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Hurricane Irene and the mid-Atlantic (Pre-game show)


Ian

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Question/advice: I'm a huge weather freak and I want to drive out to Ocean City, MD Saturday evening and experience what this hurricane brings (I'm from DC btw.) Latest reports from Accu Weather & TWC are calling for 95MPH hurricane force wind gusts IN TOWN with the storm to quite possibly go right over the Delmarva! The track is moving farther west now verses farther east. My concern...I drive a minivan and want to know if I will be safe in my car in those kinds of winds or will I flip over? I'm only going up for a night drive/trip, I'm not staying anywhere in town so I will be in my car/van the entire time! Please don't answer unless you have knowledge about this (no insults meant but I'm looking for real answers/opinions instead of calling me names because I want to drive into a storm.) This is a safety concern and I thought it was better to ask before going so I know what/if I'm getting myself into.

Thanks a bunch!

Dayvid

I can't imagine them letting you in there.

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Question/advice: I'm a huge weather freak and I want to drive out to Ocean City, MD Saturday evening and experience what this hurricane brings (I'm from DC btw.) Latest reports from Accu Weather & TWC are calling for 95MPH hurricane force wind gusts IN TOWN with the storm to quite possibly go right over the Delmarva! The track is moving farther west now verses farther east. My concern...I drive a minivan and want to know if I will be safe in my car in those kinds of winds or will I flip over? I'm only going up for a night drive/trip, I'm not staying anywhere in town so I will be in my car/van the entire time! Please don't answer unless you have knowledge about this (no insults meant but I'm looking for real answers/opinions instead of calling me names because I want to drive into a storm.) This is a safety concern and I thought it was better to ask before going so I know what/if I'm getting myself into.

Thanks a bunch!

Dayvid

I'm not being mean or anything but to be quite honest - if you have to ask these kinds of questions you might not want to go unless you are a highly experienced chaser. (Like HurricaneJosh). Don't get yourself into a situation like a few of our members who shall go unnamed.

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To the OP - Also understand that they are already doing emergency phase 1 in Ocean City and come folks are already being moved out (just international workforce students for now it seems). You would be better off sticking to someplace a bit more inland. There's no sense in going out there and getting yourself into a situation. In many areas, first responders will simply stop answering calls for help if they warned people to evacuate before - so be warned. Not the smartest thing at all.

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I didn't see this posted, from HPC (tho the GFS might change it)

...MAJOR HURRICANE IRENE TO STRONGLY AFFECT THE EAST COAST FROM NC

INTO THE NEW ENGLAND THIS WEEKEND...

THE LATEST NUMERICAL GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO ADJUST WESTWARD AS HAS

THE LAST SEVERAL NHC TRACK FORECASTS WHICH NOW HAVE EYE OF IRENE

COMING THRU THE NORTH CAROLINA OUTER BANKS LATE SATURDAY BEFORE

GRAZING THE DELMARVA AND NEW JERSEY THEN MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST

ON SUNDAY. THIS POTENTIALLY COULD BE EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE WITH

MASSIVE DISRUPTIONS TO SOCIETY AND COMMERCE ALONG ITS ENTIRE TRACK

WITH VERY HIGH WINDS/STORM SURGE/OCEAN OVERWASH/BEACH

EROSION/SOUND AND BAY SIDE COASTAL FLOODING AND EXTREME TIDE

POTENTIAL. WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINS IN THE 6-10 INCH RANGE WILL BE

COMMON WITH GREATLY INCREASED INLAND FLOOD POTENTIAL. REFER TO THE

NHC FOR THE LATEST FORECAST OF IRENE ALONG WITH LOCAL NWS

WARNINGS/STATEMENTS AND ADVISORIES FROM NC INTO NEW ENGLAND.

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Vort looks to be tugging it NNW soon, faster and not east any more, only was initially.

it looked east at the beginning probably from differences early on...but if never loses any longitude up through 48...than between 48 and 54 looks to gain a little bit of a NNW track

hour 60...more of a NW trend from 0z....looks more in line with the 0z euro

hour 66....close to making landfall near OC, MD

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