Look Out for that Hurricane

Yes I am wishing the same, we had the heavy rains and flooding this month also...

I saw the pictures in the media this morning of New York and the surrounds... so for those affected, please stay safe...

Williamsburg NYC

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Hoboken NJ

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Panic buying in Rhode Island


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new London, CT


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It's close to making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane. It certainly will not compare with the Great Hurricane of 1938 which destroyed a good part of Long Island, Connecticut Shore, Rhode Island and Nantucket. We, in the outlying areas of NJ, and NYC are getting a lot of rain and some blustery weather right now.
 

Yep, should be making landfall soon. Probably just barely as a category 1 hurricane, maybe as a powerful tropical story. Either way precautions are in order. Expect power outages and some flooding. Flooding, storm surge or rain, is usually the highest risk.

No this one will not be the storm that hit in 1938, that was probably a category 3 at landfall, much more powerful. The 1938 storm was the area's most powerful in the last 100 years. Historically and prehistorically even more powerful hurricanes have hit the area. However there are a lot more people now, and people are building in more at risk places... The good thing is that we are much better able to forecast now, so people will have more waring, if they listen.
 
Mike said:
I hope that all of you who live near the East Coast
of America & Canada stay safe, hurricane Henri is
coming your way.

Batten down the hatches.

Mike.
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Thank you Mike. I live in northeast N.J. I haven't gotten all the damage reports yet for N.J. but I'm sure some got hit with heavy winds and maybe some power outages. Newark N.J. and Queens, N.Y. had flooding that engulfed cars and required boat rescues. There are other parts of Jersey that get flooded but haven't heard news on those areas yet. We dodged a bullet in my city because all we got was heavy rain last night. No word yet if some of our areas got flooded.
 
Don M. said:
Forest fires, Floods, Hurricanes, etc., seem to be increasing, all over the world.
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I agree, it seems that way to me too.

I am just not sure it's really true. There are more and more people in the world every day and more and more people moving into harms way. Building close to the shoreline or in fire risky forests, etc. And paving or covering areas that historically helped sop up flood waters. Sea level rise, at least some, seems to be real also increasing flood risk. And the news media is much more efficient at reporting these things and probably more sensationally.

There have been many worse hurricane and flood years, going back as far as we can trace it. And there have been worse fire years, in the west 1910 was probably the worst we know of.

It would be interesting to see a good scientific analysis of how real this is vs just out feelings.
 
In Madison, NJ, it is simply raining steadily. No winds as yet, but Henri is just making landfall at the easternmost tip of Long Island and the town of Newport, Ct. is beginning to feel the brunt of it. Winds are down to 65mph.

The 1938 storm was an anomaly for L.I. and N.E. as they never saw anything like it before. The highest winds in that storm reached 156mph and was extremely destructive.

The Perfect Storm of 1991 off Nova Scotia was a Nor'Easter of mega proportions.
 
Lewkat said:
In Madison, NJ, it is simply raining steadily. No winds as yet, but Henri is just making landfall at the easternmost tip of Long Island and the town of Newport, Ct. is beginning to feel the brunt of it. Winds are down to 65mph.

The 1938 storm was an anomaly for L.I. and N.E. as they never saw anything like it before. The highest winds in that storm reached 156mph and was extremely destructive.

The Perfect Storm of 1991 off Nova Scotia was a Nor'Easter of mega proportions.
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Be careful Lewkat.
I'm boiling potatoes and making hard boiled eggs now, in case we lose power later but I don't think we will. I'm central
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Update: Hoboken was one of the towns I expected would have flooding as I said above. I see that @hollydolly posted a photo of the flooding there. Housing in Hoboken is very expensive. Too much for a place that always gets flooded. @Pecos NICE lives there.
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My daughter owned a townhouse in Hoboken for quite a number of years and liked living there. Among other things, her commute down to Times Square was pretty easy. She bought it after returning from a position in Hong Kong where she managed two watch factories, one of which was across the border in mainland China. I was greatly relieved when her company moved her back to the NYC office. She sold that townhouse a couple of years ago and moved to Washington State where she has set up her own consulting business. She still goes out to Hong Kong a couple of times a year and I cringe every time she makes that trip.
She never experienced flooding at her townhouse house in Hoboken, and I will admit that area is very pretty. I can certainly see it as an area where a fellow like Nice would enjoy living.
 
We live in New Jersey just a few miles from the border of PA. Right now it is raining on and off. There is not a leaf moving. Looks and feels like the lull before the storm. I worry about our trees coming down which are old and near our house.
For lack of something to do I may go out and pick some tomatoes because I'm sure with all this rain they will be waterlogged and Tuesday is suppose to be a very hot, sunny day. They will crack from the heat.
Not much more to do but wait.
I hope all my east coast neighbors stay safe.
 
Lewkat said:
The 1938 storm was an anomaly for L.I. and N.E. as they never saw anything like it before.
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It is true that most people living in 1938 had never seen anything like it, but it really was not an anomaly, just a rare event. Hurricanes that bad or worse hit the New York area about once every 100 years. This is an interesting article on historic hurricanes in New England: http://www.geo.brown.edu/georesearch/esh/QE/Publications/GSAB2001/JDonnelly/Succotash/Succotach.pdf to quote:

"Five intense (category 3 or greater) hurricanes occurring in 1635, 1638, 1815, 1869, and 1938 have made landfall on the New England coast since European settlement"

And geological evidence has shown even more powerful prehistoric hurricanes within the last 1,000 years.
RadishRose said:
Sandy was a huge disaster!
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Yes it was, but it was not a particularly powerful storm in historic perspective. Just hit the soft spot and caught a lot of people unprepared, it could have been much worse. Someday it will be.

We are not ready for or preparing for the most powerful storms that will inevitably hit, even without global warming effects... Human nature doesn't seem to help us understand these risks very well.
 
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Thank you for starting this thread, @Mike
even though it is very far away from yourself. :)

My part of the world is a lot closer to this storm than Mike's, ;)

so I have been watching the possible tracks, through areas I am very familiar with.
My area will definitely notice some effects of this one, here,
but we are a ways farther North, so will not get the brunt of this one, that is stronger hitting South of here.

It might be Sandy that I remember getting here after the bad hit on NJ and NY, and it was still hitting my windows very hard, and the water pouring through.

Anyway, I have been thinking of those who are getting this one more directly than myself. Take care, and glad to see the posts.
 
BTW, as was said above, Hurricane season is picking up in strength and frequency, so there will be more of them,
which are likely to impact Florida;

but most of these tropical storms and hurricanes, lose their huge and destructive power , before getting as far North along the East coast of the USA, as New Jersey and NY city.

Of course, all of them are important and do matter, as they do impact people.
We particularly like to know how our members are doing.
And the information is always interesting and informative, as well.
 
RadishRose said:
I'm boiling potatoes and making hard boiled eggs now, in case we lose power later but I don't think we will
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I often have to prepare like that, in case of power outages, and I do similar.
I also put some food items into a small cooler, that I can use freely without opening the refrigerator or freezer, once the power goes out, when it does. I can eat more easily, and foods do not spoil as quickly, then.
 
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