The development that my mom lives at in Bedminster have already been planting crape myrtle over the last couple of years. They seem to be thriving well.
Mainly the axis of heaviest rain and thus flooding shifting further east and overspreading most of the metro area. Winds would have less of an impact, save for eastern LI.
0z, 6z, 12z and 18z are the times the atmosphere is sampled and data collected for the respective models. The models run at different times but all the models in a suite use the same data.