<p>I am following the Nor’easter that is hitting the East Coast on the Weather Channel.</p>
<p>There are still high winds on the Virginia coast and the storm has also hit the Outer Banks of North Carolina.</p>
<p>Thoughts and prayers going out to those on the coast.</p>
<p>The Weather Channel must be getting a lot of viewers this morning. My mother just called to make sure that we were surviving the terrible rain / flooding that she saw on TV…Which is thoughtful, but we live in a Philadelphia suburb about 100 miles from the coast. We’re doing just fine, but mom’s geography is a little fuzzy!</p>
<p>Or maybe she just wanted an excuse to call. :)</p>
<p>Glad you are ok in PA. That was thoughtful of your mom to call :)</p>
<p>The Weather Channel has coined the term “Nor Ida !”</p>
<p>The governor of Va. declared a state of emergency on Wed. amid the flood threats.</p>
<p>The first year my CA son was in Boston in school they were predicting a Nor’ easter.
I grew up on the East coast. He called me “what’s a nor’easter?” I laughed… “You are about to find out.”</p>
<p>My office overlooks Baltimore’s harbor. Today’s tide is VERY high.</p>
<p>(Eastern VA)</p>
<p>The fields around my house are now ponds and the island that was in the middle of our actual pond is no more. </p>
<p>There’s just a random tree sticking up out of the water where the island was.</p>
<p>We had a 2 hour delay for school today. Most of the surrounding counties had it a bit worse thought. Most of them were out.</p>
<p>It was pretty bad. Luckily, my county had only very minor damages and power outages. The debris was actually not that bad either. Only a few branches and trees down in the road.</p>
<p>Ugh, but God…it’s so…dreary and wet…the gutters and ditches are overflowing. ><</p>
<p>Ugh, this storm has worn me out. First, I was worried about S1 who is near Pensacola.
He made it through just fine and thought the day off work was a great. Then, I switched to worrying about S2 who’s in college in eastern NC ( and was ticked that classes at his sch. weren’t cancelled) and my in-laws who are on the OBX.
All are fine. Good Riddance Ida.</p>
<p>The Hampton Roads area was hit very hard. One of mine is in Norfolk. She drove through a puddle yesterday morning and then her car died. She is waiting for it to stop raining for a day to try and start it. She said it was better parked than on her street that got very high. The city of Norfolk has been basically shut down for two days.</p>
<p>(eastern LI)–Our local ocean beaches are just about gone. The water has reached (cut) into the dunes.</p>
<p>NCAA Mid-Atlantic regional cross country championship is being run tomorrow in Princess Anne, MD (eastern shore). Sounds like most of the course is under several inches of water, but the race is on!</p>
<p>Our future retirement house (and the place I love the most in the world) is down the Jersey Shore, not on a barrier island, thankfully, but in a town declared a disaster area. Decided not to drive down the Parkway tonight because of rain, winds, and trees going down, but will check it out tomorrow. Wish I was there already.</p>
<p>We live in central Jersey. Nothing but cloudy and a light drizzle all day.</p>
<p>It’s been windy here, but not that rainy.</p>
<p>LBI, Boulevard under water at bay high tides this morning ( 6ish) and this evening (7ish), with water all the way across, maybe a foot or more deep from Ship Bottom to Beach Haven. Side roads flooded up the blocks. Even at low tide, the usual places are flooded. Serious dune erosion. LB Twp yellow-taped the entrance to every beach on the south end. BH dunes look bad, fences gone, dune ripped down with water lapping up the dune 2 hours after ocean high tide. Hope this ends soon.</p>
<p>I’m curious: do they actually call storms that far south “nor’easters”? </p>
<p>The old idea was that the storm got into the ocean off Maine so the wind came back from the northeast to hit the New England coast, driving the water on to the shore. There’s dispute, btw, about whether the word is wrong; on boats, the old way of saying wind from the northeast was “noth-east” with a long o because the northwest was “nor-west.” The long o meant you could hear the difference while out in the elements. “Nor’east” would have been confusing.</p>
<p>In the northern hemisphere cyclonic storm systems rotate counter clockwise. The winds that cause a storm surge on the east coast come from northeast.</p>
<p>Right. the name comes from the wind direction. As long as I’ve lived in NJ (all my life), though, I’ve heard the word as Noreaster, applied to the storms that hit us. Perhaps we borrowed it from our friends in Maine.</p>
<p>I was wondering about this, too. This is the first time I’ve read a hurricane coming from the South described as a nor’easter!</p>
<p>From wikipedia:</p>
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[Nor’easter</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor’easter]Nor’easter”>Nor'easter - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I also used to think the name meant that they come from the NE, but actually it’s because of the rotation of the winds, which hit the shore from the NE. The storm itself usuallly moves up the shore.</p>
<p>it was 2 very bad hair days in a row, wind and rain and humidity = bad hair!</p>
<p>at least most of the grime got washed off my car :-)</p>