Chasing Hawk

it's a bomb cyclone....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/bomb-cycl...-power-outages

greensleeves

A storm by any other name is still a storm.

quiltingshorttimer

My DD and her best friend are planning to leave the KC area tomorrow afternoon to fly to NH/VT for a girls weekend--not sure what they plan now, but this sounds like New England may want everyone to stay away.

ILoveToQuilt

We were "bombed", but thank goodness no trees down and no loss of power at my house (New Hampshire). Heavy rain and high winds, though. I guess there are power lines down in other areas of town. Spent the day sewing my "Secret Santa" gift. Fire going in wood stove. Nice and cozy. Hope everyone else in the storm area fared well.

jmoore

We had a lot of trees and power lines down here on the coast of Maine, a few on our local roads making them impassible yesterday morning. Luckily we a portable generator which ran most of the day yesterday but thankfully our power was restored around 8 pm last night. We saw a bunch of construction/power trucks in our area that came down from New Brunswick Canada to help out.

1Nanoo

We just departed our rental vacation home north of Bar Harbor, Maine, early on the morning of Oct. 12th. We are now back at home in the South. We had a wonderful vacation, but we are so thankful to have missed the storm.

SusieQOH

The Yankees- Astros game was postponed by the weather in NY.
They played last night though.-

Needles

Your weather forcasters win with the big words, adjectives and adverbs. Am really sick of the hype forcasting anymore. Here in FL, we have a tropical storm, gusting winds and rain. Started out Thursday as a 'possible tropical cyclone' in the western Gulf. Going to move very fast and cover all of FL. It's nothing worse than has showed up on our doorstep, unannounced many times through the 48 years we've lived here. Only they reported it then as a tropical disturbance that could change as is moves quickly through the Gulf. During the night it rained off and on, not one torrential downpour. There were a couple of tornadoes in different places. So far, we've gotten 2" of rain. Today, it's very windy, but nothing we haven't had before. I don't think people even pay any attention to them anymore, to be quite truthful. We watch radar and act accordingly. Am sure you folks with the 'noreasters' do the same. My DBIL and family lived in MA, he got snowed into a hwy years ago one his way home from work, also his daughter. Both were picked up and taken home by rescue workers. Five days later, they got phone calls to pick up their cars to where they were towed. I'm sure the area was hit by a bomb cyclone, just no one used hype reporting back in the day. I hope all of you are fine, no damage and keeping your power and it doesn't get too cold.

leonf

yea, our TV station has storm Warning forecast on beautiful days.. grrr

ILoveToQuilt

Needles: I had to laugh when I read your post. Your DBIL and his daughter were no doubt stuck on Rt 128/95 during the Blizzard of '78. storm was a doozy! I was working at a maternity hospital (we still had those around in '78) and was stuck there for 5 days. We had 3 babies born. The Boston area had over 3 feet of snow within 24 hours and only one weatherman got the prediction correct (Don Kent). All the others were calling for light snow. There are some great pictures on the internet of cars stuck on the highways. My DH helped evacuate drivers from the stuck cars. The snow drifts were so high on some streets you couldn't tell where cars were parked. "Fond" memories??? We had a bad winter in Maine this past year with over 5 feet of snow in January, but at least it didn't fall all at once.