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So Sandy's coming for a visit
Oct. 28th, 2012 04:40 pmWishing the best to everyone in the storm's path. Here we're bracing for wind and rain, with locals twitchy remembering the damage from Irene just last year.
It's an interesting experience living here as a major storm bears down-- in Binghamton there were multiple local TV stations anxious to keep you up to date, and a local newspaper which liveblogged breaking news on their website. Not to mention a local NWS office. Here the nearest TV stations are located a fair distance away. Ditto for the NWS, and the newspaper that serves this geographic area has a minimal online presence. Forecasts for this area are notoriously unreliable and unspecific.
My inner fantasy writer mocks how dependent we've become on instant news updates, doppler radar and satellite storm tracking. And I can't help thinking back to my mother's story of how in the 50s she tried to drive from Cape Cod to Connecticut in a major hurricane, not realizing it was anything more than a bad rainstorm until she was stopped by a police roadblock. With no radio in the car, she and her sister had no idea what was going on.
Luckily I'm a tad better informed. I've made the appropriate preparations and am settled down ready to watch how this plays out. They're saying rain and high winds here starting Monday afternoon, lasting through Tuesday, then possibly round two later in the week as the storm turns back east to head out to sea. Here's hoping we come thru unscathed.
It's an interesting experience living here as a major storm bears down-- in Binghamton there were multiple local TV stations anxious to keep you up to date, and a local newspaper which liveblogged breaking news on their website. Not to mention a local NWS office. Here the nearest TV stations are located a fair distance away. Ditto for the NWS, and the newspaper that serves this geographic area has a minimal online presence. Forecasts for this area are notoriously unreliable and unspecific.
My inner fantasy writer mocks how dependent we've become on instant news updates, doppler radar and satellite storm tracking. And I can't help thinking back to my mother's story of how in the 50s she tried to drive from Cape Cod to Connecticut in a major hurricane, not realizing it was anything more than a bad rainstorm until she was stopped by a police roadblock. With no radio in the car, she and her sister had no idea what was going on.
Luckily I'm a tad better informed. I've made the appropriate preparations and am settled down ready to watch how this plays out. They're saying rain and high winds here starting Monday afternoon, lasting through Tuesday, then possibly round two later in the week as the storm turns back east to head out to sea. Here's hoping we come thru unscathed.