Snowfall in richmond? Trick or treat, Linty / Chief.
It's not that I wish this on anyone, but isn't the middle of Long Island about the safest place on the coast for something like this to land? big, long wide barrier island with the surge side to the east, avoiding the big surge in Narragansett or Buzzards Bay?
There's some old, spectacular photos of the Hurricane of 1938 that clobbered Providence. providence is at the head of narragansett bay, so a storm surge gets funneled into it.
sounds like Old Town Alexandria could be in for a double hit between surge and rain drainage.
I lived through Gloria in 1985 on long island. We were about 2 miles from the south shore in suffolk CO and the eye came right over us. There was lots of wind/rain, power was out for about 5 days, several large tries went down. Closer to the shore it was an absolute mess. Numerous houses crushed by falling trees, significant flooding along the coast, large amounts of beach erosion as well. And, that was a Cat-1 storm that quickly broke up.
