It's still way to early for them to seriously predict anything with any major degree of certainty. However, any place between the Carolina's right on up to Maine is currently within the cone of the possible path of the hurricane. Right now, the best guesses are saying that the Carolina's may well see the worst of the effects from Earl, however they aren't predicting a direct hit either for the Carolina's.
Sure, Downcity PVD is protected by the Hurricane Barrier, but
I live near the coast in South County!
I'm hoping that Amtrak can keep the trains running, as I'm headed to Boston on Friday and then back on Saturday.
Thanks for sharing that, that's the best site I've seen yet for tracking.
At present the projection is that it will stay way out over the sea and only outer bands of it will affect coastal areas. Only Cape Hatteras will come within range of significant mid bands.I'm watching the weather channel right now, but they havent mentioned anything, how far inbound are they expecting impact? I got a trip coming up to tennessee, and the carolinas. That website shows the eye path, I didnt see the outer rain bands. I just hope it doesnt shut down track, like katrina did
I don't believe the concern is winds directly knocking over Amtrak equipment, but rather flooding, winds knocking over other things (trees, signals, power lines, etc), power outages, and injuries due to employees and passengers being exposed to dangerous weather conditions.
So, Amtrak could simply stop a train, like at a station, and have it wait there. It doesn't need to move all equipment completely out of the area (like all NE and Acela sets to North Dakota later this week)?
Well, you would want/need to stop trains at major stations, with some semblance of services available, as it is entirely possible that rail lines could be shut down for a few days. Also, flooding (both from storm surge and extremely heavy rains) may be a great concern in some areas, so it might make sense to try to limit the amount of equipment in those areas. And, as the traveler mentioned, on lines that Amtrak does not own, Amtrak is beholden to what the owner (usually freight railroad) decides, so they may have no choice but to completely shut down in certain areas.
Not quite North Dakota but they did stop the Sunset in San Antonio for Katrina.I just hope you don't get any rain at all but the way you guys are down playing this possible catastrophe indicates that not many of you have experienced a real hurricane.
With all the real hurricanes I have experienced, I was smart enough to have a house that was (substantially) above sea level.
Yes. A hurricane named Gloria passed right over my house. It was not a big deal. Hurricanes mostly are down to Cat 2 or lower by the time they roll by here anyway. This one is also projected to be down to cat 2 and be 50 miles off shore when it passes by here. NJ is outside the probability cone of the Hurricane path. Cape Hatteras is within the cone, and the hurricane will be cat 3 when it passes there, but will still be most likely 20 or 30 miles off shore.
