Vigilant
For now, the waters are still warm, calm, and inviting. For now. Today we received notice at work that if the track of tropical storm Hanna, which is expected to become a category 2 hurricane, continues on its present and projected track, our location will be closed on Friday. As a matter of fact, the ‘govies’, or government personnel, have been given liberal leave, which means that they are free to pack up their stuff and go out of town if they wish. They, if their work allows it, can work from home for the next few days.
From what I understand, when Hugo came through, the base where I work was closed for a week do to roof damage and lots of leaks! That said, if Hanna continues on her path, I’ll be making way for Charlotte a bit earlier than anticipated.
In one respect, it is kind of exciting and I’d like to hang out and take some pictures of the torrential rains, etc. On the other hand, maybe it’s better to watch it on TV! 
I think that on Thursday morning I’m heading down to the beach before going to work. I want to see what’s happening there, but it will depend on the wave conditions. Already, the National Weather Service has issued severe rip tide warnings for the Carolina coastline because of the long-period waves that are being pushed ahead of Hanna. No storm surges yet, but swimming conditions are deteriorating.
Lastly, this evening when I stopped to get a few things from the grocery store, there were quite a few people loading up on canned soup and bottle water. I wonder if they are the experienced ones or the inexperienced ones. Hmmm. Anyway, I’m keeping a vigil and an eye towards the east/southeast! Cool, another experience!
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Paul, In the photo above I like the contrast…the softness of the water against the harsher sharpness of the pier. Also, the two people standing on the very end of the pier really draws your eyes. Nice shot!
Love this image.
We don’t get too many hurricanes here but we have had some devastating ones. Most recently the remnants of Floyd decimated a few towns in NJ including some neighborhoods on the North side of the town I live in. Some homes were lost to the flooding. My brother in law had flooding but he was rather lucky as it was only his basement. Some of his nearby neighbors were not so lucky. It did get rather touchy for them though as the water from the river a few blocks away reached his front steps.
We live even closer to the river on the other side of the same town and the water never came to our street, I assume wew are on higher ground. The sewers however backed up into peoples basements as close as my next door neighbors house. We were spared. Our sump pump definitely earned it’s keep that year!
It was a wake up call. We are not even a coastal town. It was awful to drive through town and see peoples belongings lined up along the streets as so much garbage. It was pretty devastating and our town was by no means the worst hit.
I hope the coast is spared the worst. We are also expecting to feel the effects of the storm(s). The Labor Day weekend we did have some rather dangerous rip currents which kept swimmers from wading into the ocean much more than ankle deep. This was a bad year for drownings along the Jersey Shore.
@Earl: Thanks. When I saw them out at the end of the pier looking out over the ocean, I hurried to get into place to see if I could do a time exposure. I had imagined having the water swirling around and it worked out really well, even better than I had expected.
I have to chime in, that photo is a perfect visualisation to your post. I like the choice of B&W and the composition really rocks. I’m a real sucker for those long-time blurry water shots with something solid to contrast it…
If the climate-change predictions are evenly remotely correct, you will have more than your fair chances of capturing hurrican photos in the years to come. And I fear that those predictions might actually be underestimations of what is going to happen in reality