BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)

Subject: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 11:27 AM

Anybody in the red zones?

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bettynh
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 11:55 AM

I'm on the edge, Gnu, but I've been thinking of you. I live 30 miles inland now, but grew up on the Massachusetts coast. I remember losing our electricity for two weeks in the mid-fifties. I'll never cook on an electric stove thanks to that memory. And when they start all the dire warnings, my first move is to fill the bathtub, since our city water ultimately depends on electric pumps that wouldn't survive a long outage. How high will the tidal bore get with a storm surge? I remember a 6-inch ripple that didn't impress me much when I was a kid.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 11:59 AM

Current predictions are that Friday at the Maryland/Delaware beaches is not gonna be fun, but that inland (like Wash DC) will be stay dry. They say you can still plan for a decent Labor Day weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 12:01 PM

My sister had reservations for a beach cabin on Oracoke Island this week. Good thing she bought travel insurance, apparently, and they'll go visit somewhere to the south out of the path.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 12:08 PM

It should be fine if he would just turn north and then east.

Dammit Earl turn already

What will it take to turn... butterfly wings?
Everyone blow east. turn on tour fans.
push this guy out to sea.

Bill you are going to have a rainy Saturday at least.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 12:23 PM

I was in Hurricaine Bob while in Boston. IF earl is similar some large trees will fall as far as Framingham.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 12:26 PM

Donuel.. my weather program still will not admit that.. (and I am further East than you...by maybe a half-mile. Maybe you'll be dry...*grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bettynh
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 12:35 PM

Bob was a bit west of this one, Donuel. The eye passed over Block Island and Newport. A friend went to Nantucket a month after Bob. Lilacs had had their leaves completely stripped by the wind, new leaves had emerged, and they were blooming.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Becca72
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 12:55 PM

Not in the red zone but we are in the yellow zone.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:15 PM

I'm sitting in the gunsights but if the eye goes up the Bay of Fundy it will hit New Brunswick and Nova Scotia's Fundy shores hardest. If it turns right of the end of Nova Scotia Cape Breton Island is a sitting duck. I also have family in Norfolk, Va. and that also causes me concern. My best wishes for a safe ride to everyone! The temp is in the high 90's and very humid here so there is little cooling to slow the beast down!
             Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:24 PM

Here ya go, Sandy.

Here's another one.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:26 PM

Hmmmm... the image won't come up on the second link.

Same for anyone else?

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:27 PM

It worked after I tried it again.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:43 PM

The Canuck track takes the eye to 30km from me with winds of 75k (140kph). Hmmmm, I might bring in the cat, if I had one.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:58 PM

Well, looking closer at the track, I don't think 75k is gonna happen in Moncton. If it strikes the bottom of NS and continues mostly overland, I think the wind will die quickly before it gets near Moncton. Unfortunate for NS.

But, as Sandy has said, it could travel up the bay of Fundy, which would be a different kettle of fish.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bettynh
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 02:41 PM

Well, they are lining up to have a go at us. Looks like Fiona will be offshore, but Gaston? We need the rain, for sure, but I'm not thrilled at the thought of 6 months' rain in two weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:25 PM

http://www.stormpulse.com/ (requires Flash 8)

or http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:30 PM

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ says that "Fiona" is on a similar path, and needs to be considered next week also.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:49 PM

Fionna looks well out to sea to me so far... but ya never know. Now, Gaston looks poorly for the US... but ya never know.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 06:29 PM

You ain't squat, Earl!!! Bring me some rain and I might change my mind but fir now??? You are a wuss...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 07:05 PM

Named hurricanes from the tropics are not to be trifled with but unnamed ones brew up in North Atlantic waters as well. One of the worst to hit New Brunswick was dubbed the Escuminac hurricane in 1959.
Escuminac One swept over Cape Breton Island in October 1974. One sunk the Ocean Ranger of Newfoundland in 1982 Ocean Ranger. Another was the "Perfect Storm" of movie fame Perfect Storm

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: maeve
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 07:20 PM

We're hoping for little impact beyond heavy rain here, though I can't help but be concerned since we're living in the camper.

Take good care, friends.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Hollowfox
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 07:50 PM

Hey, all you 'Catters who live anywhere near North America's Atlantic coast, be careful. $#@!-reduction candles can only go so far on this kind of thing.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Janie
Date: 02 Sep 10 - 09:00 PM

Here I am, only about 225ies miles from the Outer Banks as the crow flies, and our weather here tomorrow is for a heat advisory and fire hazard. Unless hurricanes come inland along the North Carolina coast, we are much more likely to get significant weather from the remnant tropical depressions from hurricanes heading north from the Gulf.

Gonna be a blow on the coast tonight. Hope all in harm's way stay safe.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 10:49 AM

Poster verified as gnu. -Joe Offer-

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They shifted the track last night to the Bay of Fundy and directly over me but it's back on the south shore of NS now. Even though the track is 30km from me, the watch for Moncton is only gusts to 80kph so we are sitting pretty at the moment. Again, that means more folks in NS are gonna get some pretty nasty wind and rain.

I wonder how Bee will make out. Seems to me she was south of Halifax on the coast... can't recall.

Do you expect heavy winds, Sandy? I know that even a reduced storm can be twice as bad in and near the highlands.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 11:38 AM

I have not seen any posts from Bee for many months. I hope that she is keeping well and safe! George Seto is in Halifax so perhaps he will keep us informed from there.
It looks like we will only see tropical storm winds in Cape Breton. The Yarmouth to Digby coast looks like where she'll hit from the present projection.

"I know that even a reduced storm can be twice as bad in and near the highlands"
Yes, the wind speed becomes amplified by the venturi effect of the mountains and south-east winds sometimes exceed 100 mph on Cape Breton's west side. The same thing happens in Newfoundland where the winds would blow the train off of the track.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 01:27 PM

Guest at 10:49 AM was me.

I was the last car allowed by the RCMP to travel through Wreckhouse, NF once. I was driving a mid-sized rental and had taken the full insurance. Good thing because the paint chips and dents on the side of the car were real bad. I had to drive at 40kph because of the sudden gusts and I was getting a bit nervous... 1/2 gravel blown from the opposite shoulder hitting the side of the car.

But that was no match for snow and ice anywhere between Port-aux-Basques and Stephenville airport. Still gives me the willies to think about it. Wreckhouse in winter was actually better than most of that trip.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 02:52 PM

Night Owl, who lives on Cape Cod, has checked in with me, finally. She and her mom, who is 100yrs old, battened down the house, boarded the cat at a safe place, and left for the night. They are safe at a motel well-inland and have plenty of emergency supplies in the van should they need them. Phew!

My daughter in CT says it is raining a lot and slightly windy. My grandsons had a short school day because of it, but she remembers Bob, too. we lived in Mystic then and it was something. I have some astonishing photos of giant trees ripped right out of the sidewalks, lying on their sides with their roots standing tens of feet tall. we also had several bricks blown off the very old chimney of the house we rented. It took a couple of weeks to be able to get into the stable where my daughter worked in North Stonington and power lines were down there for quite awhile. I hope this one does not wind up being as back.

Stay safe, everyone!

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 02:58 PM

Looks fairly innocuous. Worst will be Yarmouth, NS to Bridgewater, NS or so with winds to 110kph according to forecasts, so not too bad. Of course, as Ron White the comedian says, "It's not THAT the wind is blowin, it's WHAT the wind is blowin."

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 03:48 PM

Wind in Newfoundland indeed! Lard tunderin' jeesis by, can't she blow!
I once tried to tow a travel trailer through that cut going into Port Aux Basques facing dead into a headwind. I was going down hill and had to keep the truck in second gear to keep from going backwards.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 04:15 PM

Yeeees, by'! She's some shockin straight out some times. Me Buddy Garge had ta tether the chickens down in a wind and take em in in a gale. One gale, they couldn't get ta the rooster. Found n the next morn at the lee end of the tether standin on one leg sideways with t'other leg 'orizontal and not a feather on n. The old lady 'ad ta knit n a pair a coveralls.

You'd think that was almost funny. Until ya seen n with a 'en in one 'and and tryin ta git them coveralls off wit t'other.

My goodness them Newfs can tell some great stories.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 04:16 PM

An so can yer Capers, eh? >;-) Hehehee.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 07:17 PM

I just put plywood over Mum's window where there's an insert with AC hoses for a portable AC. She has casement windows and the insert can't be trusted at 90kph. I took the window out entirely. Next year, a different insert will be in place and I will leave the window in and open fully, covered in plastic to keep it from getting dirty, so it can be closed for a "storm event".

We are to have a storm event according to the TV weather news. Geeze eh? When I was kid, Mum used to tell us not to go to far when it "picked up".

I am looking forward to going out in the storm event tomorrow. A pair of shorts, tee shirt and heavy socks... stand in the driveway and face the rain. It'll be far better than 45H! Event me Earl! Event me hard... until I... cool off.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 07:50 PM

Seems all Boston is going to get out of it is a rainy night.

On the other hand, a few days ago, just down the block from me, a big tree up & fell on a pickup truck in a dead calm. One second the guy was tooling along Pleasant St., and the next there was nothing but branches & leaves on his windshield.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: maeve
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 08:46 PM

Ahem...Gnu, you'll keep an eye out for my chooks, eh?

m

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 05:15 AM

6:12AM and dead calm. Warm and muggy. Got my camera ready for dawn in case it's pretty in pink. I see Earl is down to 65k and the track is further east. Max 90kph gusts, so not a problem. And it'll blow out by late afternoon. Must pick whatever tomatoes are ripe come daylight and then sit back and enjoy the storm.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 09:58 AM

I see Bridgewater is getting just over 100kph. Earl moved ashore just south of there... kinda hard to tell because the eye is not well defined in the sat pics.

He ain't doin squat here yet except making the air very muggy. Not enough of a breeze to get a breeze in the house. Even got a fan on me.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 10:22 AM

I mowed my lawn this morning so it ain't too bad yet. Wind started a couple of hours ago with a few strong gusts. The rain is just beginning. Cape Breton will see the worst of it this afternoon but it has been downgraded quite a bit.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 02:29 PM

Sounds as if the coast of Maine is just going to get some much neede3d rain and some big swells. That's good for me since my brother decided to leave our boat in the water and I'm over here in the UK.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 03:36 PM

Earl sucked more than blew here. I stood out in the worst of it in in the driveway in socks, shorts and a tee shirt. I had to lean forward in the gusts, but not far. It was refreshing. Gave the neighbours sommat to talk about and pissed my mother off, of course. When I came in (I sat with her through it as she gets nervous.) she said, "You'll never grow up." I said, "I hope not."

It was only windy for a couple of hours and I don't think we got any gusts over 80 or 90kph. Not one crack of thunder... I do enjoy a light show. Earl started to lose energy as the outer bands hit NS and quickly disipated when it reached shore.

Hope our neighbours in NS and PEI did okay. At one point, I heard power was lost for 155,000 in NS but the rural folk are well prepared for that kind of thing, although I always worry about the elderly and anyone with special needs.

The most wind was on the TV.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 04:32 PM

Not enough rain. Minimal wind.
A huge disappointment. I remember the hurricanes of my childhood taking down trees with surface roots half a block long and wide. The eye came through once and we could see the hurricane walls around us.
I guess I should be grateful for the lack of damage but it was a big disappointment.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Nancy King
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 05:47 PM

Earl was a non-event here at Sebago Lake (about 35 miles inland from Portland, ME. Got a little bit over 2 inches of rain, and that was it. Beautiful day today!

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 11:51 PM

The biggest problem seems to be the loss of power. Many in Nova Scotia are in the dark tonight, but I am fortunate to not be. The wind has let up and the storm seems to have passed. My worst damage is that most of the pears on my tree are no longer on my tree. There was one loss of life attributed to the storm in NS.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Sep 10 - 08:56 PM

It was a big blow for awhile in Halifax, NS. I lost power at 11 am yesterday, got it back at 11 today. Musch of Halifax was out of power overnight, though lights could be seen in business areas all around us(like downtown). You could hear the power generators a'buzzing all aroound. No street or traffic lights in most places.

Most of the damage was big tree limbs and some full trees. A coastal drive between Halifax and Lunenburg showed trees and limbs on the ground today.

But, it was nothing anywhere like Hurricane Juan in Halifax a few years ago. Just a little storm with some minor effects.....and some overtime for the power crews.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 06 Sep 10 - 01:46 PM

Still over 5000 without power. Great job getting power restored to the other 195,000 that lost it. Pretty tough to get all the rural areas back on the grid I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: My name is Earl. (hurricane 2010.09.02)
From: gnu
Date: 07 Nov 10 - 08:57 AM

Ya don't need a hurricane for... yet another one...

PEGGYS COVE, N.S. - A search was underway early today in Nova Scotia for a man swept off the rocks at Peggys Cove.

The Halifax search and rescue co-ordination centre says the man fell in the water late Saturday evening.

Search teams were to resume the search for the missing man at dawn.

There were several coast guard vessels on the scene and a Sea King helicopter was also assisting in the search.

A spokesman for search and rescue says the search on Saturday night was hampered by poor visibility and waves that were four metres high.