LongBeachSurfFreak

5 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Yeah, it’s not easy living on a barrier island these days. I got flooded out of my basement apartment in Long Beach by Agnes in June of 1972. We found a new apartment about a year later and settled on no more basement apartments. The rest of the 70s were relatively quiet for flooding outside the West End. My friend with a basement in his house picked up flooding with the spring 1983 deluge. Then the record 5.15”in under 2 hours shut down our drinking water during June 1995. Flooding situation was pretty quiet for another 10 years until the October 2005 record event which flooded out most LB basements. Followed up a while later by the record 10” in less than 12 hours on 8-14-11. Then the Irene storm surge flooding a few weeks later. Then the off the charts extreme Sandy tidal surge flooding in October 2012. I moved out of LB by chance months before Sandy hit. So not sure about all the local flood specifics after that time.

Me too, moved out of Lb in June 2012, I had 6” of water in the apartment during Irene, so likely several feet during sandy.

with this current event the handicap women who lives below me in lynbrook had 5’ of water. I lost most of my pride and joy veggie garden, which is trivial in comparison. I’m currently at my dads in wantagh dealing with his basement as he’s in Spain. Not a fun 2 days for me, after dealing with flooding for 12 hours at work on the uws yesterday. Unfortunately this is our new normal. 

What an absolute shit End to the day. My landlord blamed my vegetable garden for the basement flood. I have donated 100’s of eggplant from this garden. I can’t stand people who can’t understand our new normal.

Really wonderful night, coming home to the elderly women who lives in the basement apartment bellow me. Her stuff is all the over my patio, I feel so bad… there’s nothing I can do, it all happened while I was at work. So sad….

Just got word from my sis my dads basement is flooded. Going to tackle it in the morning. Just finished a 12 hour day dealing with floods at work. 

1 minute ago, bluewave said:

More photos of the very serious flooding in Brooklyn as some spots exceed 8 inches of rain. 

 

 

 

I don’t care how good your seal is, when water is coming out of your outlet things aren’t going well.

1 minute ago, uofmiami said:

SW Nassau seeing 1.5"/hr rainfall accumulation.  Has to be bad flooding down there now.

I’m worried about going home. If that line continues east I’ll have to head to my dads in wantagh to pump his basement. He’s in Spain currently. So two places to worry about. 

The jfk area is going to end up the jackpot. Not that you really want to be in this type of situation. Luckily for me I live on the first floor of a house in lynbrook, the basement which is almost the same size as my apartment was also available at the time for half what I pay, I looked at it, and thought, yeah no floods. Having lived in Long Beach during my 20s that’s an important lesson. 

Great. Just started ripping on the uws again, who knows if I’ll ever get home.

Starting to get some ridiculous flash flooding on campus on the uws. The next hours going to be intense with this band pivoting over the city

Insane rainfall rates and multiple house shaking claps of thunder in lynbrook, it’s getting real… fast.

Lighting currently in western Nassau, let’s se where this sets up.

36 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Not sure I understand the wind damage part 

Yeah this isn’t a big wind event. Though with 5” of rain even a 40mph gust can knock down a few weak trees. This is really going to be about (the Bronx river ppkwy is under 8’ of water” 

Already pouring in Manhattan, not a good sign. 

3 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

office worker will be mostly at home given it's a friday so that will help

I’m not looking forward to it, I have to be at work to deal with any potential flooding too. Almost feel like I should just stay, and sleep In my shop. Where ever the heaviest axis sets up, could be a 100 year flood type event with all the resulting damage. 

You don’t want anything to do with this. I was in Manhattan during ida, every stair case on my campus was a waterfall. Every basement of every building flooded. For the sake of lives and property I hope this is a major model fail. 

Just had to pull two life guard stands out of the ocean that floated almost a mile after falling in so to erosion. Beaches have really taken a hit this month. With a nino winter on the way it will only get worse.

5 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

It was very light at Menlo early.. I was able to do most of my walk outside. By 10 am it was raining steady and that wind, while not gale force here, has got to be horrendous offshore.

The surf is gigantic, being in a boat would be hell, if not straight up dangerous

Sideways rain and monster chop in Zach’s bay for the Jones beach Ironman. The swim is still on as of now… 

21 minutes ago, Rmine1 said:

Regardless of precip, it’s going to be pure hell for those competing in the JB 1/2 Ironman race tomorrow. Imagine pedaling East on OP into 30 mph sustained. I was at RM3 earlier, and it was cranking out of the east

Ahhhh haaaaa! I am life guarding the race! I’m good friends with the water safety coordinator and he’s insisting as of now it’s a go. I tried to no avail to convince him that the orientation of Zach’s bay being east to west means the chop is funneled right to the race start! Well, I fully expect them to cancel in the am…

1 minute ago, Kmlwx said:

Did you forget where Hurricane Lee went?

See my last post. I’ll add this, the large swells Lee created that effected the coast also had an upwelling effect. 

9 minutes ago, WxSynopsisDavid said:

Lee did not touch the waters Ophelia is in now, or about to enter. 

That’s not correct. Lee produced a large area of strong offshore winds all the way to the Carolina’s. Offshore winds created upwelling (I would need 10 pages to explain the process) it happened.

6 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

Agreed. Has some time to strengthen some. And she is looking much more robust now. 

Shorter window than you would think. It has a few more hours to play with the Gulf Stream before it hits the shallow shelf waters. Those waters were significantly upwelled during Lee.

6 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Not sure why so little interest in this. 
 

Convection now wrapping over the CoC. Very interesting 12 hours in play. 

I was thinking the same thing. Some amazing tropical transitioning accruing. If this had started a few hundred miles further south we would have a beast of a hurricane.

6 hours ago, NorthHillsWx said:

We have had at least 1 active storm every day since 8/20. So far a month straight, today, the Atlantic has had an active storm. That’s incredible 

Where has Ldub been?????? I guess he lost faith after his 0/0/0 august forecast. Expect his return after Nigel goes extra trop and we have a brief break. 
I think this season is a big sign of what’s to come in the future. Record warm OHC overwhelms traditional teleconnections.

3 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

We’ll see. Odds favor it but I can see it being squashed underneath us by the massive central Canada ridge suppressing the flow and weaker SE ridge due to the cold water chopped up by the recent hurricanes. In any event I have outdoor plans this weekend so I hope the squashed/suppressed outcome happens. Which means it won’t. 

I was generalizing about the upcoming cold season. This weekends storm is pretty meh. Though it does have some upside potential if all goes right with full moon tides.