We Could Talk About The Weather

[ad4mg]

We find ourselves in a no win scenario. The forecast for central Virginia is 5-7 inches of rain, starting tomorrow evening, from the nor'easter, then nobody seems to know what the idiot hurricane will do. Many models have it coming right up the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. That has the potential to be catastrophic. Our worst case scenario here in Richmond is for it to cross the outer banks. The last hurricane to actually hit Richmond was Isabel, and that was the path it took.

Of course, Virginia Beach and the mouth of the bay are barely 100 miles away. We're in deep doo-doo here...

[KK4AMI]

My wife and I are in our new house on Albemarle Sound. We are going to spend our first hurricane watching out the back window to see how high the Sound gets . I went to the local hardware store to pick up blue tarps, plywood and Duct tape. Even tested the generator. I also picked up plastic pipe to extend the gutters away from the house. Hopefully it will drain the rain away from the house and keep the crawl space dry.

[KG4CGC]

Stay safe you guys and do whatever it takes.

[KØWVM]

For you guys along NC and Virginia coastline, if it looks as if there is a "point of no return" with this one, I would leave... especially if flooding and the surge start to hit. If you are down by the VA Beach, area and it heads that way... get out of there at the soonest!

[n2ize]

Here is a video of a sample of what happened with NYC transit during the last Hurricane Sandy. Trains were actually lifted vie derrick and transferred to high capacity flatbed trucks to bring in shuttle service to the most devastated areas. It was brutal, time consuming and backbreaking work but the MTA managed not only to provide "rescue service" but to get lines up and running ahead of anticipated scheduling. I hope and pray that Hurricane Joachim isn't as bad as Sandy and hopefully it won't follow the same track. Still, here in the New York Metro area we are well braced for the worst. And even if it doesn't pack the punch of Sandy they say it will still cause flooding in coastal and low lying areas. That's why I am taking the time and getting prepped and ready in the event we do get a worst case scenario.

[KG4CGC]

May not be quite as bad as it was forecast to be yesterday but you're still going to get a lot of rain. We're having flood warnings in effect until 8pm Monday with severe localized flooding due to the fact that the rain making clouds will be passing through so slowly. It is at this time being called a 1500 year rain event with forecast rain of up to 15 inches for west central South Carolina.

[n2ize]

May not be quite as bad as it was forecast to be yesterday but you're still going to get a lot of rain. We're having flood warnings in effect until 8pm Monday with severe localized flooding due to the fact that the rain making clouds will be passing through so slowly. It is at this time being called a 1500 year rain event with forecast rain of up to 15 inches for west central South Carolina.

I hope not as bad. We can do without the extreme winds that were the hallmark of Sandy in my area. Nonetheless, even without major tide swells or winds the heavy rain will cause a lot of localized flooding as rivers crest and low lying land fills up with water. Still not a good thing. Hopefully after this mess we can proceed too a normal autumn and winter season. But remember, there could be more. sandy hit at the end of October into the beginning of November. In the next 5 weeks anything can happen.

[n2ize]

In the meantime the weather here is finally getting great. Yesterday and today daytime highs were only in the 50's. For the first time in months I wore a long sleeved shirt. Overnight it went down into the 40's. No need for running any air conditioners or fans. Had the window of my home office open all through the night and it's 47 deg F outside and a nice comfortable 61 F deg. inside. We had a rather hot August and all of September was pretty hot and humid. Now that October has arrived it feels as if the autumn weather is finally taking hold.

[KG4NEL]

IT GON RAIN

[N8YX]

Forecast track now moves Joacquin more northeast than previous models had it going. Great news for those along the east coast.

...but...

We could certainly use a bit of rain. I haven't had to cut the grass since early August. The ground is dry...so dry that when I was splitting wood with a maul in the back yard and gouged the surface the topsoil underneath the grass was powdery.

This weekend we're forecast to get some - maybe from the system which is inundating Charles's area - but I doubt it'll do much good for the lawns this year.