Re: Bill cause worst beach flooding since 1985 Gloria
Posted by
Cape_Fear_NC on 8/24/2009, 4:56 pm
Being I'm 57 years old, I've experienced hurricanes moving up the Mid-Atlantic Coast but have always been on the left side of them - where it's relatively safe. On the Delmarva ya see 'em passing by every few years, sometimes fairly close in but mostly a good ways out.
One of 'em, Gloria I think it was - passed by fairly close and it was quite a bizarre event. She was sucking the air from inland out to sea at a fantastic rate. Imagine, screaming winds at the beach - blowing out to sea!
That's all fine - but if one ever tracks OVER the peninsula - holy crap, it'll be a friggin' mess. Hurricane force winds blasting in FROM the sea, with the storm center tracking up between the Chesapeake and the Atlantic...oh lordy. Those barrier islands would be submerged and the water would flow far inland.
Ocean City, Maryland packs 300,000 people onto ONE barrier island (ten miles long but very narrow.) It takes them three days to fully evacuate. Their worst-case scenario is a rapidly intensifying hurricane racing up the Gulf Stream then slamming into them - they'd not all be able to escape.
As long as Danny doesn't pull a rapid intensification trick, I think we'll all be okay.
But as bobbie would say - "so many possibilities..."
Cheers,
Tim in NC
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