Here we go again... · 12:18am Aug 22nd, 2021
The NYC area is bracing for yet another hurricane (or at least everyone living here should be). Supposedly they're rare here, but we seem to be getting them pretty regularly now. I'm not in the center of the track, but I expect to lose power for at least several hours even if we only get peripheral wind, because the electrical grid is held together by hopes and wishes. More concerning is one report I saw that compared the rainfall potential to Irene. Where I live, Irene was a record-level flood event. Entire towns were underwater for a week or more. You never forget the smell of a neighborhood cleaning out after a major flood. The next 36 hours are going to be... tense.