Stay safe, John! cheers, Christine
On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:55 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Darren Addy >> Irene is weakening as it moves north into cooler waters. Down to >> 105mph winds now. That's the Good News. The bad news is that it looks >> like the eye is going to go completely over eastern North Carolina, >> not just sideswipe it. Bad News for NC. However, that may be good news >> for points further north as the trip over land will probably weaken >> Irene even further and lessen the impact on people north of North >> Carolina. > > Outer rain bands reached Raleigh about 4:30pm. Not much wind here [yet], but > some heavy rain already at my house. > > It looks a lot like Hurricane Floyd from 1999, which brought significant > flooding east of I-95. Floyd was also a large-scale Cat 2 storm when it made > landfall slightly west of Irene's predicted path. > > One significant difference is 1999's Floyd dropped 10 - 20 inches of rain > overnight two weeks after Hurricane Dennis which had already saturated > Eastern NC with 3 - 10 inches of rain. Dennis hit NC twice, sideswiping the > coast on Aug 30, then circled around and slammed straight in running up the > Neuse River Sep 4 (ruining a lot of Labor Day weekends). > > Ironically, 1999's Hurricane Irene added insult to injury by dropping another > 5 - 10 inches of rain on the area a month later. > > Luckily we haven't had a Dennis or a Floyd preceding this year's Irene, so I > don't think it's going to be as bad as it was then. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
