Here comes Nate!

OBW0549

Joined Mar 2, 2015
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According to that projection, it looks like Nate will get here (southeastern PA) sometime Monday afternoon or evening, with some wind and hopefully a lot of rain. We need it; it's tinder-dry here right now.

Fingers crossed, hoping things don't get too bad for NOLA and the Louisiana and W. Florida coasts...
 

#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
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That's what we were told with hurricane Gilbert, back in '88 ... see what happened:
Yebbut, Nate has to go through the Appalachian mountains and more than 1000 miles over land before it gets to Pa. or Va. I feel safe if a hurricane has to cross less than 200 miles of Florida to get at me, and Florida is basically a big, flat sandbar. Maximum altitude is a little over 200 feet.
Yikes! That's one angry looking storm! At least three boiling points and the shape that would be a hurricane if it didn't run into land. I hope the people in New Orleans learned not to keep their generators in the basement after Katrina opened the dikes.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Nate has to go through the Appalachian mountains and more than 1000 miles over land before it gets to Pa. or Va.
I'll grant you that 1,000 miles is quite a damper for a tropical storm... but Gilbert did go through the Sierra Madre before hitting us!
 

#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
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I'll grant you that 1,000 miles is quite a damper for a tropical storm... but Gilbert did go through the Sierra Madre before hitting us!
It looks like you got your river bed rinsed out.:D
I just sat through a Cat. 3 and didn't even lose a shingle. If I had even 200 miles of Florida to slow down a hurricane I wouldn't bother to lower the TV antenna.:cool:
 
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