If it comes in as a cat 1, we're doomed on LI. We just had a rain storm that dumped 10" of rain, so the ground's soft and these big trees can come down. There's one leaning between us and the main road, so I fully expect to be trapped here for days. I'm not looking forward to losing electric. When Bob went past LI, 400,000 were out. If trees take out all these wires, yikes!
This one's supposed to go directly over. We used to get these in the 60's/70's, no problem. But we haven't had one in long time. Gloria in '85 took down some really huge trees over at a friend's house on the South shore (off the Ocean). I'm on the North shore, more protected. But still potential for a real mess.
Just looked at the map and the path looks like it will be over land from NC on up to NY, which will slow it into a tropical storm, so maybe it won't be so bad. Surface temp's also warm, I think that slows it, too. Still, a lot of potential problems up here with wires through branches of the trees.
Went to an emergency preparedness meeting and LIPA told us they trim 2,000 miles of trees every year or something like that, but you should see some of them, real messes ready to happen.
Btw, they said if you see a wire on fire to call 911, not the number for downed lines.
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