For all you folks in 'er path...
Here is a site worth bookmarking ... NDBC not just for Ophial but other nice days (afterwards) as well....
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44017
This is for a floater off the south shore ....
but also go to
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Northeast.shtml for the bigger picture....
If it is floating - put on the hard other wise it may end up on the bottom .... for anyone from the south shore of LI to Maine...
- Bill C