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lrene's Heavy Rain Impacts in PHL 8/29 - 8/31


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I'm not budging from Town Bank, NJ. When they knock I'll give them the name of my next-of-kin. I'm not scared of rain and wind. Staying with neighbors who are in their 70s and were here for Ash Wednesday '62. They said that storm didn't do squat on the West side of the Cape...all oceanfront damage which is what this one is looking like....oceanfront and barrier island/back bay flooding.

TWC says we may be dodging a bullet...."Irene is just not getting it's act together to intensify any farther and as per latest satellite frames, may be encountering some raggedness in the eye and weakening".

You don't have any idea what a hurricane going into the Delware Bay will do to the west side of the Cape do you? You do know that Town Bank is one of the lowest points in Cape May County right? You also do see that the pressure is still dropping, and the eye just closed off right? You can't compare this to the Ash Wednesday storm, two totally different monsters. You don't even live there, I could possibly see if it was your year round home. But by all means, be one of the morons who stays, and the FD has to pull them out of the house when you have water coming in, threatening to wash you away. I'm glad I won't be one of the 1st responders who has to risk life and limb because somebody from PA decided to stay, when they got told to get out.

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Important quote from the Gloria report which I think needs to be remembered here:

"Wind damage was greater on the east side of the hurricane and resulted in downed trees causing extended power outages for hundreds of thousands of people in the northeast U.S. To the west of the center, from Virginia through New Jersey, the strongest winds were from the west to northwest...after the center had passed."

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_wallets/atlantic/atl1985-prelim/gloria/prelim03.gif

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Important quote from the Gloria report which I think needs to be remembered here:

"Wind damage was greater on the east side of the hurricane and resulted in downed trees causing extended power outages for hundreds of thousands of people in the northeast U.S. To the west of the center, from Virginia through New Jersey, the strongest winds were from the west to northwest...after the center had passed."

http://www.nhc.noaa....ia/prelim03.gif

Was thinking of this when looking at the tree near the NW corner of the house we rent....its on school property otherwise my landlord would've cut it down a long time ago.

Yeah I bet a lot of the tree damage we end up getting is on the back side of the storm

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yeppers. Couldn't believe they gave you guys credit. Was it you that saw the potential or someone else??

It was me and then carried in the afternoon AFD by the day shift. That is really cool that they gave us credit on that. Nice!

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NHC official forecast has an identical track to Floyd.

Noticed that myself and am a little concerned about any westward shift - not really in the mood for 12" of rain like I had back in Morris Co. with Floyd. I've already seen Easton go completely underwater twice since moving out here.

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Mr. Gorse...

will be riding it out either at the beach (if my bosses want me to link up with another sat crew) or in the back bays of the shark river near Belmar with family...

What kind of surge could the back bays get in Monmouth County from a track 50 miles either way of the coastline?

Uncertainty this far out getting specific with coastal flooding heights as it depends on the strength and track of the hurricane. We do however have some numbers in our briefing slides about the coastal flooding.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/briefing/packages/current_briefing.pdf

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Uncertainty this far out getting specific with coastal flooding heights as it depends on the strength and track of the hurricane. We do however have some numbers in our briefing slides about the coastal flooding.

http://www.erh.noaa....nt_briefing.pdf

Mike,

I didn't see any insight in the afd on rainfall amounts within the region olther to say heavy rain with flooding potential. Can you provide your unofficial insight to us on amounts?

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