weatherwiz Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Just lost two trees. Sucks. Wind shifting more east. Location/street name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bboughton Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 A fellow student did. It's all cut up and cleared out already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 This will not be the "superstorm"/Franken whatever advertised. What you are getting is what you will get. Shore communities will likely have to deal with a 2ndary run in with elevated waters that may and probably will exceed those of earlier in the day, but as far as wind and rain production, it is in my opinion this is maxed(ing) The problem here is that the structure of the system never entered transition in the timely fashion modeled. And, since there is no crystal ball ... not sure how anyone could see a pure hurricane land falling on the mouth of Delaware Bay as the actual result. Being still a bona fide hurricane means that the winds were compact to the core. Sandy did gain a massive wind field over all, but the idea of Sandy getting sucked into the cold core and getting a giant baroclinic assist, expanding a much more serious and powerful wind field outward as a warm seclusion scenario is not going to happen. That much is clear. Sandy will make land fall as a hurricane, and then immediately weaken while she slows dramatically and then turns up into eastern PA. As a tremendously weakened entity there may be some interesting thermal fields in there but it will be unremarkable to anyone other than an obsessive grad student with dreams of making an intellectual discovery that finally gets him/her out from under the oppressive rule of their abusive academic adviser. j/k As it were, some weather personnel on camera are already explaining that tropical storm warnings and hurricane warnings would have been more appropriate considering what Sandy is. I've had the tele on in the backdrop while logged into the office and I'm inclined to agree with them. Hey, 2 years in row the EC is impacted by a hurricane. Not bad - even if the dystopia heads among us perhaps feel gypped because neither of them reduxed 1938. I am pretty confident that for all this power outages will be more sporadic than a torturing unilateral dilemma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mips Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 8:30 am heading northwest to work in Salem, NH: part of North Andover, MA was out of power from the old common to the Waverly St/Mass Ave intersection. A fat old tree was down in someone's yard but it had evidence of being rotted out in the center of it. Highway was windy, buffeting my 12 year old Subaru Forrester, requiring 2 hands on the wheel but no wrestliing. 2:30 pm heading southeast from Salem, NH to the SE end of North Andover a rock's throw from the Middleton and Boxford borders...different story. Lights had begun flickering more often with a brown tone that last time before I wienied out and told the boss 'see ya'. Rt 28 was plastered with leaves, the stop lights dangling over the intersections were bouncing and swaying with gusts. Rt 213 Eastbound was an adventure. I must have hit a gust directly head on, the little 4 cylinder tank could barely get to 50 with the peddle on the floor. Finally clear of that, am making a broad curve at 55 miles an hour when a now crosswize gust starts to take the back of the car into a twirl. The wrestling continued down the 2 exits on 495 S. Backroads were debris covered. Little branches, leaves and pinecones all over the place. Afew other medium (maybe 4-8 inch) diameter branches down but not many. Lights were back on everywhere I passed. According to family, power was out for about an hour and came back on about 20 minutes before I got there. The trip home took the usual speed limit time of about 40-45 minutes. Clearly, this was a mild trip compared with what some are experiencing but it was enough. If the Waverly Street lights had been off at 8:30 I just would have turned around and called in to begin with. One side note, lots of people were out shopping in Salem, along the 28 strip. Entire families, mothers with kids in happy celebratory school's off moods. They weren't all shopping for bread, milk, candles or batteries either. I didn't know clearanced Halloween rubbish was an emergency item. Or the new Christmas decorations for that matter. Even with the rain blowing sideways, w people having a challenge walking a straight line in a parking lot during a wind gust. They were more worried about a long check out line than they were out driving in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 So the question is ...will NHC declare it extratropical at 5:00 PM? They need to do that in order to justify the non-issuance of any tropical warnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Phase diagrams actually showed Sandy becoming even more tropical in nature from a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIsound Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Sorry. Greenhill, south coast , RI. Bands are now officially bad that have been coming through in last hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Yeah that's an impressive ob out of GON....61 knots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 BradNBCCT (Brad Field) at mouth of Thames River...76 mph wind gust...thanks @LisaCarberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Roaring winds aloft...rain just mixed down the most impressive gust of the day. Had to be 50ish mph at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Neighbors are losing their roofs making this the worst storm since I've been here. In addition one has had a window blow out. Wiz...please leave that out of your report...thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Yeah that's an impressive ob out of GON....61 knots. Crazy GON gusted to 70 and I am only gusting to 40, maybe one or two above that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Neighbors are losing their roofs making this the worst storm since I've been here. In addition one has had a window blow out. Wiz...please leave that out of your report...thanks I'll leave it out but that is some pretty valuable information that I'm sure the NWS would love to have and would be a huge help with their forecasts but ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAOS Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Just lost a good size branch off one of my maple trees. Almost took out my sheds....may have hit one of them. edit : I think I may have some damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Street name? Charlesmere Road, North Billerica Sorry ran to shower before we lose power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 60 knots WST... 66 knots LDLC3 (Ledge Light). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summerthyme Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Just took a drive around town and was surprised to see the amount of tree damage. Obviously small branches littered all over but many many big branches and even some oak and pine trees completely uprooted or snapped off at the base. When I went to get in the car there was a large pine branch that must have fallen right in front and missed scraping or denting it. Hopefully we can keep winds at or below what they've been so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 first time all day that my lights dimmed and flickered... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenstorm Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 gusty here in plainville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Glad this is mostly a daytime storm here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 Rocking in Tolland now..gusting to or over 60 Tolland Patch @Tolland_Patch Tolland EOC: Wires down on Browns Bridge, South River Road and Sugar Hill Road. #Sandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Two huge spruce trees down and blocking the only road to my parents house, thats about 1 mile from my house, about 1/4 of the town without power just estimating from driving around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/narragansett-new-england_4266/ narragansett ri surf cam live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 just had a massive wind gust here pretty large branch fell in my neighbors yard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 Over 75 K w/o power from CLP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Charlesmere Road, North Billerica Sorry ran to shower before we lose power Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherX Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Rocking in Tolland now..gusting to or over 60 Tolland Patch @Tolland_Patch Tolland EOC: Wires down on Browns Bridge, South River Road and Sugar Hill Road. #Sandy LOL....sounds dire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 A lot of power flickers going on right now. Easily just had gusts over 50....but couldn't say what they were exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 BOS 54 knots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 A large hemlock (abt 14") just came down with a strong gust a few moments ago in my yard. No damage to the house or the street...it fell in perfect spot. Wiz - Clinton Street in Stafford Springs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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