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Getting to an 0-1 count is bad, of course, but when they put 1st pitches into play it's generally better than their overall record. Looking at splits for 4 Bosox hitters, OPS only: JD Martinez: All: .868 1st pitch: .792 82 PA Bogaerts: All: .867 1st pitch: 1.300 20 PA Devers: All: .891 1st pitch: .897 68 PA Renfroe: All: .820 1st pitch: 1.009 55 PA So JD does worse, Devers about the same, and the other 2 do better though with X it's a small sample. A rough combining of all 4: All: .861 1st pitch: .922 Again, this ignores 1st pitch swings that don't put the ball in play.

You must be close to jumping into the next category.

Seeing 1986 and 1991 reminds me of 2 very different events on 9/30 of those years. In 1986 straight line winds flattened 600 acres about 15 miles south of Fort Kent, half on Parks and Lands Eagle Lake tract and half on J.D. Irving, and ending by blowing trees into the NW end of Square Lake. Damage was consistent with winds 90-100 mph, but I don't know if the CAR folks made a survey. Five years later on the same date folks woke up to see 2-5" of snow, CAR's largest (only?) measurable Sept snow with 2.5". St. John Valley sites didn't record any snow but our airphoto project, flown on 9/30 in that area, shows white ground and white trees in those areas.

Actually, there was no 1980s whiplash, just a pair of mistakes in my post, reversing the 8 and 9 in the 7th (tied) and 9th driest. The dates are now corrected.

Which river, Passaic? Raritan? Other? Losing a heavy vehicle like a fire truck is amazing. Road/bridge wash out under it? Would take 4-5 ft. with significant current to move a 15-20-ton rig.

IIRC, the NYC reservoirs were down to 2-3 weeks supply when the 5.54" deluge arrived on 9/21/66. Might have been a real horror show had the drought continued another couple of months. Ten driest years at NYC (Starting in 1912, trace amounts are shown as 0.005", which added 0.1 to 0.3" to the totals in may records. The numbers below have those 0.005" days deleted.) 26.10" 1965 32.90" 1964 33.72" 1910 33.84" 1935 34.28" 1963 Only 8.24" in November prevented a new record. The 4.23" on 11/6-7 was NYC's biggest Nov rain event at the time. 35.30" 1970 35.37" 1885 35.37" 1895 35.44" 1892 35.60" 2001 1966 was running just 0.72" ahead of 1965 for Jan-August. Then the last 4 months averaged over 5" each and 1967 was 7" AN. However, it was 1971-73 with 57"/67"/57" that finally refilled the reservoirs. The 1960s drought began in late 1961, with the last 5 months averaging 2.60". Then 1962 had 37.15", 20th driest and 5.5" under the 1931-60 norm.

Fun facts: JAS 2021 is already 2" ahead of the 1965 total. Only took 2 months - Aug-Sep 2011 - accomplish the same feat.

My brother's house in Leland, NC (just inland from ILM) is engineered to withstand 130 mph wind. Falling trees and flying objects remain a threat, so as Florence approached the family retreated to CHT.

Slight chance of 30s here tomorrow morning if the clouds hold off. Nothing special, as half of our 24 Augusts have recorded sub-40 minima, but welcome after the August humidity. Woodstove at work this morning.

Noted the 81+, so Jerry and I are no longer the board's leading geriatrics.

Interesting graphic, though 2021 should have an orange tip as Mullica Hill was a solid EF-3. I wonder if all those zeros in the 50s and 60s had some missed EF-0s; the 22 years 51-72 recorded just two.

I'd long forgotten Agnes had made landfall in the FL panhandle. What I do recall is that NNJ had dire forecasts for heavy rain feeding already bankfull rivers but we were sort of the hole in the donut, got less than 2" but had low-end trop storm gusts. The heavier rain was north, south, and especially west of us.

Lot of NJ transplants in this sub-forum. We came to Maine in Jan. 1973.

Similar area of huge RA though SW by 100+ miles, so a solid resemblance in the Northeast, but without the Gulf hit and IIRC Agnes never got beyond Cat 1 (like most June 'canes).

That disease shows up as wilted leaves. (And as with EAB, I'm concerned that there's no stopping it.)

Ida sparked memories of Camille, a more intense but smaller hurricane, and the only other one that I can recall that caused significant fatalities both in a GOM landfall and in the Northeast (if one allows VA to be "Northeast"). Both at landfall and especially in the Northeast, Ida's heavy impact was many times greater in area than that of Camille.

I'm confident the above article is sound. The one I recently read focused on those taking shelter in the main camp building, a solidly built 3-story edifice. It said that only 8 of 45 survived when the wall of water demonstrated that no framed building could withstand that much force. The other fatalities in PA (and in SNE) were not mentioned in that article.

Unless it caused a "Brodhead Creek (1955)" event - 37 fatalities in NE PA.

I'd guess the insects might be feeding on the black stuff.

Looks like some kind of mold, probably on the surface only rather than being connected with internal rot. If it should spread and produce significant fungus, that could be a sign of internal decay, but I don't think the black stuff will do that.

The EF4 decision was based on the assumption (no pun intended) that the houses on Uncatena Avenue were of substandard construction. It looked like classic "5" destruction there - slab foundations swept clean and debris so scattered and reduced as to make it impossible to know from which houses it came, or if it even came from houses rather than a lumber yard. The massive masonry walls of a large building on that college campus were crushed in by the wind, and I've not seen such damage elsewhere from anything less than a 5.

In the Kennebec flood of 1987, when the river crested 22 feet above flood stage in Augusta, there was an overriding smell of gasoline. A number of stations were flooded and water must've found a way in and floated the lighter gas up into the flood. The Mullica Hill tornado was ironic for our SNJ family. They lived in Decatur, IL - "real" tornado country - for 5 years and I don't think they had a major twister within 100 miles during that time. Now there's one about 5 miles to their NW.

Ironic for the SNJ branch of our family. They lived in "real" tornado country (Decatur, IL) for 5 years before moving to Gloucester County in 2015, about 6 miles from the tornado. They had a baby spinner a few miles from the DEC house, but now an EF3 (my guess) far closer than any major tornados to their old place. Edit: It was 5 miles away or a bit less.

Though August finished on a cool note, it was the warmest August of 24 here. Avg max: 76.48 1.50 AN Hottest: 88 on the 13th Avg min: 57.48 4.57 AN Coolest: 44 on the 16th Had 17 daily minima 60+, most for any month, 2 more than July 2010 and 4 more than the previous top August, 2003. Mean: 66.98 3.04 AN and 0.24 warmer than #2, 2001 Precip: 3.07" 0.86" BN Wettest day: 0.80" on the 29th. Met summer was a see-saw: June: Temp 4.2 AN, RA: 4.0" BN, driest of 24 Junes July: Temp 2.6 BN, RA: 2.2" AN Aug: Temp 3.0 AN, RA: 0.9" BN JJA: Temp 66.74 1.50 AN, 4th warmest, less than 0.1 below 2001 and 2005 but a full degree lower than 1999. RA: 10.37", 2.70" BN

That record flow on 4/1-2/87 probably added about 4-5' to the high tide level, though I think it temporarily neutered the tidal cycle upriver from Rt 1. The Chops must've been wild, raised nearly twice as much as at your place.