Okay, I’ll admit, I haven’t been following this storm, but just checked over at one of the weather sites. I expected it to be a Cat 5 the way it’s being talked about. But it’s a Cat 1 with rain expected in the 8 inches range. Last TS we had, we were up near 17 inches of rain.
I’m in Florida and a Cat 1 is usually a minor inconvenience, break out the generator because you’ll probably lose power, but destruction from a Cat 1 isn’t too much of a concern.
So somebody enlighten me...why is this storm different as I guess it is since there’s so much hype surrounding it.
(and why do people think it’ll affect voting, we’re not voting till a week after this storm hits.)
I’m not trying to be snarky, just don’t get it.
Nobody except the worry warts get this. Get a Rain Barrel.
Go get your milk and bread, Gas up your car, Buy an umbrella.
Everything is hyped to the max these days.
All this hype, hype, hype. Why it was one year ago tomorrow that I got half a foot of slush in my yard and lost power for a week because every other tree in the whole damn state came down. Yet there were no headlines about the apocalypse back then.
I'm thinking the Obama-controlled media want to take the Benghazi thing off the front page and maybe create an opening for some election mischief that would benefit Obama.
Haven’t you been reading/watching the news? LOL! Here’s one story:
Take your tropical storm...drop the pressure into the upper 940 MB (by landfall)...your avg TS is about 990-1005...make it about 10X larger in size wind wise...add 12' storm surges...as compared to your 2-4' in a tropical storm....and make the area impacted by damaging surge 20X larger...and now put yourself in sustained tropical storm winds for over 24 hours.
Now knock out the power.
Irene, much poo-pooed here by ignorant Freepers...caused $15 BILLION in damage. This will cover a MUCH larger area and be much more destructive with the surge. I expect damages to top $20 Billion. Did your tropical storm do that?
Get it now?
The same way that New Englanders would skoff at the reaction of Floridians getting six inches of snow.
Because the usual storm that hits florida is not anywhere near as big as this storm. This storm has hurricane force winds 175 miles out and tropical force winds 520 miles out. Unheard of I think.
Then in Irene last year Virginia had almost 2 million people without power. Add to possible Virginia, NY, NJ ect and you could see possible how many millions without power.
Plus flooding because of the way it is approaching.
It should not be a big loss of life but the power is the big problem and people need to have the right supplies because some could be 3 weeks without power. Maybe more
Is it overhyped ? possible,Still the size of this storm is really large. Im hoping the oaks outside my window are left standing if this part of Virginia gets it. Last year several neighbors with trees on houses and one missed mine by 3 or 4 feet. Big trees, It’s no fun.
If the storm were closer to the coast right now places in NC and Virginia would probably have seen 20 or so inches of rain. Irene produced that I think. Also this storm is moving pretty slow and being so big that places are going to experience tropical force winds longer than the typical hurricane. 24, 48 hours of continuous wind.
Plus some places may recieve up to 50 inches of snow in the mountains. Pretty unusual and big storm.
This storm is also supposed to produce 25 foot waves in lake Michigan. We can only wait and see.
Hurrican Ike hit Louisville with NO RAIN.. just several hours of 50-75 mph winds, and knocked out power to nearly 70% of the city. Power was out for MANY people for almost a week.
We call it, the ‘rainless hurricane’.