Saw a NYC broadcast today where they predicted “landfall centered on the Brick Township/Point Pleasant border”. Nice…I live in Brick, a half-mile from Point.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
The last couple of model runs are having it track a little further south, maybe around Ocean City. It doesn’t really matter where the eye hits, though, as the winds are not catastrophic (~70 mph) and they will extend hundreds of miles in all directions. The storm is just huge. I guess you wouldn’t want to have beachfront property just to the north of the eye - that’s where the storm surge will be the worst.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/205618.shtml?5-daynl#contents
"Potential Catastrophic NorEaster Brewing in the Carribean "
Wouldn’t that be a SouEaster? Or just plain Sou, looking at the maps?
It gets it name from the direction of the wind coming onshore.
Well, whoever came up with that term obviously didn’t pay much attention to satellite photos.
You probably live next door to me 
Cuz you’re describing exactly what happened here. Except after Irene I did install a generator, so after derecho I was sitting pretty.
Is BGE trying to charge its customers an extra fee, reimbursing BGE the lost utility payments because of the electricity that customers couldn’t use after the derecho? I ask because that’s what Pepco is doing, and according to state law, they are entitled to do so and the legislature is going along with them, no doubt due to the campaign contributions from Pepco. I predict that these legislators will be voted out of office and the new ones will propose changing the law and telling the utility companies tough nuggies and absorb the shortages from their profits.
Check out Intellicast, or go directly to the satellite feeds.
Watch how the storm spins; the winds from the south are slowed coming over land, but the winds that are full force and loaded with water swing in from the northeast.
I work in TV in DC. We’ve been told it’s 12 hour shifts starting Monday, and we’ve called in the sister station cavalry. Honestly don’t know what to expect, but I am sure it’s gonna be interesting.
And once all this starts to wind down, it’s presidential election time in a battleground state (VA). I suspect exhaustion awaits in 2 weeks.
Oh no. I love OC, and am planning to move there in a few years (just need a million dollars). How much do you think it will rip up the beach? Didn’t the beach get blown away in the 1940s or something?
They can dredge and dump sand there again, right? 
This thing has perfect timing. I’m taking my first vacation with my almost four-month-old son: flying into Dulles tomorrow morning, and (supposed to be) flying out Tuesday. I really hope my grandma’s house doesn’t lose power.
Beach erosion will be huge, unfortunately. There is a massive high pressure system around Greenland who’s clockwise circulation is blocking Sandy from moving out to sea, and is also pushing seawater southeast toward the Eastern Seaboard. Sandy is doing the same thing from the south with it’s counter-clockwise circulation. A full moon means a high tide as well. All these things coming together are why the meteorologists are so hyped up right now. It’s a very rare confluence of events and it’s heading for a highly populated area.
I’m in Columbia, MD. Lots of old neighborhoods with above-ground wires and ancient tall trees, so we’re usually the first to go dark and the last to light back up. If you’re really that close, I may drop in with some frozen food you can keep for me…
From what I understand, they don’t even have to tell us about the extra charge - they can just roll it into our bills and there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s nauseating: we’re without power for a week because they can’t get their shit together, and so we have to pay them for our inconvenience? I read an article about it soon after the storm, but I don’t know the details about the laws involved, only that it’s totally legal and happens all the time.
What really pisses me off is that they do a shitty job maintaining the existing infrastructure, spend TONS on overtime when a storm hits, and then say they need us to pay them more so they can upgrade things. Well, we’re not seeing any upgrades around here, so I don’t know how they’re getting away with it.
LOL. Ellicott City.
I think landfall will be well north of you. Its too big to predict a specific spot, but my guess is the eastern edges of Monmouth, Middlesex, Union, Essex & Hudson.
(… If the shape of the state was that of an old man in a hat, and I said the back of his neck, you’d get the idea.)
I hope I’m wrong, because if I’m right the largest inland body of water will suddenly become “Lake Bound Brook”, and on a Hurricane Floyd scale.
I was living in the Lost Valley of Manville at the time. Floyd was not fun.
So far my Guard unit has not been activated but we are on alert. I’m getting packed.
It’s a good thing MD/DC/VA are on the coast… NOAA now has them predicted for 11.5+ inches of rain in the next 5 days. Talk about getting swamped!
They’ve also upgraded Ohio from 2 inches to 3 inches in the last day. ( http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/zoom/Rainfall_Days_1-5.gif )
Here is the base NOAA site: REMNANTS OF BRET
I’m sitting down south of Salisbury on the Eastern Shore of MD at my parent’s place right now with my kids. My daughter and I are going to take a ride over to Ocean City in a few hours, might send back some video to the station and perhaps hook up a live shot via Skype for 11 to do a report.
Awhile ago a manager sent out an email explaining our satellite windows - satellites can be hard to book during big events like this. We have already booked DAYS of sat time in advance… normally we do 15 minutes at a time.
Wow.
I am terrified that we will lose more trees. We got lucky during Irene, and the huge pine that came down only damaged the gutters and siding, but the neighbor has a really big oak next door that would flatten our garage completely if it fell towards us. We spent a bunch of money this summer taking out the oldest and weakest trees on our property, and the ones that are left are far enough that they wouldn’t crush the house (or the neighbors’ houses), but downed trees are a lot to deal with. Also, they could definitely hit parked cars in the driveways.
I’m as ready as I can be, I guess. I’m still hoping the track takes it away from here, but right now the NOAA forecast shows the worst of the storm coming right through the neighborhood.
Naah, you’ll be fine. Clarksburg on the other hand, they’re screwed.