bobbutts

Lazy pic from my webcam. LED I put out there does cool strobe effects on each flake.

just measured 5.5" here, it's snowing hard at the moment

moved it to obs thread

Yup, these larger storms often have some kind of surprise. My favorite is double the snow but the most common one is pingfest showing up early.

Epic screw job for Maine.

nam out to lunch?

I just go in circles around the house inside to out with side discharge mower. Leaves end up in the woods and no raking or bagging.

Decent clap of thunder just now. Sounded like something frozen hitting the window for a minute there too but I don't know.. It's 45 out there.

Can watch the snow coming down the hill towards the camera location around 2200'

@ORH_wxman

First power flicker.

Unintentional good advice

Laughing at a moron shouldn't be political. The problem is that politics has neutered these people's ability to think.

No problem.

Ouch. Those look like stick built homes. Found the spot in Spring City.

A shanty town is definitely a bad place to be for a storm like that. I was able to figure out where the first 40 secs of the flight was from some landmarks and they show damage at "The Mudd" Here's a pic of what I guess is are some typical homes in that area. Not a big surprise they failed entirely. The more modern looking buildings in the video looked very survivable for the most part. Hopefully people were able to get out of the shanty town but I assume there were casualties there.

About 20-30 red taggers.

Someone didn't like the post you quoted, barely lasted a minute.

I like Josh and he has no idea who I am and hope he's fine. Seems like it would be pretty easy to just have a separate storm chaser discussion thread and put all the stuff there. Obviously people are interested in it and it's off topic for the main thread.

Where did you come up with 140 mph? Huge difference between 85-110 and 140. 140 mph is extremely destructive even for well constructed buildings.

Good chance for the birds traveling in the eye to rest and recuperate for a bit here tonight.

Yeah, I have family and have been vacationing on that barrier island just South of Palm Beach for the better part of my life. Some of my earliest memories there were my dad showing me the remnants of A1A that had been washed out by the 1947 Ft. Lauderdale hurricane. I feel like a storm like this could move enough sand and destroy enough buildings to move it again. The other thing besides susceptibility to surge is just how ridiculously expensive many of the properties are. Driving up or down A1A is just an endless display of money. Here's a sample stretch I picked out from Zillow. Looks like that 1947 storm took a very similar track through the Bahamas with no last second turn to save the coast. Of course it was much weaker than Dorian.