Originally Posted by
berner
I lived in Biloxi, Mississippi during a category 2-3 hurricane about 15 years ago. I watched the storm surge raise the water level in the back bay 20 feet at the apartment complex I lived in at the time. Narragansett Bay, where I live in now, is funnel shaped which means that a storm surge magnifies the flood level well more than might be expected.
The tupperware ice trick is a good one Miss Kenton. I'm freezing some water right now and will lay in some extra food today. I have two kerosene lamps in the event power is lost for several days and a portable radio.
In the 1938 hurricane my parents and grandparents took lots of photos. My grandfather took photos out of the second story of his office in Providence showing the water around five feet deep. My father grew up in Bristol highlands, my mother on the water in Barrington but fairly high on the Rumstick penninsula. My mother her brother and sister were standing at the top of the hill that goes down to Barrington beach. They watched the storm surge water come half way up the hill (Bay Rd.) filled with parts of houses and bodies, from the low land across from Nayatt point. I have lots of photos of Barrington with big boats in roads and yards. Like boats up on top of the Barrington river bridge. And under the bridge was packed with big boats too.
Be careful. I hope you are away from the water and high up.