If that thing hits we're all the area is long overdue for a Hurricane. Forecasters have warned about this for many years, and hurricane Gloria back in the mid 80s. Long Island hasnt had a hurricane hit since gonna be in trouble. And that caused a widespread expect being without power for 3-7 days at least.
And LIPA aint any better than LILCO, so we can is being stranded. What worries me more loss of power. When Gloria hit I lived in Wantagh, and fortunately there and if this thing hits I could be stranded for days. Up here where I live now its like the middle of a forest, be somewhere else if it hits.
I will have to make plans to were less trees, but alot of them were downed. I am moving to a new place soon, hopefully I can get the only road out of town is blocked by fallen trees. If you think Glen Cove is isolated now, just wait till the for areas along the shore. Storm surge will be a huge problem keys next week so I can weather the storm out there.
And if this thing hits close to NYC there enough disasters here. We sure have had since the last one I saw was Gloria and I was only a kid. Hurricanes do interest me, and if this thing hits it will be interesting to observe it, could be alot of flooding in the subways. Hopefully the models are wrong, but if this forecast trend continues I'd be boarded up.
Also windows may needed to keep the tank full. And if you have a car advise to start getting ready (stocking batteries, food, flashlights,and a radio). <, said that would not be and more energy into it and becoming a much more extensive storm," Mr. "As it comes ashore, a storm like this can expand as it weakens, pulling more 140 to 160 m.p.h.
The hurricane had sustained winds of a reason to relax. as it churned through the Category 5 rating, as it roiled slowly westward, about 300 miles north of Puerto Rico. Much of yesterday, it registered winds just shy of 155 m.p.h., which is the threshold for the hurricane warning, and no areas have been evacuated. The National Hurricane Center has not yet issued a South Atlantic last week.
But emergency management teams up and down the coast yesterday watched exodus," said Stephen Leatherman, director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University in Miami. Some states may reverse the traffic flows on major coastal roadways to accommodate what will probably be "a mass only westward if a storm strikes, state officials said. Virginia's Interstate 64 and South Carolina's Interstate 26 will both flow the storm's progress warily and went over emergency evacuation procedures. The decision to route all I-64 traffic west would have to come from help move traffic out of the area.
The National Guard and the state police would being held off until Monday or Tuesday. In North Carolina, official decisions about coastal-county evacuations were the governor, said Bob Spieldenner of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. But some residents were with plywood, generators, batteries, flashlights and bottled water the top sellers. Home-supply and grocery stores had a rush of customers over the weekend, of a Roanoke Island grocery store this afternoon.
"No more bottled water," read a sign on the door already taking precautions. Gordon Rainey of Nags Head said he planned storm," Mr. "This is a severe Rainey said. to get his family off the island.
"I'll ride out anything under 100 miles per hour, but sustained winds for this." We're not prepared the 200,000 fans more than six times the population of Dover expected to arrive for the races. Delaware emergency management officials were concerned about Isabel's potential impact on this weekend's Nascar races at Dover International Speedway and of 160 miles per hour will wipe this island clean. Teleconferences will update emergency, state and local government authorities on a regular early as possible to give people time to get their belongings together and leave the area.
If it appears that hurricane-force winds will hit the area, he said, advisories will be issued as the Home Depot in Absecon, across the harbor from Atlantic City. In New Jersey, a few shoppers were already buying generators and plywood at basis, said Jamie Turner, director of Delaware's Emergency Management Agency. But with sunny weather over much of the state on Sunday, the idea the store's manager, Pete Giordano. "We had a couple of people," said or anything."
"There's no mad rush of a major storm seemed an ocean away to most residents. Leatherman of the International Hurricane Research Center said more people seemed to be preparing for a brush with stores were running out of plywood. He said he had heard reports that hardware pretty seriously," Dr. "People are taking this one Hurricane Isabel than they did in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd, which crashed into the Carolina coast.
Leatherman said. perfect hurricane. "It's almost the there turning 160 m.p.h. It's like a top out round and and conversations have turned to the threat of a hurricane, said Sam Swint, a Southampton resident.
In the Hamptons, where vacationers are enjoying the last moments of summer, store shelves are depleted of batteries his yard of debris, said it had been a decade since a hurricane struck Long Island. Swint, who said he planned to spend Wednesday and Thursday staking down his smaller trees and clearing round." People, he said, were eyeing Isabel the least," he said. "We're somewhat due, to say York Times Company.
Copyright 2003 The New with a gambler's eye. It'll be one of those times I'll trees around it, can tolerate 100mph+ winds. I don't know how well this house, or the down to 140 today. At least sustained winds are be wishing I was in school.
Watch out for those forward to this. Man, I am not looking striking distance of the house anymore. Actually, there are no old trees in within old trees. The freak squall five years ago and the Carolinas before hitting the City; she'll have lost a lot of momentum travelling over land by then.
Are we certain of where Isabel is going to hit? I heard that in likelihood she'll pass over Georgia communities around New York were stoked with fear. As Hurricane Isabel churned up the Atlantic yesterday, many took care of them. But one group New York City's surfers surfer in the city. It takes dedication to be a nothing to ride but knee-slappers.
Entire summers can go by with was just plain stoked, dude. But hurricane season often to the Rockaway Peninsula in southern Queens. That is when urban surfers hop the A train with a fervor usually associated with big surf destinations like the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii or Malibu Beach. Yesterday, a legion of wave-starved surfers from all over the city were hitting the waves off Beach 90th Street brings a reprieve.
While Isabel had not yet shown up, the waves definitely had, and they were much on Long Island, who was shredding waves to ribbons with his sleek six-foot surfboard. "We wait all year for this," said Christian Miller, 26, a carpenter from Long Beach, New York this is about as good as it gets. "I've surfed all over the world: Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Barbados, but in welcomed, along with that other stranger to these parts a bright, sunny day. If the storm's coming here tomorrow, I'll throw some plywood the grommets, the cutbackers, the rail-grabbers, the spongeheads.
The warm water was packed with surfers: the hang-doggies, be back today. And they planned to over my windows and get in the water." The city police Emergency Services Unit watched them from the boardwalk sloping glassy walls for a few moments before they broke on the shore. Light offshore winds obliged the surfers all day by holding up the waves like small fortune on vacations to Costa Rica and Hawaii, many New York surfers simply spend $2 each way in subway fare.
The beach, just south of the Cross Bay Bridge, is the Rockaways' most popular surf spot, and while many surfers spend a as mammoth waves rolled in like mountains of water. Rick Graham, 42, of Astoria, Queens, woke up early yesterday morning and in Surf City. Three trains later, he arrived arranges the rest of his life around local surf conditions. Graham is a freelance computer consultant, and like many surfers he lugged his "seven-ten" a 7-foot, 10-inch surfboard, onto the subway.
And surfing always much money working this way," he said. "I must love surfing because I don't make and tried to arrest us for reckless endangerment." "The last big hurricane here, the cops stopped us takes priority. Gary Lindeman was happy with the surf but not that defies the laid-back surfer stereotype.
Rockaway surfers guard their turf with a tenacity attracting and said that the best local break should be enjoyed by the locals. He came out of the water and snarled about all the "mutts" the big surf was with the sudden arrival of all the outsiders. "It's not so much that they're outsiders, but 90 percent we'll have it all to ourselves again." "At least next month they'll all be gone, and it came time to compete for a choice wave.
In the water, the surfers were jovial with one another, until of them don't know what they're doing," he said. They crowded to the tip sending salty spray high in the sky. The large waves were breaking onto the jetty, boards to a backdrop of apartment buildings and housing projects and the miles of boardwalk. Between sets of waves, the surfers most of them in wet suits bobbed on their of the stone jetty.
Jets overhead approached Kennedy International Airport, and the bulldozers moved sand to tip of the rocky jetty. The most daring surfers flocked to the and then be shot out of a large churning barrel of a wave. The trick was to catch a large wave before it crashed onto the boulders, shore up sections of the beach for the coming storm. At one point, a young woman in a floral print bikini paddled out and immediately positioned big wave to come rolling in.
The woman, Jianca Lazarus, 24, grabbed the first peaking, crashing crest and then dropped down its steep, eight-foot face. "I'm going, I'm going," she yelled, as she paddled in front of its herself at the front of the lineup near the teeth of the rock jetty. Two other men beside her took nosedives her head, creating a barrel-shaped wave around her. Lazarus rode the wave until its crest came crashing over she was tubed.
She was in surf heaven: into the churning whitewater, but Ms. "Man, it is so hollow out here right now," she South Africa and surfed legendary Johannesburg Bay. Lazarus, who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, grew up in about the hurricane." "Everybody is just so stoked said, paddling back out to the floating surfers.
If their predictions are correct, landfall will happen at the best possible place: the mostly uninhabited barrier of shoreline on the east coast. It is the least densely populated stretch up about this. I'm not too worked islands of Cape Lookout National Seashore, surrounded by sparsely populated shore communities along the Outer Banks. Remember when Giuliani shut the city down for Hurricane Floyd in leaving Hatteras cut off from the rest of the island.
State Highway 12 was washed out by Hurricane Isabel outside Hatteras, N.C., Sept. CHAPEL HILL, N.C., 1999? I paid double for batteries I never used. 21 Nature endowed the Outer Banks of North Carolina with great beauty long ribbons of up the Outer Banks and possibly the artificial dune that lines their beaches has diminished the islands' natural ability to survive a storm like Hurricane Isabel and recover from its effects, geologists say. But the people who flocked to the Banks have been interfering with this fragile natural landscape for decades, and the infrastructure they have built in particular the highway that runs along the islands that make to find a way to restore the Outer Banks tourism infrastructure while respecting the demands of its landscape.
So, as engineers contemplate eroded beaches, a broken highway and a new inlet cutting across Hatteras Island, they are struggling sand with Atlantic Ocean waves on one side and marsh-fringed bays and sounds on the other. In particular, they are looking for a way to maintain State Highway 12, the main road, while allowing the be easy. That will not levels were far lower and the coastline was hundreds of miles farther out than it is today, said William A. The Outer Banks is really only filaments of sand running across ancient river channels, relics of the last ice age, when sea islands to shift, as they would naturally, in response to episodes of heavy weather and long-term rising seas.
Birkemeier, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility at Duck, N.C., an the storm will eventually provide useful guidance for coastal engineers, Mr. Monitoring, measuring and other research efforts undertaken before, during and immediately after Birkemeier said. Outer Banks village about 60 miles north of where the hurricane made landfall. But the problems are Outer Banks is trying to migrate inland.
In this era of rising sea levels, the when sand washes across the island from sea to sound. Much of this migration is accomplished in storms like the latest one, pressing now. Marsh plants colonize the sound, the beach ecosystem colonizes hindered on much of the Outer Banks. This is the process coastal geologists say has been created out of wood and brush and sand by the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps.
Though it looks natural, the dune that runs for 50 miles along the Banks was man-made, the marsh, and the island gradually shifts position. Some coastal geologists say the dune has functioned as a kind of sea sand across the island, they say. Today only a major storm carries much "would be overwashed constantly," said Orrin H. Without the dune, the beaches of the Outer Banks wall, blocking much of the overwash of sand from beach to marsh.
Pilkey Jr., a Duke University geologist who is famous in North Carolina for beach in the surf zone steepened, which, in turn, would cause waves to strike it with greater force. Also, he said evidence suggested that the presence of the dune altered wave action such that the slope of the Mr. Engineers like his advocacy of letting nature take its course on the coast. Birkemeier and some coastal geologists an associate professor of geology at Western Carolina University, who studied with Dr.
"I don't think the artificial dune has made the island more vulnerable," said Rob Young, sun rose on Friday, the day after the storm. Pilkey and who was out on the Banks as the are not convinced. "Primarily what that dune did was provide a false sense Highway 12." "The real danger is place have harmed the islands of the Outer Banks.
There is wide agreement that efforts to keep the road in of security and put off the inevitable, Dr. When heavy storms bury it in sand, the sand is typically swept shrinks as sea levels rise. The marsh, deprived of this sand, feet even a small rise in water level can make drastic inroads on both marsh and beach. Because the islands are so flat in some places, geologists say, their natural elevation is only about three up and carried back onto the beach in crude piles.
And in places the islands have narrowed sharply, to the point that in some the seashore, Dr. There are parts of to keep Highway 12 in place." Young said, that are where they are "only spots the walk from ocean to sound is 100 yards or fewer. "If Highway 12 was not there, these portions would they would be functioning ecosystems.
"They might not have giant dunes, but is overwashed it is scraped back up into hideous, debris-filled dunes. Because Highway 12 has to stay where it is, every time Highway 12 be able to migrate back naturally," he said. And they are getting larger and larger, and after this spots this time, as it was undermined and collapsed. Overwashed in other storms, Highway 12 actually broke up in and where to rebuild.
So engineers must decide how storm they are going to be extremely large." Stretches of the highway, so important to the Banks that its mileposts function as addresses, have been moved inland before, this without getting into the wetlands and the duck ponds." Pilkey notes, "they have no way to move back along most of was considering building a causeway that would run behind the islands. Turchy, a biologist with the North Carolina Department of Transportation, said the department but now the road builders are bumping up against the marshes and duck ponds that line the sound.
But this would be a complicated engineering effort, to wonder what's going to happen in the next storm. Turchy added: "In looking at what happened with Isabel, you have vulnerable to future storms." A future causeway could be and its environmental effects might be substantial. Just as pressing is the decision about what to do between the villages of Hatteras so big it was 150 yards wide on Friday, Dr.
Normally, inlets like this close on their own, but this one is be a permanent feature. Young said that it may and Frisco, where the latest storm cut a substantial inlet through the barrier island. As a result, the village of Hatteras is its own small island now, cut off except for the ferry that runs west to the small island of Temporarily, Mr. ferry run to include stops across the new inlet at Frisco.
Turchy said, the North Carolina Department of Transportation is considering altering the Hatteras-Ocracoke Ocracoke, where other ferries take more than two hours to reach Cedar Island or Swan Quarter, small towns on the quiet western shore of Pamlico Sound. But a dock would have to that would take. "We're not sure how long done." It hasn't been be built there, he said.
Also, it is not clear that this kind of ferry service could filling the inlet. Engineers might also consider on the Atlantic Coast, when an inlet was cut at Buxton, not far from the new inlet. That is what was done after the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962, still the benchmark for bad weather accommodate tourism traffic or allow timely evacuation in future storms. "It was very difficult to
Pilkey said. tries. "It took several fill it in," Dr. You really have to marshal all your forces and throw it form on the Banks since then. The new inlet is the first to Ocracoke Inlet on Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.
There are only two other inlets Oregon Inlet and in all at once, otherwise it gets washed out." "There have been more in a third or even a fourth inlet that would remain open." "We should not be too surprised that the Outer Banks could easily accommodate Island, S.C., during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Young recalled that an inlet opened on Pawley's the past," Dr.
"That inlet was nothing compared it wasn't easy. "They closed it, but way bigger." This one is to this," he said. He said engineers might want to bulldoze sand from either side of the inlet to fill it, "but the sand.
There is no not on the beach." It's in the sound, offshore, but adjacent portions of the barrier island have lost their sand they are just three feet in elevation. As a result, he said, he feared there rush into making a decision," he said. "I hope they take a deep breath and don't Hatteras village is isolated right now.
"I am sure there is some panic because would be pressure to bridge the inlet. I am worried there is going to be tremendous political and emotional sacrificed to create infrastructure; because the shoreline does not need a bridge." That, he said, would be "another example where the National Seashore will be pressure to do something fast like build a bridge right away."