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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Oct 29, 2012
Description:
It looks like the worst is over here on the James River in eastern Virginia. The highest water came at high tide, 3:16 AM this morning, when the water washed over the top of our pier. By 1:30 this afternoon the water was almost as high, but by this afternoon's high tide at 3:54 PM, it was half a foot lower.
I took this photo at 1:54 PM, two hours before official high tide. At normal high tide, the water would be about 5 or 6 feet lower. The highest tide I've seen here without a storm surge was about 2 feet lower than this.
The wind at KRIC, 12 miles to the north, is 300 at 16G28 right now--which is good because it's beginning to blow the storm surge back down to the ocean. By evening the wind should have swung around to 270, which will be even better for us.
The wind is predicted to blow a lot harder and the rain to get heavy, but the worst that's likely to do is cut the power. A few hours or days in the dark is a lot better, in my view, than having the pier wash away, as it did last year.
There's flotsam all over the beach, of course, and no doubt more to come, but that's just for roasting marshmallows over next week.
But--watch out in Delaware, New Jersey, and New York!
Date Taken:
Oct 29, 2012
Place Taken:
The Taj Mahouse, on the James River, Virginia
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Frank A. Carr - Oct 29,2012
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Grim Don. Is the tide at its peak here?
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Don Maxwell - Oct 29,2012
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Looks like it's going down now, Frank, and I think the surge is subsiding. 280 at 22G30 now at KRIC.
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Robert Charlwood Richardson - Oct 29,2012
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It crossing just north of my MD house. Lots of wind not that much <br />water. Automated wx at 19:30 Essex (W48) where my MD SR I based <br />was 290 degrees at 26 Kts gusting to 40 Kts; Visibility: 3 statute <br />mile(s); Sky conditions: Scattered clouds at 800 Ft AGL, Broken clouds <br />at 1400 Ft AGL, Overcast at 1800 Ft AGL; Temperature/dew point: <br />9/9C; Altimeter setting: 28.53 Hg. The flood tide was not as high <br />as Irene. So much for media hype. <br /><br />Don, I will say the bird nest is hanging in there.
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Don Maxwell - Oct 29,2012
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That's the last third of the nest, Rob. The other 2/3 fell off in the summer a week or two before junior's first flight. Freaked the whole family out at first, but they kept on with the job anyway.
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Don Maxwell - Oct 30,2012
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The morning after, back to normal low tide.<P><img src="inline/20027-MorningAfter_t.jpg" alt="MorningAfter-t"><!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Gene Hammond - Oct 30,2012
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Don,<br /><br />Glad to see something good (?????) after all the noise we've gotten from the media. It's good to find something to cancel out some of the trash broadcast earlier re the election.<br /><br />I must add that in the Chicago area last week, we had gusty winds approaching 60 mph and steady winds around 35-40 - no rain, no surge.
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