Hurricane Bill has us in his sights

It has started, not much yet, winds are around 80k (45mph) however Bill is still some 300 miles away, I think people are better prepared, we had 31 requests on Thursday/Friday from people to come and drop trees close to power lines on their peoperty which we managed to get half done....shut down until this is over.

Ready to go however, enough fuel for a week for all the equipment, have my diesel generator ready to go at home, put every piece of equipment I own in a clearing on the property out of the reach of trees. The swell on the Ocean this morning is amazing, I would guess waves are reaching 9 feet at the moment, I just hope people stay away but they never seem to....

For now we wait and enjoy the hot coffee. Daughter is stranded in NYC, she was flying back from Costa Rica, when Bill passed by NYC last night it created 3 hour delays on landing so it's a real mess down there at the moment.

I been doing the same. picked up some stuff I meant to pick up all summer but never got to. I even helped the neighbour disassemble their trampoline to the point we could flip it over flat against the ground.

My car, well, right now it's on the road, near an oak. Or I could put it in the driveway, beside the same oak, or put it on the road on the other side of the driveway or the other side of the street.

meh.

I'd like to drive out to Lawrencetown Beach (15 minutes), but I also like to do what I'm told. I was out through West Chezzetcook and Lawrencetown yesturday afternoon, lots of surfers. The marshes through West Chezzetcook were really really flooded due to the storm surge.

I can see the path of the wind now, a sort of wind corridor that goes through my back yard between the house next door, and two houses down, which would explain the nature of the devistation to trees on my property in 2003 due to hurricane Juan.

It's very calm on one side of the house and to about 30' behind the house, then you walk into the wind. Ofcourse, it's the same infront of the house, which would explain the damage to properties on the other side.

After Juan, we had about 60 trees down. One group in this wind corridor were all down in the same direction, then there was another group all tangled up, some of these must've fallen the other direction when the back side of Juan came through (wind blowing in other direction).

Not a single tree hit the house, and the large tangle was within 8' of the house.

The house is pretty safe this time around as far as trees go because there are only about three that remain. What freaks me out is watching the large plate-glass picture window in the living room flex in and out.

picframer said:

It has started, not much yet, winds are around 80k (45mph) however Bill is still some 300 miles away, I think people are better prepared, we had 31 requests on Thursday/Friday from people to come and drop trees close to power lines on their peoperty which we managed to get half done....shut down until this is over.

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By the way Andy, this is Dave Cooper in Porters Lake, the guy from Home Depot you gave that steel bodied Lawnboy to.

theCOOP said:

By the way Andy, this is Dave Cooper in Porters Lake, the guy from Home Depot you gave that steel bodied Lawnboy to.

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Hey bud, and we still have to drop by your place for chipping Was there yesterday with the excavator dropping trees on Murray road, that would be an interesting spot this morning right on the ocean.....anyhow at least this time we will be able to see things happen, Juan was in the night with zero visability.

saskman49 said:

Good luck to all you Maritimers. Gotta check on my family today as well. Mom is in New Germany and all my sisters are in Halifax, Bedford and Lower Sackville area.

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For the most part it was a non event compared to weather I have seen here over the years, a few trees down in the city, nothing much, 22,000 without power at the moment, once again mainly in the city and Sydney. The wind was not that bad, it was mainly a rain storm, the sun is out here now so I went for a walk, driveways that generally wash out across the road from me are in perfect shape, so we escaped this one.

The main issue is people who will not stay away from the rocks along the Ocean, they closed the road down from me (I live 10 min from Peggy's Cove) two kids were washed under however the RCMP got them back quickly, I really don't understand people at times, I just watched the news and could not believe how close people were getting to the water, all parks are closed, beaches etc. in an effort to keep people away, there may be some flooding later as the storm surge has not peaked.

It was interesting to see in the day time, most of our big storms seem to happen at night.

Anyhow it's back to business as usual