Double Bass Irene

[Bob Gollihur]

We got back (were out of town for a coincidental family wedding) and all is well, no harm done. The traffic from all the county residents + vacationers returning or coming down turned our two hour trip to a crawling 5hr one.

I'm fried... but happy to be home. Thanks for the good wishes.

 

[kg4muc]

Gov Christie did one heck of a job getting things done in short order ! And there was not a lot of patting on the back and such as you usually hear..or at least I didn't hear such. Maybe the other state leaders should pay close attention to this as well as FEMA could sure use a copy of the video

 

[Don Higdon]

My favorite moment:

 

[TroyK]

I appreciate you guys checking in. I continue to worry about our east coast brethren. Glad to hear that so far you're just soggy.

 

[Don Higdon]

A hurricane comes and goes. We tend to pay attention to the initial wind damage. Far more widespread are the aftereffects, especially the flooding from water runoff. As it descends, the aggregate becomes heavier, which causes it to speed up. So in addition to to flooding houses, it can knock a house off its foundation. This fractures gas lines, and then you have an explosion. That can wreck your day. This guy managed to get out of his house, then watch it burn down on television.
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[Don Higdon]

Now, some perspective. Naturally, we pay attention to ourselves. The NY-NJ metro area is a major communications center. One result is not enough awareness of other people. It happens that the state suffering the most from rogue rivers is Vermont. It is mountainous, and the power of the runoff is formidable. They're being ravaged. They deserve our thoughts and prayers.

 

[TroyK]

...It happens that the state suffering the most from rogue rivers is Vermont. It is mountainous, and the power of the runoff is formidable. They're being ravaged. They deserve our thoughts and prayers.

Yes indeed.

I remember a Cat 4 (Floyd) turning and missing us at the last minute in 1999. Horrifying, would have wiped out most of Florida and certainly our humble hovel on the bay with me in it. The next month, this piddly Cat 1 took a weird turn and came across the glades and rained on us. We laughed it off in our mindset and it didn't get any media attention, I don't even remember it's name. But the next morning I went out and one of our trees had uprooted and fallen over. It didn't break, the roots were intact, the ground that this tree had been growing in for however long just liquified and it floated to the top and fell over.

Not so long there after, we packed it up and moved to the opposite corner of the US.

 

[Don Higdon]

FWIW, there was a water gauge in the Rahway River during Irene. The river was flowing at a rate of 8650 cubic feet per second.

 

[ChuckCorbis]

Just got back from N.Y.C. on Sunday. Mom and Dad's house on Little Neck bay in Northeast Queens had $20,000. in damage because their slate roof gave way. There was a hail storm a few weeks prior to Irene in Douglaston where it came down in baseball size chunks and the roofer said the slates were all cracked in half. When Irene hit, it came down in buckets in their kitchen. My brother a few blocks away had 2 cars severely damaged. The roof and hood of the cars looked like someone dropped a bushel of baseball from above.