It's about time. Been pray'n for a storm all year.
I've been closing following the weather since buying a metal detector a few weeks ago. lol.
This Irene may come up the coast and dust all the beaches with storms. I don't know how big the storms have to be. My metal detector came with a magazine with a big article about hunting beaches immediately after the storm passed. I definitely want to try. I'm self-employed so I'm in a good position to run out there whenever I want.
Irene is predicted to turn into a Cat 1 soon, but I bet it's only a minor tropical storm when it hits the US. The media cries wolf about every storm just to have a story. I bet people in Florida are very jaded and don't take hurricane coverage seriously until it's within a few of them.
I'm in Charleston, SC by the way.
On a side note I went to the beach in Sullivan's Island for the first time in years yesterday. It was low tide. That beach went out forever. You get on the beach at low tide and the water is WAYYYYY out there. Then there was a massive river going through the middle of the beach. Only an inches deep in places, but as much a 4 feet in one large area. In one area there was like a huge hill (sand bar I guess) on the beach on the half closest to the surf. When I stood on it I was higher than the sand dunes.
I'm actually interested in seeing just how much a big storm would reshape the beach, but it looked bizarre the way it is now. I found way less stuff than I found on Folly and much more beer bottle caps even though that beach bans all alcohol.
I also found a hole with a rusty bottle cap sitting on top of the sand next to the hole suggesting I was hunting where someone else had just hunted. Unfortunately I didn't find that until close to when I was leaving.
i'm sure it'll fizzle out but the time it gets anywhere close to our area....always seems to work that way
While I was a bit complacent prior to 2004, Hurricane Charley going directly over my head while I watched our county get destroyed opened my eyes a bit. Yes I am waiting for a storm to churn things up, but I'm hesitant on wanting to relive the pure destruction that hurricanes can and do serve. Being without power really sucks after about the 3rd day of 95 degree heat, it really blows after 3 weeks. Been there done that, no fun at all. Our house was built in 2005 and I'd be really apprehensive about riding out a big storm here.