I'll take a blizzard over a hurricane any day, a 48 hour inconvenience at best (here in Maryland). Last year, my kids had no electricity for nearly two weeks in Nola.
Looks Like Lucky Streak is Over
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I'm watching Ian closely. I'm in central North Carolina. We get the edges and backwash of hurricanes from time to time. In 1996, Fran made a left turn and came inland and though the windspeed wasn't super high, it hit right after a series of heavy rains and trees all over town, big old growth oaks and many pines, toppled on power lines, buildings, and across roads. It was extreme, and we were cleaning up for weeks, really months.
Two years later, we got heavy rains from Floyd that caused huge flooding at the coast and somewhat inland. I think the flooding with Floyd may have been worse than that with Fran. If that cone will keep turning eastward, we'll just get rain. Right now, rain is predicted for next weekend. Even with all the research and tracking, the tracks on these storms remain unpredictable. If it tracks up the coast, we could get only showers.
This hurricane season reminds me of the dialogue from those old Westerns, where one guy says, "It's mighty quiet out there." And the other guys says, "Yeah, too quiet."
Two years later, we got heavy rains from Floyd that caused huge flooding at the coast and somewhat inland. I think the flooding with Floyd may have been worse than that with Fran. If that cone will keep turning eastward, we'll just get rain. Right now, rain is predicted for next weekend. Even with all the research and tracking, the tracks on these storms remain unpredictable. If it tracks up the coast, we could get only showers.
This hurricane season reminds me of the dialogue from those old Westerns, where one guy says, "It's mighty quiet out there." And the other guys says, "Yeah, too quiet."
The bigger problem with living where massive super cell storms are common isn’t the tornadoes as much as the frequent large hail. The same propensity for massive convection and instability creates big hail. Golf ball hail is not infrequent here in Tornado Alley. If your roof survives 10 years where I live you’re doing well.
Several years ago we had a bad storm and a friend a few miles away recovered 7” hailstones from his yard. He had more than 20 holes clear through his roof decking. My gutters were perforated but only one hole in the roof. Still had to replace a 5 year old Class 4 roof. Yard looked like a bombing range.
More of Nature’s rich majesty to choose from. It’s certainly a pick your poison kind of thing.
Funny you should mention Tokyo. When Frank Lloyd Write designed the Imperial Hotel he added a "shock absorber" in the form of a 60' thick pad of mud under the foundations. It provided firm enough support for the weight of the building while also allowing it to ride out earthquakes that flattened everything around it.
I've been though dozens of earthquakes, some of them pretty strong. Doesn't faze me.
Stay safe and best of luck.
I believe the last hurricane to make landfall in Georgia was '79. Ya'll have gotten slapped around pretty good by storms coming up through the panhandle though.
As long as we're talking hurricanes, another amazing fact: The weather tracking guys who buzz around the Swirl as well as into the eye and back out many times in a single flight to take meteorological measurements... and have been doing it for decades...
...have never lost a plane.
...have never lost a plane.
Um... Not really...
The western piece could snap off at that skinny spot any second and fall into West Virginia, and you'd become PART of West Virginia.
Then you'd have to stop doing your restaurant gig and become a coal miner.
Thanks George, I hadn't considered that, till now! I'm just to the right, at the intersection of I-81 and I-70,so we have a little meat on the bone (five miles to WV or PA and Boswells, thank god)
Western MD had tried to seceed from Maryland, to WV several times. WV never wants us. I think on the last attempt, when questioned, Governor Justice just said "uh, no".
Western MD had tried to seceed from Maryland, to WV several times. WV never wants us. I think on the last attempt, when questioned, Governor Justice just said "uh, no".
The tower i lived in in SoCal had rollers, state of the art earthquake proof, i didn’t know that, when the April 1st 7.x hit the entire 17 story building swayed over a foot from side to side, i won’t bother saying it scared the
outta me but i freaked, specially being on the 14th floor. I found out it was suppose to move like that the next day. Seriously freaked me out.
Hurricanes are just part of living in Florida, the gulf coast, or near the oceans. After 25 years of dealing with that crap I headed to the mountains in '04.
What sort of response is that?!
A real man would go straight to the landfall beach, stand on the shore, shake his fist at the approaching blackness and say, "Bring it on, Jupiter! You pussy! Is that all ya got? I'm gonna kick yer ass!" and embarrass the storm into turning around or dissipating.
Living on the barrier island is always a good time in a hurricane, the only problem is when they want ppl to evacuate they close the bridges and can’t open them to traffic until the DOT inspects them after the hurricane, that can take a couple days so we are cutoff from the mainland.
As Ron White, the comedian, said, “It ain’t that the wind is blowin, it’s what the wind is blowin”.
The tower i lived in in SoCal had rollers, state of the art earthquake proof, i didn’t know that, when the April 1st 7.x hit the entire 17 story building swayed over a foot from side to side, i won’t bother saying it scared the
