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My thoughts are with all my fellow East Coast Bad Movie buddies. We're supposed to get bypassed on the Georgia 'Coastal Empire'  but things look nasty further north.



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Ouch. This might be painful...

The recent earthquake twixt Mineral & Cuckoo aside, we could really use the rain around here.
My lawn is mostly brown...

We've had plenty of rain 'round here.  I truly believe IRENE is going to bypass us, and all will be well.   :thumbup: :smile:  

I'm in Monmouth County, New Jersey.   

EDIT: After every rain we have had, I think of Texas and wish the rain would go to the farmers...  :bluesad:

We could use a good hurricane right now, but the high pressure dome we are under just won't budge to let one in.  So far only three days in August below 100 degrees.  I haven't mowed since the 4th of July.

Irene is my mother's name so my brother and I keep making jokes about the storm.  I'm not worried about it although I live in RI.  We have coastal storms that have trounced all the past "major hurricane of the century" BS they report.  Hence why I insist on worrying more on the storms they don't report.

My brother-in-law, born & raised in Norfolk, finds the mandatory evacuation of the city laughable.

I live in Philly. Last time I remember being affected by a hurricane was '99, Hurricane Floyd. And not even directly. I'm not overly worried by any means.

I hope everyone on the East Coast stays safe during this.

To all who are / will be affected by Irene, please keep warm and above all, safe.

My thoughts are with you all.

I was in NY on Long Island when Hurricane Gloria hit in the 80's.
My Ma's name is Gloria...so me and my brothers joked about it too.

All joking aside though-be safe,guys!  :thumbup:

We're getting some outer band action this morning, very gusty winds with alternating sunny skies and clouds/rain. We might go out to Tybee this afternoon to watch the huge waves pour in.

Yesterday evening I moved stuff like the outdoor furniture inside.  There are just a few items still to bring in, like some flower pots and wind chimes.  The latter I threatened to leave outside, but Katie doesn't want to hear what they sound like in 90 mph winds.  Otherwise, we always have an emergency kit, so we're as ready as possible.

We also have the benefit of being in Northern DE, so we'll be buffered from the worst of it by New Jersey.  Thanks AHD!

The fire in the Great Dismal Swamp is still going.
The high winds haven't helped.
We could really use that rain.

We have a running joke about what can become a 'missle' during hurricanes. When living in Key Largo and some storm or other was bearing down, the local weatherman (the now famous Bryan Norcross!) was interviewed by a reporter and was repeatedly asked about different objects becoming missles.
"What about a lawn chair?"
"That could become a missle."
"A swingset?"
"A missle."
"A bicycle?"
"Missle."
"Yard gnome? Wheelbarrow? Ladder?"
"Missle. Missle. Missle."

My favorite hurricane tip is to take everything not bolted down and throw it into a swimming pool.
So if you (or your neighbors) happen to have a pool, go for it!

I went through Hurricane Isabel in 2003 in Norfolk, VA. We were without power for 11 days. And of course the hot water was via electric heater. I was one smelly man at the end of 11 days. I managed to get one hot shower during that time by going to a friend's house once his power came up.

My wife is due to go to DC on Sunday, they may reschedule... Stay dry and earthbound guys.
-Ed

:bluesad:

I think I speak for many when I say to those affected: "Please post after the beast has passed and you are Internet-capable again, and let us all know that you're okay."

RVA for Isabel & Gaston.
Isabel hit me hardest, as I'd lost my job several months earlier. I was broke, & that was it. :bluesad:
Gaston really changed the landscape. My house was on good elevation, so I didn't see any change at first. It was when I left to see my doctor(I had pneumonia), that I saw the damage. Almost every road out of Ampt Hill was closed, & when I finally found a way out, I saw mud all over the Chippenham PKWY, low lying bridges were gone. I later learned that people in apartments not a quarter mile from me had drowned.

I don't know how affected I'll be by this. Not as bad as Jersey, cause I'm up in the Philly area. We see some local creeks and rivers overflow a bit.

However, our local SEPTA (provider of buses, trolleys, trains and subways) announced NO public transportation will be provided by them Sunday and possibly Monday. So, my job refuses to close anytime due to weather (we only close three times a year. Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter), so I took off Sunday. I gotta go in Monday. I work tomorrow but should be home before the heavy stuff hits us. I'm done at five, we're supposed to get hit around 8.

My idler pulley broke off last night, & I can't fix it in all this beautiful rain.

Isabel is my mom's name. We've got kind of a weird pattern going on here.

Irene makes me think of another destructive force of nature...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpuW-aREDgA

Haha!
Your crazy.

Be safe,Hallows!
(knowing that maniac he'll stand in the middle of it screamin "PULL THE STRINGS!" while jamming to a Stooges album.)

I now understand why my next door neighbor has so many whirligigs. :smile:
I need to get a few more! :hot:

They're evacuating my neighborhood.  I'm so friggin' PO'd.  We are expecting a massive 55 mph wind and 2 inches of rain.  Friggin' RI, over or under reacting to everything.

The rain is really starting to come down now, and the wind is picking up pretty heavily.  A manager at work wanted to keep us open til 1AM (I'm done at 5), but the owner stepped in and forced him to close the doors no later than 9PM.  As for tomorrow, I had taken off originally, but was informed that we may in fact be closed, and if they open at all it's not til 5, which is when I'm done anyway.

We've been getting a lot of rain for hours now, and the wind has picked up in the last 2 hours.  It's nearly horizontal at times, and we're getting water dripping in around the front windows.  I think it's being pushed up under the siding is the problem.

Found a new use for the plastic bins that we got from IKEA for the kids' LEGOs:  they're all under the windowsills, catching the water.

Tornado warnings. Beautiful.

All my windows are rattling, branches falling and lights flickering.

Not meant in a mean way, rather just how things are.  Hope that you are safe and sound.


We've been through a few now as well.  As I understand it, these happen on the leading edge of the storm, so they should be done around 6-8 am for us.  I think you're a bit farther north, so it will be later for you.  Makes for a long night of keeping an eye on things.

Yes, that's here; after reading Andrew's post, I walked around the house checking the windows... okay for now.   :question:  
I won't be sleeping tonight.  
And miles to go before I sleep.

I do hope you guys won't get much damage and mayhem like I did. Stay safe, and always keep a plan of action ready, you never know what a hurricane can do.

Be safe you guys (and gals)!

A bit windy with rain out here, nothing much else to report.  Few areas lost power but not many

Our power flickered once, but that was it.  Had the water around the windows in the front where the wind was hitting the house horizontal.  I don't think our winds got past 60 to 65 mph gusts, which we get those here sometimes without a hurricane.  The bell was ripped off the play set out back, and all of the sunflowers in the garden are now flat.  No flooding here in our neighborhood that I've seen - in fact the drainage worked exceptionally well considering all the rain.  I do know that they have flooding a short ways north in Newark and New Castle DE.

Probably the biggest deal was the tornado warnings, which came in fast and furious for a while around 9-11 pm last night.  One doppler-identified tornado passed about 3 miles North of the house, but it doesn't appear to have touched down.

Power went out about 12:30am EST; really before the storm hit...  Power just came back on about 20 minutes ago.  Spent a good part of the night bailing water out of the sump pump well... had to break the "automatic" garage door to open it...  :hatred:  I'm glad I had candles, portable generator, flashlights all ready, but still pretty f**kin' dark.   Lots of rain and impressive wind gusts, but really, I've seen worse thunder storms. 

So...Irene came and went without doing anything to me. No flooding, no leaks in my home, no sump pumps.

Apparently Delaware and Jersey got the brunt of the damage.

The edited version:

"Irene came without doing anything to me."  A sad story, indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3mj1E8LSU

I always enjoyed Ry Cooder's version (from his wonderful CHICKEN SKIN MUSIC cd):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMGT8DgM4k

We had a 24 hour blackout, power came back on around noon yesterday.  Just in time for lunch so we had nothing to eat. 

Got my power back today!
Still, we didn't get enough rain...

According to the news coverage, looks like Vemont got hit bad. The damage there reminds me of the type of damage that happened in Newfoundland last year with Igor. Our Canadian Armed Forces did a tremendous job helping with the clean up and repair last year and very much deserves to have their praises song for it.  Irene was a very nasty storm hitting 11 states and doing damage in two Canadian provinces as well...with  I think over 50 deaths between the Carribean, the U.S. and Canada.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lilcerberus/AftermathOfHurricaneIrene?authuser=0&feat=directlink

20 miles (as the crow flies) from landfall of the eye for me...

I moved our boat (that we lived on) upriver and anchored out...and we had a house on shore to stay.  My children never batted an eye...I have video of them playing, laughing and carrying on with the background showing trees doing the 'ts dance'...about 2 hours before the eye made landfall.

We were lucky and fortunate.  Could have been much worse.  At least one coworker of my wife still has no power; we are doing laundry and such for her family.  We had power out for about 40 hours (not bad, considering).

Some description and a few pictures from my area sorta near the eye landfall, though they have a boating slant being made for sailing forums:

http://sailfar.net/forum/index.php/topic,1192.msg37221.html#msg37221
http://sailfar.net/forum/index.php/topic,3403.msg37267.html#msg37267

Glad you're OK, Ulthar: :cheers:

I mentioned on the Lost Friends thread I started for you that you hadn't posted for nearly a month. 

I also feel fortunate; we lost power for 15 hours, and had several tough hours bailing water, but some people here in little NJ still do not have power, and some have homes flooded.  I am very grateful.  Friends used our shower and freezer, but things are getting back to normal in Monmouth County.   :thumbup: :smile:  Hope things stay that way.  We are fortunate.

Still many in RI without power, we're talking over a week come Monday.   Major ball drop by the electric company I think.

I heard from a neighbor, this morning, the folks over on Oriole Ave still don't have power.

I've heard the worst part was the power outages. What bugged me was the flood of Reddit posts about it.

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I live up in MN so I wasn't affected. Or is it effected?

I guess I'm a little late to post, huh?

As I mentioned earlier, we had plenty of wind, but not enough rain.

There've been a lot of complaints about the power company telling people they now have their power back, when they actually don't.