Depending on which newspaper you read or the news station you listen to, we could be hit with anything from a tropical storm to a hurricane. Ophelia is heading our way after battering North Carolina.
The storm, according to the Canadian Hurricane Center, has been very hard to track. They are counting on the storm taking an Easterly track, moving over the cold water of the Atlantic Ocean and losing steam as it hits Nova Scotia.
The problem, it seems, is that the storm has shifted its course several times and has threatened to take a more Northerly course. This, for us, would not be a good thing. This would effectively allow the storm to gain intensity, getting it back to hurricane strength.
Monique went to the grocery store yesterday and there was quite a mix of people shopping. Some had there shopping carts filled with everything but a power generator and others were treating the warnings like any other day.
We were caught off-guard once before when Hurricane Juan pounded us a couple of years ago. Nobody wants a repeat of that mess. We are stocked up but it’s hard to tell what the storm will bring.
It’s been raining all day — very intensely at times, but the storm isn’t supposed to hit until the wee hours of tomorrow morning.
September 17th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Ophelia is well below hurricane strength and most likely will not get any stronger. The storm is now moving quite rapidly toward the NE and will be brushing by Nova Scotia later today. Expect lots of rain and maybe a couple of hours of gale force winds as the storm passes.
September 17th, 2005 at 4:50 pm
It’s good to be prepared for power outages at the very least.
Hope the storm eases up and doesn’t give too much grief.
good luck!
September 17th, 2005 at 5:23 pm
They changed it a little while ago to a tropical depression because, as Michael said, it’s moving NE now.
The way this thing has been changing though, I hope it stays there.
September 17th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
It was a complete non-event for us, thank God. We got some torrential rains on Thursday, well ahead of Ophelia, and some heavy downpours yesterday, but that was about it — no high winds and no power outages.
September 17th, 2005 at 10:18 pm
It’s pretty much a non-event here so far too.
September 18th, 2005 at 8:16 am
phew.. glad to hear about your non-event.
September 18th, 2005 at 9:41 am
It was really tame overnight. We did have a lot of rain, but even when I went to bed there was really no wind to speak of. The weather people were so messed up with this one, but I’m glad it didn’t hit — I don’t want to go through one of those again.
September 18th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
The weather folks admitted all along they were having problems predicting where this one would go.
Unlike Katrina, Ophelia was never truly well organized.
There are 2 more systems on the go, neither should bother you. I wonder what happens when they run out of letters? Start back at “A”?
September 18th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
Yep, they start back at “a” and if I’m not mistaken they never use the same name twice.