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Obadiah 1:18
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any]remaining of t
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Posted by: Shawn on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 01:39 PM
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Wilma helps stoke powerful nor'easter, please pray
BOSTON -- An early nor'easter reinforced by distant Hurricane Wilma on Tuesday pounded beaches with 20-foot waves, knocked out power to thousands of people and spread rain across the Northeast, where many residents were still cleaning up from flooding earlier in the month.
"There's the potential for all sorts of problems all over the state," said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the Massachusetts emergency operations center in Framingham.
Some areas also got their first snowfall of the season.
The National Weather Service posted coastal flood warnings from New Jersey to Connecticut and issued high wind warnings for parts of New England.
Twenty-foot waves eroded New Jersey beaches. Dozens of flights were canceled at Boston's Logan Airport and gusts to 70 mph were reported on Cape Cod.
The storm was drawing moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Wilma, which was passing far offshore after battering Florida a day earlier.
"It's getting some energy from Wilma, but it's its own separate system," said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton. The nor'easter is "going to be a good storm in it's own right."
With the combination of the wind and ground saturated by what already was been one of the wettest months on record, toppling trees and breaking limbs knocked out power to 17,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts and 28,000 in Connecticut. About 1,500 were blacked out in New Hampshire, plus some 5,000 others in New Jersey, utilities said.
"The ground is just not holding the trees up," said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. With near-freezing temperatures expected later Tuesday, restoring power was a top priority, he said.
The storm had caused some minor coastal flooding on Cape Cod, and authorities were concerned that the evening high tide would bring more. Waves topping 22 feet were recorded at buoys off Cape Cod.
"It doesn't seem like it is letting up," Harwich Harbormaster Thomas Leach said on Cape Cod at midday. "It seems like it is getting windier."
Leach said he recorded sustained wind of 56 mph with gusts up to 70 mph.
All ferries between the Cape, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket were canceled Tuesday, said Steamship Authority spokesman Mark Rozum....
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Wilma helps stoke powerful nor'easter, please pray
BOSTON -- An early nor'easter reinforced by distant Hurricane Wilma on Tuesday pounded beaches with 20-foot waves, knocked out power to thousands of people and spread rain across the Northeast, where many residents were still cleaning up from flooding earlier in the month.
"There's the potential for all sorts of problems all over the state," said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the Massachusetts emergency operations center in Framingham.
Some areas also got their first snowfall of the season.
The National Weather Service posted coastal flood warnings from New Jersey to Connecticut and issued high wind warnings for parts of New England.
Twenty-foot waves eroded New Jersey beaches. Dozens of flights were canceled at Boston's Logan Airport and gusts to 70 mph were reported on Cape Cod.
The storm was drawing moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Wilma, which was passing far offshore after battering Florida a day earlier.
"It's getting some energy from Wilma, but it's its own separate system," said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton. The nor'easter is "going to be a good storm in it's own right."
With the combination of the wind and ground saturated by what already was been one of the wettest months on record, toppling trees and breaking limbs knocked out power to 17,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts and 28,000 in Connecticut. About 1,500 were blacked out in New Hampshire, plus some 5,000 others in New Jersey, utilities said.
"The ground is just not holding the trees up," said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. With near-freezing temperatures expected later Tuesday, restoring power was a top priority, he said.
The storm had caused some minor coastal flooding on Cape Cod, and authorities were concerned that the evening high tide would bring more. Waves topping 22 feet were recorded at buoys off Cape Cod.
"It doesn't seem like it is letting up," Harwich Harbormaster Thomas Leach said on Cape Cod at midday. "It seems like it is getting windier."
Leach said he recorded sustained wind of 56 mph with gusts up to 70 mph.
All ferries between the Cape, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket were canceled Tuesday, said Steamship Authority spokesman Mark Rozum.
At Bay Head, N.J., in Ocean County, 20-foot waves scoured away sand, leaving a wooden walkway connecting the beach to a street dangling several feet above the water. However, Neal Buccino, a spokesman for New Jersey's Office of Emergency Management, said he knew of no evacuations due to high water.
Flights in the New York City area were delayed by as much as 3 1/2 hours by the wind and rain.
The storm also brought an early taste of winter.
Some lower elevations of New Hampshire got their first slushy, mushy, snowfall of the season, as did northwest New Jersey. The weather service issued a winter storm watch for Massachusetts' Berkshires, and snow also was likely in the mountains of Maine.
Atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington, the Northeast's tallest peak at 6,288 feet, meteorologists at the Mount Washington Observatory measured 100 mph wind and near-blizzard conditions in fog and blowing snow.
"It's going pretty crazy out here," said Tim Markle, the observatory's chief meteorologist, who said it was 22 degrees at the peak, 0 degrees factoring for wind chill.
The storm system came on top of record rainfall earlier in the month, when Mount Washington got 34 inches of snow in one weekend.
More than a week of storms washed away roads and houses in New Hampshire, blocked highways with mud and high water and flooded hundreds of people out of their homes in New Jersey and New Hampshire. The storms were blamed for at least 16 deaths from Pennsylvania to Maine. Thousands were evacuated in Taunton, Mass., where high water threatened to collapse an aging wooden dam.
Many areas got more than a foot of rain. In Providence, R.I., it's already been the wettest month on record, with 13.21 inches of rain beating the 12.74 inches that fell in April 1983. Worcester, Mass., topped its October 1955 record of 10.98 inches with the 13.46 that fell early this month.
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