We didn’t want to freak anybody out, but when that happened, it was like, ‘oh boy, this is the real thing.’ That’s when I actually started to feel afraid.” “We talked on the air about people being without power and the property damage. Meteorologists Kate Bilo and Kathy Orr snack before going on air And part of Ocean City was breached, but there were still two more high tides. “I became very worried Monday when the first high tide breached LBI at Beach Haven. The landmarks, the beaches, the memories, that was my real concern,” Orr recalls.
“The people I’ve reported on down at the shore. She says her real worry was for the people being bombarded along the SJ coastline. But half of our town was without power for about a week.” We only lost power intermittently during the storm, but we were okay afterward. “We were prepared to be without power for at least a week. A veteran of many storm broadcasts, Orr says she didn’t worry much about her family riding out the storm. Orr and the rest of the news crew clocked 80 hours of storm coverage almost 20 on the day after the storm. “I brought everything with me – my suitcase – to stay the night if I had to,” Orr says. But she says it soon became clear that Sandy would happen and become a full-blown storm. “We don’t do that for every storm,” Orr explains, because the computer models are not always reliable. It was all hands on deck to get extra crews in to work the storm coverage the weekend before it hit.
Orr says she, her producers and fellow meteorologists – including Carol Erickson, Justin Drabick, Kate Bilo and Katie Fehlinger – would send updates to producers and management about the storm’s progress. The broadcast team at CBS3 had a week to prepare for the on-air marathon of storm coverage. The Jet Stream was very active and captured that storm. “It was unprecedented because it was a Category 1 hurricane late in the season. “There has never before been a hurricane that made a direct landfall” perpendicular to the SJ shoreline.
This will be the storm that every other storm will be compared to,” Orr says. “This was the Jersey Shore’s worst case scenario…taking a direct hit, and at high tide. Kathy Orr tweeted this photo of flooding along the north end of Ocean City
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