Weird weather

The wind has picked up a bit. It's not tropical storm force yet but it was enough to kill the power. I'm going to try to get some sleep before the wind really starts banging. I'll update when I can.
 
The nicest Indian summer in Montreal since I've been alive.
Tomorrow it's October 7th and we're getting a high of 26 degrees Celsius.
Average is 12.

Past week has been really nice but this shit worries me greatly.
 
My brother in law is named Matthew. So hearing people saying "Matthew has killed hundreds in Haiti" and "Matthew is expected to tear up the east coast" is really weird to me.
 
The storm is due east of here right now. It looks like the worst of it stayed off shore. Hopefully this will be good news for the space center too. (It's going to get clipped by the outer eyewall so there's certainly still a concern.)
 
Columbia, SC is just now seeing the very leading edge of the rain. Looks like a normal rainy day out right now. Worst is set to come through tonight and tomorrow morning.

Current forecast for us here is somewhere between 2 and 6 inches of rain. Still not really worried about this area, just hopeful that friend's homes along the coast will be ok.
 
No power but everything else is otherwise OK. I got out a bit today -- looks like category 1 damage, which counts as a win considering how dire the predictions were.
 
I WILL REBUILD

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On a serious note however, my friend (who is in Korea) but whose mother (and his childhood home) is in Edgewater, FL, on the east coast, had a massive tree fall on their house and destroyed his old room as well as the living room. His family and pets weren't hurt, but that was no small amount of damage :(
 
Woke up about 6am to the wind howling and the power out. Power came back on in a few minutes, so I went back to sleep. Woke back up again a little bit ago and power is out again, but the wind has died off. Doesn't appear to be any damage here, thankfully.


Edit: power restored as of 11:30 am
 
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My neighborhood is FUCKED up... LOT of trees and lines down. There's several nearby areas that are the same way. The major commercial areas and routes are fairly well-off, which SHOULD facilitate power and tree crews moving around, but I haven't seen any in my area.

Gonna be a long road.
 
The nicest Indian summer in Montreal since I've been alive.
Tomorrow it's October 7th and we're getting a high of 26 degrees Celsius.
Average is 12.

Past week has been really nice but this shit worries me greatly.
It's snowing here.

Which before Halloween is still a little unusual, not unheard of, but unusual.
 
My neighborhood is FUCKED up... LOT of trees and lines down. There's several nearby areas that are the same way. The major commercial areas and routes are fairly well-off, which SHOULD facilitate power and tree crews moving around, but I haven't seen any in my area.

Gonna be a long road.
I'm glad you made it through the storm. I hope the clean up is manageable and you aren't stuck without power for an extended length of time.
Snow tonight!
I've got 14+ inches on my lawn. You can have it.
It's snowing here.

Which before Halloween is still a little unusual, not unheard of, but unusual.
You all can flaunt your snow as much as you want, *I'm* just happy to have air conditioning again!


According to NASA, after an initial aerial survey on Saturday, officials determined the center received some isolated roof damage, some downed power lines, and limited water intrusion. Further inspections will take place on Sunday, before officials clear buildings to reopen.

A SpaceX official told Ars, “Hurricane Matthew caused some damage to the exterior of SpaceX's payload processing facility at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The company has a ready and fully capable back-up for processing payloads at its SLC-40 hangar annex building. There was no damage the company’s facilities at Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.”

United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno said on Twitter that its facilities saw only "light to moderate" damage and that flight assets had sustained no damage.​
 
We usually get snow of some kind before Halloween but it doesn't sick around. Mountains have been getting snow though. :D
 
And Matthew's remnants are hitting us right now: Government warns N.L. communities to prepare for flooding, power outages
Rainfall amounts are expected to range from 100 to 200 millimetres. Environment Canada advised extreme rainfall rates of 20 millimetres an hour or more are possible.
For you 'mericans, that's about an inch of rain an hour.

It's bad yes, but not much worse (if at all) than anything else we've seen here. We get LOTS of wind/rain here in the winter. This is early for it though.

Good luck to all facing flooding. That's not us. Parts of the town MIGHT happen (not forecast though), but even at its worst it doesn't really happen. Most of the town is on the hills, and thus you'd need biblical-level stuff to flood the vast majority. People observed where the water came, and built elsewhere here!
 
There is a LEGION of power and tree folks moving through the county and city in sections. They'll come, work for hours, busting their asses and clearing up areas, then move on to the next ones. The response to Savannah/Chatham County has been PHENOMENAL, and despite occasional issues, looting has not bee NEARLY has bad as I feared it'd be.
 

GasBandit

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Yes hello Florida can you keep your fucking weather to yourself please thanks

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It's a little out of focus, but it's coming down in sheets (see left of the pillar, that's a sheet of rain moving) and submerging the raised sidewalk.
 
Yes hello Florida can you keep your fucking weather to yourself please thanks
Last night I drove back from the eastern side of the state, I had to go around a car that had slid off the road in the rain, and bypass another crash entirely (Thanks, GPS app!).
Honestly, folks. This is just rain! What're you going to do when the snow gets here?

--Patrick
 
I think it sprinkled a bit here early-morning, but most days have been a murky 80-90 degrees. Nights have been nice a cool, though.

Summer is overstaying its welcome and I would very much like it to feel like fall now.
 

GasBandit

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I think it sprinkled a bit here early-morning, but most days have been a murky 80-90 degrees. Nights have been nice a cool, though.

Summer is overstaying its welcome and I would very much like it to feel like fall now.
After a pleasant spell with highs in the mid 80s for 10 days or so, it's been highs in the low 90s for about a week here... and will continue to be so until this Thursday, when we get slammed by a cold front and the highs drop into the 70s. That'll be freakin' heaven.
 

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After a pleasant spell with highs in the mid 80s for 10 days or so, it's been highs in the low 90s for about a week here... and will continue to be so until this Thursday, when we get slammed by a cold front and the highs drop into the 70s. That'll be freakin' heaven.
Yeah, for like 2 days according to the ten-day. Then right back up to heat. At least here.
 
Fair enough. After all, @bhamv3 is probably the Halformite who is most likely to get hit by a cyclonic storm. I'm concerned for him too. It's just that my news filters are keyed to hurricanes and he gets hit by typhoons so they don't show up in my news feed.
 
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