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Sorry for the banter, but we’ve gotten to the point where everything is on the table when it comes to the entire Metro area. Literally, anything can happen, weather-wise, here, given the time of year. It’s insane. This is dangerous. 

2 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Kendall Park, Piscataway…incoming. 

Jesus Christ, it’s like we’re in Oklahoma or something. This is bananas. 

Just starting absolutely pouring here. Pretty gusty wind coming in from the east too. 

Flash flood warning now for my area. No longer a watch. 

That kind of storm that’s produced those 2 tornados looks like it’s heading right for NNJ, east of Port Jervis/Middletown/west Orange County. Good luck to those in that path. Freaking nasty looking 

2 minutes ago, bluewave said:

 

Wow, that’s like something you’d see in the Midwest. Unreal. 

2 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Got hit with a few of them so far.  Usually they're north, south, east and west of me.

You’re out East now, right? You used to be in southern Nassau? 

6 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

 

 

Damn, that’s sick. 

Keep getting really lucky here in SW Suffolk dodging these cells, but something tells me I’m about an hour or so away from running out of that luck. Did a quick outdoor sweep to make sure I have no projectiles flying around. 

1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

6” of rain after the the recent rains will cause major problems. When we had 10+ inches in October 05 on the island the whole water table rose on my parents block and flooded everyone’s basements 

Yep….same happened to me. I had water coming through the cracks of my basement for 2 straight days. That was a crappy weekend.
 

I was renting at the time and my landlord did nothing so me and a few buddies stayed on water patrol until this guy finally showed up on Monday morning. Needless to say, I gave him a rent check that was half the amount because I figured that was about the amount of work I did. He bitched about it and I dared him to take me to court. I’d estimate I had a good 9-10”. I lost about 90% of my baseball cards and all my vinyl. My wife lost a lot of her family pics. I learned a rough lesson…don’t pack valuables in cardboard boxes. 

1 hour ago, uncle W said:

Ginny and Ester from the early 1960's were loopers...

Ginny and Ester sound like two old broads who would destroy you in bridge. 

I couldn’t get a good picture of it with my phone, but the moon looks absolutely gorgeous right now, it’s very comfortable out and not a breeze to be felt. If you had told me this even just 24 hours ago I would have said you were crazy. 

1 minute ago, LibertyBell said:

Wow I see that here too.  Why is that part of the sky an electric blue?  It's pretty amazing, no haze even with all this humidity.

 

I had to take a picture. It’s amazing the contrast between my front yard and back yard. Haha, I think I’m annoying my wife obsessing about it. 

Sky to my south is absolutely gorgeous. Sky to my north is as ominously gray as can get. No wind whatsoever. 

Finally got a decent gust here. Probably about 30mph. Been very little wind here at all in W. Bab. so far. 

1 minute ago, psv88 said:

Everyone in Suffolk agrees with you. I’m ok never seeing another hurricane again. 

I work in Huntington so I have often followed your posts. I know the winds, even after Isaias was “done,” were still ferocious even when the sun broke out about 4pm that day. So over that crap. I live on the SS, not near the water and I have noticed the NS has gotten the thunderstorms a little worse this Summer, so far. We’ve been relatively dry since mid-July (we were away week of aug 7, so I can’t attest to that). 

7 minutes ago, kat5hurricane said:

The writing was on the wall last night with the east trends and weaker storm for relatively minimal impact for most in Nassau on westward. 

People I know who aren't as tuned into the weather as I am are expecting an extreme storm here in Queens and western Nassau because of the Storm Surge Warning that popped up yesterday and the stores were unusually packed early this morning Better safe than sorry but they jumped the gun on this one and sent off a false alarm that this would be a serious storm in these parts.

It kind of reminds me of Winter Storm Nemo when all the Blizzard Warnings went up for most of the area when it was becoming clear that it was a Central L.I. on eastward special.

I think they (I assume you mean the media) jumped the gun so quickly because they were so far behind just 2 days ago and they’re now playing catch up. 
 

Being in W. suffolk I’m praying the East models play out, selfishly, because I’m sick of cleaning up broken crap and breaking down and discarding fallen trees. Frankly, a couple of inches of rain wouldn’t be the worst for my area. Most of these severe thunderstorms have missed my neighborhood. Just don’t want to deal with 60-70mph+ gusts. 

I want to thank you guys (and gals, maybe?) for 10 years of letting me lurk here and be able to tell my family and friends days in advance what the hell is going on, weather-wise. Maybe it’s the fact I’m delirious from 72 hours of work the last 5 days or the beer I just drank, but I’ve almost joined so many times and finally did tonight. 
 

Anyway, thanks for all the info. I enjoy reading the site, I consider myself a bit of a weather buff (thank you, Gloria). I’ve been in the eye of a Hurricane, been in an earthquake (a very small one) and a full blown tornado so I consider myself lucky to be in the company of experts. Lol, take a bow, I feel like I already know some of you. And, thank you especially to Walt. Your threads are awesome. 
 

tl/dr: embarrassing first post