Hurricane

They need to get out of dodge. The ground is already saturated and the wind will have branches flying everywhere. Norfolk will be flooded. Power outages up and down the coast.

Mass chaos.

[rpncaine]

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Yes indeed.



DOOOOOOOM!

With its eyewall collapsed and just 24 more hours over water before landfall, it is unlikely Irene will have time to build a new eyewall and intensify. The storm is too large to weaken quickly, and the best forecast is that Irene will be a Category 2 hurricane at landfall in North Carolina on Saturday, and a rapidly weakening Category 1 hurricane at its second landfall in New England on Sunday. However, since Irene is such a huge storm--tropical storm force winds extend out up to 290 miles from the center--it has set a massive amount of the ocean's surface in motion, which will cause a much larger storm surge than the winds would suggest. At 9:30am EDT this morning, a wind analysis from NOAA/HRD (Figure 1) indicated that the potential storm surge damage from Irene rated a 5.1 on a scale of 0 to 6. This is equivalent to the storm surge a typical Category 4 hurricane would have. While this damage potential should gradually decline as Irene moves northwards and weakens, we can still expect a storm surge one full Saffir-Simpson Category higher than Irene's winds. Since tides are at their highest levels of the month this weekend due to the new moon, storm surge flooding will be at a maximum during the high tidal cycles that will occur at 8 pm Saturday night and 8 am Sunday morning. Wherever Irene happens to be at those times the storm surge damage potential will be maximized. A surge rivaling that experienced during Hurricane Isabel in 2003 is likely in northern NC, southern Maryland, and up Chesapeake Bay on Saturday night. Coastal New England from New York City to Massachusetts may also see storm surges characteristic of a Category 1 hurricane during Sunday morning's high tide, even if Irene has weakened to a tropical storm. I continue to give a 20% chance that a storm surge high enough to over-top the Manhattan flood walls and swamp the New York City subway system will occur on Sunday.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

[MaTH716]

Sounds like things are starting to heat up here in central Jersey.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Sounds like things are starting to heat up here in central Jersey.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricanes/...ry?id=14393026

[2MinsToPost]

Concerned that alot of people are not respecting this storm based on the Cat 1 status. It is so much more, so large. I learned something today in that the winds 20 stories up are much stronger then the Cat 1 rating. Storm surge, flooding, man be safe. A very good friend of mine from Middle and Junior High is a Chief Dispatcher for 911 in New York City and I'll just say this, he is planning on a night and day only one can imagine. Be safe.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by 2MinsToPost

Concerned that alot of people are not respecting this storm based on the Cat 1 status. It is so much more, so large. I learned something today in that the winds 20 stories up are much stronger then the Cat 1 rating. Storm surge, flooding, man be safe. A very good friend of mine from Middle and Junior High is a Chief Dispatcher for 911 in New York City and I'll just say this, he is planning on a night and day only one can imagine. Be safe.

Yawn. Welcome to 2011 where every storm is a catastrophic 50 year event. People in Florida do a Cat 1 on Sat and dont miss a tee time on Sunday. Congrats to all those that survived this catastrophic storm but please dont consume all my bandwith as you rush to post your harrowing survival stories on facebook.

This post is intended as satire folks in case you miss the point.