August 29, 2011
Aftermath
Bugnadoes!? In MY neighborhood?
They don't show up well on the Blackberry camera but that's how thick the bugs are right now.
I'm off to work.
I hope everyone else is safe.
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Well, we're still bewildered that we have power. No one in our immediate area aside from our neighborhood and an adjoining road does.
Most of the early part of today was spent cleaning up the yard.
Most of the early part of today was spent cleaning up the yard.
This afternoon, I drove over to Newport News and later Virginia Beach to check on friends who weren't answering their phones...they are OK, modern landline phones don't work with no power.
Along the way I noted the damage, which consisted of a lot of blown down trees and missing signs.
Along the way I noted the damage, which consisted of a lot of blown down trees and missing signs.
Now, the storm lasted a LONG time here. It spawned tornadoes and its surge, which was abnormally high for storm of its intensity, came at the highest tide of the year. There was also a LOT of rain.
That..being...said...
As hurricanes go, this was a pretty gimp event.
This is Virginia, which happens to be in the coastal southeast. We are going to get hurricanes. I don't think that sustained hurricane force winds were actually recorded at ground level in Virginia. We actually endured a CAT 0.8. Such a storm ought not to have left just under a million people without power. It ought not to have collapsed a bridge. We wasted all that money on bailouts, and in the stimulus, and we didn't do jack for the actual infrastructure. Given the disruption and damage caused by this"hurricane by technicality", an actual CAT 4 or 5 storm would not have just left almost a million without power, it would have left nearly as many dead and shut down the whole state.
These were all lessons that ought to have been learned after Isabel. We've had 8 years.
It should be noted however, that there were some good points. The storm drains which had been such a colossal failure during Isabel and Floyd and contributed to so much flooding, seemed to work very well this time except in areas that were very low lying anyway...and physics comes into play there. So there was one civil engineering win.
In other good news, all that rain surely put out the fire Great Dismal Swamp so we don't...wait...what?...OH YOU ARE KIDDING ME!1!!
Grrr...Fires, earthquakes, storms...if there are suddenly swarms of bugs I'm gonna...
Oh good grief...
That..being...said...
As hurricanes go, this was a pretty gimp event.
This is Virginia, which happens to be in the coastal southeast. We are going to get hurricanes. I don't think that sustained hurricane force winds were actually recorded at ground level in Virginia. We actually endured a CAT 0.8. Such a storm ought not to have left just under a million people without power. It ought not to have collapsed a bridge. We wasted all that money on bailouts, and in the stimulus, and we didn't do jack for the actual infrastructure. Given the disruption and damage caused by this"hurricane by technicality", an actual CAT 4 or 5 storm would not have just left almost a million without power, it would have left nearly as many dead and shut down the whole state.
These were all lessons that ought to have been learned after Isabel. We've had 8 years.
It should be noted however, that there were some good points. The storm drains which had been such a colossal failure during Isabel and Floyd and contributed to so much flooding, seemed to work very well this time except in areas that were very low lying anyway...and physics comes into play there. So there was one civil engineering win.
In other good news, all that rain surely put out the fire Great Dismal Swamp so we don't...wait...what?...OH YOU ARE KIDDING ME!1!!
Grrr...Fires, earthquakes, storms...if there are suddenly swarms of bugs I'm gonna...
Oh good grief...
Bugnadoes!? In MY neighborhood?
They don't show up well on the Blackberry camera but that's how thick the bugs are right now.
I'm off to work.
I hope everyone else is safe.
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