Oh boy,Look out for the weekend..A Snowcane is coming

[PrivyCheese]

I live 15 miles east of Baltimore, we are now under some of the heaviest bands of rain right now.....and man is it coming down. I decided to not go to work today.....just in case we lose power I can get the generator going......need to keep the sump pump going. There has already been outages in the area. The worst hasnt even come close. This is going to be a bad one folks. The historic part of Baltimore has already set up sand bags but sadly I dont think its going to help.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Eastern Maryland has taken the worst of this John,good luck with whatever you can do to save property.Be safe when traveling as there are flooded roads everywhere in your neck of the woods.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Storm update at 8:00 Am.

8:00 a.m. EDT Monday: Sandy has started to turn to the northwest toward the mid-Atlantic Coast, picking up forward speed. The storm is currently 260 miles southeast of Atlantic City, N.J. Maximum sustained winds are still 85 mph.

This was the 7:00 a m update.
7:06 a.m. EDT Monday: Moderate to major flooding is occurring in the Chesapeake Bay with storm surge flooding from Hurricane Sandy. The Chesapeake Bay near Kiptopeke, Va., is at major flood stage of 5.95 feet, less than one foot below the record high of 7.1 feet set on March 7, 1962. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Va., is at 6.71 feet. This is also only one foot below the record flood stage of 7.5 feet set on Sept. 18, 2003.

 

[Steve/sewell]

8:15 a.m. EDT Monday: Astronomical tides are peaking along the New Jersey Coast now. The tide gauge of the Atlantic Coast of Atlantic City, N.J., is registering at 8.25 feet. The record stage there is 9.0 feet. The next round of astronomical high tide is this evening, around when Sandy will make landfall in New Jersey.

It will exceed 11 feet at the next high tide, there will be catastrophic flooding everywhere up and down the coast.
Look at this chart from NOAA. This is the predicted and the actual...look at what has occurred already. As they say off the charts....................
http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/plotcomp.shtml?station_info=8534720+Atlantic+City%2C+NJ

 

[Steve/sewell]

A severe line of rain is about to come through Baltimore an inch of rain in ten minutes can be expected with this rain band.This is going to cause catastrophic flooding in Baltimore.God help you all down there.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Check out the radar in Maryland.... http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/virginia/weather-radar?play=1

 

[PrivyCheese]

Delaware has now evacuated 50,000 people....Wilmington etc. Have been emptied.

 

[PrivyCheese]

Steve....right where the red area is......that is where I live. The wind is picking up. Rain has slowed a bit....the heaviest band must have passed.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Snow has exceeded a foot in South West Virgina and Eastern West Virginia with plenty more on the way. Don't let the lack of rain on the Northern and East side of the storm fool you in North Jersey,Long Island and NYC. look at the latest in this 3-D satellite image explosion of cloud tops forming on the east north east side of the center of Sandy. http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/18L/flash-vis-short.html
These storms are headed for your area like an arrow shot from a bow and will soon be appearing out of nowhere as the eye wall approaches.If you have any traveling to do in Central or Northern New Jersey now is the time because around 1:00 PM your roads will begin to flood.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The radar images are about 15 minutes behind the actual time John still unreal rainfall occurring. Once it starts hitting the foothills of the mountains look out