East Coasters... Batten Down the Hatches!
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So just what did you wish for when you blew out those birthday candles a few days ago?
Hope that's the key - take the time and effort to be ready for it and it goes the other way!
That's the option I've looked into. Already have some of what I need to do the trenching. I always know before the alarm goes off when we're gonna get it. Driveway has a slope where it makes the turn to the house and you can actually see the water welling up out of the ground as it gets closer. Yes, glad that most of it can escape. Furnace is very old and don't know if it can take another major flooding.
So just what did you wish for when you blew out those birthday candles a few days ago?
Today is my birthday and I did not make a wish yet. I will make it now: GO OUT TO SEA!
VA just declared a state of emergency.
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Hope that's the key - take the time and effort to be ready for it and it goes the other way!
That's the option I've looked into. Already have some of what I need to do the trenching. I always know before the alarm goes off when we're gonna get it. Driveway has a slope where it makes the turn to the house and you can actually see the water welling up out of the ground as it gets closer. Yes, glad that most of it can escape. Furnace is very old and don't know if it can take another major flooding.
The land sloped towards the front of my house. Rented an excavator for a few weeks, land now slopes away from the front of my house. Hauled the dirt to the back woods on my land and spread it around with a bobcat. A weeks rental is not that expensive ($500?) considering it would take us a year to dig by hand what the excavator could dig in a week.
Its fun to rent equipment, the wife is a good operator too.
That's one of the problems here. Hill funnels the rain down behind the house. I can put a drainage trench back there but it's not gonna be easy. Hard to get equipment back there and only half is my land.
Buddy just called to see if we had a quake, don't see one listed, I did not notice,
had some tremors in the past two weeks again.
The epicenter of the big East coast earthquake was about 16 miles from me.
During one of the countless aftershocks, We actually had a small earthquake during a hurricane.
That was pretty surreal.
had some tremors in the past two weeks again.
The epicenter of the big East coast earthquake was about 16 miles from me.
During one of the countless aftershocks, We actually had a small earthquake during a hurricane.
That was pretty surreal.
NOAA Update - YIKES!
11:00 PM EDT Wed Sep 30
Location: 23.8°N 73.1°W
Moving: SW at 6 mph
Min pressure: 951 mb
Max sustained: 115 mph <-----CAT 3
This is not good as NOAA expects more strengthening.
FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS
INIT 01/0300Z 23.8N 73.1W 100 KT 115 MPH
12H 01/1200Z 23.5N 73.8W 110 KT 125 MPH
24H 02/0000Z 23.6N 74.5W 120 KT 140 MPH <-- CAT 4
36H 02/1200Z 24.7N 74.8W 120 KT 140 MPH
48H 03/0000Z 26.6N 74.7W 110 KT 125 MPH
72H 04/0000Z 31.6N 74.7W 95 KT 110 MPH
96H 05/0000Z 36.2N 75.6W 85 KT 100 MPH
120H 06/0000Z 38.5N 76.5W 55 KT 65 MPH
11:00 PM EDT Wed Sep 30
Location: 23.8°N 73.1°W
Moving: SW at 6 mph
Min pressure: 951 mb
Max sustained: 115 mph <-----CAT 3
This is not good as NOAA expects more strengthening.
FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS
INIT 01/0300Z 23.8N 73.1W 100 KT 115 MPH
12H 01/1200Z 23.5N 73.8W 110 KT 125 MPH
24H 02/0000Z 23.6N 74.5W 120 KT 140 MPH <-- CAT 4
36H 02/1200Z 24.7N 74.8W 120 KT 140 MPH
48H 03/0000Z 26.6N 74.7W 110 KT 125 MPH
72H 04/0000Z 31.6N 74.7W 95 KT 110 MPH
96H 05/0000Z 36.2N 75.6W 85 KT 100 MPH
120H 06/0000Z 38.5N 76.5W 55 KT 65 MPH
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Looks like it will be a Cat 4 shortly for a short time.
Should be a Cat 2 by the time it hit land fall on Sunday.
Should be a Cat 2 by the time it hit land fall on Sunday.
I have done my best to send this storm out to sea. It keeps trending eastward
with no apparent landfall on the east coast now.
At least now I have all my preps in place for winter storms and my new bud is on the pole post haste.
with no apparent landfall on the east coast now.
At least now I have all my preps in place for winter storms and my new bud is on the pole post haste.
When I was still living in Florida that is exatly what Jean did. Just got our power back from Francis and Jean made a U-turn and slammed us.So it's gonna circle around and get us on the second pass?
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