USVI-On-Line

This monster is now a Cat 4 as of NOAA's last advisory. VI's are now on a tropical storm warning. It's moving away from the VI's and on towards the Turks & Caicos and US East Coast. Hang on everyone, it's going to be a interesting week from the Carolinas up to Maine.

And now we have TS Fiona! Yep, she's official. She's following a similar track to Earl. Stupid.

yup, this one is not nice!

UGH! I'll have front row seats from my house in Sea Isle City, NJ as I plan on working from home there on Friday.

Looks like Earl may dampen our Labor Day Weekend fun. I'll have to make sure I have planty of rum and painkiller mix on hand.

Nancy_B wrote:UGH! I'll have front row seats from my house in Sea Isle City, NJ as I plan on working from home there on Friday.

Looks like Earl may dampen our Labor Day Weekend fun. I'll have to make sure I have planty of rum and painkiller mix on hand.

The appropriate drink is a Dark & Stormy

Chet wrote:

Nancy_B wrote:UGH! I'll have front row seats from my house in Sea Isle City, NJ as I plan on working from home there on Friday.

Looks like Earl may dampen our Labor Day Weekend fun. I'll have to make sure I have planty of rum and painkiller mix on hand.

The appropriate drink is a Dark & Stormy

True! My husband and our friend will drink those but I prefer the painkiller. Helps ease the pain if I can't be on the beach.

and fiona is nipping at his heels.....oy vay.

The only bad thing about living on the coast of NC! Might be close!

Ya'll be safe- and definitely stock up on the liquids

mit43 wrote:The only bad thing about living on the coast of NC! Might be close!

where do you live? i'm in the middle of the state and my parents were going to come visit this weekend, but they're near the coast on a river......so who knows if they'll be able to leave. gotta protect the house from flooding. eeep.

i remember being young and thinking how exciting hurricanes were. we would get deer in our back yard that would float over our high fence during flooding and get trapped once the waters went down. it's a completely different story when you grow up and are actually responsible for a home! yikes. kids, what can you do?

hope you guys down there don't have too much damage.

Nancy_B wrote:UGH! I'll have front row seats from my house in Sea Isle City, NJ as I plan on working from home there on Friday.

Looks like Earl may dampen our Labor Day Weekend fun. I'll have to make sure I have planty of rum and painkiller mix on hand.

Nancy, we'll be right over. Have a front row seat also in Anglesea.

Kind of scarey.

As I sit here and watch the tropical update and pray everyone in the islands is safe...I can't help but think of my son - who we JUST dropped off at school in Wilmington, NC. Super. Fingers crossed that it takes a little hook out to sea here pretty soon.

My favorite hurricane website: http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/TC.html

If it's good enough for the US Navy - it works for me too...not alot of fluff - just good info.

Stay prepared...

All the best,
Scott

leslieeliz wrote:

mit43 wrote:The only bad thing about living on the coast of NC! Might be close!

where do you live? i'm in the middle of the state and my parents were going to come visit this weekend, but they're near the coast on a river......so who knows if they'll be able to leave. gotta protect the house from flooding. eeep.

i remember being young and thinking how exciting hurricanes were. we would get deer in our back yard that would float over our high fence during flooding and get trapped once the waters went down. it's a completely different story when you grow up and are actually responsible for a home! yikes. kids, what can you do?

hope you guys down there don't have too much damage.

We live in Swansboro. We are on Queens Creek which fills up very fast when a hurricane pushes the water in from the ocean. We won't flood, but we get stranded because all the roads out of our area flood with even the smallest storms. Hopefully Earl will stay off the coast.

mit43 wrote:

leslieeliz wrote:

mit43 wrote:The only bad thing about living on the coast of NC! Might be close!

We live in Swansboro. We are on Queens Creek which fills up very fast when a hurricane pushes the water in from the ocean. We won't flood, but we get stranded because all the roads out of our area flood with even the smallest storms. Hopefully Earl will stay off the coast.

aw, captain charlie's! we're from washington! not quite as close but still on the pamlico with lots of flooding. we go to indian beach every year. hope all will be well with NC and STJ. heading to the VIs in a month.