RE: East Coasters in the US...
October 28, 2012 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2012 at 11:39 am by festive1.)
(October 28, 2012 at 11:05 am)Annik Wrote:(October 27, 2012 at 10:11 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: Yeah, but we are used to them.
Don't make them anymore severe, we just don't freak out about them. I don't get nervous for anything lower than mid Cat 3.
The main issues are flooding and power outages, not so much direct wind damage, though the wind might cause problems with trees that still have their leaves. It's going to park itself over the eastern seaboard and we're in for heavy rains for about 3 days. New York is already suspending their subway service. Here in MD/DC we're expected to get 6-10 inches of rain... I live in the lowest area of my neighborhood... Flooding is something that concerns me. Pepco (our local electrical monopoly) sucks too. After the Derecho in July we had neighbors out of power for 8 days, during 90*+ heat. There's also projections of the low pressure system from the hurricane (or has it been downgraded to a tropical storm?) colliding with a regular low pressure system just west of us. The computer model doesn't know what that will produce, as there hasn't been an instance of this occurring since the computer models have been developed. Hopefully it'll be nothing, but better to be prepared than to be caught with just your dick in your hand.
All that being said, I'll take a serious storm over an earthquake any day.
