The right spot to miss the storms

This morning Roanoke seemed to be a pretty good spot to miss all the bad weather.  There were watches and warning all around, but aside from some rain and wind,  things seem pretty peaceful on the mountain.

The storm that swept through is an impressive beast.  You can click this link for a current NOAA image.  If you are a little late catching this post, I did a screen capture of the NOAA image which I hope they won't mind me posting for posterity.

North Carolina had been suffering some wind driven wild fires and was probably glad to get the rain.  There were some power outages in the Goldsboro area.  However, that was little to complain about compared to the twenty deaths being blamed on this storm.  There was a tornado watch this morning along areas of the North Carolina coast and plenty of wind gusts in the 50 to 60 mph range with some high seas also building as the storm move off the Carolina coast.

Still the storm isn't done.  This was reported a few minutes ago in the Toronto Star.

Pummelled by snow, high winds, ice pellets and rain, the GTA faces a wet and wild cleanup after a storm that killed at least two people in Ontario.

Power outages, especially in heavily treed areas of the city, have Toronto Hydro crews scrambling this morning in the aftermath of the biggest storm of the winter.

At 9 a.m., there were 225 downed wires across the city, and up to 80,000 people were without power across Ontario.

At the same time the big storm is expected to dump snow in the Canadian Maritimes with Accuweather predicting up to a foot of snow in the northeast.  The snow is supposed spread as far east as Halifax, Nova Scotia by this evening with a forecast total of about six inches.

That is a pretty impressive storm from north to south.  I'm glad to have missed the worst of it here in the middle.  We weren't that far away from some fairly serious rains.