Many LCT'rs live in the path. Stay safe everyone.

Excerpted from The Weather Channel .


Tropical Storm Hanna

At around 3:15 a.m. EDT, Hanna made landfall near the South Carolina/North Carolina border producing tropical storm-force winds gusts with some locations experiencing sustained tropical storm-force winds.

Here is a short list of some notable gusts:
Kure Beach, NC: 77 mph
Wrightsville Beach, NC: 72 mph
North Myrtle Beach, SC: 53 mph
Wilmington, NC: 54 mph
Carolina Beach, NC: 50 mph

After making landfall, Tropical Storm Hanna had now pushed inland and is located about 40 miles east-southeast of Raleigh, NC.

Top winds have fallen to 50 miles per hour now that the center is over land.

Rotating bands of heavy rain and gusty winds are spinning across eastern North Carolina and over much of Virginia and Maryland. Occasional tornadoes may also being spawned by Hanna especially over eastern sections of North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. There are extensive watches and warnings in place along the East Coast that stretch as far north as southern New England.

It is important to note that one should not focus solely on the center of circulation. Impacts such as tropical storm-force gusts, flooding rains, and very choppy surf will be felt hundreds of miles away from the center of Hanna.

Hanna will now head northeast and quickly spread rain and breezy conditions up the mid-Atlantic and Northeast coast through Saturday; impacting several major cities including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. However, due its rapid forward speed, the storm will not linger. Hanna will be exiting off the New England coast by as early as mid-morning Sunday.

Thankfully, rainfall totals will not come close to what we have seen with Fay or Gustav. However, flooding will still be a cause for concern. Flood and flash flood watches are posted from central North Carolina northward to eastern Maine in preparation for rainfall totals of anywhere from 2-5 inches with some local spots picking up more than 6 inches.

Hanna is here :eek: High tides, wind and rain but it's moving fast. Ike is the one to watch.We need the rain but not the tree limbs and pine cones
:rolleyes:

Take care, Suzie, and everyone in Hanna's path.

It was almost a non-event here, blowing in about 3 p.m., (I'm 2.5 hours drive north from Suzie. Not worse than most northeasters we see here from time to time, and now it's gone. Tides were not high at the time, so it was a song! I saw marsh out the window the whole time, unlike the last one, Isabelle.

We live an hour north of New York city but so far just some rain but no wind at all. Not too much longer and it should be past our area.

Even the Mimi the Cat refused to come inside which is my way of knowing that the weather can't be too bad. For her it is good hunting weather.

Hi Olivia, glad to hear it was a non-event and hope Suzie is experiencing the same!

My son spent the night at Ocean Isle Beach NC, just north of SC/NC border and admitted the 60mph winds were intimidating but basically no problems!

Suzie, I hope that you and Tom and Mona did not have too much to clean up. If our daughter had stayed in Reston she would have just been visited by Hanna. This time last year we were chased off the Outer Banks by tropical depression Gabrielle but that was at the end of our rental period. If we had booked this year I think the final two days would not have been enjoyable.

All my family from Philadelphia to New York are expecting lots of rain.

It looks like Ike has done some serious damage in Grand Turk--80% of the homes there have been damaged. No reports yet of human toll. Let's hope it stays "only" property damage.

To our friends in Florida and the Gulf Coast: stay safe!

We got rain, rain and more rain!! Oakton, got, according to the paper this morning the highest in inches. We had some roads flooded, there are lots of tree limbs in the yard, and some wind late in the day. We didn't loose power and our dinner party last night went on, we were doing chickens on the grill, and actually managed to do so. Frank just set up an umbrella over the grill. This morning is bright and sunny.

The yard mess from Hanna was on par with our last hurricane....oh, my aching back. I love trees but I'm ready for an oceanfront condo with NO YARD