Uncle Earl might pass east - or maybe not

We will find out I think in about 4 1/2 days - probably by bedtime on Thursday night we either be battening down the hatches or moving to higher ground.  As it is, we are 11 feet about mean high tide at the last measurement so there isn't a lot of room for error.

As noted a few days ago, its been about 2 decades since the last really big hurricane near miss and 15 or so since the Storm of the Century (the Perfect Storm).  That had a lot of wind but mostly it had coastal flooding.  That looks like the worst of it here and it will all depend on the speed.

These are fairly scary things to residents up here. The elevation is just a few meters as much as 1/2 a mile inland and it is mostly wood frame with a lot of trees and telephone poles so the chances of loosing power is pretty high.  We are counting on it even in a near miss so it is off the the store this morning to get bottled water.

There are pictures in our library of the 1938 hurricane that put 5 feet of water a mile inland. Might take another look at them while I'm down there.