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Cotuit Megalopolis

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FYI

The Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale

By Associated Press, 9/2/2004 09:54

The Saffir-Simpson scale of a hurricane's intensity is used to estimate the potential property damage and coastal flooding. The scale is determined by wind speed, since storm surge sizes depend on the slope of the continental shelf.

Category 1: Winds 74-95 mph. Storm surge 4 to 5 feet above normal. Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery and trees. Some damage to poorly constructed signs and piers.

Category 2: Winds 96-110 mph. Storm surge 6 to 8 feet above normal. Some roof, door and window damage of buildings. Considerable damage to mobile homes, small watercraft, trees, poorly constructed signs and piers. Flooding of coastal and low-lying areas.

Category 3: Winds 111-130 mph. Storm surge 9 to 12 feet above normal. Some structural damage to small residences. Mobile homes destroyed and large trees blown down. Coastal flooding destroys smaller structures and floating debris damages larger structures. Terrain lower than 5 feet above sea level may flood as far as 8 miles inland.

Category 4: Winds 131-155 mph. Storm surge 13 to 18 feet above normal. Wall failures and roof collapses on small residences, and extensive damage to doors and windows. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Major coastal flooding damage. Most recent Category 4 storm to hit United States was Hurricane Charley on Aug. 13. Before that, the last one was Hurricane Hugo in 1989.

Category 5: Winds greater than 155 mph. Storm surge greater than 18 feet above normal. Complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings. Smaller buildings and mobile homes blown over or completely blown away. Major damage to lower floors of all structures located less than 15 feet above sea level and within 500 yards of the shoreline. Massive evacuation of residential areas on low ground within 5 to 10 miles inland may be required. Last Category 5 storm to hit the United States was Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

From Boston.com

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Brickell Burg

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I've been putting up shutters all day.

Still don't have them up at my own house. Been helping other people.

Looks like it'll all be for naught now. That northwestward line the last few hours may have saved Miami. I'm still worried about the rest of Florida. Good luck everybody.

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Brickell Burg

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winds are picking up here. not too worried about the bad stuff, but this could be a long night of squalls going through the area.

doesn't look too good for counties further north: Martin, Indian River, Brevard.

Palm Beach is getting hit pretty hard right now by a outer rainband.

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Spartan Gigalopolis

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Woah that freaking mass exodus of Florida caused some serious interstate slowdowns. I-26 was wall to wall from Columbia all the way to where I had to get off becuase I was sick of it. 26 usually has a fair amount of traffic- but it usually htins out around Newberry.... The evac, Labor Day weekend, and the Clemson game caused alot of additional slow ups.

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Cotuit Megalopolis

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To further illustrate how massive this storm is, Rhode Island has had it's first Hurricane Frances related death:

Surfer dies near Green Hill Beach

BY KATIE MULVANEY

Journal Staff Writer | Saturday, September 4, 2004

SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- A 20-year-old local surfer died yesterday near Green Hill Beach in waves churned up by Hurricane Frances.

Matthew Stephens, of 43 Alder Rd., was pronounced dead at South County Hospital at 5:21 p.m., more than an hour after he had been pulled from the water.

Richard Girouard, of New Canaan, Conn., said he saw a surfboard in the water as he walked along a stretch of barrier beach between Charlestown Beach and Green Hill at about 4 p.m. Seconds later he noticed a person in a wet suit floating nearby and called 911.

Three or four people pulled Stephens -- who appeared to be alone -- from the water, said Girouard, who was visiting on a day trip. A lifeguard sprinted from Charlestown Beach and tried unsuccessfully to revive him using CPR, he said.

South Kingstown and Charlestown police and fire personnel responded to the scene, which they reached by dirt road, said Sgt. Patrick McMahon of the Charlestown police. Officers used global positioning to pinpoint the location of the cell-phone caller, he said.

The Coast Guard reported swells from 5 to 6 feet yesterday afternoon at Point Judith, several miles east of Green Hill. A worker at East Matunuck State Beach said rip-tide warnings had been issued there since early this week.

Last night, Westerly Police rescued a man on a boogie board who was caught in a rip tide around 8 p.m. The rescue took 35 minutes because of rough seas and darkness, but Dale McVicker, 45, of Mystic, Conn., was returned to shore uninjured, the policesaid.

From The Providence Journal

The entire south coast of New England is under a high surf warning, bathers are advised to stay out of the water due to strong rip currents.

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I hope it moves faster than it is. Otherwise it may strengthen a little before landfall. Amazing theres a 70mile wide eye! Hope the people on the gold coast are prepared.

I think that everybody is prepared in major targeted areas. Jacksonville is still in the zone but we may be out of the most severe weather.

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Cotuit Megalopolis

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Frances floods NYC.

SUPER SOAKER

By ANDY GELLER, ALISHA BERGER and HASANI GITTENS | September 9, 2004

The remnants of Hurricane Frances drenched the Big Apple during yesterday's morning rush hour, paralyzing the subway system and turning routine commutes into four-hour nightmares.

The teeming rain

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Cotuit Megalopolis

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50 years ago Providence was experiencing a lull between back-to-back Hurricanes. Hurricane Carol stuck Rhode Island on August 31st 1954, followed by Hurricane Edna on September 11th 1954.

This thread shows some images from Hurricane Carol.

Hurricane Carol: The Last Big One, Providence Journal article about the 50th anniversary.

Weird factoid about Edna, as it crossed Cape Cod, it developed two eyes:

As the storm passed Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, something unusual happened. The eye of the storm split into two sections. One eye was said to be over Cape Cod near Brewster, while the other was said to be northeast of Provincetown. Record pressure readings at Truro (28.29") and Nantucket (28.18") supported the presence of the two eyes as they are over 60 miles apart.

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