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Originally Posted by Phil D.
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Good LuckQuote:
Originally Posted by Phil D.
Currently in Orlando here on business...........today (Thur) just had a few gusts and a outer band of rain this morning, otherwise nothing earth shaking! Flying back home Friday late afternoon to LGA. Hopefully, I am able to get back home to batten down the hatches. Everyone stay safe.
Phil, enjoyed a bit of a laugh.
Well, We're as preparedas we're gonna be. May tape up the windows and bring the patio set into the garage but otherwise enjoying tomorrow.
City Of Long Beach has instituted a voluntary evacuation now, however, I anticipate that it will turn into a full fledged mandetory as of tomorrow night some time around the close of business.
Wishing you all the best of luck, please stay safe up there.
From Newsday.com, per the latest NWS update.
http://www.newsday.com/news/breaking...land-1.3122945
And from FlightAware:Quote:
Hurricane Irene's outer arms will ruffle Long Island starting Saturday evening, with the worst effects coming midday Sunday -- earlier than had been projected, forecasters said. The storm will first start to affect Long Island on Saturday with tropical-storm-force winds, according to the National Weather Service. Expected to be a Category 1 storm when it arrives, the most intense effects will be felt Sunday, with heavy rain and winds of up to 110 mph.
A midmorning update from the National Hurricane Center shows the storm's center tracking across Long Island from West Babylon to East Setauket, a shift east from the track forecasters were eyeing Thursday, which put the center of the storm across Queens or western Nassau. "There's going to be a huge swath of 5 to 10 inches of rain," hurricane center director Bill Read said in a 10 a.m. news conference.
Looks like The Donald is heading out of town.Quote:
N757AF/B752 has just filed a flight plan. It is scheduled to depart from Newark Liberty Intl (KEWR) at 01:00PM EDT heading for Palm Beach Intl (KPBI) for an estimated arrival at 03:28PM EDT.
ETA: The Weather Channel just reported that Coney Island Hospital is being evacuated.
Irene from space...
Cool stuff Phil! She is definitely one massive storm.
Looks like ALL mass transportation will coming to a grinding stop tomorrow at Noon. That's subways, buses, Metro North, LIRR, NJ Transit, PATH. Man this is NUTS!!!!
Was at Jones Beach today as it was a beautiful day but the surf was already rough and pounding the shoreline. Some of the waves came up pretty high onto the beach freaking out
people who thought they were at a safe distance. Was kinda funny. :cool:
All towns South of Sunrise hwy from queens border to Rockville Centre now have mandatory evacuation. I think that's a bit extreme, looking at my options.
You know, we're as prepared as we're gonna be. The only thing that realy conerns me? WEll I have only been through Hurricane Gloria. I dont recall what category it was but WE drove up and down Montauk HWY afterwards and it was all fallens lines and large fallen trees.
That said, no one here is comparing Irene to Gloria but instead to older storms like Donna.
So it looks like this would be worse than Gloria.
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Originally Posted by Gerard
i've lived in NYC for 20+ yrs and haven't ever seen an MTA shutdown save for the strike a couple years ago at christmas. i'm glad i drive in situations like this. especially when you consider how atrocious mass transit to LGA is on a good day.
anyone know where i can score some sand? i have about 3 dozen bags that are empty and lonely and am trying to NOT drive to the hamptons to get it.
Just wait a little while, Matt - by Sunday, there should be plenty blowing your way from the South Shore. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by cancidas
Daily News is reporting that JFK, LGA, Newark, Stewart, Teterboro will close to all arrivals at Noon on Saturday. My brother and his wife are in Jamaica expecting to fly in Sat night.
Ooops guess not.
I will be in my office this morning till JFK scuttles most likely. After that, I'll be riding it out at City Hall in Long Beach on orders.
I compared the two earlier:Quote:
Originally Posted by mirrodie
"I remember Gloria in '85. We lost some trees and had some minor basement flooding. As long as it isn't worse than that, things shouldn't be too terribly bad. Although, as I'm reading, apparently it came ashore on the Island at low tide and with not an incredible amount of rain. The opposite of what is now being predicted with the effect of the moon adding into it as well."
Time will tell which was this is gonna go. I'm not a weather guy but if I had to lay my chips down I'd say the storm surge if going to be worse with Irene.
My Mom actually was going to stay in Lawrence because "the cable guy was coming this morning(Saturday) and I need my TV". I all but lit into her about getting out of there and fortunately she changed her mind.
OK, the breeze is starting to kick up down here in Philly. See you on the other side of this
went to coney island late last night came home with 30 bags. this morning i remembered i have 10 buckets of sand in my backyard. typical.Quote:
Originally Posted by moose135
Having been through Gloria and one or two other storm events as a firefighter, all I can say is prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Those under mandatory evacuation orders should evacuate, because if you get into trouble, no one is coming to help you. Government officials will not risk the lives of first responders to save those who ignore orders to leave...nor should they.
That said, I hope everyone stays safe and dry, and let's check in during if possible and afterward......
Some from this morning
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http://www.longislandwallpapers.com/.../IMG9839-L.jpg
Many More here
http://www.longislandwallpapers.com/...241634_dmQbKT6
Nice images Fred. I was hoping to be able to out tot he beaches up here in RI today, but they have evac'd the coast line and won't let anybody out to the shore :(
Last departure out of KJFK will be at 1900L. Most of the aircraft are gone at Kennedy, Terminal 8 ramp is empty.
Amazing what a little storm will do..
Full story:Quote:
Langley Temporarily Lifts F-22 Grounding Order to Escape Hurricane
Air Force officials have temporarily lifted the grounding of the F-22 Raptor fleet based at Langley AFB, Va., so the aircraft can avoid Hurricane Irene's wrath. The fighters, which have been grounded since May due to safety concerns over malfunctioning on-board oxygen-generation systems, started flying to Grissom ARB, Ind., around 10 a.m. Friday.
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Pages/default.aspx
This is a one-time waiver, which includes the return to Langley after the storm. The grounding order will go back into effect once they are back home.
Back in 1985, when Hurricane Gloria came up the coast, I was flying tankers out of Grissom. We had a gaggle of Langley F-15s spend a few days with us to get away from the storm.
I did a lap around JFK and almost every terminal is empty. Though I couldn't see EVERY corner, I could only see one plane at all of T4, a LAN about to pushback. I saw a Cathay taxiing IN, and a BA 747 at T7. I couldn't see anything at all at T1 or 2.
I must say, it is pretty fun dispatching planes around a hurricane. I love the low barometers.
LGA is also of course deserted.
That would have been cool to see them heading out. And come back in. :smile:Quote:
Originally Posted by moose135
BTW as of 4:30 not much here in Eastern Nassau except some light rain. Quite humid though. Just heard someone coming into FRG on ILS 1-4.
http://www.w2lie.net is now and will be streaming the following frequencies during the storm:
Nasasu County OEM
Suffolk County EOC
New York City OEM
Nassau County ARES
Nassau County RACES
Suffolk County ARES/RACES
Nassau County SKYWARN
Suffolk County SKYWARN
New York City ARES
Long Island Red Cross
New York City Red Cross
At this point the media here in NYC have gone pretty much overkill in the coverage IMHO. Especially since really nothing is going on yet. I mean every local Channel has been on this all day.
Sorry but Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz here. Thank goodness I have 3000 channels on my iO and shows stored on my DVR. And "E" had a Kardashian mini-Marathon earlier. :biggrin::tongue: LMAO!!
Be safe all!!
Yeah right now it is nothing. Western Suffolk: light ran, 4MPH winds, and 100% humidity.
A few surfer pics. And one of our favorite weatherman. NOT!
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Ha, did you flip him off?
Here are a couple quick cell phone shots I snapped today...
That LAN Chile departed at 3:17pm.
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/I...0827-00247.jpg
This Cathay was taxiing to the gate but not sure for what purpose. Its departure, as I understand, was still canceled. I wonder where it may have been parked.
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/I...0827-00248.jpg
Already reported outages in Staten Island, where I am. Realllyyy hoping we hang on to power 'til at least the morning.
Wind picking up, rain getting heavier and some nice thunder/lightning. Safe to say SHE has arrived!
On a personal note my brother his wife and my two nieces were supposed to fly back from Jamaica tonite and we know that aint happening. Through private FB messages I
found out the soonest they can get a flight out is Wed and that is only to Ft Lauderdale. And they have no hotel accomodations so they and many other people are trolling around
for a place to stay. And parts of Jamaica arent the safest places to be so I'm a little worried about that.
Stay safe all.
"I must say, it is pretty fun dispatching planes around a hurricane. I love the low barometers."
Phil, can you explain why? Im not familiar with the effect of low barometers. Please explain.
Surprised the last flight was so late. My partner's JFK-JAX was nixed last night. I asked if he could get to Dallas and then back down to JAX or TPA, but they just weren't pushing out of JFK at all. (on b6 at least)
The lowest barometric reading you'll find are during hurricanes. When dispatching, you calculate how the aircraft will perform on a runway based on various conditions and you make corrections and adjustments in accordance. Things like rain, slush and also pressure. It can be measured by inches of mercury, which you may know more when you listen to ATIS and you hear "altimeter two niner niner two," which tells pilots to modify their altimeters to that setting for the local pressure, so that all of the planes' altimeters are calibrated for the same altitudes. 2992 is the standard altimeter setting, meaning 29.92 inches of mercury in a barometer. The lowest barometer reading ever was 25.63" on the tip of a typhoon in 1979.
Seeing the low pressures when planning flights, the low barometric readings mean that I need to make more of a correction to that runway performance. Why is that cool you ask? It's not. I'm just an easily entertained geek.
Also, routing a plane's flight around a hurricane is just fun to me. Making your own forecast to predict where the storm will be when the plane is there, keeping it close enough so that you don't waste gas by going too far out of the way, but also keeping them safe and comfortable...and legal, working with ATC guidelines and reroutes that they put out as such storms develop.
Nerdy stuff, but I'm enjoying it.
I hope you're all being overly safe and taking care of yourselves through this!
Phil, love the explanation and as ocular and blood pressures are measured in millimeters of mercury, I can relate to the measurement.
Further, when doing refractive surgery, we need other variables clarified as they affect our pressure readings. Corneal thickness comes to mind. So I can see how you're enjoying it. Its not geekness, its the beauty of science applied. :)
With such low pressures, I know you have ot consider other factors, but in a general sense, do they need more or less runway to get up in the air?
Fred, I knew you'd post. :O) From what beach?
The lower, the tougher.Quote:
Originally Posted by mirrodie
Ocean Parkway...stopped a few times along the way. I think that was from around GilgoQuote:
Originally Posted by mirrodie