Time to put the earthquake behind us ... is Irene headed your way?

While the Northeast doesn’t get hit by a hurricane every year, neither does any other particular part of the US. Some years even Florida and the Gulf Coast are spared. So although we don’t get them “frequently”, we get them often enough that they aren’t unknown here.

I expect we’ll be getting some gale force winds and a lot of rain in northern Connecticut on Sunday night. (Last year I tried to sail in the remnants of Earl in Massachusetts, but we didn’t get much breeze inland then; I ended up just sailing in the rain. It was still a nice early evening sail, though.) I’m looking forward to that. The coastal damage and storm surge the comes with the storm… well, that’s just part of what has to be planned for on the coast, and good luck to those folks who don’t evacuate.

No sailing for me this time, I think.

@CWOTUS I’m talking about, while not a direct hit exactly, hurricane force winds, the storm being a Category 2, possibly, when it drives through Delaware, the mid-Atlantic, not gale force winds or a lot of rain. I do have a pretty good understanding of hurricanes and my area. Perhaps I shouldn’t have spoken for the Northeast.

Fortunately, I live in the Northwest, near the Rockies on relatively stable prairie ground, so I’m sheltered from hurricanes—- I’m pretty much safe from earthquakes too. The worst natural calamities here are usually snowstorms in winter, and the odd tornado in mid-summer. Yeah, that was crazy——an earthquake in the Eastern U.S.??

No, we are out of the line of Irene, but expecting some severe thunderstorms and also have tornado warnings & watches tonight.

Im hoping for a dud! Its too early to tell for Providence IMO

@abysmalbeauty Me too. I thought Isabel was going to hit us pretty hard and I left work early to put things away and tie things down and though we got a lot of rain and some beach erosion it really was kind of anticlimactic.

We don’t get hurricanes but often a hurricane after hitting the US east coast will swing back across the Atlantic towards Western Europe and, about 2 weeks later, we get very wet weather.

It’s time to put the hurricane behind me since I’m in NJ and the scares are usually blown out of proportion up here, but I feel bad for people more south and hope it turns out ok.

@Blackberry

Don’t be crazy, man. It’s not time to “forget about” Irene when she could be headed your way within the next day and a half or so.

@CWOTUS Lol! Yeah, it could still have some strength by the time it gets here.

Even without a lot of “strength”, look at the rain it’s going to be dumping on you. If you live near a river or body of water, that level is going to rise. I think we’ll be dealing with river flooding all through next week here in Connecticut, if those projections are even half-accurate.

@CWOTUS Ewwwwww….