Element and me

[Fishtales]

He's a Tropical Storm but I'm a Hurricane

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161?preferredName=Gustav#.UIlvwmIT2f8

[bushy palmer]

I see you're a bit more "road side" whilst element's a bit more remote

[Fishtales]

 :makefun

I'm more a distant wanderer though

[Part-time]

:lol: :lol: :lol:
I didn't know I was extending my range out to the mid Atlantic...  :lol:

Anything is possible in that new romper suit of yours :lol:

[Otter Spotter]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I didn't know I was extending my range out to the mid Atlantic...  :lol:

E.

Now that is one hell of a cast  :lol:

[Fishtales]

I seem to be fairly shoogling these cameras anyway

http://aws1.earthcam.com/?c=bb

[Buanán]

Has more to do with the predicted tidal surge rather than the wind speed, an additional 3.5m on the top of the tide near the eye, thats rather significant.

Despite 70mph nearing a good drying day for us, if we had a tidal surge of that size it would cause a few problems. For example, the storm of 2006, which I didn't think was much to right home about wind wise, had 1m on top of a big high tide and that flooded lots of road and low lying houses in my area.

On the Uists, there was the terrible tragedy of 3 generations of one family lost on a causeway as they tried to make for higher ground, less well known was the fact that the low lying middle of south Uist was almost cut in half by the sea. A 3.5m surge (the height of a neap high tide on top of a spring, or near spring high) tide would be devastating and could well leave south Uist cut in half as machar and loch boundaries washout with the ebb.

My pal Davie, who lives in Dornie is well used to the tide covering parts of the single track road that passes his house, on the east side of lochlong, reckons that prior to 2006 the furthest up he'd seen the tide opposite his house was just below road level, with the odd wave breaking over it.

The 2006 storm put the tide up over the first of his three door steps, roughly 1m above the highest he'd seen before. 3.5m would flood the first floor of his house above head height. Thats a sobering thought. 

[Buanán]

Roobarb House - 9m above sea level
It doesn't bear thinking about. Pretty much everything west of the main road would be under water. Benbecula would be a bit of a mess too! The worst of it is there are no trees from which to build a raft


Andy

On the Uists empty whisky bottles are the prime raft building materials

[Bobfly]

Some mention of winds there might reach up to 120mph.
3.5m of tidal surge would inundate huge chunks of East Anglia and London too. I lived on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames estuary at the time of the 1953 storm which affected a lot of Holland and the Thames area. It breached some of the sea walls near us. We lived afterwards in the upstairs of the house and as a six year old I can remember the postie rowing up the street a few days later. Never lived anywhere since except on a wee hill or up a slope!

[Buanán]

Just been reading that the surge exceeded the predicted 3.5m, new york experienced a 4m tidal surge at some point this morning. Wet wet wet....