Thinking about Long Island

[dianeduane]

Thinking about it quite hard. All of you who're in the NY area at the moment... please be safe. Storms of this intensity that have hit the Island in the past have changed its terrain. (See this sequence of images for details.)

Don't play around with this one. If you're on low ground, get out of harm's way.

(And people further down the coast, don't think I'm not thinking about you too. Do what you need to do to be safe from this. ...But I could hardly be blamed for thinking first about the place where I grew up and lived through a couple of hurricanes of my own.... a place that, after all. is just a big heap of sand and rubble that a glacier dumped and then went off to do other things.)

(The storm track map above isn't live: please click on it to go to the live one.) Or use this link.)

Comments

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Wow. I don't think I've seen a scarier hurricane image since the one I have saved to my HD - weather radar of Katrina bearing down on New Orleans.

[songfire3.livejournal.com]

This storm is scary. I just saw some satellite photos, and the first thing in my mind was: this looks like "The Day after Tomorrow".

My best friend is in Boston right now, and I have several friends in New York who got an evacuation order today - they have to leave their homes before 5 pm on Saturday. I don't think anything like this ever happened there before - how do you evacuate ~250.000 people in one day?!

I really hope this storm will change course, or at least lose strength before it hits the coast!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yikes. That's looking very nasty.

[kengr]

Well, *when* we get the big tsunami on the Oregon Washington coast because the fault a hundred or so miles out goes (and it's overdue) we'll have to move more folks than that on less than an hour's notice.

Planning counts.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I'm worried about assorted friends and allies scattered from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia at the moment myself...

[kayshapero]

Planning indeed. I live a bit inland from Marina del Rey, Los Angeles area. Local government finally got the sense to put up signs around here showing the tsunami warning area and the routes to follow to leave it pronto. Which go right past here, but we're actually outside of the major danger zone (of course if we get subsidence like Japan did all bets are off). All the same if I see a lot of people driving past out front I shall go turn on the radio forthwith...

[kayshapero]

Yeah - my brother in law lives in Potomac.

[kengr]

I'm lucky. Portland is far enough inland and where I live is high enough to not worry about a tsunami short of Lucifer's Hammer size.

My friends who live on the Washington coast live 100 feet *higher* than the nearest tsunami evacuation assembly area.

So all we gotta worry about are volcanos, earthquakes and nasty winter weather.

Did get an email from a friend who lives in NJ telling folks that she'd gotten a mandatory evac notice and telling us what address emails from her cell phone would show so we wouldn't nuke them as spam.