Ah, there’s nothing like the sight of hurricane-driven surf… the feel of gale-force winds in your hair…
…not to mention the taste of wind-blown sand in your teeth…
But seriously, folks, Brendan & Scott’s Excellent Isabel Adventure was fantastic! Sure, some cynical Orange County Republicans may scoff at the waves’ height, but trust me, the pictures don’t do them justice: the sea was stormy (and, dare I say it, angry), the wind was unrelenting, and the whole scene was just really cool. Here are some of my pictures:
(Check out the blowing sand in the picture above!)
The waves and wind were great, but weather nerd that I am, I thought the coolest thing of all was the view of the clouds, which — even hundreds of miles away from Isabel’s center — clearly demonstrated the “spiral banding” pattern that occurs in hurricanes:
Here are a couple of miscellaneous photos from earlier: one from our 13th-floor office, showing Isabel’s ominous clouds over New York’s midtown skyline, and one showing an American flag (which, by the way, are ubiquitous in the patriotic, firefighter-filled Rockaways) blowing in the wind:
UPDATE: You can also see some of these photos at Weather Underground!
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Categories: 2004 Hurricane Isabel
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September 19th, 2003 at 1:04:28 am
Excellent, indeed! Great. Glad you did it.
(Of course you know, you’re a FANatic. :) / “Dad! It’s EASY! Do-doo-do Doot DOOOO, doot do DOOOOO…” / OKOK, so it’s an *extended*-family website, so enough with the nuclear-family inside humor already.
[[Oh gee, nuclear family, that reminds me: I am Remiss: Dr Edward Teller, RIP…a *Super* life & career, to be sure…not the Father of his *Country*, no; but the Vater of…well, y’know…’Nowww, Dimitri: you remember how sometimes we’ve talked about The Bomb, Dimitri?…Hmm? Nonono, the *BOMB*, Dimitri…What? The **ATOMIC** bomb, Dimitri!!’ // ‘Aber vhat iss zee point uff haffingk zee Doompsday Maszhcine, iff you **KEEP IT A SZEECHRET**…?’ - “Dr Strangelove” [fer you Kids Today :]
Yeahwell, Per-fesser Teller was a true genius & a great physicist & at least a fair-to-middlin’ strategic thinker; but by Golly he never built anything with more than a fraction of the power of *TS*-Isabel; let alone a Cat-5 H-Isabel. / It’s not a Good Bet to Compete with Mother Nature.
“…some cynical Orange County Republicans…”
But, you repeat yourself. (Hi, Andrew. :)
“You’re a very cynical man, Senator.” - Uncle Duke [the Hunter-Thompson-based character], “Doonesbury”. / “Tell me about it.”
- the Senator. [Perhaps a US Rep Dana-Rohrabacher-based character. Or — perhaps not. :]
September 19th, 2003 at 2:31:37 pm
Hey Brendan,
I stumbled on your photos on the wunderground site. They are excellent. I particularly enjoyed looking at the 9/11 pictures.
I live in central MD. Thanks for sharing your pictures.
jane
September 19th, 2003 at 2:31:55 pm
Hey Brendan,
I stumbled on your photos on the wunderground site. They are excellent. I particularly enjoyed looking at the 9/11 pictures.
I live in central MD. Thanks for sharing your pictures.
jane
September 19th, 2003 at 2:32:14 pm
Hey Brendan,
I stumbled on your photos on the wunderground site. They are excellent. I particularly enjoyed looking at the 9/11 pictures.
I live in central MD. Thanks for sharing your pictures.
jane