Who's ready for Sandy?!

[Alchemy-Z]

atlantic city

[mikeler]

Originally Posted by Alchemy-Z

atlantic city

Holy smokes!

[Alchemy-Z]

Holding their post.

[chrischris]

A swimming pool in your backyard all of a sudden got a new meaning. this sucks.

[chrischris]

Originally Posted by mikeler

September is the peak month here so obviously August and October are the next 2 highest months for storms. Ocean temperatures lag air temperatures which is why the peak hurricane season does not align itself with meteorological summer which spans from June to August technically. Summer here down in Florida can sometimes extend until the end of October but normally we get our first cool blast in the first week or two of October. See the graph below:

Is this graph for Florida or for the Northeast coast and where did you find it??

[rommil]

Originally Posted by Alchemy-Z

They're looking for Snooki

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by El Diablo

Bought British beer -- perfectly fine warm, in case the power goes out.

Suit yourself. I stashed my freezer with all kinds of containers with water. If I lose power now, I should still have the ice last until Wednesday.

Unless of course one my neighbors mishandles their brand new diesel generator - then the ice could melt quicker...

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by Alchemy-Z

atlantic city

No gambling early in the week, that's right. Save your risk addiction for the weekend...

[Avles]

Originally Posted by chrischris

Is this graph for Florida or for the Northeast coast and where did you find it??

It can be found here: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/Jef...&tstamp=200710

That blog post suggests that a late-October hurricane in the North Atlantic is a very unusual event.

[SoBad]

I just heard on the radio that there are still people hanging out on Fire Island lmao...

[mikeler]

Originally Posted by chrischris

Is this graph for Florida or for the Northeast coast and where did you find it??

This is from the national hurricane center for the Atlantic Basin (the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico):

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/

[mikeler]

Here is how hurricanes are named:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

[SoBad]

Looking forward to the 2017 Katia...

[maverick66]

Originally Posted by SoBad

No, because the last one that landed was Isaac (a Jewish man)?

Isaac might go that way you just never know these days.

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by maverick66

Isaac might go that way you just never know these days.

Which way is that?

[Fearsome Forehand]

Atlantic City is now the Venice of New Jersey. A lot of shore areas are going to be flooded, no way around that.

I have friends that live right on Long Island Sound. Bad place to be right now.

This storm is later than most but still within the traditional confines of hurricane season. 6/1 through 11/30.
A combination of factors involved including Arctic air exacerbated this particular storm.

Would not want to be the insurance company for the crane operator who left the crane up in Manhattan.

[SoBad]

No more hot water around here. Now I have a novel and fun project for the next couple of days - boiling water in an electric water kettle gallon by gallon and then pouring it into the bathtub...

[maverick66]

Originally Posted by SoBad

Which way is that?

Think of his joke than think of mine I think your smart enough to connect the dots.

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by maverick66

Think of his joke than think of mine I think your smart enough to connect the dots.

The real question is - what do you do if you don't own a fire extinguisher yet you observe neighbors dragging (their first ever?) diesel generators into their homes.

[ollinger]

^^ Portable generators suffer greatly from the lack of a cooling system. A fellow in Rockland County NY had a generator going in his garage following last Halloween's snow storm, the thing overheated and incinerated his car.