everybody needs to be ready!more storms to come!

[adrlnr]

everybody needs to ready!more storms to come!!!

[Zadok]

Help is on the way!

[TexasStooge]

How abou sending some of those storms to North Texas.

Wee need th rain DESPERATELY!!

[krysof]

Former TD 13 may redevelop bacause there is a lot of convection around it, I think it may be reorganizing quickly


http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlsto ... large.html

[Patrick99]

Yup - hurricane season ain't over.

Unfortunately, sometimes those who need the rain don't get the rain.

[scostorms]

What kind of fills my heart is that... According to the Canadian Hurricane Centre, a tropical cyclone(not a depression) passes over southern Ontario on average every 11 years. Canada's worst hurricane actually made landfall on Toronto in I think 1956 as a category one hurricane. If any hurricanes in the future come ashore in Delaware through Massachussettes(sp.?) then they will pass over southern Ontario. This is worrying for me for... 1. New York City would be almost impossible to evacuate. 2. Many northern New Englanders and southern Ontarians are not accustomed to hurricanes. 3. Try convincing a southern Ontarian a hurricane could hit here. Just hope to God, hurricanes miss New York City, and area's of northern New England and southern Ontario. For that fact, all of the coast line.

[krysof]

New York City and long island would have much bigger problems because

1) A lot more people
2) thinking a hurricane can never come there
3) evvacuations and the traffic would be incredible

[scostorms]

On the topic of New York City, how did evacuations go for Hurricane Bob in 1991?

[wxmann_91]

I was just thinking that...

No power in LA, MS, and AL for a month

Over the peak of hurricane season

So what if another hurricane comes their way?

I'd bet that there are still people without power in Miami that don't know the hurricane struck them caused one of the greatest disasters in US History.

[cancunkid]

I heard on CNN that in the US 53% of the population lives within 5 miles of a coast. Of course that includes everyone on the west coast but still I was really surprised by that %. Did I hear this right? That seems very high.

[Robert]

On the topic of New York City, how did evacuations go for Hurricane Bob in 1991?

I was in Maine for Bob in 1991. It was very weak by the time it got there, but we still had heavy rain, strong winds (by inland Maine standards) and lost power for about a day.

Nature adjusts to what it experiences. For example, I now live in coastal NC and all the trees (most of the trees) we have left around our house can withstand stong winds (at least they have). In Maine we lost power because there were some weak trees (dead) that were still standing near power lines. The winds picked up a bit, and down came those trees.

I think that would be the danger if/ when a hurricane comes in to New England (or North). The trees are not used to strong winds and while I doubt the wind or flooding would be like we are seeing in the South, there probably would be a lot of houses destroyed from trees falling on them, powerlines down from trees, and damage like that. The thought of New York trying to evacuate would be frightening (I lived about 1.5 hours North of the city, and recently when I visited the traffic was horrible!). There are also lots of lots of people in New York who do not own cars and depend on public transportation.

Robert