Rosalie B. wrote:

"Bill Kearney" wrote:

I don't know where you are

Annapolis. Surge came in around 7pm and raised the water to just under a
foot beneath the decking. High time at midnight only raised it a bit more
to the decking itself (but not over). There was nowhere near the damage
caused by Isabel. We never lost power, which is a miracle for Easport even
on a good day. So conditions certainly varied by region. And having
travelled north as far as Georgetown this week, stopping in various places
along the way, the lack of damage was similar. Haven't travelled south yet,
how did Tilghman and Oxford handle it?

The papers have said that the worst damage in Maryland was here in St.
Mary's County. Oxford is definitely north of us. My impression was
that northern VA and St. Mary's took the brunt of the storm and that
the problems were a lot less as you get farther north. Certainly if
you had only a small surge, you had a lot less than we did.

There was another article in the local paper today, and another letter
to the editor from a second area of St. Mary's County. Like the first
one, the author was cut off by rising flood waters from evacuation
before the evacuation order was issued, had no electricity and thus no
internet access or land line phone, the cell phones have no signal in
their area, and when they listened on the radio for news, they got
nothing but recorded music and the national news. They didn't know
shelters were open, or that there were sandbags. They were completely
cut off.

There was also an article in the local Navy base newspaper with some
pictures. They recorded gust of 65 mph, and the article said (with
pictures to document it) that holes were torn in the roofs of two
hangers causing significant damage, the shingles were ripped off the O
Club roof over the indoor pool, there were considerable downed trees
and shoreline erosion, and power outages. There was also ONE boat in
the marina that was sunk. There was a picture of the boat which was a
small sailboat lying on its side in the slip. All the other boats
look to be fine.

The real problem was that the NWS downgraded Ernesto and then paid no
more attention to it so people were not prepared.

I disagree, it wasn't NWS or NOAA to blame for lazy boat owners failing to
prepare.

I wasn't talking about boat people. I was talking about people who
live on land. I don't think there was much boat damage here (although
I have not really looked). There were some boats on St. George's
Island that were damaged (there was a mandatory evacuation there, and
when the water got too high for the regular cars to get to people to
evacuate them, they went to trucks) but I don't think there was much
elsewhere.

Out on it every week since this past April, no cetacean or other marine
mammals cited sighted. But I hear NYC had a manatee recently...

We see dolphins off the coast sometimes (Bethany Beach area).

Yeah, and I've seen whales off Bar Harbor, but neither are the same as the
BAY.

Neither is NYC.