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Raining fairly hard by me atm but looks like Sayville/Patchogue (about 25-30 minutes east of me) about to take it on the chin. 

Wow. December lightning. Pretty close to the house too. 

Haven’t looked outside yet but the wife tells me our porch chairs are across the street (I put long bricks on the them), our garbage cans are MIA, and our basketball net is on its side. Dont worry though, Bumble is still upright. 

Winds had dropped a bit since those winds around 4 or 5am but I got a wicked squall coming through now and it’s very windy again. 

21 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

If the low's in the low 980s and goes through eastern PA, we're probably in for it from the city east in terms of wind. There'll be less rain but the ground is already soaked and there have already been heavy showers around. I'd definitely take 1" more rain for less wind/coastal flooding.

Edit-maybe this double low hanging south from the main low can spare us somewhat. Fingers crossed.

It’s funny, I looked at a bunch of wind models a little earlier and despite what we’re supposed to get, the strongest winds still appear to be off coast, and later. But, you see the ticks west, and that’s never a good sign, wind-wise.  

10 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Yea I’m a bit worried. House is surrounded by big trees

I had 7 trees when we bought our house 15 years ago. I’m down to 1. That explains why I hate wind. One of them hit my roof, put a hole in it, bounced off and destroyed my porch too. Insult to injury, one of the branches was long enough to shatter the windshield of my car. 

31 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Further west is bad for the island. Not good news if true. 

Yep, don’t like that at all. 

Absolutely pouring again. Impressive rain rates. 

16 minutes ago, Intensewind002 said:

Up to 1.69” now, wind is run of the mill 35-40 mph, the surprise wind event a few weeks ago was much worse

It’s kind of insane, to me at least, that that was completely missed by NWS. I honestly couldn’t believe how windy it was. Probably windiest it’s been all Fall. 
 

I’m getting a gust here and there but no howling wind through the trees and nothing rattling the house. I’m certainly not complaining, hopefully it stays that way.  

No real wind yet, but damn it’s pouring. 

Rain that is falling (and we’ve had more already than I would have expected) is very tropical in nature. 

Probably smart to take down any breakable decorations, unplug blowups and put smaller furniture in the garage right? It’s annoying but probably the smart move. 

I know it’s still 5 or so days away but Sunday night/Monday early morning looks like it could get nasty, especially the further east you go.  

Just had a gust of wind blow over my (full) garbage cans and my stacked Adirondack chairs (which I do whenever there’s even a chance of gusty winds) off the porch. Gotta take a 45-50mph gust to do that. I understand a shift in direction with a coastal front, but to not even put it out there that these kind of winds were a possibility is big L for the NWS. 

I don’t know what the exact number is, but it is way windier than “30mph” gusts. 

7 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Euro is very wet tomorrow morning and afternoon. Hrrr has rain in the morning too

Those were two I didn’t look at. GFS and all 3 NAMs don’t really have (I’m on LI) until around 3ish, if not later. I defer to the experts, I know you guys said GFS isn’t always best close to an event.  

NWS pretty bullish on giving us rain tomorrow through the morning until Monday although all these models im looking at don’t have rain starting until late afternoon and it looks to be pretty light. Kinda weird.  

Where the hell was this weather when I was off last week? Lol, absolutely sucks to be going to an office for the rest of the day. 

1 hour ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

Babylon in on the action now. Let’s see how this plays out

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Just drove from Babylon village to West Islip…roads are flooded everywhere. Corner of Higbie and Union was halfway up on my tires. Can’t imagine if it had been like this all day here. Good luck to those who did. 

Lol, yeah, not gonna drive to Gowanus. It sucks, but it seems like the right thing to do with all these posts I’m seeing. Thanks for talking sense into my thick skull. 

All I gotta say is, despite the fact this weather is really screwing up something I’m supposed to do, is that @wdragnailed this thing like 5 or 6 days in advance and that’s incredibly impressive. Thank you. 
 

How stupid would it be to drive from West Babylon to Gowanus (and back) around 10:30/11am for something that’s not necessarily that important? 

I don’t know if anyone even has an answer for this but I’m planning on driving into Gowanus right around noon. I’m hoping for a quick in and out, how bad is it gonna be around that time? Any answers are appreciated. 

1 hour ago, jm1220 said:

Hopefully we can get the crappy pattern over with now. 

I go back to work on Monday so it’ll end Sunday night. Terrible week to be off and next week’s forecast is a slap in the face. 

8 hours ago, Superstorm93 said:

I was mainly referring to the track and speed when it was near the area, but yes. You are right! 

Irene was more of a northern straight shot that came in significantly west of Gloria. Gloria came in right through the heart of LI and on more of an angle off the NC/VA coast. 

43 minutes ago, lee59 said:

Gloria hit eastern Nassau and east the hardest. Numerous trees down and many lost power for days. The hype with Gloria was very high, so areas from the city on West that didn't get the strongest winds might have felt it was not so bad. If it hit at high tide, coastal flooding would have been much worse. I believe the center past close to the Nassau Sulfolk border.

 

I grew up in North Babylon. I was 8. We went outside when the eye passed over. The most hellacious part of the storm was when it restarted. Lightning hit the tree in front of my house. We had 2 trees end up in our (new at the time) pool. Didn’t go to school/no power for a week. It was the first thing in my life that piqued my interest in weather. Just amazed me what weather could do.  

Literally couldn’t have picked a worse week to be off. This weather is frustrating.