Hatteras Island, NC are that the main artery Highway 12 is closed due to sand and ocean overwash. The island is now inaccessible by road. Two houses have collapsed into the surf in the Mirlo Beach section of Rodanthe. Virtually all webcams are down. Surf is reported to be 12 to 15 feet, triple overhead. Wind 40 knots, air temp 63, ocean temp 74.
Tide already above forecast at NYC:
http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/plotcomp.shtml?station_info=8518750+The+Battery%2C+NY+&flag=0
This is very serious folks...yeah it’s just a Cat 1, but it is much more than that due to the size and low pressure. And 24 hours of 60 mph winds can do more damage than 12 at 75.
So is this hype or not, is this system one to pay attention to?
FR is crazy and will FR get worse the closer the election gets, with all the stuff in the world that has happen just in 2012 alone?
Here in NE PA -
Has Sandy taken its “hard left” yet?
NOTHING happening here in NE PA.
Max. sustained winds just went fro 75 to 85mph with the national hurricane center 5am update. You can read it on the cone that Drudge is always linking:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT18/AL1812W5.gif
Ahhh... Thankfully I have found the “real” thread here! Thanks for your devotion to these incidents, NN! Was starting to get depressed reading some of the childish remarks on more recent ones tonight/this morning.
Reading through now. Prayers being said for all in harm’s way.
