Tropical, Unsettled Summers & Hurricane Years

[nklinesider]

i was only in kindergarten when hurrican bob hit and my mom and dad took me to the north kingstown town beach during the eye and it was amazing......we had to walk there because of all the downed trees and flooded streets, there were waves!! which is definetly not a regular accurance. i also will never forget that. weather is a pretty cool subject when its not destroying everything

[saltwaterhabits]

Originally Posted by nklinesider

i was only in kindergarten when hurrican bob hit and my mom and dad took me to the north kingstown town beach during the eye and it was amazing......we had to walk there because of all the downed trees and flooded streets, there were waves!! which is definetly not a regular accurance. i also will never forget that. weather is a pretty cool subject when its not destroying everything

I made the very same walk to the beach after Bob. Wickford was quite a mess- my neighbor on Brown St had a huge tree drop in for a very damaging visit. As with you, all the fallen trees and lines kept us from driving. What I can remember clearly was the smell of fresh wood just permeating the air.

[1dozenraw]

I'm old.... was 8 when Carol rolled through. We were in a house that was about 250' from the beach at Green Hill. The Civil Defense guy, who lived about 200 yards further from the beach on the same street, came and woke us at 4 AM and took us to his house where we stayed throughout the storm. We played Mr Potato Head with a real potato and watched the picture window flex in and out like a drum head.. We too took a walk to the beach during the eye and saw the house closest to the water had been hit by a wave and knocked off its foundation. All the houses that were on the barrier beach between Green Hill and Charlestown were gone and in the pond.

During Hurricane Bob I was living at Green Hill about 10 house up from the beach. The police came around early and announced a mandatory evacuation. I had checked all the trees around the house and cut some limbs that might be a problem, stocked up on food and batteries, so me and my galfriend hunkered down and kept track of everything on TV and then battery powered radio.

I was also right in the path of the tornado that went through Worcester County Mass. I killed 3 people in the house next door (about 75 feet from where I was). I heard the roar and the crash and jumped up on the deep freezer and saw most of it from the basement window. We had gone down in the cellar / cold cellar when we saw the sky turn a weird blackish yellow color.

I'll tell ya... the clean-up after Bob in my area of SoCo was absolutely depressing. It went on forever. It just was overwhelming dealing with trees down, no power for 10 or more days and just debris everywhere. No fun at all.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by 1dozenraw

I was also right in the path of the tornado that went through Worcester County Mass. I killed 3 people in the house next door (about 75 feet from where I was). I heard the roar and the crash and jumped up on the deep freezer and saw most of it from the basement window. We had gone down in the cellar / cold cellar when we saw the sky turn a weird blackish yellow color.

Where in Worc. County?

[likwid]

Neither system has any real circulation to it yet.

Little early to cry wolf considering we've had dozens of those cross the Atlantic already this year.

[striperman36]

Dad, Lost the family house, in 1962 NoName Storm in South Jersey,
Sea Isle City NJ, was a flat sandbar, very little was left. We never found anything from the house.
Property was taken by the state as it was right on the primary sand dune.

Was here for Gloria, no biggie, Bob, little bit worse, helped drag boats out of the marsh is Westport for several weeks afterwards and the noname storm same year, 1992. NoName reported to totally devastated the cape, was at ComElectric, working on making sure the CallCenter could handle the load.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by likwid

Neither system has any real circulation to it yet.

Little early to cry wolf considering we've had dozens of those cross the Atlantic already this year.

I think this has turned in to a general so co storm discussion anyways

1Doz.
That depressing clean-up was for a Cat 1 storm.
just wait for a big one....

[1dozenraw]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

1Doz.
That depressing clean-up was for a Cat 1 storm.
just wait for a big one....

Well aware. I had just moved here permanently and was working for and with a fellow who maintained a few large estates... Saunderstown, Beavertail and Matunuck, as well as Shelter Harbor area. So we did nothing but storm clean-up for weeks. Then there were folks who owned property on Green Hill who needed clean-up work done there. It just went on right up to the end of the year. No thanks. But I do believe it is inevitable that we will experience another major storm. My biggest concern is the depletion of the barrier beach along the south coast between the west wall and on down to Watch Hill area. But my focus is the stretch from East Matunuck to Charlestown. I think a bunch of folks who wished they had beach front property are going to get their wish. And a bunch of folks who spent the long dollar to buy beach front are going to wish they hadn't. It'll be "interesting". A gal I grew up with at Green Hill in the summers has an aerial photo of the beach from GH to Moonstone taken in the early 60s. Unless you were there, most folks have no concept of the width of the barrier then as compared to now. I'm sure that there are similar situations all along the coast.

[1dozenraw]

Originally Posted by bluefishercat

Where in Worc. County?

At the intersection of Rt 9 and Oak Hill Road in Fayville (part of Southborough). Funnel came diagonally across the intersection, tore up the garage on the SW corner, then leveled the Trioli home which was also the post office.