Our friends in the Bahamas (on boats) survived just fine, as have the ones
up the east coast (or at least as far as Boston where the eye is, now).

There is dock and other not-too-severe damage to the Stocking Island
beachfront establishments we favor in George Town; Abaco/Marsh Harbour had
the airport open and most roads driveable the day after the eye, and
Treasure Cay did pretty well, considering that they were nearly in the eye
(just east of it); boats there generally were undamaged or merely
scratched...

Phew...

Our hearts go out to those south of there, as there was general mayhem,
including that the settlement in Acklins is 90% *gone*, and, overall, in the
Bahamas, 90% of structures had some damage.

L8R

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:33:40 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Our friends in the Bahamas (on boats) survived just fine, as have the ones
up the east coast (or at least as far as Boston where the eye is, now).

Here in Western Long Island Sound the storm is beginning to break up.
There is no longer a visible eye on the radar and rotation seems to be
slowing down as well. NHC is now calling it a tropical storm. We had
heavy rain and gusts to 40 kts all through the night but both are now
easing up. Based on the radar it looks like the rain will stop within
the hour. Waves on Long Island Sound are still very gnarly, close to
7 footers during the night and still very rough. The web cam at a
local yacht club shows water almost at the top of the sea wall and
there's still another 2 hours until high tide. Wave heights south of
Block Island, where we were last week, are reported at 23 feet but
they should start backing down soon.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44097

On 28/08/2011 9:47 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:33:40 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Our friends in the Bahamas (on boats) survived just fine, as have the ones
up the east coast (or at least as far as Boston where the eye is, now).

Here in Western Long Island Sound the storm is beginning to break up.
There is no longer a visible eye on the radar and rotation seems to be
slowing down as well. NHC is now calling it a tropical storm. We had
heavy rain and gusts to 40 kts all through the night but both are now
easing up. Based on the radar it looks like the rain will stop within
the hour. Waves on Long Island Sound are still very gnarly, close to
7 footers during the night and still very rough. The web cam at a
local yacht club shows water almost at the top of the sea wall and
there's still another 2 hours until high tide. Wave heights south of
Block Island, where we were last week, are reported at 23 feet but
they should start backing down soon.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44097




OK Wayne, I'm finished with it - You can have what's left!

Rough night but not too bad. I need some sleep now but no damage.
Hoges in WA