Is this hurricane about to hit New York?

NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) - In the annals of natural disasters, it doesn't get much worse than a major hurricane directly striking New York City and Long Island.

Hurricane Irene is on a course that will take it up the East Coast from the weekend. While there is still uncertainty about where it will hit and when, the forecast models increasingly suggest some parts of the greater New York area will face some type of storm or hurricane impact. [ID:nN1E77N00M]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/ ... DI20110824

It is a bit too early to say, but the odds appear good that NYC will at least get pretty wet.

I have 3 fmily members that live in NY sent them an email to ask if their boat was ready.

All of them have already went to get some extra items should there be power problems. None are directly on the coast but want to make sure just in case some of the roads get flooded.

Hopefully landfall at Martha's Vineyard.

VL is heading over there to surf the waves I heard.

Everytime he posts or someone mentions him this pops into my head:

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What's the Hurricane's name? Muhammad

Or better yet? Who's driving this hurricane to New York? Is it a taxi driver from Denver.

Heed the Warnings, Irene a Rare but Dangerous Hurricane

- Irene is a hurricane that poses an extraordinary threat and is one that no one has yet experienced in North Carolina to the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast and New England.

- We can now narrow the projected path corridor. Confidence is growing that locations from eastern North Carolina and the eastern Mid-Atlantic states to Long Island to southern New England are all in the potential path of Hurricane Irene.

- It is becoming clear that Irene's future track will NOT be a Hurricane Earl (2010) scenario where a hurricane barely brushes the Outer Banks of North Carolina then stays well offshore.



More here.... http://www.weather.com/weather/hurrican ... 2011-08-25

It's in the catagory of HUGE storms, as far a area.

Per current Hurricane Watch Net projections ( http://hwn.org/stormpulse_atlantic.html ), Irene is forecast to hit N. Carolina as a Category 3, with winds of 115 MPH, and Maryland as a Category 2, with winds of 100 MPH.