It has been almost a year since Hurricane Irene made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina with maximum wind speeds of 48 MPH.
(In Colorado, we would call that a typical spring day.)
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I had a chair tip over. should have called the weather channel so they could come over and see this unprecedented event.
Did you rebuild after that devastation?
(In Colorado, we would call that a typical spring day.)
Agreed! Having spent twenty years in the area, Boulder to Laramie, WY get winds in the spring and fall well over the 70 mph hurricane designation. Just set up a good pressure differential with the high on the west of the continental divide, and the winds will be howling out of the mountains onto the eastern plains. Highway 287 north of Ft. Collins to Laramie gets closed to high profile vehicles when these winds are likely.`
Funny, in VT it is not remembered that way. A few weeks ago I traveled up to the Burlington area, and there are still areas of massive devastation. Most of the rivers still have huge piles of sand, rocks and debris on certain banks, and there are still peopole with signs on their houses proclaiming that they lost everything. there are still releif operations underway, and even in Brattleboro, Williams street is still closed , because they have run out of money to fix it.
It is the worst storm that has hit VT in recent history and certainly is one of the three worst on record.
I rather pooe pood it tha day it struck I knew they would overhype the wind speed, they always do with tropical storms becuase they get MUCH less grief when they overestimate than when they overblow it. And then throughout the next two days saw draw dropping scenes of devastation from friends locally and around the state.
I don;t think we had sustained winds over 35 MPH, but that was not the caue of the problem
That is called rain from a tropical storm on already saturated ground, not wind from a hurricane.
I survived three great natural catastrophes within 2 weeks in Maryland, the earthquake, Irene, also Tropical Storm Lee. All caused by evil white Republican males. Then the derricho last June followed by the hottest summer EVER. But I somehow managed to survive it all!
The earthquake was by far the scariest. It is no fun being shaken back and forth in a high rise.