drexelkathy

The tornado that spun out of the remnants of Ida decimated the neighborhoods around us.  One that was either an F3 or an F4 missed our house by less than 1/2 a mile and just shredded through Mullica Hill.  Including the largest dairy farm in NJ.

Finally some snow in SJ!  My son is thrilled!   

I would even be happy to see sleet at this point.

This dry slot sucks.  LOL

Zero land here in G

Just now, Dodsworth said:

Yup, right there with ya. 

Same.   Maybe a few random flurries in Gloucester County NJ 

3 minutes ago, MattPetrulli said:

I think I remember you calling Florence overhyped or something like that.

Clown.

He calls EVERY storm over-hyped.

44 minutes ago, SENC said:

Over 40 years of experience In the Zone ..  Once on a spoil Island here..... 33.919850, -78.231715

During Bertha.. 

On the beaches & Spoil Islands.. (I was a commercial Fisher (person))..  and wanted to experience a Cane (On the beach) quite the interesting experience, that one.. 

Yawn.  A supposed “fisherman” on an inland spot of a barrier island  during Hurricane Bertha in 1996?   What was Bertha?  A Cat 1 or 2?

Hang it up.   There are true fisherman that have rung more greenwater

out of their socks and others that know more about storms than you ever will.

4 minutes ago, SENC said:

**“if it was X it would look like *X*” **

It's called being,, realistic in LIFE.. 

Maybe you should study it sometime..

Also known as a Dog Eat Dog Kinda World,, as obviously, yours is Sheltered.. 

Need a Blinky or Safe Space? ..

It’s not called being realistic, it’s called being egotistic.

you seem to think YOU know better than everyone else what the devastation from a hurricane looks like.

Are you a professional?  A historian?  What qualifications do you have to make these sort of claims?  And how many years of experience?

3 hours ago, SENC said:

About that Image going around?

huh, NO a Satellite CANNOT, "SEE" and take a clear Image picture, as posted on the Storm Mode thread..

(Showing the flooded parts of the Island)..

Sorry ya'll are DUPED again..

 Most satellites can't.

As the graph (below) shows, clouds reflect visible and infrared light quite well. In fact, visible light (approx. 0.4-0.7 microns in length) is more than 70% reflected by clouds! That means the light can't penetrate the cloud on the way down to earth, let alone penetrate the cloud on its way back up (satellites look down at angles ranging from 0-30 degrees) in order for the sensor to capture it.

https://www.quora.com/Can-satellites-see-through-clouds

Holy cheese on a cracker.   Are you one of those people that also believe the earth is flat?

That Island is absolutely, positively devastated.   There have been people sitting under Dorian for 24+ hours facing a natural disaster you likely cannot even begin to comprehend in your lifetime...and you’re going to spew some conspiracy theory bullshit?

I am late to the game here and rarely comment...you are a special kind of special.

Sit down.  Shut up.  Grow some humanity and stop with your juvenile crap about “if it was X it would look like *X*”

5 minutes ago, BlunderStorm said:

I understand but it is just so hard for me to feel sympathy for those who chose to own land there. The people who my heart really goes out to is the children who have no decision in where they live or if they even evacuate and the first responders who put their lives on the line to help others in these terrible natural disasters. When people choose to own property there I hope they go in with the expectation their beach homes destruction is but only a matter of time and evacuate when that time comes.

I’m sorry you find it hard to have sympathy for people facing natural disasters.

14 minutes ago, BlunderStorm said:

Just last month, I vacationed with family at North Topsail Island a little further down the island in the condos. When I walked up the island to find the sandbags I remembered thinking to myself (any year now...) I find it shocking that North Topsail at one point had dunes 100ft high as now the land sits barely above sea level! The entire community seems like a testament to humanity's arrogance. With Florence now looming it has got me thinking. If the North Topsail is inevitably going to be inundated with storm surge and Florence's landfall on the east coast is inevitable as well... Perhaps it should make landfall directly at North Topsail. When it comes to a major hurricane, deaths are likely inevitable but those who meet their fate on the coast will have nobody to blame but themselves. With Florence we have had days of forewarning leaving ample time for evacuation.  Perhaps then, if the community is destroyed the landowners will rebuild more responsibly or better yet not at all! Am I crazy for thinking this way or am I not alone?

It is a lot easier to make suppositions about what you would do then to make those decisions in real life.

personally?  I’m all about packing up and leaving at the mere sign of a landfall near me/us.  Property and things aren’t important to me.  

But it’s a hard sell to people that may have worked their entire lives for that little “slice” of their American dream. 

Anyone criticizing people that make tough choices has likely never faced it themselves.

9 minutes ago, oldnorthstate said:

So, I have a flight scheduled to land at RDU Thursday 4 AM.    How are my chances looking of that flight happening?

Airlines are already offering to re-book flights in that region for no fee.   Check your carrier website.