There's lots more to talk about with Sandy, but I'll save that until it's over. While the storm is winding down, there are vast areas along coastlines from Maryland to Delaware to New Jersey to New York to New England that didn't get news coverage... so we don't know what happened. When the sun comes up, we'll start to get an idea, though the morning high-tide cycle could still yield some local flooding, and winds are going to make it tough to get the power back on quickly.
The little bit of good news that developed late Monday, the dry air seriously overtook the circulation so the incredible rain amounts that the models were predicting are not going to be widespread. So it looks like the river and fresh-water flooding will not be as bad as predicted.
A little bit of good news is better than none... so I'll leave it at that for now.
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many hours. This reduced the flash flood risk.
River flooding will happen though. Dry slotting (maybe) cut off our rain very late last night and that helped too.
I perceived winds were slightly less than was expected with gusts to 60-65 and steady winds around 40mph. This was not enough to cause the feared catastrophic tree damage and there were far fewer power outages than expected. Perhaps the June derecho took out a lot of trees that would otherwise have come down in this storm. We can be counted as among the fortunate. Scenes out of NJ and NY are horrific and my heart goes out to them.
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