Hanna potenitally paying a visit to the Deep Creek area next weekend ..

Hurricanes and tropical storms aren't the first weather-related events that come to mind when you think of Deep Creek Lake and Garrett County, MD but the current projected track of Hanna bears watching if you have outdoor plans for the weekend. Old-timers in the area still talk about the heavy rain Hazel brought to western Maryland in October 1954. More recently, people probably remember the 2004 hurricane season which saw several former hurricanes track northward also bringing heavy rains to western Maryland.

It's obviously very early in the process at this stage of the game and the storm could still take a number of different paths, but as I said this one bears watching if you have outdoor plans for the upcoming weekend.

Updated 9/3/2008: It now looks like the storm track is zeroing in on eastern Maryland not western Maryland, so the Deep Creek area may yet dodge the bullet on this one.

Don't forget to check back to Dan's Deep Creek Blog for future updates.