Originally posted by: Andy_Bogomil
Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
Originally posted by: Andy_Bogomil
Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
How did you fare up in Canada?
We (Hampton, VA) lucked out and stayed just outside of the tropical storm force winds as it came by.
But further south of us, the outer banks of NC were crushed.
A lot of power outages and some damage along the coast with local flooding but nothing overly significant (no deaths or major injuries as far as I know). It was pretty powerful but absolutely nothing compared to hurricane Juan a while back (2003). Came through Saturday afternoon and pretty much everything is back to normal and looking cleaned up minus a few lingering power outages.
Glad to hear it.
When I saw it was going to be a full-blown hurricane when it made landfall up there, seemed like it might be something that the local infrastructure wasn't designed to handle given what I assumed was the relative rarity of storms that strong making it that far north.
(structurual-code-wise, by the time you reach VA in the mid-Atlantic, code requirements only build to category 1 sustained winds -- would have imagined that was the baseline for points north, as well)
We get very strong winds in the winter, often at or near hurricane strength, but it's a little different when there is no foliage/leaves on the trees. Our biggest issue up here are the trees that sit between the road and sidewalk - very big with little to hold on to so they go down and take the power lines with them. It's not very often we get winds that strong outside of the main winter months (jan-march) so when it happens in the summer it's definitely more eventful (as well with camping and marinas in business etc.).
That is really saying something that they had power restored within a couple of days.
The last time my area had a "real hurricane" (Isabel in 2003), the entire region basically lost power for 2 weeks from how many trees took out power lines.
But "fortunately" that storm cleared out all of the susceptible trees and all of the major storms we've had in the last 15 years generally only pockets lose power for any length of time.
(though my neighborhood basically never loses power, even though we end up underwater in some of these storms)
