2009 Hurricane Season

letty and any other nearby a2kers take heed.

Winds starting to pick up (70 mph). That is a strange path it could take next week.

November storms must be different.

Looks like the Panhandle to Louisiana edgar

Mobile Bay and the far western panhandle are in the center of the cone

Man! This Ida is whippin the trees here and I'm 500 miles away! Hope this is the last one of the season.

I don't like the idea of it hitting the coast and then making a right turn.

that is an odd pattern developing

good luck to all of the Gulf Coast folks

shades of Agnes

Hurricane Ida’s passage over the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico continued into a second week after the storm had earlier killed at least 175 people and left thousands homeless in floods and mudslides across El Salvador.
That country’s chamber of commerce said that the storm also inflicted heavy losses to sugar and coffee crops.

Ida gained strength as it passed between Cuba and Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula over the weekend, attaining Category 2 force for several hours.

But the late-season storm began to sheer, weaken and lose its tropical characteristics while approaching the Gulf Coast near Mobile, Alabama, on Monday.

It barely held on to tropical storm force when making landfall along the Florida-Alabama border, but did produce widespread heavy rainfall across the Southeast.

Remnants of the storm later drifted slowly over the Carolinas and Virginia for three days, unleashing flash floods and prompting am emergency declaration by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.

As much as 8 inches of rain fell across parts of North Carolina and Virginia.

we got 3 weeks left in the season...I'm holding my breath.

We have had no flooding where I am in the hills. Most of that is in SW and SE VA. Potentially record floods tomorrow.
The problem here is the tall pines with no limbs until near the crown and a shallow root ball system. The 6" of rain softening the soil plus the 30 mph winds topple them over power lines. 30,000 households light-less tonight in NC and VA.
The Day's Inn motel parking lot this evening is full of electric company trucks, as it often is when there is a situation like this.

My daughter just called and told me there was terrible flooding in Virginia Beach from Ida. Just checked, and now a Nor'easter is playin havoc with the dunes, etc

Hopefully this is tha last big one for a while.