Infamous Irene
Written by: Stacey Pensgen
Irene was first declared a tropical storm late in the day on Saturday, August 20th. She became a hurricane early Monday morning. Her track took her over Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, then making landfall in North Carolina.
While she reached category 3 stength, it wasn't her power that was a concern, rather her path. She brought strong winds, flooding rains and huge storm surges to many major cities along the eastern seaboard, including Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia, just to name a few.
While we avoided the brunt of Hurricane Irene, Western New York was still affected. By the time she reached our latitude, Irene was a tropical storm and brought gusty winds to our neck of the woods with spotty reports of downed trees and power lines. Areas east of Rochester and the eastern Finger Lakes saw some of Irene's rain. Overall, Irene was a major weather maker this last weekend of August for the east coast, while we avoided most of her wrath.
Here in Gates if someone hadn't told me there was a hurricane around I'd never have known it. It was just cloudy and "breezy" nothing abnormal at all. However I took a trip up to the Lake at Charlotte and it WAS a "hurricane" there. Once near beach it was actually difficult to stand still as wind was very strong--I'd guess at least 40 MPH. Waves were going well over the pier-- a really spectacular scene. You got sandblasted by beach sand being picked up by the wind---it hurt.
ReplyDeleteIf this was the edge of Irene I pity those who really got it.