Kevin_Lemanowicz's Blog

This will be of no comfort to those of you with flooded basements, living on damaged streets, or in homes with damage from falling branches, but Hanna did just what she was supposed to.

My previous blog layed out what we should see.  You can compare, but here is what I saw in my town...

Heavy showers while I slept Friday night were gone by the time I was up Saturday, which was about 9 a.m.  Took my son to soccer for 11:45.  The humidity was stifling and the sun kept popping out, making it unbearable.  I was actually sweating just sitting and watching.  My poor little guy was drenched in sweat.  Back home, we were preparing for a pool party, which would have become an indoor party if the storm did not hold off.  We kept getting showers throughout the afternoon, but we didn't mind since we were already wet from the pool.  At least the men and children were wet.  What is it with women not going swimming?  It was brutally humid.  Take a dip!  Instead, they go inside and chat.  FUN!  I digress.  I grilled in the pouring rain late in the day, then it was back to the pool, also in the pouring rain.  We made it a memorable night, and survived Hanna.  The storm dropped the heaviest rain to the northwest of the track, which is very typical of tropical storms transitioning to extra tropical in the mid latitudes.  The strongest winds were mostly to the southeast of the track, and mostly barely tropical storm strength.  Again, as we'd expect with a storm like this. 

All of this underscores how difficult it is to have a tropical storm maintain its strength up here.  One will one day, but not this one.  Good luck to all of you who have to deal with flooding, and remember the damage from this fairly weak storm.  When a hurricane does come, it will be a valuable lesson.

kpl