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Yikes! Hurricane Approaches my position

DaxDax Redshirt
in Zocalo v2.0
Several actually, tis the season, however this one is looking to rip right through Nova Scotia this weekend.

Batten down the hatches!

[URL="http://www.stormpulse.com/atlantic"]Clicky for weather tracking[/URL]

Comments

  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Storm related links you might find useful:

    IT Satellite coverage: [url]http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-atl.html[/url]

    Microwave Satellite coverage: [url]http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/TC.html[/url]
    (take a look at 85GHz to see the interior structure of the storm)

    Animated model runs: [URL]http://moe.met.fsu.edu/tcgengifs/[/URL]

    Model tracks: [url]http://euler.atmos.colostate.edu/~vigh/guidance/[/url]

    Lot of useful tools: [url]http://www.tropicalatlantic.com/[/url]

    Excellent Google Earth overlay of active recon data: [url]http://www.tropicalatlantic.com/satellite/#taoverlays[/url]

    Hurricane discussion boards: [url]http://flhurricane.com[/url] (read the rules of posting)


    I've got a few dozen other sites, but I think the above cover most of what you might find useful.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Leave it to RC to supply gobs of tracking data :p
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Two posts from Dax in two days! Whatever next! ;)

    Sanfam: better than his usual crap tho! :p
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Looks like its going to hit to the east of us, so just some rain, wind and waves.
  • Vertigo1Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com
    Am I the only one that's finding the name of the next storm hilarious? :P

    (hint: Watch Burn Notice. She likes to make big booms more than Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters!)
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Which next storm, Gaston?
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    its a wimpy storm
  • DaxDax Redshirt
    Earl, Fiona, Gaston

    Earl is creeping up the South Shore of Nova Scotia now and knocking power out as it travels, so I expect to lose power at some point but we're prepared. It was downgraded to a tropical storm, however Canadian weather service (Environment Canada) has said that because it is travelling over warmer than expected waters, the eye is regenerating and will hit us as a Category 1 hurricane.

    We had a really bad hurricane in 2003, Hurricane Juan, which did a lot of damage and since then we've had lots of Hurricane plans in place which were implemented over the last week.

    We have a 24' sail boat which we secured 2 days ago which is on the mooring field (the best place for it).

    So all in all we're not worried, see you on the other side!
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    When I was in the states 10 years ago, I was astonished of the amount of power lines they had above ground (we dig all of ours down). Is it still like that? And is it the same in Canada?
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Earl was a dud...
  • Vertigo1Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com
    [QUOTE=Messiah;189809]When I was in the states 10 years ago, I was astonished of the amount of power lines they had above ground (we dig all of ours down). Is it still like that? And is it the same in Canada?[/QUOTE]
    Short answer: yes.

    In some areas, they're above ground to the street, and underground from your house to the street.
  • DaxDax Redshirt
    Yeah there are still lots of power lines underground.

    We made it with only an air conditioner destroyed. We lost power for several hours before bed and Mom tried to move the AC unit out of the window herself, needless to say the next morning, we found a damaged unit on our deck below. Not too bad considering it was our spare that she had given to us in the first place.

    Highly ironic that we lost power pretty much after the wind died down. It passed through Halifax as a Category 1 hurricane and our boat was fine.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Are there any big electronics stores in Halifax? Couple customers were in yesterday looking for one, and that was their next stop, lol. Silly cruise ships, you'd think they would have a store onboard that sold Cellphone batteries.
  • DaxDax Redshirt
    heh well we have Best Buy and Futureshop and the Source (formerly Radio Shack), lots of stuff here
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Yep, thats what they were looking for, Hope they actually found it.
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