Good morning Earl

We aren't going to get much more than a very windy day and perhaps a couple inches of rain.  Eastern Long Island has been in and out of the cone for a while and this thing will pass well out on the southeast side of Montauk.  We get a lot of wind out here anyway and to give the 6am report, it is dead calm.  However, one can hear the ocean and it is roaring.

That sound, one that is unmistakable, is the surf and it is going to be to about 15-18 feet today and tonight which means during at least one high tide cycle and that is when stuff will start to be a problem.  We have lost much of the ocean beach to erosion due to a couple big storms in the last year and there certainly isn't any federal money available (NY State money is non-existent) and our local guys are being investigated because not only did they spend all the local tax money but can't find the rest of it. So there has been no re-building.  I'm going to repost on this about 7p tonight when things will be at about their worst and actually try and get down to the beach and see - if the police will let that happen.  15 years ago the ocean broke through the barrier beach - overwashed about 1/2 a mile and flooded the bay which flooded everything in site. That is our only worry.