NeonPeon

I think the richest country on earth can pay to have itself not look like it just wired itself up over the weekend while drunk. An unreal amount of money needs to go into the usa's energy infrastructure. Doing it properly and beautifying the entire country should be possible, if it's possible virtually everywhere else in the developed world.

I didn't go down Bellevue, but that area, with large, dumb lawns, leading up a slight hill from the coast, to lone trees, is a recipe for this. I didn't see much like that video. But I don't have any friends on Bellevue!

I toured the damage in Newport by bike, which says it all. Some limbs, esp right on the water. That's it. Less than a moderate noreaster. Normally the Northeast side of a storm like this has teeth, but not if there no longer is an east side to the storm at all.

Where, on ocean drive?

Highest gust so far for me in Newport was 34mph. Wind is now slackening inside eye. Will cease raining in 30 mins.

Lol Munroe just made the milk delivery. It's normally tomorrow but they changed it to today... Because of the hurricane. They must really love their drivers.

Dude. You seem to be assigning me thoughts and feelings I don't have. This has been very well forecast imo. I was aware of a threat and prepared. It doesn't need to be on the upper end of a range of possibilities for that preparation to make sense. Indeed, a tree could still fall on my house, though I tend to doubt it. I don't think I know anything much, not am I second guessing anyone. I can however look at radar, as well as a weather station, and a window. I'm not rip and reading qpf, but I'm also simply not seeing where crazy wind intensity is going to come from, here, right here, the only place I made a comment about. I'm not talking about busts. I'm not whining, I'm not talking about anywhere else. I said I'd briefly pass through the edge of the small core of the storm as it deteriorated, and thereafter there will be little rain. Thats a statement of fact.

Ok man, it's going to be epic. I'm in the eyewall now. I take it all back. The rain is literally splattering me as I write this from my porch. I'll begin chaining myself to the deck chair, it's quite breezy.

You can interpret it as a whine if you want. Every single forecast leading up to this showed a very stark west to east cut off.

Its halfacane. Sensible effects are on the west side of it. I'll be walking around in a couple hours.

Well, it's a rapidly deteriorating core and a halfacane. It looks to me that since it's moving nw, we will get a piece of the core for a short time, and then be in drier air with some wind. I suppose I should define what I mean by "largely miss."

It's looking like Newport will largely be missed.

Breaking damage report. My evening primrose has been toppled. I estimate a 18, maybe 19 mph gust. Incredible scenes.

Definitely not. But they might not downgrade it. It's very typical for the stated winds of a hurricane to never be observed/verified.

It's become a fetching little halfacane. I expect some strong gusts, but not tons of rain here. The way that thing is funneling into jersey right now is crazy. It's like a mega trowel.

My wife: "Are.. are you rooting for the hurricane?"

This is the only chance it has, right now. It's shed a lot of that se convection and has decent structure over hot water. I don't see how it doesn't gain a little strength, but just a little.

It's reassuring how bad it has looked. It looked more impressive this morning. I don't see it ever overcoming its asymmetry.

More comfortable digs.

I have a substation near my house. It is out of the 1960s. That's not an exaggeration. That's when it was built. It uses an entire house lot. My parents have the exact same load of substation in the UK. It is smaller than a garden shed and is an enclosed box.

It's worth the money for every place, everywhere you go to not look slovenly and temporary. This is one of those things that if you didnt grow up and just become accustomed to it, is utterly unfathomable.

The entire us power grid is antiquated.

Maybe one of these centuries the usa will behave like it's not a colonial outpost and begin burying power lines. Itll make everywhere look much more attractive too. I wouldn't tolerate such shitty cable management inside my computer, or behind my tv, but the usa does worse on a national scale. It's absolutely repugnant.

It hasn't significantly changed, there's been no attempt for the deeper convection to begin wrapping around at all. We need a big tower or two to go up and do that work.

The only wrinkle in this is how RI has happened with way more frequency of late due to "abnormally" high water temperatures. It has a lot of work to do before it can get to a point where it could really explode, and it doesn't have much time to do it. I don't see it happening.