beejean Fri 08 Feb 2013, 11:34 pm
10 PM and 10 AM High Tide Massachusetts --
With the new moon approaching on Sunday, the high tides for tomorrow morning are forecast at Chatham, Boston Harbor and Hull for near 10 feet under normal conditions, but now are expected to cause a lot of flooding because of wind slapping the seawater against the coast. Windspeeds are approaching 60 mph at the coastline at the moment (6:30 PM local time - 4 hours before the high tide). The power lines are swaying, but crews stand ready. (there might be no way to run a sump pump without power.) Police are evacuating the coastline, with some recollection of how cold it is to traverse slushy seawater in 20 degree F weather, bringing rafts for evacuation of inundated houses.
I have been heeding Gov Deval Patrick's mandate to stay off the roads all day, so I haven't had much to do other than watch reporters dash around the area on the local stations and the weather channel.
I've weathered many storms like this in the past and find the hardest task to be moving the snow aside afterwards, but never incurring impossibly long blackouts -- guess I've been lucky in that respect in the past.
We have 20 degree temps, 3 inches of grainy crystalline snow so far, and I'm just seeing that the monitors detect the snow thunder and snow lightning over the southern coastline of the state.
Keeping in - with plenty of print novels and flashlights. Yes, there is a camping stove in the house if we have to heat water after a power outage !