Hurricane Season and Other Weather Events
Do you have your emergency communication kit for home ready? Out here along the Eastern coastline, we got to deal with hurricane season. Despite what you may think from watching CNN or the Weather Channel, once a hurricane passes Boston, it’s heading right at me, being based in Nova Scotia, 8-12 hours later. Depending on how the Altantic ocean waters are temperature wise; most of the time it veers into the open waters. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t get the tail end or tropical storms. Getting winds above 80 kms/h is not uncommon. Like Hurricane Juan, Noel.
The hurricane damage scale is usually good for our area, except that due to our low top soil depth, the tree damage tends to be +1 from conditions. That means power outages are fairly regular when we get these storms with high winds.