October 29th: A Day Off AM Update

Its now 9 am and outside its mostly rain with some wind gusts.  According to what I am seeing the worst is just beginning at this time. Here is a really nice map that shows the path of Sandy. So it appears it has yet to really begin. Well, at around 9:30 I just saw the first looter arrested right outside my kitchen widow.

Man NOT at Work :)

 What you see is an authentic photo of my " office" or as I like to say my orifice. Therefore I am the Oracle or the  Oriole or the Ovaltine of West Philly or at least 44th and Sansom.
Say did you know that Ovaltine was developed in Berne, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for "egg", and malt, originally its main ingredients). Is that not cool or what. There is a double entrendre somewhere or I just left it on the 21 bus....DARN!!
I plan to hunker down till the power goes out or I go back to sleep. Sometimes as an intrepid blogger, I have to lose my sleep. At least the Commonwealth had the decency NOT to have us come in for work. They did not communicate well but hey that is just standard operating procedure for the state. Its good to have the day off.
According to Bryan Norcross, Hurricane Specialist at The Weather Channel the storm is following the weather models that we have seen for the past 3 days. Here is his latest observations.

And so it begins. Mega monster Sandy, with 40+ mph winds 900 miles across and embedded hurricane-force winds is going to hang a left and smash into the Northeast on Monday - a maneuver we've never seen before from system that originated in the tropics. There's no good news from the Hurricane Hunters or the computer forecast models. If anything, the storm is providing more drama in its first act than was expected.

Water is coming over sea walls. Flooding and whipping winds have already started. Just from the fringe of Sandy.

At the coast, by far the worst of this is going to come at high tide at the Jersey Shore and points north. The tide will peak along much of the Northeast coast around 9PM and 9AM, but around noon and midnight on the ocean side of Cape Cod. The difference between low and high tide can be 3 feet and more... a really big deal.

Here is the 11am update!

This one might meet the high/low hype of the media. I saw pictures from Facebook that the shore is already being pounded as of 10am today. The 11AM NHC update has just come out and everything is still pointing towards a landfall between Cape May and Long Beach Island. That means Millville is right in the cross hairs of this massive storm. Some maintain that this storm is a sign of things to come due to global warming!
I conclude this AM edition of French Toast Update with a video I took from my front porch at 11:18 am this very morning.

Have a good day.