Wind, Rain And Surf Brought By Hurricane Earl This Weekend

The remnants of Hurricane Earl have started to show in Massachusetts. While on Friday evening it started to show its result – wind – driven rain on Cape Cod’s gray shingled cottages and the fishing villages there.

In Massachusetts, the Hurricane Earl causes a few hundred of power outages and some flooding in low-lying areas. This storm ruined a lot of vacations that many of the Americans were expecting. The rain it brought to Cape Cod, Nantucket Island and Martha’s Vineyard were of that kind that was never seen by the villagers, for generations.

They blew with 30 mph and had gusts above 40 mph. while, Nantucket Island received around 1.5 inches of rain, the Martha’s Vineyard got more than 3 inches of rain. Even though it as well registered a certain flooding situation, this was similar to the other flooding that took place earlier during summer time, and therefore it was cleared within hours. “The south side of the island certainly did take a hit. We’ll assess the damage and the erosion to the beach tomorrow, but so far don’t have any report of major damage,” Tivnan said late Friday.

While the storm was announced with days before, vacationers took it into themselves and pulled their boats from the water and cancelled all their plans for this weekend as they cancelled the reservations that had made to spend the Labor Day weekend on Nantucket. May you be as a good swimmer as possible, you must think about staying away from the water, as the waves will be very big.

This hurricane had consequences on the airplanes just as much, as dozens of flights into New England were cancelled and the railways between New York and Boston, was just the same, suspended.

In this early Saturday it is about to move on from the United States to Nova Scotia.

As it is a category 4 storm with 145 mph, after days of ruining everything in its path, during late Friday, it got to category 1 storm and at 11 p.m. it was considered to have got to be a tropical storm. Earl’s wind dropped at 105 mph, on Friday, while the storm center got no closer to shore than 85 miles.

The bookstores, cafes and ice cream parlors in New England got ready to expect the storm; as some of the stores put plywood over their windows and when Earl finally came as it lowered its speed, unlike what the citizens and the tourists there expected, the town’s beach turned festive.

“We’re having a great time,” said Jodie Charest, 36, of Chatham, who was there with her daughters, Alexis, 15, and Molly, 8. “We just ran down to the beach … enjoying the rain in our faces and just enjoying the wind in our hair.” People having almost all run on the beach. They were all wondering where is the hurricane that everyone’s been expecting to be. There was just rain and wind, which people enjoy having in their hair.

While in that part the storm did not cause so many bad consequences, in New Jersey two men almost died, earlier this week, while they were surfing and were caught by Hurricane Earl in their way. Anyhow, you should not think of it as having gone all its dangers, as during Saturday and Sunday as well, officials expect to continue being a concern, especially near beaches, where the waves will be big and will be able to knock people down of their jets.

Anyhow, as he passed Massachusetts he is on his way to Canada. It will not be so strong as tropical storms usually weakens when they enter the waters between Maine and Canada, because they are cold waters. Anyhow, the residents from Nova Scotia re already prepared with food and water supplies, as they had a bad experience with the Hurricane Juan. This killed in 2003 eight people and cause damage of millions of dollars.