awpitt
Main Streeter
Always do.
Tropical Storm Hermine
- Thread starter GWguy
- Start date
Always do.
mmm...the best part about hurricanes: Milk sammiches.
We're almost done with our prepping: 4 5-gallon jugs of gas for the generators to keep the fridges cold, and 6 cases of beer to go in those fridges.
Done.
PeoplesElbow
Well-Known Member
My grandmothers name was Irene, she was hell on wheels.
Chris0nllyn
Well-Known Member
Depends who you are I guess.
I'm goose and dove hunting Monday, so if the storms hold the birds down for two days, maybe they'll be up and moving Monday.
Chris0nllyn
Well-Known Member
2pm model shows a similar path and it strengthening back into a hurricane off the coast of Ocean City (far out).
The warnings and watched posted early still hold true with the edge of 72 hour cone of uncertainty still smack in the middle of the bay.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/153527.shtml?5-daynl#contents
NWS's latest advisory:
The warnings and watched posted early still hold true with the edge of 72 hour cone of uncertainty still smack in the middle of the bay.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/153527.shtml?5-daynl#contents
NWS's latest advisory:
http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=lwx&wwa=hurricane local statement
Last edited:
Looking like we're going to get flooded real good. The tide was low at 9:50 this morning and was way above what would be normal high tide. At 2' 6" or thereabouts now. At 3', sections of the main road start being flooded. At 3' 6", sections of the main road become impassible in low vehicle (unless you are not real concerned about sacrificing your car). Based on what I'm seeing right now...bet we're looking at 4'. Just over a 2' surge in other words.
Of course that's a long way from the 5'5" record set by Isabell in '03.
Wind is getting pretty vicious too. From the NE with gusts above 45 right now..
Not going to be bad at all. Tide has just reached 3' and it's a little over 2 hours until high tide, so this is shaping up to be a non-event. A neighbor with a wind gauge clocked some gusts at 60 mph though..and his place is more sheltered than mine and on the same shoreline facing the same direction.
I've been meaning to get one of those fancy wifi weather stations. One of these days
I've been meaning to get one of those fancy wifi weather stations. One of these days
Final update. This was nothing. Tide barely exceeded 3' (so much for my mad predicksun skillz) and the wind is dying off and clocking north as it does.
And I see patches of blue sky appearing....let the official Labor Day celebrating begin! As soon as the water recedes a bit and we can get off the island....
And I see patches of blue sky appearing....let the official Labor Day celebrating begin! As soon as the water recedes a bit and we can get off the island....
Last edited:
We'll spend a couple hours cleaning the debris that got floated in to the yard. Nothing unusual
Sorry I didn't read this sooner. Didn't expect as of yesterday that this would be a huge event. Didn't expect winds over 33 mph. Check out this site for good info.
https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:20670.3.99999&MR=1
Here's a pic during the worst of it late morning and then one late afternoon. We had less that .1" of rain. I need rain for the garden.
Beanie had to check out the situation.
We sacrificed some crabs to the Bay gods for dinner
Hattie thought it was a walk in the park this evening
https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:20670.3.99999&MR=1
Here's a pic during the worst of it late morning and then one late afternoon. We had less that .1" of rain. I need rain for the garden.
Beanie had to check out the situation.
We sacrificed some crabs to the Bay gods for dinner
Hattie thought it was a walk in the park this evening
littlelady
God bless the USA
Hattie and Beanie! I was having withdrawals because you haven't posted, lately. Thank goodness we didn't get much of the storm. Our house is up for sale, and the last thing we needed was for a tree to fall on it; which happened with Irene. Thank goodness this storm didn't cause damage to the area. Hope all are ok. We are having crabs on Tuesday!
Last edited:
GWguy
*
And a wonderful morning for that French toast!