We have established a system of long range alerts and advisories from various governmental and private weather sources (National Hurricane Center, NOAA, National Weather Service, StormPulse, Wunderground, Accuweather, etc.) which provides us with long range storm forecasting from a variety of computer forecast models.
When curent available data indicate a weather threat to our area is possible a system is in place to issue automatic routed advisories and follow up alerts if necessary to all our neighbors via postings on this site, twitter, face book and emails providing everyone with clear visuals and an analysis of the risk.
When curent available data indicate a weather threat to our area is possible a system is in place to issue automatic routed advisories and follow up alerts if necessary to all our neighbors via postings on this site, twitter, face book and emails providing everyone with clear visuals and an analysis of the risk.
Rather than "over hyping" a particular weather event, it is our intent to provide a proactive and timely informational response to these type weather conditions.
Our system was in place when Hurricane Sandy struck our town back on October 29, 2012, and, as it turned out, it worked better than expected..
Early on the morning of October 22nd, 2012, eight days prior to Sandy hitting our area, a tropical depression formed in the Caribbean. Because of the peculiar "tracks" only a few of the computer models were generating (indicating that this system would soon evolve into a tropical storm that would track up the coast and then turn towards the mainland at the time of high tide) we posted alerts at noon that same day under the heading Tropical Depression 18 (Soon to be Tropical Storm Sandy)...this storm bears watching.... and then continually monitored the storm issuing updates with visuals and pertinent data right up until the storm surge and subsequent loss of power and all communications.
It was not until two days later, on October 24th, that the local news media outlets started to earnestly cover the possibility of this system hitting us.
It wasn't that they did not have access to the same information and data we were looking at, it was simply a case of the main stream news outlets not wanting to "over hype" the pending storm and then look foolish if it happened to change course and head out to see.
As stated above, our intent is to simply provide a proactive and timely local community informational response to these type weather threats. In doing so, if we post information that ultimately changes or proves incorrect, we will immediately amend and/or correct same.
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