Poll, which storm hit you harder personally

[Ginx snewx]

Irene had a bigger effect on my personal life damage wise. Yours?

[Cold Miser]

Irene.

I don't recall Gloria very well, and I don't think it has much of an impact on Columbia County, NY where I was.

Bob happened just before I went back out to college for the year. I recall driving back and seeing a good amount of tree damage along East bay areas in r.i., but it didn't affect me.

[CT Rain]

Down on the shoreline of CT Gloria had a bigger wind impact but the coastal flooding from Irene was much worse... as bad or worse than Dec 1992.

[rivers]

Bob...chased bob east from old saybrook to mystic aquarium stopped cold in westerly when what seemed to be part of a pavillion smashed into my right rear tire and wedged itself so I could not move my car into the wind the car was violently shaking right to left with shingles from a house across the street pelting my poor 1989 chevy caviliar.and that was the weak side of bob.I did squeek out one 82 mph gust before major anomometer problems.

[Damage In Tolland]

Wind damage was worse with Gloria inland. Irene had a good amount,,but not as bad as Gloria

[Ginx snewx]

Wind damage was worse with Gloria inland. Irene had a good amount,,but not as bad as Gloria

Personally?

[dryslot]

Bob

[Wx4cast]

Irene where I am now

Gloria where I was then

[eekuasepinniW]

Feb 26 2010

[OKpowdah]

March 5, 2001

[Damage In Tolland]

Personally?

Everywhere

[Johnno]

Irene but to be fair I wasn't alive for Gloria and don't remember Bob. Irene was big here because of the rain/flooding damage, the wind was meh and I saw higher gusts I think in the Boxing Day storm last year.

[tamarack]

Judged solely according to where I lived at storm time:

Gloria (Ft.Kent): just another fall storm, that far north. Would be #2 behind Bob if I'd already moved to Gardiner - similar (or even stronger) winds but much less rain.

Bob (Gardiner): 6.4" rain (still tops for any single-event 24 hr I've measured), winds G60 with some significant blowdown, both front- and backside.

Irene (New Sharon): 4.4" rain, G40.

Other notable TS since I moved to Maine:

Belle (Ft Kent): 6 rain, mostly in 4 hr, little wind. #2 behind Bob.

Floyd (New Sharon): 5" rain, G40. Tied with Irene for #4.

[Parsley]

Gloria on Long Island. No power for 8 days.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Gloria for me. Bob was meh, Irene me

Ice storm 2008 worse than all combined

[moneypitmike]

Irene had a much greater impact on me from an infrastucture perspective.

Bob, on the other hand, almost had my first wedding's reception become peanut butter and jelly sandwiches due to the extended power-outage (it came on 16 hours before).

[Mr Torchey]

GLoria was meh in western ct, was in SC for Bob, but I understand it was also a non factor in western ct.............irene was the most damaging, the surge was historical here.

[weathafella]

Irene. No effect in LA from Gloria.

[Turtle]

I think it was Bob. I was at the old NWS office at PWM Jetport along the coast at the time. Never seen it rain so hard before moving to CHS. Bob produced PWM's second highest 24 hour total on 8/19/91 of 7.75 inches (it was a record at the time). This was surpassed by the storm of 10/21/96 with 11.74 inches of rain. This one had direct moisture feed from Hurricane Lili. There's a very good paper on GYX's website on this event:

http://www.erh.noaa....f/ta2000-02.pdf

I was at PVD for Gloria, and my biggest memory from that one was that my car was covered in sea salt due to the strong S winds off Narragansett Bay with very lilttle rainfall (only 0.10" as I recall). Oh, large trees did fall, along with no power for a few days. Got our power back, then went out again during the next rain event about a week later, likely due to sea salt getting into the circuitry shorting out the electricity.

Irene was a big hyped up event around these parts, IMHO. Some decent wind. The hubby had better winds down in Fall River, but not a whole lot of damage, at least from what I saw. I was working 12 hour mid shifts for that one, though, so I probably missed some of the bigger stuff.

Just my 2 cents worth.

--Turtle

[Baroclinic Zone]

I was only 11 when Gloria hit so I don't recall too much from that storm besides the winds and a few trees being knocked down. I have zero recollection of Bob. I don't even know where I was that day. For these 2 reason I picked Irene.

[Ginx snewx]

I was only 11 when Gloria hit so I don't recall too much from that storm besides the winds and a few trees being knocked down. I have zero recollection of Bob. I don't even know where I was that day. For these 2 reason I picked Irene.

Bob? Were you drunk?

[Baroclinic Zone]

Bob? Were you drunk?

No, I was a senior in HS.

[Ginx snewx]

No, I was a senior in HS.

Oh stoned gotcha, lol

[Baroclinic Zone]

Oh stoned gotcha, lol

lol

I never drank or smoked in HS. Honestly I could probably count the number of times I smoked on my 2 hands. I also never drank while I was in HS. This must have been an uneventful storm for me wherever I was, otherwise I would have remember it.

[Ginx snewx]

lol

I never drank or smoked in HS. Honestly I could probably count the number of times I smoked on my 2 hands. I also never drank while I was in HS. This must have been an uneventful storm for me wherever I was, otherwise I would have remember it.

Seriously, you were not a weenie in HS?, were you in SEmass? As old as I am I can remember specific storms even in grade school.

[Baroclinic Zone]

Seriously, you were not a weenie in HS?, were you in SEmass? As old as I am I can remember specific storms even in grade school.

I was in Foxboro in 1991.