This time it’s Olivia and supposed to hit our entire state as a Category 1 hurricane if it isn’t weakened to s tropical storm soon. The reporters are hopeful of weakening.
It’s 600 or so miles away and moving faster than Lane, which is good as it won’t cause as much flooding and heavy rains as Lane did. Wish us luck!
My big annual event for nearly 200 people is Friday—hoping my medically fragile folks and others will still show up! Keeping my fingers crossed!
There are other storms threatening other states as well.
We are on track to meet Florence. I am scheduled to be in Boston Tues through Friday. It looked like earlier the storm would come and go while away. The track is slowing. Therefore, the chances of me flying back on Friday are slim. I’ll be worrying about DH and DD.
I had thought about driving up to NH to visit my daughter at school this weekend, but I’ll go another time. Coastal flooding looks to be an issue between here and there, and I don’t need to be on the wrong side of a closed bridge.
In the meantime, there’s Facetime.
Prayers for all those in harm’s way, either Atlantic or Pacific!
We are facing Florence later this week but we have already had a ton of rain over the weekend. Tides are extremely high in my coastal town. It’s been windy all weekend too. I woke up at 4am to no power, but thankfully it came back on in time for everyone to shower (well water so if no power, no water) My kids had to leave early this morning b/c the road they normally take to school is closed due to flooding and since we live on a peninsula, there is only one way for all the residents to detour around it. Tons of traffic this morning and the storm is days away.
My daughter lives in the USVI so I am keeping an eye on Isaac. Currently looks like her island will be ok and her housing made it through Irmaria intact.
Florence is on track to be like Harvey: barreling in as a Cat 4, then staying like an uninvited guest for days, dropping huge amounts of rain. Flooding is predicted to be catastrophic.
I am really stressing about Florence - I live in an area that is projected to get the bulk of the rainfall inland. We’ve had so much rain already this summer and then over the weekend - it’s just making me very anxious. Watching CNN - the models are now projecting 10 - 20 inches of rain in my area.
@sabaray, Prepare for massive flooding and power outages. Food, flashlights, medicine, a generator, maybe a boat if you live somewhere that could be flooded. This is predicted to be bad. Fingers crossed that the predictions are wrong.
Yes, when everything is already saturated because of lots of rain, there’s nowhere for heavy rains to go, so lots of flooding. Hope it doesn’t happen, but best to prepare for the worst. Will fill gas and get our things which we need anyway, hopefully before big crowds.
@Thumper – as of now, it looks like there will be a lot of rain and some moderate flooding on the Jersey Shore, but (fingers crossed, knock on wood) nothing catastrophic–I think our neighbors to the south will fare far worse, unfortunately.
Whereabouts will you be staying and weddinging? (and yeah, thinking the wedding will be indoors.) Jersey Shore weddings are the best, in any case!
The long range US model has gone nuts with Florence. It has the storm barreling up to the NC coast, doing a loop offshore, then heading into NC+SC+GA. Basically, it’s saying that the steering currents stop and the storm meanders around the SE US. You can see a hint of this in the NHC discussion (starting with “There is a new player…”):
