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Hurricane Earl .......

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Kenny Atkinson

http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/08/san-juan-puerto-rico-ap.html


We Have'nt had a major weather player in a long time as 1991's Hurricane Bob blew through Providence.At the the time in 1991 there were manned radio stations 24/7.With that said How well is Providence radio with a possible Hurricane Hurricane and voice tracked jocks and bird feed filling our airwaves?

This should be fun to listen to even if we get even a minor touch of Earl.

WPRO will more than likely be staffed this weekend with thier news people doing bits on PRO-FM and Lite.

Down the dial I have a feeling Bill Geoge will be doing a marathon 40 non stop shift.

Thoughts, I know it's only Monday and it will be likely Friday Night Saturday morning when or if we see anything
 
Would be my first hurricane. I was vacationing in San Diego in 1985 when "Gloria" hit. Then I was living in California in 1991 when "Bob" hit. So I'm guessing that as long as I stick around here the hurricane won't come. : )

However... in the slim chance it does hit. Power goes out. Phone goes out. Where do you get your news? The choice around here is obvious. WPRO. Is there really a better option? Simple answer would be No.

Earlier this year I attempted to set up my laptop to use dial up to get online just in case of emergency. Phone service is always more reliable that electric in storms. I just didn't bother getting a dial up account. Wasn't a priority. It still isn't one. My laptop battery would just die in 3 hours anyway. It's kind of not worth the bother. To be honest with you I already have a plan in place for huge storms where death is posssible. That is to grab my valuables and hightail it to Albany. I'm not joking.
 
Hurricane Donna blew over from the Atlantic and into the Gulf. Everyone took the boards off their windows. Hurricane Donna blew back over from the Gulf into the Atlantic. It wasn't a pretty scene.
 
Silkie said:
Hurricane Donna blew over from the Atlantic and into the Gulf. Everyone took the boards off their windows. Hurricane Donna blew back over from the Gulf into the Atlantic. It wasn't a pretty scene.
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In addition to Radio I have a great interest in Meteorology. I've been monitoring this storm all weekend. The important thing to remember is that hurricanes are very unpredictable. The science of forecasting has much room for improvement. My best advice is to check the weather Wednesday morning. That will be day the National Weather Service should have a lot better idea of where this thing is going to go. Right now you just might want to plan on stocking up on canned goods and bottled water sometime Wednesday afternoon or Wednesday night. Even if Earl doesn't get us, there is another soon to be hurricane about 5 days behind this one. "Fiona is the name". More tropical waves coming off Africa. More hurricanes will be coming this way. September is going to be very active. Batteries, batteries, batteries. Get them now while you can. WPRO and WBZ will be the stations to turn to.
 
I love to check the National Weather Service site almost every day.  www.weather.gov  They are mostly accurate, but weather can change anytime, so best thing to do is check the site often.  I trust them for detailed weather information that is continuously updated and available anytime.  I like the color coded maps, and many features they have on the site, plus the point and click maps that allow you to get the forecast for your area.  Say you click on Rhode Island from the big map, you get the page for the National Weather Service in Taunton, which covers southern New England, then if you know maps well, click where your city or town would be, and then use the point and click Google Map to zoom in and click on your local area.  If you don't know maps well, just type in the city or town and state, and then use the Google Map to find your local area and click on it.  I say this because one part of a city or town may have different weather and temps than another part.  The Forecast At a Glance would give you the most accurate forecast.  It's a great resource.  But in a power outage, I got my scanner, and it also gets the NOAA Weather Radio, 162.400 MHZ which broadcasts from the WPRO FM tower in Providence at 500 watts. 
 
wiegandr said:
Do you think The Owner of The Warwick Mall is watching Hurricane Earl ? ???
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I was thinking this same thing today. Can you imagine if the Mall gets wiped out twice within 6 Months!
I'm not all that religious. But it would truly be a message from God that he does not want that mall there anymore.
 
I knew this would happen since I'm not in California. The storm appears to be moving Northeast already which probably means our Friday night will consist of a little rain and a stiff breeze. Nothing to horrible. It's kind of to bad for those hoping that the storm would knock something over and free up AM 990 for better programming.
 
Sit tight. The storm might start pulling on the warm moisture in the air around it. So far no. Still pretty powerful at 110 mph.
 
Silkie said:
Sit tight. The storm might start pulling on the warm moisture in the air around it. So far no. Still pretty powerful at 110 mph.
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Yeah powerful at over 100 mph, but it looks like it's just going to be 100 miles mph over the ocean. The computer models had this one nailed 5 days ago. That's really good. I'm surprised the computers did so well. Here is a pic I saved from last Sunday of the storms track. It's very close to what actually happened.

http://i52.tinypic.com/nwggfs.gif
 
Not to turn this into a Weather blog. But it is active Hurricane season around here and something called Hurricane IGOR may be coming this way on September 18th. I'm just giving everyone their 10 days notice to prepare. You don't want to mess with a storm called IGOR. That's all I'm saying. lol

This leads me to an interesting question though. What radio station in terms of building construction is best able to withstand hurricane force winds. In simple terms.... what radio station in the area do you think has the strongest building. Let's say 150 mile per hour winds hit. What radio station would be perfectly fine. Which ones do you think could possibly turn into a pile of rubble. How about flood damage. Any stations near a river or ocean? What stations are on ground level and which ones are at least a few stories up. Just something to think about as we wait for the next big storm.
 
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