D lives in Providence and was caught in heavy rain yesterday. When she looked in her bag she had 2-3 inches of standing water. Her cell phone was fried. It looked like the sims card but evidently the entire phone burned out.
Of course I worried all afternoon until she went to the store and replaced it as she is driving back and forth to Boston today and Saturday. She is suppose to go to wine tasting this weekend with her BF. So now I will worry about flash floods for them ( if they go after all).
Here’s a good tracking map.
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2015/hurricane-Joaquin
In VA we are not that worried about the hurricane. It has rained for the past week and a Nor’easter is expected that will dump another seven inches of water on us. Many school systems in the western/hilly part of the state are closed due to expected flash flooding. We typically lose a lot of trees and that’s very dangerous.
Anyone scheduled for the SAT on Sat (LOL) should keep a watch here:
https://sat.collegeboard.org/register/sat-test-center-closings?ep_ch=CO&ep_mid=11154617&ep_rid=168538920
My son took the notorious June SAT. He can’t catch a break. He’s good enough for his matches and safeties but needs to bump it up for the reaches.
I was going to postpone a trip to Cape Cod on Sunday…but now it looks like Sunday will be just cloudy…no rain.
This forecast, however, is a moving target. It’s raining now.
I love the name of this hurricane. Every time I look at it I think “wahhhhkeeen!!”
Seriously, hope it spares everyone and shuttles off to the sea.
I was happy to finally hear how this name was pronounced. I always thought it was “Joe Quinn”.
@toledo, every storm does have a silver lining! 
We had over 6" of rain on Wednesday, and there was quite a bit of flooding in and around Portland. The main road from my town to Portland always floods in big rains, and this was no exception. I just stayed in and took the dogs out for pee breaks. No big walks that day!
Our major concern is losing power in a Nor’easter, and having the cellar flood due to no sump pump. On Wednesday, the pump kept chugging along. I’m hoping the rest of the big rains miss us.
I just read that there is a cargo ship missing since last night ( wonder why so long to report ) It left Jacksonville and was reported to be taking on water…last contact was near the eye of Joaquin, near PR…troubling news
^ I thought I heard hours ago that the coast guard was doing helicopter rescues of the people on board that ship.
Never mind. It was another ship that had its passengers rescued.
Reports of bad flooding along the Jersey shore from friends today.
I actually read about it around lunch time today for the first time, so about nine hours ago.
Is it over now? It got so cold that I had to go out and get CO detectors to turn on the heat. My furnace has a crack in the heat exchanger. The new one will be installed next Monday.
I am freaking freezing with high winds and rain in metro New York last night and this morning. Burrr!!!
It seems like this is the storm with no end ! I am in coastal souther NJ area and we are taking a pounding ( although not as much rain as the Carolinas. I am only seeing pictures from others , via news sources or friends and neighbors that were out in it yesterday.
I heard that there are some without power, but it didn’t seem too heavy…the erosion from our newly replenished beaches is awful. It looks like we have two more days of flooding here.
Just decided, with a sigh, to turn the furnace on. Good thing I did, too, because the drain valve is so clogged, or otherwise not working, so that I can’t drain any water to get gunk out and fill with fresh (steam furnace). So I’ll run it to get the chill off this weekend, but will probably need a plumber to check it out soon. Glad I found this out now.
CT inland reporting. It’s cool and damp…but not raining. And only clouds are in our forecast for the next few days.
It’s been chilly and damp here the last few days and I’ve turned on heat the last two mornings to get chill/dampness out if the house. Forecast looks much nicer for next week.
My husband and I drove from Quebec to Maryland in the yuckiness yesterday. It was not fun.
49 degrees this morning. What the heck?
Send the Arc. Charleston is flooding.
how did you make out? most of the coastal areas had significant flooding, so i’m guessing since I don’t see an update from you that you are in cleanup mode.
thoughts are with you and anyone else that flooded…I hope you didn’t have too much lost or too terrible of a mess.