Irene blows.. Speaking of which, got any Hurricaine-related ideas?
I can think of basement flooding alarms possibly.. and of course there's wind speed, pressure and temp. If the track is correct as they are posting it at the moment, Crossroads and I are pretty much dead on for the eye of the storm as it hits Massachusetts; the center is supposed to track almost directly overhead.
I'm planning ahead for the possibility of actually being interior to the eyewall if I can, I've got a case of CoolPhotoItis for the potential of getting some HDR high-res shots of the moon and stars up through the eywall. It's going to be very tricky and timing is going to be important.. I was hoping for a pass roughly at sunset on Sunday and doubtless I'll have some stunning sunset shots of the approach.. but I'm not going down to the seashore that close to nightfall with a Category 2-3 Hurricaine coming in blind. Even where we are (about 30 miles inland) we are expecting sustained winds of 75-80mph with gusts as high as 100mph in the eyewall itself. I'm expecting to lose trees and some shingles, figuring the power and such may be impacted for a few days. New York City is at least getting hit in daylight- but I must admit that I'm little concerned about a few folks I know in the Long Island Sound area. Might get ugly in the Big Apple on Sunday.
That all being said, we've got about two days until all hell is coming out of the heavens around these parts.. what particular blinky light will be best to offset nature's fury?
BG Micro has cheap geophones again. It would be interesting to see whether the wind transfers energy to ground vibration in a detectable way. Might be a lot more interesting for tornadoes: could an array of inexpensive geophones on, say, a 2- or 5-mile grid pinpoint a tornado the way expensive seismographs can locate earthquakes thousands of miles away?
If it worked, it seems like it would be a lot cheaper than deploying tens of thousands of radar stations.
