CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 NHC fail will be good for homeowners (I think), but insurance companies are screwed. The thing that concerns me is will this raise insurance costs to homeowners down the road and will companies charge exorbitant amount of premiums to areas that got hit by this possibly 1 in several hundred year storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmcfarland99 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Still no power here in Scarborough, ME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 NHC fail will be good for homeowners (I think), but insurance companies are screwed. The thing that concerns me is will this raise insurance costs to homeowners down the road and will companies charge exorbitant amount of premiums to areas that got hit by this possibly 1 in several hundred year storm. Two Oct 29 several hundred year events in a row Bizzare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 The number is going up here .. .now 83,200. Booo! Hopefully the Rev had that pine smash through his mancave. He's been waiting a lifetime for this. We were lucky it wasn't farther north and timing was 6 hrs slower or faster. The people along the south coast though, are a different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Two Oct 29 several hundred year events in a row Bizzare What makes this anomalous though, is not necessarily the strength....but the combo of track and strength. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&P Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 The infrastructure damage in the city... especially to mass transit... is going to be a multi billion dollar economic hit I think. Also... NHC not issuing hurricane warnings will result in huge losses to insurers... but a big benefit to homeowners. Send your thank you notes to Dr. Knabb the president! FYP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&P Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 NHC fail will be good for homeowners (I think), but insurance companies are screwed. The thing that concerns me is will this raise insurance costs to homeowners down the road and will companies charge exorbitant amount of premiums to areas that got hit by this possibly 1 in several hundred year storm. everyone will end up paying more, think katrina on steroids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 The little convective cell about to cross Matinicus Rock actually has pretty decent storm top divergence and nearly 50 dBZ to 20 kft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJHUB Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Just like Irene i am sure it will take a few days to,restore power. Hate seeing "assessing condition " on national grids site. Gonna be a long few days ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooralph Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 NHC fail will be good for homeowners (I think), but insurance companies are screwed. The thing that concerns me is will this raise insurance costs to homeowners down the road and will companies charge exorbitant amount of premiums to areas that got hit by this possibly 1 in several hundred year storm. My brother-in-law has one of the worst jobs in the world right now: he is the Director of Insurance for State of NJ. He's been harping on the potential for this disaster for years. But yes, for homeowners this is right. Billions of dollars riding on that meaningless technicality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 My brother-in-law has one of the worst jobs in the world right now: he is the Director of Insurance for State of NJ. He's been harping on the potential for this disaster for years. But yes, for homeowners this is right. Billions of dollars riding on that meaningless technicality. How did everything turn out in your neighborhood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Just like Irene i am sure it will take a few days to,restore power. Hate seeing "assessing condition " on national grids site. Gonna be a long few days ...... Yeah not sure what there is to assess when half your customers are out. Obviously you get the important things running first (schools, hospitals, etc.) but does it really matter where you start when so many are out? It appears the winds are calm enough for them to work in their bucket trucks, so that's good. I know they were concerned about getting a late start because of the storm's duration, but it seems like they should be able to make some good progress today. At least there are a lot less outages than with Irene, at least as far as CL&P is concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Power on but no Comcast. w. Ma in pretty good shape. Sun coming out. Destruction down south sounds epic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 Morning weenies. Wild evening last nite with gusts around 70. Hope everyone made it thru ok. I was thinking about all the early bust posts yesterday by the usual suspects. Hopefully a lesson learned for those folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Morning weenies. Wild evening last nite with gusts around 70. Hope everyone made it thru ok. I was thinking about all the early bust posts yesterday by the usual suspects. Hopefully a lesson learned for those folks. Your evening and exposure always made you a candidate for getting some higher winds. What was your peak gust before power went out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloudsncontrails Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Morning weenies. Wild evening last nite with gusts around 70. Hope everyone made it thru ok. I was thinking about all the early bust posts yesterday by the usual suspects. Hopefully a lesson learned for those folks. I also hope this was a lessened learned by those who "hope for the worst" after seeing all the catastrophic devastation. Especially seeing images of people who lost everything including their lives, had homes swept out to sea, or whose neighborhoods burned to the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 Your evening and exposure always made you a candidate for getting some higher winds. What was your peak gust before power went out? Im not sure because my station blew over in the wind. I measured a 58 mph earlier but that was before the warm front went thru and winds roared SE. I'm estimating around 70 . There's a lot of trees down all over town, but it would have been 10x worse with leaves on trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Had some pretty good wind gusts around here yesterday afternoon and into this morning. I'd say I saw some in the mid-40s. KELB with a max gust of 44, fitting the bill nicely. Lost power at home at 10pm last night & still off this morning. I'm at work with plenty of juice at the moment. 0.92" so far with more southeasterly lashings on the way by the looks of things. Saw a few trees down including one mid-sized white pine laying on the roof of a garage. There's your report from up north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Post-mortem for my back yard. Ended up being no worse that Irene IMBY. Couple things I took note of. The soil not being as wet and the trees not having as many leaves(later in season) saved a lot of trees from coming down and causing a lot more problems. Most of the stuff I saw this AM was dead/decaying trees that were taken down becasue they were so rotted out and small limbs/trees. And lastly, E/NE winds don't impact TAN nearly as bad as a S/SE wind. For the majority of this event winds were out of the E/NE. Power only went out for maybe 45min during the height in the mid-afternoon. My heart goes out to those who were greatly impacted by this. Just awful news coming out on the devastation. Total rain 1.81" (2 day) Peak Gust 47mph(pretty meh) Lower than Irene in fact Max Sustained 25mph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny and Warm Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I also hope this was a lessened learned by those who "hope for the worst" after seeing all the catastrophic devastation. Especially seeing images of people who lost everything including their lives, had homes swept out to sea, or whose neighborhoods burned to the ground. good luck with that. Hoping for the worst possible meteorological conditions while hoping no one is harmed are not mutually exclusive thoughts. It has been reconciled on this and several other iterations of this board for many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 My cousin looks to have lost her house in NJ. She was evacuated last night when the water was up to her waist. Her and her husband had not evacuated since he works for the DPW. Don;t know why she didn't go though. My heart goes out to her right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Had .3" rain in the gauge at 10pm. Woke up to 1.4" pretty good rain overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoob40 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 good luck with that. Hoping for the worst possible meteorological conditions while hoping no one is harmed are not mutually exclusive thoughts. It has been reconciled on this and several other iterations of this board for many years. Sure it has been reconciled; that does not make it valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin W Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Post-mortem for my back yard. Ended up being no worse that Irene IMBY. Couple things I took note of. The soil not being as wet and the trees not having as many leaves(later in season) saved a lot of trees from coming down and causing a lot more problems. Most of the stuff I saw this AM was dead/decaying trees that were taken down becasue they were so rotted out and small limbs/trees. And lastly, E/NE winds don't impact TAN nearly as bad as a S/SE wind. For the majority of this event winds were out of the E/NE. Power only went out for maybe 45min during the height in the mid-afternoon. My heart goes out to those who were greatly impacted by this. Just awful news coming out on the devastation. Total rain 1.81" (2 day) Peak Gust 47mph(pretty meh) Lower than Irene in fact Max Sustained 25mph Nice write-up. Sums up my backyard as well. I thought Irene was quite a bit more powerful in our area. In that one, you could hear branches and trees cracking/coming down quite often in the distance. Not so yesterday. We lost power for 10 seconds yesterday. One for the books though, that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Post-mortem for my back yard. Ended up being no worse that Irene IMBY. Couple things I took note of. The soil not being as wet and the trees not having as many leaves(later in season) saved a lot of trees from coming down and causing a lot more problems. Most of the stuff I saw this AM was dead/decaying trees that were taken down becasue they were so rotted out and small limbs/trees. And lastly, E/NE winds don't impact TAN nearly as bad as a S/SE wind. For the majority of this event winds were out of the E/NE. Power only went out for maybe 45min during the height in the mid-afternoon. My heart goes out to those who were greatly impacted by this. Just awful news coming out on the devastation. Total rain 1.81" (2 day) Peak Gust 47mph(pretty meh) Lower than Irene in fact Max Sustained 25mph Not that i was expecting much anyways being so far away from the center, But my top gust was the same and we received 1.60" rainfall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Im not sure because my station blew over in the wind. I measured a 58 mph earlier but that was before the warm front went thru and winds roared SE. I'm estimating around 70 . There's a lot of trees down all over town, but it would have been 10x worse with leaves on trees. agreed, no comparison in tree damage despite similar winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I also hope this was a lessened learned by those who "hope for the worst" after seeing all the catastrophic devastation. Especially seeing images of people who lost everything including their lives, had homes swept out to sea, or whose neighborhoods burned to the ground. very well said. We are all weather freaks but whats happening to many of our neighbors on this board is hellacious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 agreed, no comparison in tree damage despite similar winds. also...2-3 years of brutal winter storms, Irene and the Halloween storm prob helped thin the herd on weak trees and branches and little rain helped too (mostly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonkis Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Coast Guard House Blcok Island Block Island (the old harbor/corn neck road area faces east) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HimoorWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 We got hit very hard by Irene last year, and I think that really helped us this year - lots of weak trees down last year. We were also lucky that the winds ramped up beginning Saturday night - our large oaks were still pretty fully leafed on Saturday, but shed a lot of leaves before the peak winds arrived. also...2-3 years of brutal winter storms, Irene and the Halloween storm prob helped thin the herd on weak trees and branches and little rain helped too (mostly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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