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Hurricane Sandy

On the harbor, concern for people who live on boats

By adamg - 10/27/12 - 6:18 pm

Alice C.Ahoy! Anybody home?

The Boston Police harbor unit plans special checks of the boats in which several dozen people may be living to make sure they're prepared for Sandy.

Police say fulltime harbor denizens are concentrated in marinas in Charlestown and East Boston. Yesterday afternoon, during a patrol with several members of the local media, a BPD boat pulled aside the Alice C., moored off Rowes Wharf, whose owner is one of the harbor's veteran residents. They hailed him twice. Nobody answered back, though, so they moved on.

Police urged people with sailboats moored in the harbor to make sure everything is battened down and mooring lines in good shape. One person who won't have to worry is John Henry - his behemoth yacht Iroquois is no longer berthed at Rowes Wharf - presumably it's sailed to safer (and no doubt warmer) waters.

Emergency, emergency, everybody to get from street!

By adamg - 10/27/12 - 5:56 pm

Gov. Patrick declared a state of emergency in advance of Sandy's arrival sometime tomorrow. If something can be tied down, tie it down or bring it inside - including Halloween decorations. Stock up on emergency supplies and first-aid stuff, get cash (in case ATMs go down) and brace and hunker down like nobody's business.

When storms collide

By adamg - 10/27/12 - 12:48 pm

Sandy and the front

This photo, taken around 11:15 a.m. by a GOES satellite, shows Sandy and the front with which it's about to collide, creating a SuperhumongousFrankenstorm. The National Hurricane Center reports that after weakening yesterday, Sandy regained its hurricane status overnight and that the storm approaching from the front will only make it stronger before it slams into the continent somewhere in the area of New Jersey.

UPDATE: Looks like the storms have started to merge. Photo taken around 5:15 p.m.:

In face of Sandy, city races to clear catch basins, secure construction sites

By adamg - 10/26/12 - 2:19 pm

Boston city officials today announced a series of steps to prepare for possible effects from Hurricane Sandy, including clearing as many catch basins as possible before Monday and ordering that all utility work and road construction be secured by 5 p.m. today.

Assuming Sandy starts to lash the area, Boston Police will add extra patrols while Boston Fire will add extra firefighters to respond to downed wires. Boston EMS will also call in extra EMTs and paramedics.

Sandy churns, barrels, lumbers, chugs, lashes as we brace, gird and get ready to batten down all those hatches

By adamg - 10/26/12 - 7:16 am

Guess where Sandy is? Photo from GOES.Can you spot Sandy? Photo from GOES East.

WCVB warns we could get "the strong side" of Sandy as it slams into the Delmarva Peninsula (and it would only go downhill if it hit closer to us). Worst Storm in 100 Years Seen for Northeast U.S., Bloomberg blares. Hurricane Sandy is a wolf in sheep's skin, CNN oddly declares.

Just in time for Sandy, NStar has unveiled an outage map for you to call up on the tiny flickering screen of your smartphone. MassEMA sent out its first Ping alert about the storm (the city of Boston has its own alert system).

A Google search on the phrases "Hurricane Sandy" and "perfect storm" this morning results in 82,200 hits, up tenfold from Wednesday.

Meanwhile, over at ArchBoston, people already bored with Sandy are considering what would happen if a 6.0 earthquake hit Boston.

Screw leaf raking this weekend

By adamg - 10/25/12 - 10:49 am

With Sandy churning up the Atlantic as it bears down on a coast that could face the brunt of its fury, WBZ meterorologist Todd Gutner advises:

Don't bother raking, waste of time.

Sandy: A perfecter storm?

By adamg - 10/25/12 - 8:00 am

Infrared view of Sandy, via NASA.Infrared view of Sandy, via NOAA.

At 6:30 p.m. yesterday, Google had 8,040 results for a search on

Slammin' storm headed our way?

By adamg - 10/22/12 - 3:55 pm

Matt Noyes rubs his eyes in front of the monitor and says it's not too early to think about what could become Hurricane Sandy, beginning to form in the Caribbean:

[I]f everything comes together in a worst-case scenario, this would be an extremely damaging storm for much of the coastal Eastern United States, and particularly the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast corridor.

Sometime Sunday to Tuesday if it comes to it.

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