Well, here comes round 3. Winds forecasting gusts up to 70mph during Friday night into Saturday morning. I just looked at the NWS 5 miles from shore forecast for Lake Erie. "Expect waves to 24 feet.....Freezing spray.' A lot of that water is going to make its way up the Buffalo River and likely flood inland areas. Even areas way down the Niagara River are forecasting flooding before even reaching the scenic Falls. There's gonna be a lot of water going over the brink!
I'm about as ready as I can be. The generator had its test run a month ago or so. It worked fine so its ready for an outage. I have 25 gallons of gas ready to pour and can syphon another 40 from my vehicles if it gets really bad. The boat is in storage in a pretty strong building...a fortress just about. Catch you on the other side.
I was just thinking, the New York Power Authority just put in the ice boom to protect the water intakes during the winter from moving ice. With these kinda winds coming, I'm wondering if they'll make a mad dash to pull them out so the huge waves don't knock them loose and they go down the river. Watch this website cam over the next several days and watch what happens. This is the northern entrance into the Buffalo Harbor
https://iceboom.nypa.gov/
They may want to retrieve them before the storm so they don't have to deal with this sort of thing again:
A C-47 Chinook helicopter from the Army National Guard in Rochester was used to a take the 30-foot-long, 4,000-pound pontoon out of the water.
www.wgrz.com
I have to laugh because it just dawned on me that the area they store the boom will likely be underwater anyways. Maybe easier just to leave them out in the Lake and hope.