Good luck Long Beach Island..

Latest weather guidance: Landfall of the eye of Sandy will occur about 9pm tonight just north of Atlantic City on my favorite island in the world: Long Beach Island.

The HRRR model has pressure at 938 mb.

WOW.. 938 mb!?

Long Beachless Island: 

Drew Messler of Manasquan tries to avoid the surging water as he goes for a walk on the beach on Fifth Street at high tide as Hurricane Irene moves past Long Beach Island, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in Beach Haven, N.J. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)

For those wondering about Long Beach Island..

I have received no responses from followers there on how things were.. And that troubles me greatly..

Oh boy…

notyouthculture:

This is the aftermath of the last Category 2 hurricane to make landfall in Long Beach Island.

Anyone out there from Long Beach Island?

And if so.. how is everything going in my little favorite vacation spot along the Atlantic? .. I hope all is well.. and I fear it’s not.

And how about my second favorite place? …Asbury Park?

I wish I was there right now.

yoitsjonathan:

Long Beach Island. My paradise.

A cold spring night.

Before I write anything else, it’s worth noting: It feels like mid December .. And it’s spring time. The days are getting longer but not warmer, at least not here in the East, where cold seemingly snuggled into the lands back in January and stuck around ever since. Snowstorm after snowstorm, brief thaws that only turned to ice.. All that behind us, but what’s ahead? Apparently more snow—forecasters are at least speaking of some predictions that snow yet again will strike Coal Speaker home base by the middle to end of the week…

Nonetheless, tonight, as the sun’s final rays faded into black, a cold wind blew as I walked outside. And I couldn’t help but think of Long Beach Island.

I’m a part time vacationer—which means if I actually go on vacation I really don’t enjoy myself.. Something deep down prevents any form of relaxation, I guess. I imagine it will get even tougher with a child in the family—but at least now there is a rewarding reason not to relax.

But as a lover of Long Beach Island, I just can’t stop wondering how the little slice of paradise is tonight? 

The winds are cold there, too, I’d guess. But along with those cold winds come beautiful sites of a bay on one side of the highway and a deep and dark ocean on the other… 

I miss it. I hope to go  back. And I hope my wife and I can introduce a young and inquisitive Ayden to the little island as well.

Maybe he will become a lover, like me, of Chicken or the Egg. Maybe the little AM will enjoy the PM watching over the island from the lighthouse at the top.. And maybe even he, like me, will enjoy the humble rooms of the Buccaneer Motel.

I hope..

It’s been a while since I was there. Maybe this year I can get back there.. 

That is, of course, once these cold and biting winds go away and warmth comes back ..