I’m fine with it not getting stronger. This thing can keep moving east for all I care. The track right now is not great for where I am. Thankfully I have elevation off the water. However downtown Bristol is gonna be a mess from this. Including some flooding during high tide…
Ugh... those of us contending the eastward trend on the models... it's not like we thought it was going to go east of Naragansett Bay... we just contend it wasn't going to make landfall in western CT or NYC... jesus... sometimes the made up narratives are fascinating... like the "conflict" is required part of the discussion lol...
LOL the discrepancy on who cares about this storm is as diverse as the modeled LF tracks. In all seriousness there's probably much more interest in what this storm does for those of us in the coastal areas, especially areas that may end up east of the eye, then those further inland where it will be certainly falling apart pretty quickly.
This could also be because the grid has weird boundaries with the way the power flows. Most of the towns on the border in RI don't have direct connections with the towns in MA. You think it would in 2021, especially when the same company owns the distribution lines on both sides of the border.
It's just hard to tell. Obviously this won't be the strongest hurricane to hit the area. But there's much more infrastructure now than there was 100 or even 75 years ago, and we're more dependent upon it than ever. Also, we never do well with strong south winds with fully leafed out trees. Maybe it won't be the worst but it's sure not gonna be good...
I work in Newport full time. It look me 35 minutes to get out of the city yesterday. It seemed to be a total s$%tshow of people trying to leave and people trying to get in at the same time, lol...
There's total distrust of everyone and everything now. If it was someone's or some groups plan to seed so much doubt into the population that they've brainwashed them into not believing anything, then they've succeeded. Even at a high end tropical storm there's gonna be people surprised about the damage caused...
IMHO, (and this is probably over-simplified), if Henri is stronger, it gets pulled farther west by the cut-off low. If it's weaker, it stays a little farther east. I'm just basing this on the modeling trends over the last 36 hours...