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Really don't think it will be all that bad. If Maine is used to preparing for cold winters, Maine should be fine dealing with a Cat 1 or a tropical storm.
(Interlude: I'm sorry, I just moved from Miami. I cannot believe I'm having this conversation in Maine. I don't think, "hurricanes" when I think of Maine.)
The good news is, it's not as boiling, horridly hot here as it is down there so if the power does go out, you don't roast like a turkey on Thanksgiving. Shouldn't see a whole lot of destruction, and it will lose strength more and more as it goes through cold waters. Hurricanes need warm water to gain and retain their strength.
The rain is manageable, the wind...depends on how well Maine is prepared for harsh weather.
If I were to give advice: Prepare like you're preparing for winter. (With exception of snow tires and the like.) You'll be fine, we'll all be fine.
And the size of the storm means that it covers quite a huge area. You just don't want to be on the back side of that storm...THAT is when things get wicked.
I agree with 3wolves. I lived in Fl. for many years. Been there, done that. News just showed it being tropical storm conditions when and if it comes thru Maine and path was showing straight thru Portland. Of course you never know. They can always change.
I'm with Three Wolves... not terribly concerned. We will go pick up the loose "stuff" in the yard and make sure there are tie-downs on the chicken tractors (don't need a repeat of the July 4 fiasco, when the brisk winds flew the coop over the fence into the neighbor's horse corral!) but then we do that fairly often, when we know wind more than our usual constant airflow here is expected.
I also picked up flashlight batteries today, but they had been put on my "get on payday" list a week ago and today was payday...
And I am digging out my hurricane Ophelia t-shirt to wear this weekend to Farmers Market. She was my first decent hurricane, when I was living in Beaufort, NC. Shirt was silk screened for the museum, also on the coast, where I volunteered.
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