NASTY SANDY CHURNING UP THE COAST

still well in advance of the storm
things aren't looking good for Tangier Island



water is high in the Chesapeake today

No worries farmerman, the forecast now for Maryland is it could snow way up in Northwest Maryland as the hurricane moves thru. Our weather has a lot to do with the landscape, it's not flat and smooth like BillM's gray matter. Mountains, a still fairly warm Atlantic, too many rivers and bodies of water to count just in my county alone, and we hug the Bay. Warm air from the south and cold air from Canada makes the weather an adventure.

It's dinner time at the glitterbags, I'm headed off for a while, and will check back later if we still have power. Menu tonight, slow roasted pork , mashed potatoes, gravy and I'm not sure what kind of veggie I'll serve.

We had a storm cell site over my city this summer and one in 2004 that each created over $100 million dollars in damage. Thankfully, power was not an issue, but very few city's storm or sewage systems can handle a downpour like this.
I remember driving during the '04 storm and watching man hole covers being pushed up over 6 ft, suspended on raging spouts of water. One after the other, they popped off all the way down a major road. Thankfully, most of the cars had pulled over or these projectiles could have tipped a car and or killed someone. The water filled underpasses in seconds, trapping people in cars, some nearly drowned. The only reason they didn't is because the storm surge left as quickly as came.
Sandy is predicted to move slowly and sit in some areas for hours. Then add wind...
Stay safe.

<so good to see ya around, Glitter>

Two conflicting policies from the city due to the hurricane:


Yet...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.html#sha=57c842bd4

Sorry I know what a knot happen to be however it not normally use by the weather bureau for wind speed for info released to the public at least.

Just waiting and hoping everyone will be ok.

Please keep checking in, folks.

Hey dumb dumb, this is for you. A knot is a unit of measurement for wind speed. In a station model diagram, the knot is generally the standard unit used to indicate wind speed. Mathematically, one knot is equal to approximately 1.1508 statute miles

the rain is just starting and the storm is about 1000 miles away.

all USGS and MOAA speeds for wind and water are in Kts. Bill wants another pissin contest

I know. It's pretty simple to google it.
Apparently, in his backwoods area, they still use the wet finger method.

What a freak of nature this thing is? We still have a bit of wind left over in Sarasota (20-25 mph gusts). Atlanta also is windy now 30 mph gusts. Almost 2/3 of the whole east coastal region is affected. Awesome and fearsome.

I just saw that. OH ****. We went out to Tangier to kayak around the wetlands that urround the island. We were there for 3 days this summer. The residents all have golf carts that they keep stored up on shell middens that are maybe 3 ft high . I still never found out what they do with their sewage

the storm is still almost 550 mi from Solomons

It is a freak.

We've now had two days of rain from the storm that may be meeting up with Sandy.

Huuuuuuge storm system meeting a huuuuuuuuuge storm system.

Yuck.

Idiot I had known the meaning of a knot for the last 50 years right after I read my first book on navigation.

The concept came with such other concepts as plotting great circle routes and it come from doing a nautical mile an hour.

Nautical mile is one minute of arc of longitude at the equator or one minute of arc of latitude measured along any meridian.

It is not normally used by the national weather bureau when communicating with the public however.

footnote the meter was first define in a similar manner as 1/10,000,000 of the quadrant of the earth's circumference running from the North Pole, to the equator.

The storm is big......that does not mean it is very bad for many. It could be, but the track record on forcast correctness has not been good and one of the things that matters most (storm surge forcasts) has been so wrong and such a big range to be nearly useless.

Once more the unit that the weather bureau used to communicated to the American public is mph not knots or the meter system.

farmerman, Do you mean Solomons Island Maryland? And Ceili, are you on the Va or Md side of the Bay? During Isabel, we lost power for 4 days, my neighborhood wasn't flooded, but in pockets nearby there were flash floods and lots of road closed until flooded areas cleared up. I think I know the storm you are talking about last August, remarkably we didn't lose power but a lot of very tall trees toppled over, roots and all. The one I'm thinking about came up late afternoon, skies darkened, tornado watch and we hunkered down under the staircase with two dogs. It came and went quickly but parts of Baltimore and I think D.C. lost power, some areas as long as 7 days.