Hurricane Joquin, Any East Coasters in peril for flooding? Options

[turk22]

I know we have a lot of members up and down the East Coast, looks like lots of heavy rain from the Carolina's to Boston...

Anybody worried about flooding or power outages this weekend?

Hope everybody is well and safe till the storm passes!

[somd914]

Had perhaps 2" of rain yesterday, below the forecast, official NWS forecast called for 1"-2" last night and another 1" today, nothing but drizzle as forecasted by non-government forecasters - politics and weather - call for the absolute worse case and get everyone to run for the hills. OK, enough of my rant...

We've had high winds for a week and half or so from NE to SE pushing water to the Western Chesapeake Bay shores, thus tides have been above usual for over a week. Couple that with rain run off and we've had high tides 2.5 ft above normal, thus some minor coastal flooding around us. High tide at 7:00 AM was about 6"-8" lower than yesterday evening, so looks like the worst is over. Water has spilled 20-30 ft into our backyard, another 100 ft of run and 5 ft of rise to get to the house foundation, so no worries for us.

Glad Joaquin missed us, but can't believe she has sat over the Bahamas for days! What a pounding. On an ironic note, my brother has spent almost 30 years in NE Florida, I've spent almost as long in Southern Maryland - I've been through more hurricanes and tropical storms than he has (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)