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10-28-2012, 04:21 PM | #1 |
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Its gonna be a tropical depression when it hits and not even a noreaster.. .big fcking deal
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10-28-2012, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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10-28-2012, 04:33 PM | #3 |
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If you read the article I posted, the issue is that this "hybrid" storm won't weaken like a normal tropical storm - it'll get stronger. They're saying that they could have hurricane force winds hundreds of miles inland where they've never seen winds like that before.
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10-28-2012, 06:01 PM | #4 |
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10-29-2012, 02:40 AM | #5 |
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10-29-2012, 05:56 AM | #6 |
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Rain and wind is getting pretty hard now...and it's just getting started. Two full days to go. Sandy (that bitch) is still 300 miles away.
I attempted to go to work today, but apparently they're taking the state of emergency and travel ban seriously. Everything's closed. |
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10-28-2012, 04:33 PM | #7 |
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The eyes supposedly coming right over my house Monday eve thats a picture of Wegmans just before Chiefs kick off. The storms been downgraded where I live just a hair. 10 inches of rain instead of 14+ 35 mph gusts of 50 instead of 50 mph gusts of 75. Last edited by The Iron Chief; 10-28-2012 at 04:42 PM.. |
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10-28-2012, 04:36 PM | #8 |
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Looks like that's a link from your email, so it's a red X.
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Pretty helpful (but long) explanation of the overall potential impact from reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/c...ng_its/c6svz5x Quote:
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10-28-2012, 11:00 PM | #10 |
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All my classes got cancelled for tomorrow, so this storm will suck incrementally less for me. But damn, that's a big-ass storm. Knowing National Grid, people's power will be out for at least a week.
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10-28-2012, 11:09 PM | #11 |
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looks like its supposed to go west in land right before boston. cool.
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10-28-2012, 11:56 PM | #12 |
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The only disagreement I have with the Reddit post quoted by DaFace above is not really even a disagreement, but an expounding on the section on rain. Unlike the relatively flat and even area around Louisiana, the mid-Atlantic is on the fall line of an old granite mountain range, with plenty of river valleys carving channels into the rock. As a result, a terrible rainstorm like this can cause horrendous damage if a localized cell of rain hits the right - that is, wrong - place. In the case of Agnes in 1972, that place was the area around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town on the banks of the Susquehanna, which was submerged in flood water to the ceilings of two story buildings. It caused tremendous loss of property before it was washed away; the effects are still being felt today.
So, usually, the rain is as he described, but it has the capacity to do even more damage than the storm surge, if it hits the right place. And there are a lot of right places round here. |
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10-29-2012, 06:30 AM | #13 |
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I just saw a graphic predicting the wind strength. The 74-mph-and-enough blob was larger than Delaware. The storm is immense.
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10-29-2012, 06:38 AM | #14 |
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Yeah, there is going to be a lot of flooding. Best of luck dude, stay safe.
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10-29-2012, 06:40 AM | #15 |
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Good luck everyone. Stay safe.
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