Hurricane Irene update: Northeastern USA beware as well

like a bullseye. Hopefully it continues to head east.

I live right across from Long Island NY in the Bronx. I hope that 85mph wind is them over-estimating. I'm 1 block from the water too.

that ocean temps along the coast of CT are two degrees higher than usual.

Two degrees doesn't sound like much, but it could make a difference...

Apparently it's a very large storm and could potentially do lots of damage before the actual center ever got close to us.

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coastal SC to the mountains of Va in Jan. Unfortunately, I still own a house in SC, and just had a new roof installed before I moved. Sure hope it turns right before it hits the states, but we're overdue for a big one.

If you live in a neighborhood with lots of these, be careful!

I've got lots of them around my house, and when the ground gets wet and the wind blows, they're prone to toppling over because the root systems are so shallow.

During Gaston years ago, a neighborhood just to the east of us, with lots of huge, old trees and above-ground utilities, was turned into a giant pile of Lincoln Logs. Although our neighborhood lots of huge, old trees, too, it does have buried utilities; unfortunately, I live all the way at the back of the subdivision, and our house ties into the grid with the older neighborhood with exposed utilities. Suffice that we were without power for 27 days, and the utilities were such a mess, they had to wire each house back into the grid one at a time.

mikey_the_rat

Luckily I'll be back in Connecticut just in time to deal with the storm.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0911W5_NL_sm2+gif/143914W5_NL_sm.gif

year, but at least we don't have to worry about hurricanes!

Did I mention I have 50 acres of red pine in sandy loam out back?

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Before the 1938 hurricane it had been several decades since a hurricane of any significance adversely affected the northeastern Atlantic coastline. Nevertheless, history has shown that several severe hurricanes have affected the Northeast, although with much less frequency in comparison to areas of the Gulf, Florida, and southeastern Atlantic coastlines.

The Great September Gale of 1815 (the term hurricane was not yet common in the American vernacular), which hit New York City directly as a Category 3 hurricane, caused extensive damage and created an inlet that separated the Long Island resort towns of the Rockaways and Long Beach into two separate barrier islands.

The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane, a Category 4 storm which made four separate landfalls in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and southern New England. The storm created the highest recorded storm surge in Manhattan of nearly 13 feet and severely impacted the farming regions of Long Island and southern New England.

The 1869 Saxby Gale affected areas in Northern New England, decimating the Maine coastline and the Canadian Outer Banks. It was the last major hurricane to affect New England until the 1938 storm.

The 1893 New York hurricane, a Category 2 storm, directly hit the city itself, causing a great storm surge that pummeled the coastline, completely removing the Long Island resort town of Hog Island (New York).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane