Comments on: Hurricane Hermine – Day 5

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 03:34:51 +0000

Things has shifted to the Atlantic Coast the last few years. Long Island and the Canadian Maritime are seeing a lot more activity. Yes, Baltimore is not all that far above sea level and people aren’t perpared for this sort of weather.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 02:27:57 +0000

Bryan, shortly after my last post here, I switched my concerns to Stella’s brothers; one lives not far from Atlanta, the other, near Baltimore. I have a feeling they’re very wet by now. There are a lot of reasons I’m glad I don’t live in Baltimore; this is one of them. I’m not saying we won’t get some tropical weather before the season is over, but so far, everything that has come through here has been very, very mild.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:13:06 +0000

I hope you have stocked up because it is on its way to make your life miserable. Coastal Virginia is already being affected and it is pulling in and dumping water from both the Gulf and the Atlantic. They are forecasting a possible storm surge of 7′ in Long Island Sound. This thing isn’t finished making annoying people and preventing a nice Labor Day weekend for millions.

By: JuanitaM

JuanitaM — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 17:46:42 +0000

Happy to hear it missed you! Thankfully for all, it was a Category 1 this time. I was in a Cat 1 when Bob went through the Outer Banks many moons ago. It convinced me that I never wanted to be in a Cat 2 or higher. :-/

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 12:41:46 +0000

Thanks for your concern but this was an Eastern Time Zone storm after it made a comforting, for me, turn a bit further to the right late yesterday morning.

It will be a mess because we haven’t had a hurricane come ashore anywhere in the state since 2005, and it was 40 years before that when the last storm hit this area of the coast. Hermine did a lot of ‘pruning’.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 12:02:51 +0000

Stay safe, my friend…

(One of our local meteorologists misread the name of the storm last week and called it “Hermione” several times before he was corrected. Truly a magic hurricane!)

By: JuanitaM

JuanitaM — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:27:46 +0000

Stay safe, Bryan! Hope you’re not one of those without power.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:12:24 +0000

We dump a lot of kibble in the crawl spaces and they make out. The foundations block the wind and the sand keeps down the flooding. The fools who bought or built the houses on the water are going to have surge flooding again. Sooner or later they are going to find out that the flood insurance takes the property after so many claims to stop paying claims on it.

It’s drifting east which is good news for me. The storm going to east of your location really reduces the impact. It is probably going to take out the oyster crop for a while as it is head for the big commercial areas down near Aoalachicola.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:56:31 +0000

Ouch. I know you’ll stay safe, this ain’t your first rodeo, but hope the ferals stay safe too… hurricanes are no place for kittehs :(.