NASTY SANDY CHURNING UP THE COAST

only if you stop spelling phonetically. Its hard to go against my nature,

Ive been attuned to these dry patches that occur in torms. I think we will see mpre of them because the Appalachians tp our west is the junction of the Blue Mtns and the Blue Ridge and there is a noticeable cleft between them not unlike the Passes in Va and South.
When Irene came through last year, it was sucking in dry air through the passes and that mollified the intensity of the storm in our area AND IT THEN "bLOSSOMED" IN New England.With Sandy, however, WE WONT see that until the storm is on top of us because she is coming in from the east and not the south

she's here...

That 's a brutal counter-demand.

hey beth is the rain over where youre at?

My rain gage goes up to 4 inches (Its magnified with small 0.01 divisions. Weve already had over 4 inches and the storm wont be here till this evening

The phsyics of this is fascinating to me, having watched or having been affected by these storms these since 1954. I've got a really bad feeling about this one - epsecially with such a mass of 30-50M people and their lives and livelihoods in it's wide path. A major part of population and economy is at risk.

We're on day 3.5 of rain. The storm from the west stalled over us and now seems to be getting pushed back by Sandy.

It is bucketing rain here again/still. There's already some flooding.

= ???????

Its 1O:O4AM, and all is well in NYC.
The wind has picked up a little, with no visible rainfall at the moment.





David

Thanks, Butrflynet.

That was a great summary by Jeff Masters (again).

Now I'm wondering (will have to investigate) how the water gets in the subway tunnels and what they could ever do to prevent that, past sand bagging madly.
Even if there were some engineerable/buildable at great expense moving curtain, power supply could be iffy.

edit:
That sounded dumb, I know it enters the tunnel(s) naturally - I was wondering what the entrance looks like.

Not sure this will post here as it's a photo posted on FB. Storm surge in Atlantic City is flooding the downtown area even though the storm is still 200miles offshore.

This one is from Ocean City, MD

Wildwood, NJ

GOES-13 satellite image at 9:02 am Monday.

It looks like PA will get the most time with Sandy as she spends more than 24 hours over the state. Also, although still officially a Cat 1 storm, the wind field is wide and the surge potential is high. Coastal flooding from the surge has already begun even though she's still a couple hundred miles offshore. This summary is from "Weatherboy Weather"

Pieces of the Atlantic City, NJ boardwalk are floating through the streets.

Istricken ship HMS Bounty, which sank off the coast of North Carolina, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Earlier Monday, two Coast Guard helicopters rescued 14 people from life rafts after they were forced to abandon ship.

They were flown to Air Station Elizabeth City in North Carolina where they were met by awaiting emergency medical services personnel, the Coast Guard said.


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An aircraft was on the scene, searching for the two missing crew members, with a Jayhawk helicopter en route to assist.

"It appears that two crew members didn't make it onto the life rafts," Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Michael Patterson told NBC News. The Coast Guard was speaking with the rescued crew members to find out more details.


The owner of the 180-foot, three mast ship -- which was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie, "Mutiny on the Bounty" -- lost communication with the crew and alerted the

The Coast Guard then received a distress signal from the ship showing its position. It sent out an aircraft to speak with the crew, which reported that the vessel was taking on water and had no propulsion. It was located about 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C.

“The 16 people donned cold water survival suits and life jackets before launching in two 25-man lifeboats with canopies,” the Coast Guard said in the statement. It had earlier reported that there were 17 people aboard the ship.

The director of the HMS Bounty Organization, Tracie Simonin, said that the tall ship left Connecticut last week for St. Petersburg, Fla. The crew had been in constant contact with the National Hurricane Center and tried to go around the storm, she said.

The ship was earlier surrounded by 18-foot seas and 40 mph winds as Hurricane Sandy moves through the area.


Glimpse into maritime history
The Bounty makes frequent trips around the country, offering a glimpse into maritime history, according to the ship's website, which now appears to be down. It was originally a British transport vessel, and the replica has appeared in several films, including the 2006 movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," with Johnny Depp. Its last stop before its winter hiatus in Galveston, Texas, was to be in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Nov. 10.

It is unclear why the boat set out to sea with Sandy bearing down. Sandy could be the largest storm ever to hit the United States, according to NOAA's website.

I'm not sure where you are in PA, but I'm sure you are far more in the path of this thing than I am. New Hampshire will probably be spared most of this, but people south of here near the actual track are gonna get soaked (and wind blasted). Hopefully you're not situated on low ground near a river. Flash flooding from rivers is probably the primary danger for people who are well inland.

Conditions here right now are relatively mild. We've got a sustained breeze of 15mph with a few gusts up to 30mph and almost no rain, just a lot of drizzle. I'm about 50 miles inland, so I'm sure it's worse on the coast right now.

Holy Moly!