My cousin just moved to Norfolk, VA. In her first week she's experienced an earthquake and now it appears a hurricane is headed her way.

 

how old is your cousin*

 

um... I think it may rain here in Central Mass.

Thats all, I think.

 

um... I think it may rain here in Central Mass.

Thats all, I think.

haha yeah youd like to think so.

my uncle is a warning coordinating meteorologist with NOAA, he sent me the latest plots, which are starting to agree. He said the issue is the models all just took a western sway.

Most of rhode island will be start seeing the storm approximately the middle of sunday afternoon (times on the plots are based on eye of the storm), predicted crappy weather as far as 36 hours before that.

landfall in the northeast is predicted to still be a cat 1 hurricane (sustained 74-96mph winds).

here you can see the convergence of the models.

 

Im a little bit concerned, i mean last time we had a hurricane we went 2 weeks with no power and that was a smaller hurricanr than what is projected. Im leaving tommorow to go on a camping trip 3 hours northwest in the mountains with my girlfriend but im still a little concerned.

 

Neat. This site also offers the multi-model view, just click on the forecast models selection in the upper right.

 

Most recent models confirm saabkids post, very westerly track that's going to destroy poor lil' central CT. All the saabs will be under cover.

 

It's heading straight for Iceland!!!!1!!1!!11!!!!1!OMGWTFBJORK!!!

 

It'll sure put a damper on my weekend plans. The fact that they are predicting it will hit the northeast with wind like that is rather impressive. I'll be sure to move my Saabs away from any trees...

I guess we'll see what happens.

 

You know, of all the rotten things I wish on Connecticut, a hurricane just isn't one of them.

Buy bottled water and chainsaws, folks.

 

...Buy bottled water and chainsaws, folks.

You misspelled "beer."

 

I know, I know...I've been having trouble with my speeling lately.

 

Do you guys think ill get hit up in Appomatox? I really dont need a tree falling on my tent, or me for that matter. That would ruin the whole trip :winky:

 

Aw shit, well this puts a damper on me moving back into college Sunday, it is like a sign to just stay away.

 

A lot of my family lives in the Outer Banks of NC and they're definitely preparing for the worst. They're used to these situations, but everyone is pretty much freaking out. I'm sure some coastal counties in NC are evacuating.

Couldn't imagine having SCD this weekend............impossible. Look forward to it being rescheduled to next weekend:th_MySaab900Like:

 

So yeah, many of the tracks are now putting it right over central CT and central Mass.

My friends here is on the emergency planning broad and he said they are preparing for bad news bears here. No power, ect.

Checking my supplies and I think we are ok. Water, 10 gallons of beer/hard cider, chips, fruit, bread and other easy to eat uncook food.

Biggest thing that makes it easy here is we have many neighbors with generators and wells. Water/showers will not be a problem.

 

Im not too worried about the weather here. It rained a little yesterday. It will probably rain a little over the weekend.

 

im headed to Ocean City for the weekend to watch the weather, supposed to be getting it pretty good.

 

Pretty sure they already have an evacuation order so I doubt your goin there.

 

pretty much sums up my thoughts

 

I bought an extra 120 rounds of 7.62x54r, and made sure the chainsaw has fuel. Other than that, I've got all the stuff I need, but I don't see it getting terrible this far inland. At least this way, any would be looters will be fucked if they come to my house and actually make it inside. Again, I highly doubt it would get that far, but one never knows.

 

I bought an extra 120 rounds of 7.62x54r, and made sure the chainsaw has fuel.

hehe...what do you got that uses the 54r? Nagant?

 

cool little toy to play with

WunderMap Interactive Radar & Weather Stations : Weather Underground

-set map type to "map"
-uncheck nexrad
-select model data
-select model "GFS"
-select map type "wind"
-zoom out a tad and click play

for extra, you can scroll down a tad and select "hurricane" to have the 2/3'rds cone overlayed also.

im watching this tool closely to see what winds are/will be doing...looksl ike we might just barely skirt the 6-70 knot wind and stay in the 40-50 range.

 

I'm fecked. I'm supposed to be in NYC on Sunday morning. We'll see how that goes.

 

Um, they're shutting down the subways tomorrow at noon until Monday. Depending on wind speeds, they'll shut down the bridges into the city. They've canceled a lot of events throughout NYC at this point.

I'd steer way the heck clear.

 

I'll be sitting in some NYC bar sipping a cold one at this time on Sunday. Wanna bet?

 

Not really worried, expecting wind and rain....

 

Worried aobut flooding, no flood insurance I am right on a creek that flooded once when a dam broke... oh well only the basement is below the flood plane

 

I just got done prepping for the hurricane I converted a carport into a garage so I used the Saab to weight it down LOL also took some picks for the insurance just incase

 

shit is closing in to my area right now
car is sitting safely (i hope) in the shop
luckily still have power... not sure how long before we gotta kick the generator on

 

It's been a beautiful weekend here! Mid 80's and mostly sunny, low humidity. :th_dblthumb2:

Seriously, I hope everyone in Irenes path stays safe and no damage happens to your Saabs.

I hope everyone got their panic shopping done in time. :biggrin:

 

We did some rearranging here at the compound and managed to get, with not too much effort, 19 cars under cover.

It's minorly windy here at present. The wind is blowing around the rain a bit.