Tropical Storm Isaias
 

The NH State Police, Marine Patrol Unit wants to remind a New Hampshire shorefront property owner that now is the time to prepare for the possible impacts of Tropical Storm Isaias.

Current forecasts suggest that NH will likely experience impacts from Isaias Tuesday night and Wednesday. Heavy rain and high winds are likely and can pose unexpected consequences.

To insure the safety of you and your property, Marine Patrol urges people to consider the following:

Boats:

Secure your boats to docks and moorings with extra lines and be sure your boat has enough “slack” to ride large waves without jerking or snapping lines.

Automatic bilge pumps are often wired directly to your battery. Heavy rains often drain batteries of their power resulting in boats sinking at the dock. Please cover your boat with a mooring cover if one is available. Check your boat often!

Consider docking your boat with the bow facing the waves. Large waves hitting the stern of a docked boat can quickly fill the boat causing it to sink. Be sure you have adequate water depth beneath your boat during heavy wave conditions.

Mooring chains that have not been checked are often chafed close to the mooring anchor where they experience constant movement. Storms of this significance will easily break worn chains and mooring tackle resulting in boats being thrown against the shoreline.

Secure canoes, kayaks, paddle boards and rowboats. Simply pulling these smaller boats onto the beach is not enough! Remove them from the water and place them away from the beach where they can’t be reached by high tides or lake waves.

Personal Safety and Emergency Response:

Remember, when storms are severe enough on NH’s lakes and seacoast, access to docks and shorefront property can be delayed or in some cases, impossible. If you have a medical history that might require the services of emergency responders, consider a stay on the mainland during the storm.

Be sure to have a supply of medications and provisions in the event of a power outage or access to the mainland is cut-off for the duration of the storm.

Please know that the priority for Marine Patrol and other Emergency Services during these types of weather events is life-safety. We will not be able to assist with drifting boats, boats on the rocks, or non-emergency transportation of persons to/from islands when conditions jeopardize the safety of our personnel or equipment.

In the event of an emergency, Marine Patrol can be reached by calling 9-1-1.

Isaias winds
 

The long range forecast I have seen that winds will be SW 233 degrees with gusts at 40MPH. Most people have their docks and moorings set for winds coming out of the N/NW. Winds coming out of the SSW could expose those that have open water from the S/SW. Rain amounts are being reported 3-4". This seems to happen at Tuesday night which makes it more difficult to be able to see and tell what is happening on the waterfront.

Take precautions as the MP suggest.

Be safe.....

No Trailer?
 

Canoes, kayaks and rowboats which have no trailers can benefit from a Florida hurricane trick—which is to partially fill the boat with water. This weighs the boat against blowing away. Even trailered boats can benefit, should local winds be stronger than predicted.

Heavy rains could add too much water, so positioning the boat (or transom drain) to allow overflowing will prevent possible structural damage.

We headed up to the island tonight to turn our boats bow out and add more lines. If it does come out of the east or north east we could get clobbered, so we weren’t taking chances.

Oops
 

Hate it when the picture looks great except when it gets posted here. Happens more times than I care to remember and admit.

On a positive note, looks like no matter how much rain we get, it will run right out of your boat. (Nice boat, btw.)

Dave

Wait, did the storm already go by?

It looks like it flipped those boats! :)

If these boats were docked at a South Pole lakehouse, I could understand this perspective .

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It’s an iPhone thing.... couldn’t fix it on a mobile device.
I was fully expecting the commentary though!

Keys to Flip Over...
 

My laptop will flip the image [upright] using three keys at the same time:
H, Shift, and Ctrl.

Supposed to be bow towards the waves not keel towards the sky :D

It's not just this site:

https://www.howtogeek.com/254830/why...ectly-rotated/

(I rotated Codeman's picture)

Bad choice of words
 

Webmaster, bad choice of words on my part. This is the only forum I post on, and when posting from a mobile device, sometimes the pictures stand on its side or on its head, but not all the time. Didn't mean to imply it was this site's problem. Sorry.

Interesting link, even if it is over my head. :confused: :D

Dave

It's what we do....[emoji6]

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Looking at my radar app, it appears the majority of the storm is heading west of of us. Looks like we will barely get hit...

Dan

I've been watching the radar all day and there's been barely a blip at Arcadia. In fact, the first rain just started a few minutes ago.

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Same here on Welch. Wind out of the southeast, I’m on leeward side so all calm here. Just started to rain...

Dan

When I saw that this morning I thought "Don will fix that picture" but I didn't want to assume anything. What a great Webmaster!!

Getting hit pretty hard now. I just came back from dinner at the Bob House, where the lights were flickering the whole time I enjoyed my BBQ flatbread and sweet Thai chili wings!

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Same here
 

Branches coming down, lots of white water but we still have power here on Spindle Point. Beautiful view looking south right now. White and gray clouds and large blue sky openings with sun. Very unusual.

Power on Long Island but Spectrum cable went down....but heck that happens even without a Tropical Storm!


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Strong SE Winds in Wolfeboro...
 

If anyone is missing any "water toys", they'll be found on Moultonborough shorelines! :eek2:

We just had a 45 mph wind gust here on Welch. Not much rain at all just wind...

Power just went out on Welch....

Dan

Storm and Power Outage
 

Anybody else lose power on Bear just now?

I never made it up this past weekend and when I left Meredith a week ago I left all the water toys, not in the water but out at the shore, Kayaks, paddle board, all the paddles, and water floats.
I would expect the water floats to be long gone. :(

Nhec
 

At 815pm,NHEC is experiencing over 29,000 outages or just over 1/3 of their coverage.
Lakes Region mutual Fire has 60 open calls right now, mainly trees and or wires down.

Dave

On/Off power outage here. Multiple times.

Got my computer backup battery/surge protector.

LINK

We still have power but spent quite a while today turning boats bow out and securing with extra lines but we're getting smashed hard here in Moultonborough facing south. I did everything I could but have finally given up and decided I may have to give Flo a call tomorrow.

Power is out on the NE side of the island. Have heard a lot of trees coming down in the woods out back. Been a bit of a wild afternoon.

And Eversource has 80,000 out in NH

Very rough
 

Lake was as rough as I have ever seen it. Wave after wave coming over the top of the dock. Spent a couple of hours on the dock securing ropes on boats and replacing broken ones.. It would calm down for a few minutes and then the wind would kick back up and start the whole thing again

Same here on the north end of Winnisquam. Two lines per plus whips. Boat is rocking and pushing forward. Hopefully everything holds till morning


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We got crushed on East Bear. The dock pic from yesterday looks a lot different now. I checked my cameras at 5:30pm and saw it crumbling with our boats on it. Mad rush up to Gilford and a nasty ride out to Bear. I was expecting both boats to be a total loss by the time we got there.
The Yamaha seemed to be fine and the dock crumbled right behind me as I pulled out. Went back for the Eastern and barely got that off. Some gel oat damage but it could have been worse.
Dock is a total loss.

Here are some probably upside down pics:

Sorry to hear that Codeman....hopefully your boat damage is minimal.

My Eastern got swamped at my dock also at around 11:00 PM. The storm was well Northwest of us by that time but the wind picked up and we ended up with some massive waves. Took one over the stern and she got swamped. Luckily I was there and with the help of some wonderful island neighbors we saved the main brand new motor from going under...the 9.9 kicker wasn’t so lucky! Just finished pumping her out. Will pull her out in a few hours to inspect hull for damage...

Dan

Storm and Power
 

Anybody on West Bear have power?

Wow! Sorry to hear Dan! From a “seemingly” uneventful storm there sure is a lot of damage and outages out there! Glad you saved the new motor! Good luck the rest of the way!

Man oh man...glad you were able to save the boats! Best of luck with the dock...that was brutal, no doubt!

Those are crazy pictures...amazing that the boats survived!

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It was nuts. It was all Kathy, Sherry and I could do to even secure the Yamaha to the mail dock. Mike was circling in his boat. Lake Life is going to look at the dock today to see what is left and will try to rebuild it.

Good luck with the damage Codeman and iShoot—I hope they turn out to be quick and easy. Like my dad used to say, though: "you can fix metal, but you can't fix flesh." Glad you're all safe.

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I'm sorry to see such boat and dock carnage.

The insurance should help but the downtime and aggravation makes it worse.

The already busy dock and fiberglass repair folks will be slammed from this event.

But as others have said, nobody got hurt.

There were boats and docks before and there will be boats and docks again.