Winter Storm Threatens East Coast? Batten Down the Hatches

[Mrs. Peel]

Well, we are west of the Allegheny mountains which should help buffer the storm a bit. This morning the news said our area will get around 5 inches of rain, probably along with high winds, hitting on Monday and going through till Wednesday. So I guess the only thing we need to worry about is water in the basement and loss of power. Going out later to fill up the car with gas and get some odds and ends. Timing our shopping trip with the start of the Steelers football game, hoping it will mean less people in the grocery store. ;)

 

[Deleted member 8431]

We are not in danger of the east coast storm but we are about to get hit by a Tsunami any minute, we are safe on higher ground and prepared for such an event food water ect. They are expecting up to 7ft waves, we only got about a 2 hr. warning. I was out when the warning came and watched people rush to the gas stations and stores gas and water sold out. Most people are not PREPARED at all! Hopefully it won't be bad. Gotta go I'll let y'all know how it goes.

Fwiw, just saw that on the real-time monitoring service. It mentions 2 major quakes in Prince-Rupert. One 7.1 mag, one 7.7 mag, at least 10 of 5.0+ mag and 20-30 others of lesser amplitude all in the area. Yep, pretty active.

The tsunami is being reported from San-Diego up to Alaska following the coast all along up until the penninsula. It is also reported in Hawai but I can't say if it's the same.

Glad you're ok!

Peace.

 

[aragorn]

Yesterday I hear at RFI that in France you will receive snow and cold, it is very early for that! Can it be also because of this storm?

I hope every one is safe and nothing dangerous will happen.

As a side note, we got our first snowfall a couple of days ago here in Finland. This is early even for these parts of the globe. Now we have temperatures around -2C. Even the meteorologists are now saying that we could be heading for an extremely cold winter with lots of snow.

 

[Renaissance]

We're in the hudson valley area of NY, so we're preparing to get hit. We went out to get some last minute supplies and food at the market on Friday and it was eerily empty. I suppose word was just getting out at that point.

We had already done some canning so we had some food supplies on hand, but the past two days we've been canning non-stop and we'll be very prepared! Hatches are battened. :)

The idea about storing water in gallon ziplock bags in the tub is a great one; thanks for that Guardian.

 

[Laura]

I've been watching the animated satellite images and I wonder if they forecasters are even close to right. I've watched the spiral bands of the storm stroking up against the line of front clouds and it looks to me like the front is pushing it away somewhat. It may be feeding moisture into the front, but it doesn't really look like the front is going to get supercharged. I could be wrong, but it just seems way over-hyped to me.

 

[Laura]

I did have a crazy idea while watching that thing spinning along for the tenth time or so: what if it grabs all that cold air and zooms across to England and dumps everything there? Yeah, I know, wild. But it continues to move NE at 13 mph and I don't see a hint of it wanting to turn left. I'll be checking it ever hour or so.

 

[Meager1]

It may be feeding moisture into the front, but it doesn't really look like the front is going to get supercharged. I could be wrong, but it just seems way over-hyped to me.

Yeah, you could be right.
The merchants are making a killing though, there's hardly a loaf of bread left on the shelves.

And if they don`t restock right away after this, then what?

Just a gut feeling but, this seems to be a set up, hyped up, situation to cover up, something else.

And a freaky storm, the second year in a row on Halloween?

Last time we had some pretty strange occurrences with falling trees, I wonder what it might be this time?


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[loreta]

What about the American elections? It is not convenient a big storm during elections? Or people afraid to go outside "in case" the wind will come and take their bodies in the air? I know it can be a serious situation but listening about the preparations in NY city I have the sensation of déjà vu. And people, always, are so afraid and so docile. Sandy when it arrived in Cuba was it so terrible? Not so much, I think.

 

[Joe]

I've been watching the animated satellite images and I wonder if they forecasters are even close to right. I've watched the spiral bands of the storm stroking up against the line of front clouds and it looks to me like the front is pushing it away somewhat. It may be feeding moisture into the front, but it doesn't really look like the front is going to get supercharged. I could be wrong, but it just seems way over-hyped to me.

That is more or less what Corbyn predicted 3 days ago:

The track of Sandy from Friday 26th onwards is likely to be TO THE EAST OF THE STANDARD MODEL TRACK (ie curving slightly rightwards compared to standard models - such as forecast iaaued 2am edt Oct 25 http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201218_5day.html ) and so LESS OF A THREAT to mainland USA. "This will happen because of solar particle factors and we are 80% sure of this. We made similar corrections to the track of Irene and some other Storms last year which were confirmed.

 

[Laura]

That is more or less what Corbyn predicted 3 days ago:

The track of Sandy from Friday 26th onwards is likely to be TO THE EAST OF THE STANDARD MODEL TRACK (ie curving slightly rightwards compared to standard models - such as forecast iaaued 2am edt Oct 25 http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201218_5day.html ) and so LESS OF A THREAT to mainland USA. "This will happen because of solar particle factors and we are 80% sure of this. We made similar corrections to the track of Irene and some other Storms last year which were confirmed.

Well, hallelujah! Somebody is paying attention.

All I can say is if that thing takes a sharp left to the West, it will be one of the strangest things I've ever seen. I HAVE seen a hurricane do strange things, like Elena back in 1988, standing still for about 3 days right off the coast from where I lived. So anything is possible. But right now, it's moving steadily NE and with every hour that it goes 13 miles forward, it's drifting farther to the East.

Now, if it had hugged the Florida coast, that would be one thing, but it started the easterly drift as soon as it crossed the islands.

 

[Laura]

Geeze, they are going nuts!

Hurricane Sandy prompts mass evacuation in New York City

The mayor of New York City ordered the mandatory evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents as Hurricane Sandy roars towards the east coast of the U.S. and parts of Canada, bringing punishing winds, heavy rainfall and storm surges.

At a press conference Sunday, Michael Bloomberg said some 375,000 people in a number of coastal areas including Coney Island, lower Manhattan and parts of the Queens neighbourhood would need to leave their homes. He said those affected would have to stay with family and friends outside of the evacuation area or at one of the 72 shelters the city has set up.

Officials in New York have also ordered the closure of its public transportation system, beginning at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday, causing problems for those trying to leave the affected area on buses and subways....

According to this map, Sandy is supposed to start the turning process on Monday morning by 9 a.m. Okay, that's tomorrow. We watch it and see if it happens.

 

[anart]

That is more or less what Corbyn predicted 3 days ago:

The track of Sandy from Friday 26th onwards is likely to be TO THE EAST OF THE STANDARD MODEL TRACK (ie curving slightly rightwards compared to standard models - such as forecast iaaued 2am edt Oct 25 http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201218_5day.html ) and so LESS OF A THREAT to mainland USA. "This will happen because of solar particle factors and we are 80% sure of this. We made similar corrections to the track of Irene and some other Storms last year which were confirmed.

Well, hallelujah! Somebody is paying attention.

All I can say is if that thing takes a sharp left to the West, it will be one of the strangest things I've ever seen. I HAVE seen a hurricane do strange things, like Elena back in 1988, standing still for about 3 days right off the coast from where I lived. So anything is possible. But right now, it's moving steadily NE and with every hour that it goes 13 miles forward, it's drifting farther to the East.

Now, if it had hugged the Florida coast, that would be one thing, but it started the easterly drift as soon as it crossed the islands.

The standard model is putting a LOT of stock in that westerly front coming down from Greenland - you can see it kind of squishing the northeast part of the hurricane system even now on the satellite flash loop. They basically think that Greenland front will drive it into the east coast. I'm not so sure about that, but I think you're right, anything is possible and it will be interesting to see which way it actually ends up moving. One thing is for certain, they are programming people for the worst and using this as another exercise to evacuate parts of NYC, and exert populace control in other areas - so when that happens one must always factor in the "test run" possibility. A lot of negative/anxious energy is getting spent by the populace over this already and it's still a day out, so someone's having a feeding fest.

 

[Niall]

One thing is for certain, they are programming people for the worst and using this as another exercise to evacuate parts of NYC, and exert populace control in other areas - so when that happens one must always factor in the "test run" possibility. A lot of negative/anxious energy is getting spent by the populace over this already and it's still a day out, so someone's having a feeding fest.

Yeh that's something that bothered me about the Guardian headline of the article I posted earlier in this thread:

"Hurricane Sandy barrels towards the US – will it really be the end of days?"
_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/25/hurricanes-sandy-us-east-coast

"End of days"? Sandy had barely left Cuba at this point!

 

[Laura]

Meanwhile, we ARE having some interesting weather here in France.
http://www.infoclimat.fr/bulletins-quotidiens-de-suivi-search-2012-10-28.html

183 km/h wind in La Ciotat (all-time record)
70 cm snow in 24 hours in the Alps

Scroll down. Lots of pictures including some shots of the biggest ferry connecting to Corsica that almost sank in the port of Marseille.

 

[Deleted member 4320]

BTW, in Poland: "Autumn snow fall cuts power lines, disrupts travel in Poland".

Heavy snow fall in central and southern Poland has caused power cuts in some areas and disrupted rail and air services.
Up to 70,000 households did not have electricity, Sunday morning, in the Mazovia province after snow fell throughout Saturday.

Flights were disrupted on Saturday night in and out of the newly-opened Modlin airport, 45 kilometres from Warsaw, though services were operating normally today.

Up to one hour delays were being reported to travel times on some rail services in and out of the capital, Warsaw.

Police recorded 99 accidents on Saturday, which killed 12 people and injured 124 as the early winter-like weather made driving conditions treacherous.

On Sunday morning, however, the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways said that all roads were passable, though road conditions were difficult in the Podlasie, Mazovia, Silesia, Lodz and Warmia-Mazury provinces.

Temperatures will remain at around 3 degrees Celsius through Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and will then rise to around 8 or 9 degrees by Friday.
_http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/116698,Autumn-snow-fall-cuts-power-lines-disrupts-travel-in-Poland