NeonPeon

So, over 6" here apparently. That's with hours of no rain in the middle of the storm. I woke up with my kid at 2, and haven't been back to sleep. Kept the basement dry bar a puddle and finally had an opportunity to diagnose where the tiny leak in my roof is coming from. Now I'm going to get my chimney removed, but I think I got off lightly. Also, I demonstrated some real wishful thinking in how I was looking at things, but not in how I behaved. It's hard to look at the scenes west of us at 2 am, with cars floating and airports flooding, and not want to at least check the basement a little. The second line of storms that came through also surprised me, I knew I'd get hit at the beginning and end, but the most intense was in the middle. The heaviest rain I've ever seen. Unremarkable wind, but for how unstable it was, during the heaviest line with all the lightning. Lots of verticality to the wind. Wonder if someone got a microburst.

Just finished mopping the meh.

Yeah, I'm going to file this and my earlier comments under be careful what you wish for. Still happy we got a break.. but, It is lunacy right now. Torrential rain, and eratic wind, like, totally calm then a downdraft and raining sideways for seconds. The wind woke me up and I looked at the radar to find the tornado icon. I can tell it hasnt rained too much so far, but if it does this for a couple hours, it's still a lot of rain.

That cell heading toward new Bedford is just ugly.

I've been pouring, but there's less consistent rain already now. The bands will be building where I am, with heavier and lighter rain as they move through, but there will be more consistent rain north and west, as modeled, no? The one feeder band seems to be just missing to the east too. Some of those cells look gnarly.

My fieldstone basement and I have never been happier to welcome the screw zone. More lightning. I think the worse cells will pass to my east then this is over for me

Lightning started now. Woke the 1 month old up. So. Plenty of time to look at the radar now for the next hour of rocking her to sleep.

I am glad I'm not under these bands for the duration. It's a little moist out there. Figuring like 2.5 here.

It'd ease the pain, sure. And speed the rebuild.

Agreed. Which is why I wouldn't find it remarkable if an expensive home was destroyed.

I am struggling to evaluate this comment. Surely it's better a tornado hits the houses of rich people. Less dense, less economic impact, over insured, more able to absorb temporary impact on loss of home... Or am I supposed to care about some suburban house in Jersey out of some reverant middle class consciousness?

If UKIE verified that's hundreds of flooded basements in Newport. Or, more flooded, if they live in the point.

What I've learned this summer is that a storm would rather crawl across the entire country than dip its toes in our cold water.

Some of these towns should not rebuild. That's the sad calculus, but its the answer.

There isn't a forecasted track though, in my mind. There's a probabilistic range. That's all they ever talk about. They won't shut up about it. Maybe they shouldn't draw the median line.

People keep referencing the hurricane deviating from "the path." It was within the cone of uncertainty, no? Slower than expected. People were given very actionable lead time as far as I can see.

Europe has overhead transmission lines in rural areas and over long distances. They don't have overhead local distribution in denser areas. America does, and america is less dense, but more of that has to do with the us allowing rampant, ugly sprawl to occur anywhere, and it's invention of the disaster that is the modern car dependent suburb. If everywhere else that is developed can afford to bury power, so can the usa, but if it's a major transmission line here, that's not the issue. The larger issue is needing the line in the first place to service thousands living in an area that will constantly, and increasingly meet with disaster.

Could we not bring attention to those who seek it?

It would take a long, long, long time for the people of New Orleans to starve.

You are describing the majority of development in the united States.

Slowing down to move north? I hope it used its indicator.

Eyewall looking less perfect on radar at the moment. Erc? Or just fluctuation? Speaking mostly about how the SW outer band is pulled in.

Her preferred gender pronoun is her, but she told me that she's sick and tired of the male gaze. A chief complaint is the saffir-simpson scale. Looking her up and down all day, then rating her on a scale two white men came up with? Figures.

You don't have to bury all of your distribution line. It should just not be above ground where significant densities of people live. The uk has above ground cable too, but it is in the country. I would expect a less dense country to have more of it. I would not expect towns to use it, nor the area around cities. In addition, you obviously don't do it all at once. But every time you have an opportunity to do it due to other utility work, you do it. And every time you make new development that's dense you do it. But yes, of course I'm dreaming. I fully expect the us to keep underinvesting in its horrible electrical grid, and I fully expect everyone to keep ignoring the economic cost of that. I likewise expect it to continue to design around car dependency, and generally not give a shit if everything it allows to be built is ugly.

Or they do care, but they are speaking from their experience, and making the only local observations they can. It's pretty easy to see that this event was on the lower end of the envelope of predictions, though still reasonably well forecast. No one thinks there aren't some places with more severe impacts. The storm is just very very small, and the impacts from wind in particular are more limited than many forecasts. The drum is always beaten about not being obsessed with the exact point of landfall due to widespread effect. This makes sense before an event due to uncertainty. As it's unfolding though, it's clear that the western part of ri for instance had far far more damage than the entire east bay. We are talking a few miles.