My wanderings, in and around Virginia Beach, VA
Rain rain and more rain…
The national hurricane center continues to reduce the wind speeds associated with hurricane Irene, whole the media continues to err towards the side of eminent doom…
In my neighborhood were seeing winds in the high 30′s gusts to 55, and a bit over 3 inches of rain…
Heres the view from my house…
Its 6:30 PM and it looks like the latest from the National Weather service and National Hurricane center, is that the sustained winds estimates are being lowered, well at least for my neighborhood from 80 to 72 MPH, but gusts went from ~100 to 105 MPH.
Feeling better and better about this and my initial estimate with every report.
Still trying to understand how the local TV weather people are able to sleep at night, after filling peoples heads with improbable predictions, and trying to imply that the worst possible outcome is going to happen.
Oh yeah here’s how the next 48 hours will look for Virginia Beach..
Well it looks like Irene is going to be visiting in the next 48 hours or so. Doesn’t look to be outside of my comfort zone tolerance so we will be staying in VB, and I plan on posting pictures if they are relevant. The eye should be over us around 2am on Sunday morning so I Guess I can sleep Sunday….
For more information on the status and track of Hurricane Irene, go to the National Hurricane Center‘s web site
For more information on the local forecast and impact go to the National Weather Service Virginia Beach Forecast..
More to come