Hurricane Incoming

[Gomez Adams]

As Hurricane Fiona passes near Bermuda, Canadians on the Atlantic coast are on guard

A deadly hurricane that battered multiple island nations in the Caribbean this week is now impacting Bermuda before crashing into Canada this weekend, where residents are being warned to prepare for dangerously high winds and heavy rainfall.

www.cnn.com

You're in that area, aren't you?

 

[Zeedox]

Yep. My Halifax son had everything ready last night. We put a few things away. It seems to be more eastward now and going to affect Prince Edward Island (PEI) and western Newfoundland.
We're still getting strong gusts tomorrow but the rain amount is way down for us from 100-150mm (4-6in) to 30-40mm (1-1.5in).

It's also combining with a low trough up here. Three cruise ships have already decided against landing in Halifax.

 

[Zeedox]

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[Gomez Adams]

It's a big damn storm, that's for sure.

I was in Charleston when Hugo came through. I'm ever in the path of a hurricane again, I'm going further inland like, say, Nebraska.

 

[Zeedox]

Been through a couple up here. Juan (2003) hit Halifax hard . Later that year we had a winter storm we dubbed 'WinterJuan". The kids still remember that one as the snow in the driveway was about five and a half feet high. The kids and wife couldn't actually see over it. Took three days to get the snowplow into the subdivision.

 

[Gomez Adams]

WHOA!!!

Now that's some freaking snow!

My wife told me that when she was a kid it wasn't unusual to not be able to see out the windows of the first few floors of a building in Russia because the snowdrifts would be 30 feet high.

 

[Zeedox]

I can easily believe that. I remember one winter (early 90's) coming off an exercise we had to refuel in St John's. Snow banks on either side of the taxiways ran 20 - 30 ft tall.

 

[Zeedox]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1573369446923632641

 

[Gomez Adams]

Looking rough up there. You get any of it?

 

[Zeedox]

Lost power at 1130pm. Not too bad here. Power company says Monday. Once the rain stops I'll get the genny out. Still lots of places with power like the mall.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Stay safe, man.

 

[Zeedox]

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