Comments on: Irene is for real

By: Lynn Wilhelm

Lynn Wilhelm — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:16:12 +0000

Bocopa said:

Won’t somebody think of the ponies!

By the way, there are ponies on several of NC’s outer banks islands.
My daughter is worried about them.

By: Lynn Wilhelm

Lynn Wilhelm — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:45:21 +0000

I was camping in the NC mountains when Hugo hit. A tree came down close to my tent and the Blue Ridge Pkwy was closed. It was so awful outside when I woke that even my dogs didn’t want to go out to pee!
That hurricane was supposed to come in toward Raleigh but hit Charleston and Charlotte instead.

After Fran a child in the school where I was teaching said his neighborhood looked like Jumanji.

By: hoary puccoon

hoary puccoon — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:10:15 +0000

Lynn Wilhelm–

Hugo in 1989 “did it” to just about everybody. We went through Hugo on a boat in Antigua (the Caribbean) and it was not fun.

One thing about hurricane waves; on top of very large waves(measured crest to trough) there can be a storm surge, in which the whole, general level of the sea is higher than normal. The most dangerous effect of this is that coastal formations like sand bars and salt marshes are completely covered. Areas that don’t usually have a sea front exposure suddenly get the full force of the waves. That’s how Hugo “did it” to Charleston, SC.

Good luck to everybody on the east coast. We’ll be thinking about you.

By: Bacopa

Bacopa — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:34:03 +0000

Won't somebody think of the ponies! Seriously, I wish all of you in the Outer Banks, Hampton Roads, and the Eastern Shore the best of luck. At least you have some slope to your ground, so the areas of evacuation shouldn't be that huge. Been through this a few times myself.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:34:01 +0000

i think i prefer the occasional tornado and blizzard that we get in MN.

By: Lynn Wilhelm

Lynn Wilhelm — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:55:06 +0000

First an earthquake, now a hurricane. When I heard my front door rattling yesterday my first thought was wind. We’ve been thinking a lot about Irene here in NC.

I have to say that I love wild weather, I just hope no one gets hurt. It looks like the NC outer banks will get the worst of it for our state, but it’s not unusual for one to come right inland. If Irene stays a little west we could really see it in the Raleigh area. Fran did that in the 90’s and Hugo did it to Charlotte in the 80’s.