Modfan2

Below are examples of some of the improvements Florida Power and Light has done down here in S FL; changing out many wooden poles for cement to help harden the grid.

Lack of rain and tree damage bring on an increased summer brush fire threat

After this you may have an appetite for that

Here is were I will disagree a little; first New England and the Northeast are extremely susceptible to extensive tree damage from events like this and will be going forward. You can trim around power lines all you will always of trees further away that can hit the lines. The storm winds ended at dark and the surveying of the damage really only took place in Yesterday. Today out of state crews will start to come in today (Florida Power & Light sending crews to Jersey yesterday) and set up staging and work. With the amount of damage a downtime of 3-4 days is not unreasonable. I believe pre staging crews in this situation would be difficult due to damage up the NE Coast. What Eversource should be doing and FP& L has been doing for the past five years is swapping out a lot of the wooden poles for Cement poles, including high tension. I have been involved in many restorations from IRene, Sandy, Matthew,Irma, and Michael and they all present different challenges.

Your area got pretty hard, listening to Webster/Dudley now on the scanner and they are busy

And again, only a Tropical storm. Imagine when New England gets hit again from a Cat 1 or Greater

Co worker in CT driving in Tolland says Old Post Rd littered with branches

Lots of FD calls coming around you

Tree and wire calls coming in for SE CT

Does much really get East if the CT River? I see some cells near 84/Union but nothing really SE from there.

A lot of convection with that trailing band south of LI; Does that band hit W RI E CT?

Could be wrong but radar trend appear more NE than North; any chance this slides East over Western LI into CT?

Is OTS still a possibility? I would have it would have been tracking over land by now

TS Irene

Looks like eye trying to close as Isaias goes over the Gulf Stream make pass close to or over the coast in Martin. Gulf Stream from Palm Beach inlet is 1-2 miles and 6 here from Martin County. Martin County EOC has these weather sites to observe http://martin.weatherstem.com

Lol. Fixed

Center looks like it’s trying to reform under the convection to its NE, only moving at 9mph

Nice feeder band coming through right now

It looks like maybe Josephine not too far behind Isaias for the NE?

I’m not sure how strong Irene was (grant it a different track) but there was tree damage in Eastern CT

Lots of dry air here in S FL pushing into the storm. Good for me because won’t see much rain, and maybe some high end TS winds

Here I am worrying weather I have to shutter or not and Kev is worrying about picking up some sticks in the yard.

Brings it close to my coast here FL, Stuart/Jupiter area

I think it’s going to trend like Matthew and stay off shore here, but will be close. Looks like some shear my interact with it near FL

Tropical Storm Watch for my County here in S FL, expecting most to stay off shore like Matthew