the storm keeps inching northward like Toppop says, and it's now probably over New Bern, North of Wilmington and just South of Washington. But the bands are so big that everyone is going to get clobbered. And now they say it might get to cat 5 due to traveling over 80 degree water.
Geeeez. There's only so much slowing down it will do over the Outer Banks, Hatteras Island will simply get wrecked, then it goes over the Pamlico Sound, like a big Chesapeake Bay, and the water is warm in there too.
Freezing water, like that idea. On my list. Still have plenty of freezer space so might as well, even if I have to give away to others.
We have to look out for each other.
Am finally beginning to get nervous. Healthy nervous. Rick, you didn't leave your farm in 100mph winds, and I'm not leaving mine.
I know what my cheap extruded gutters sound like in 50mph gusts, can't imagine over 100 mph. They will be found up in the pine trees someplace...
Would be very happy to avoid water intrusion into house, new shingles? I need them anyway...wanted nicer imitation slate shingles and if insurance pays half, well I'm looking for silver linings even before the fan is clogged...
up at 3am mind whirring, making lists, at least I have training in this.
Am guessing my tractor and grapple is going to be appreciated by my neighbors. I'll go round and see who needs help.
In 1955 some combo of hurricanes flooded Eastern PA and the Delaware River on which our farm had land all the way down to the River.
We were up on high bluffs, but i remember at age 5 that August in 1955 standing on the hitch bar and holding on to the tractor seat as my Father drove about two miles down to the River after putting on the snow plow and start plowing people's driveways. Three to five inches of mud.
Dead animals. Nasty smells, likely everything polluted from upstream. We left muddy tracks half way home, I was watching, and finally we made it to our long gravel driveway, and while I wouldn't have admitted it then, I felt safe again. Floods are bad news, so much gets wrecked and when you are in an old community near a River, there are still plenty of homes at ground level. Which means with a 15 foot surge, they'll have between 5 and 8 feet of water in their homes, if my guess at downtown elevation is right.
Have always said I wanted to be near the water, not in it. Sure hope the fancy new townhouses built right on the River hold up.
Other than an old train bridge there, it's a straight shot down the River and into the Bay, so the "fetch" as they call it added to a hurricane
might exceed the manufacturer's warranty on their big windows...
