Mips Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 My brother on Lake Winnepisake in Meredith, NH, is reporting winds that the humingbirds are defying. The birds apparently rotated a lot but were not kept from their pursuit of nectar. Also, there was a assault force quantity of loons and ducks taking refuge from the winds and waves in a protected cove. He didn't stay to count them, being conscious of the trees, but the quantity was enough to impress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 That's terrible Chris Are you folks safe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamrivers Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=9951085&id=43632826417#!/media/set/?set=a.10150348784196418.394246.43632826417&type=1 Chesterfield pix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 While BOS has had a gust over 60, this is a garden variety tropical storm. Keep in mind I compare to direct hitting much stronger storms and my nearly 65 years gives me a longer perspective. In my area, some trees, lots of branches, but nothing that isn't seen every year in a few events. The wind whistling through fully leafed trees always is awesome. But I felt less safe walking around trees in one of this past winter's blizzards. Now..that said, GC and s cstl areas got a different effect but for most of us, this is a typical TS, and about literally 1/10th as impactful as hurricanes I've lived through, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Those are some crazy pics Chris...thanks for posting. Was bound to happen W of the track and that just happened to be GC. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCWeather Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Nearly one million without power in MA, RI and CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamrivers Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Video from Westfield Shops, Westfield, MA - near Westfield River - the shopping center is across the street from the river Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Interesting perspective. We do love the extremes...but we have all seen posters (today even) hoping for big damage. Obviously we cannot effect how it happens. I was really impressed with the met knowledge you and others showed with this event Thanks.....I just try to soak up all I can from Will, Ryan, John, et al..... Following Gilbert hooked me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Windcredible! Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 I do recall being pissed off after the Ice Storm. We had taken refuge in Belmont, where it had just rained a bit. People were just acting normal while outside of 495 there was devestation How did the Albany area fare today? Well they did issue state of emergency for counties in the region up here. Lots of double digit rainfall amounts in the hilltowns around Albany. Sounds like ~5" here in the valley. Flooding in flood prone areas. Was a mudslide in Troy that has taken out a few homes. Winds probably gusted in the 40s for a time...but mostly just leaves and branches down from what I've seen/heard. Kept power at my place...but sounds like 20k without power in Albany Co alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mips Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 I do recall being pissed off after the Ice Storm. We had taken refuge in Belmont, where it had just rained a bit. People were just acting normal while outside of 495 there was devestation There was also weirdness: My street had nothing but rain, nothing but rain across the opposite slope...but drive 2 miles to the end of the road, turn W, drive for a country block length to the next intersection and enter into a crystal landscape that only got worse the further West you drove. We were less than a half mile from the freezing line (as crows fly). That was one of the strangest things I ever saw. I did say I liked my quiet little corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamrivers Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Capt. Ray Keefe of the Vermont State Police said that "epic" flooding from the pounding rain had put a number of towns in southern Vermont underwater. "Many of our roads are impassable at this point," he said, adding that Wilmington, Marlboro, Dover and Brattleboro were especially hard hit. "We are advising people to get up to the highest point of their residence because we just can't get to them right now." "The flooding is epic right now," he said. "We're doing our best to help the people who need it the most." There have been no confirmed deaths so far, he said, but the state police are looking into a report of people being swept into a river in Wilmington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 Disastrous flooding going down out here. Pretty much no where to go. Downtown Greenfield inaccessible. 91 closed in both directions due to fear of bridge compromise in Deerfield. Rt 5& 10 closed so there is no way to get south of here! Rt W closed due to mudslide. E. due to flooding. Nash Mill Rd Greenfield. Flooding 1/4 mile wide. Dam breach on Green River about a mile up from my house. Covered bridge taken out. Wow! Sorry to hear. That's right across the way from the Valley Medical Group. I was out there a few months ago for a project we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 convoy of line workers on 151 near otis afb trying to fix high tension wires? Anyway wont be getting power back at the houses and probably most of the area so I'm on the road back home. some damage here in W Falmouth however at the south coast more extensive damij. hopefully the wind dies down soon so crossing bridge isnt too rough lol. axesmileys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Capt. Ray Keefe of the Vermont State Police said that "epic" flooding from the pounding rain had put a number of towns in southern Vermont underwater. "Many of our roads are impassable at this point," he said, adding that Wilmington, Marlboro, Dover and Brattleboro were especially hard hit. "We are advising people to get up to the highest point of their residence because we just can't get to them right now." "The flooding is epic right now," he said. "We're doing our best to help the people who need it the most." There have been no confirmed deaths so far, he said, but the state police are looking into a report of people being swept into a river in Wilmington. Wow.....must have been the Shawsheen....it's like 1\4 mile from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Apparently some trees were down blocking eastbound Mass Turnpike in Newton as well as Prudential Exit.... now cleared. Some thoughts: 1) Re: storm strength / disappointment: While this may not have surpassed Gloria for Eastern MA, the widespread impact to the northeast was immense. Historic flooding to Western Mass, CT, NYC suburbs, Philly suburbs. When was the last time we had such widespread power outages? I think it's fair to extrapolate that had this maintained Cat 2-3 status (and real Cat 2-3 status) prior to landfall in NYC/LI/CT, this could have surpassed Katrina in terms of devastation and disruption of the nation's financial centers. 2) Re: passion for extreme weather: To be clear, I don't think anyone on this board wishes harm to other people. Maybe for some there is a fascination with destruction... the same draw that people have to watching things like "Faces of Death". I agree with Ray's comment: we are in awe of nature's beauty, power and extremes, just like other hobbiests/professions are fascinated by bad extremes in their own fields (as another example, there are conferences in medicine dedicated to particularly unusual conditions, unusually aggressive cancers, unusually aggressive infections, unusually complicated patients, etc., though doctors work to make patients healthier). Weather is a field that many in the lay public share, because we don't need a degree to see it or experience it. And the more we understand meteorology and acquire historic experience, the more we can start to be fascinated by extremes that lay public does not understand (lowest minimum pressures, frontal enhancement of snowfall rates, etc.). 3) Some suggestions for post-mortem: - Lack of mixing that really diminished surface winds: this was true throughout the eastern seaboard. Strongest wind gust recordings were always during precipitation bands rotating > 100 miles from storm center. - Inability to maintain an eye with relatively favorable conditions. Was this the dry air / droughts over southern US sucked into rotation? Was this ERMs? - Size 1.5x a typical hurricane, and distance of most intense rain and wind far from the center. For sure these points are probably inter-related. Things to think about before the next big one (20 years? 2 weeks?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Wow.....must have been the Shawsheen....it's like 1\4 mile from me. Shawsheen makes it to Vermont? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 One thing to think about. Many times these events come in bunches. Hopefully the areas devastated get soared if that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Shawsheen makes it to Vermont? LOL My bad...didn't realize that was VT. I was gonna say....didn't seem to have been bad flooding, here. lol...but I haven't really been out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Hey, we can see who is on the board again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Last half an hour, wind is ripping in the Osterville area. Out driving around and there are still trees coming down. Osterville has a cloud of diesel smoke from all of the badass generators the big mansions have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Remnants of a hunting camp and snowmobile trail signs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Welp. Much needed break from the board begins. Looks like another threat coming off africa progged to hit NYC on 9/11 per the GFS. Good tracking guys. Congrats WNE and south shore again! What a year for you guys. Oh and the Euro is fooking king! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 just went outside for a bit until i walked under some groaning trees, decided to come back inside quickly lol still 30mph sustained gusting to 45mph, steady for the past 5 hours now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Home from my walk around my neighborhood...didn't see widespread significant damage but saw some damage. Street over from me had a large tree uprooted in the back of someones house and in the front and the house over there were several large limbs down. All I all I saw 6 large limbs down; 1 large tree uprooted and 1 small tree uprooted in maybe 3/4-1 mile radius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmfm Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Parents say there's widespread tree damage throughout RI. Over half the state without power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larvay Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Welp. Much needed break from the board begins. Looks like another threat coming off africa progged to hit NYC on 9/11 per the GFS. Good tracking guys. Congrats WNE and south shore again! What a year for you guys. Oh and the Euro is fooking king! See ya. Take your time coming back. When you do, please 5-post yourself. TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Pete, be safe and good luck with the recovery, friend....but we do not control the weather.....what you are implying is foolish. It's a weather forum. Really Ray? Here I was under the impression that people controlled the weather and that pigs could fly. I'm surprised that someone as intelligent as you fails to see the point. Of course we all love the weather and extreme weather is fascinating. The discussions that revolve around sound scientific principals are great. It's also great to speculate based on prior experience, those discussions serve a purpose. However, when the tenor of the conversation morphs into openly hoping for death and destruction to rain down upon your community a line is crossed. Treating the onslaught of mother nature like some beer swilling WWF fan is what is truly foolish Ray. You're right, this is a weather forum, but that does not mean boorish behavior should be tolerated. When people pray for deadly weather to beset them it tells me they really know very little about the fury of nature. Thanks for the well wishes, fortunately we're just fine but I have neighbors that have been severely impacted. It's not fun seeing people you know in distress and really, in your heart of hearts you must know it's not cool to "wish" for a hurricane to visit destruction upon yourself or others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 See ya. Take your time coming back. When you do, please 5-post yourself. TIA. lol, nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 Really Ray? Here I was under the impression that people controlled the weather and that pigs could fly. I'm surprised that someone as intelligent as you fails to see the point. Of course we all love the weather and extreme weather is fascinating. The discussions that revolve around sound scientific principals are great. It's also great to speculate based on prior experience, those discussions serve a purpose. However, when the tenor of the conversation morphs into openly hoping for death and destruction to rain down upon your community a line is crossed. Treating the onslaught of mother nature like some beer swilling WWF fan is what is truly foolish Ray. You're right, this is a weather forum, but that does not mean boorish behavior should be tolerated. When people pray for deadly weather to beset them it tells me they really know very little about the fury of nature. Thanks for the well wishes, fortunately we're just fine but I have neighbors that have been severely impacted. It's not fun seeing people you know in distress and really, in your heart of hearts you must know it's not cool to "wish" for a hurricane to visit destruction upon yourself or others. The same can be said about all the childish posts that go around here regarding bodily functions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah440 Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Remnants of a hunting camp and snowmobile trail signs. trails must have taken a beating. Just back from the ice storm and now this. urgh. btw, is that Tekoa under water I keep seeing on WWLP? Must be, only course on the river I'm aware of. My old home course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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