{"id":699,"date":"2010-09-02T17:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2010-09-02T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T22:03:16","slug":"watching-and-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Watching and Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, before there was cable television and the internet on Hatteras Island, I relied a lot on weather radios. I also had my dad, a career meteorologist, for tracking and updates of tropical systems. With an approaching hurricane my dad would look at surrounding pressure systems and could plot a course using his protractor and a set of parallels. He had an uncanny sense of predicting where the storms were headed, and a detached calmness even about a major hurricane bearing down on one of his sons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today of course, we have the world wide web of information. And that’s a good thing, because my dad is gone, and it’s helpful to know what we’re in for. Hurricane Earl<\/em><\/strong> is forecast to head our way and veer off slightly to the north northeast just south of the Cape. And that would be a good thing. Hopefully we can dodge this storm, like many others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I drove up to the S-Curve to check the swell, and it had definitely picked up. There were a few brave souls playing near the shore break, and even some body boarders getting some thrilling rides. From the beautiful weather, you’d hardly know that there was an approaching storm.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rodanthe oceanfront on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Playing close to the shorebreak at S-Curve.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Body boarding on a big glassy face.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Evacuees leaving town through Mirlo Beach.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Making the most of the last day of gorgeous weather near Rodanthe Pier.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The end of Wednesday with swirling high clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next morning, after a restless sleep, I wonder what the next 24 hours will have in store. It’s hot and humid, and light northeast winds. The house is boarded up with plywood that I bought 28 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All boarded up and ready to move vehicles to higher ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thursday brings in rough surf at Rodanthe Pier.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The artificial dune at S-Curve on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Same location on Thursday. Hurricane Earl<\/em><\/strong> will pass in several hours, and like many hurricanes, at night. I can’t tell you how hot and humid it is, and I’m worn out from all the preparations. It’ll be a long night.<\/span><\/p>\n

I intend to expand this blog entry as time goes on. So stay tuned.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Years ago, before there was cable television and the internet on Hatteras Island, I relied a lot on weather radios. I also had my dad, a career meteorologist, for tracking and updates of tropical systems. With an approaching hurricane my dad would look at surrounding pressure systems and could plot a course using his protractor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,26,34,6,30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-buildings","category-outer-banks","category-piers","category-sea","category-storms","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}