[SauronOfMordor]

If it comes up the Chesapeak Bay, it will get REAL interesting all along northern Virginia, Maryland, DC, and all of PA

[GOPcapitalist]

If it comes up the Chesapeak Bay, it will get REAL interesting all along northern Virginia, Maryland, DC, and all of PA

If that happens they'll probably shut down the bay bridge at Annapolis and the bridge-tunnel in the south making for one heck of a messy traffic scenario. The seas will be too high for any of the ferries to run, so the only way off delmarva will be driving north. My advice to anybody who lives there is to be ready to go the moment you know for sure that it is heading your way cause the normal routes to the east will not be open for very long if at all once it hits.

DC and Baltimore rush hours could also be a mess Friday morning from the looks of things, unless they close down for the day. A closure of the bay bridge will probably make that twice as bad cause of all the commuters who use it.

[Tuxedo]

There have only been two Cat 5 storms to hit the USA, the Labor Day Storm of 1935 (FL Keys) and Camille. This one isn't as big as Camille (or as strong), but Camille also hit a relative unpopulated area. This bad girl is aiming now for some big cities.... imagine with a strong storm surge going up Chesapeake Bay... wouldn't want to be on US 13 at that time.

[Moose4]

That's got to be the worst-case scenario, right there. It rolls across the Outer Banks and the coastal areas around Elizabeth City, then smacks head-on into Tidewater Virginia, tracks up the Bay hitting both the Delmarva and the Northern Neck/Middle Peninsula, and carries on into DC and Baltimore. Yikes.

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[AGreatPer]

I just did some calculations based on your picture on #45.

Based on the current speed, and that can change drastically, this would hit Hatteras Inlet - Outer Banks about about 2 PM, Friday the 19th. Not good. High tide is about 3 PM. For general info, low tide on the 19th is 9:30 pm and high tide for the 20th is 3:15 am.

High tides in that area raise the sea lever over two feet. Coupled with a major swell from the storm......this is real dangerous.

But it is way too early to be exact.

[Atchafalaya]

Where does the water go? Models show here in La. that a cat 4 storm coming through the Rigolets (Lake Pontchartrain's outlet to the Gulf), or up the mouth of the river will put Lake Pontchartrain in downtown New Orleans to the tune of 20- 25 feet. Not a fun scenario. Where would Chesapeak Bay go, cause that water is going to move big time if the storm hits just South of the outlet. Ya'll prepare and get out, Godspeed!