Will someone please help me out here. I have looked at three different radars to learn about this hurricane, and nothing I’m seeing on the radar looks like a hurricane. I see rain up and down the east coast (which I’m assuming is the nor’easter), but when I put the radar in motion, none of these systems has the rotation of a hurricane, and you cannot detect an eye. One of the articles I said mentioned how the Bahamas were hunkered down for the storm, but again, when I look at these radars, I see no weather currently down in the Bahamas.
But articles I read are now saying it will grow to a category 4! How come I can’t see it on any weather maps?
If you are worried or not, prepare at least a bit. One decent sized storage tote will do it. Not hard .
Fill it up. Use as much water proofing as you can.
Batteries, candles, matches, canned food, extra fuel, can opener.
Couple extra extension cords–if you have an external generator.
A phone that plugs into a land line.
And prepare for pets–food, litter etc.
Tarps, duck tape.
Update the box annually. Saves lots of time and much angst. Keep a list on the box on what is in it!
Still need water and canned food.
Keep copies of your home insurance in the box plus phone number list! If you evacuate–make sure you have the essential paperwork (like insurance info) to take with you. Easy if you’ve prepared beforehand–grab the box and go.
Good list @gouf78. One thing I’ve heard people do is, if they have a smart phone, take a half hour (may not even take that long) to go around their house, opening drawers and cabinets, taking video of anything you can possibly get on video. If per chance there are tornados in conjunction with this storm, and parts of your home are destroyed and/or blown away, the video will go a LONG way in helping you trying to figure out what you might have lost.
As an aside, I now do this whenever I travel, as I lay out all my stuff on my bed when packing, I take a few pictures with my phone so if something happens to my luggage, I won’t have to recall what was in there… I have images.
If taking the whole home insurance policy is too much, you really only need the phone number to report claims and the policy number. A tree fell through our dining room one night while we were on vacation and the house sitter texted us in a panic. I keep the claim reporting phone number and policy number on my cell phone, and was able to report the claim within a few minutes from a thousand miles away.
Another way to do it is to put copies of all of your important documents on a cloud-based system like Dropbox. We have everything there-SS#'s, copies of birth certificates and insurance policies, wills, a list of important phone #'s, etc., and we use a secure, changing password. That way if anything happened to our home or we were away when disaster struck we could access the information from anywhere in the world.
“A phone that plugs into a land line.” This is actually getting problematic, in a lot of places they have replaced the old copper land line circuit with a digital connection that requires power. You can get a battery for it (they stopped supplying them automatically at verizon, the cheap $***$), that will provide some backup time, but it is not the same thing as the old copper based circuits.
NYS is activating the emergency op center and doing prep just in case. Don’t know if H will have to preposition his teams or if he will have to do anything in advance.
I haven’t been watching the Weather Channel so don’t know if they have reduced the cone and moved it further to the east yet. This morning NYS and Ct. were all still in it.
I drove through Ocean City an hour before high tide today and the bay was already flooding that side of town. The real test will begin tonight at around 11pm. Friends of ours who live in the Bay in Sea Isle City brought their cars to our house since we are no in flood zone here on the mainland. The building we are in for our new store has flooded twice in the last 50+ years…once during the storm of '62 and once during Sandy so we are a bit anxious.
The one weekend I neglect to go grocery shopping and now a possible hurricane. I’m pretty sure it will hit Charleston because we just put a new roof on our current house and the one we’re remodeling.
It’s been raining here and the tides have been really high due to the moon cycle. We’ve already experienced some flooding. I sure hope this thing fizzles out before it hits the coast.
I am optimistic about the " trend is your friend " report from Dan Skeldon Southjerseychessmom
I am not worried about the actual hurricane at this point, just the flooding which is predicted regardless. At this point, it’s just a matter of moving some inventory to higher ground temporarily and delaying the lease signing for our new tenant
Another fellow New Jerseyian here. Had my dad come by today to check out our generator and we have gas on hand for it. The memory of Sandy has not faded at all.
Also from NJ, we have our generator, some water, and basic food. Most gas stations have generators now, I think, so the gas situation shouldn’t be the same disaster as it was during Sandy. Candles, car with full gas tank. This time, it’s just DH and me, last time it was four of us. So kind of prepared, but not really worried.
Grew up in NJ and saw on my old community’s FB page today that they are lowering the lakes (man-made lake community) tomorrow in anticipation of heavy rains.
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