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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2011, 09:17:21 PM »
Just saw an ad for hurricane Irene relief.

Are we that short on drama?
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2011, 09:39:53 PM »
Quote from: WolFish on August 26, 2011, 09:12:40 PM
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2011, 09:50:15 PM »
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2011, 10:20:10 PM »
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2011, 12:22:32 AM »
I will be spending Saturday battening down the hatches. Eye is supposed to go over or just past east of my work so just 35 miles from my house. Supposed to be weak category 2 or strong Category 1 as she goes through us. In-laws are in Virginia Beach and won't come here. Their house is on the Elizabeth River. The Navy pulled all their ships out. My base is on Level 1 Tropical Cyclone Alert. We spent today unplugging and covering everything up. Record rainfalls this month will lead to a lot downed trees. Hell, yesterday we had a massive storm unrelated to Irene bring 6" and 55 mph winds. Power was out all over. We happened to be on the right side of the grid outage. Moving westward will weaken her for NJ, NY, and all my online friends in CT, RI, and MA. Only expected to be Tropical Storm in the Northeast. Bunch of pussies! After surviving Andrew, I ain't worried. With Irene and the 5 eartquakes so far centered 23 miles from my house, plus last night's storm, people here all end of the world crazy.
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2011, 01:12:53 AM »
I don't know. People have the right to be afraid of this one since already everything is so wet.  Some are saying the NYC mayor is trying to make up for being caught with his pants down for the blizzard. Though you can't pick and choose with the subways - I would close the ones that run outside just to keep the idiots away.
They are closing the Bronx River Parkway at 6pm tomorrow with good justification. There is an underpass there that gets deep enough to drown someone and it floods that way with only heavy rain.
People went nuts here buying bottled water. I couldn't tell whether we have pumps or gravity so we filled a couple gallons. tomorrow if it looks bad we really will fill the bathtub, because flushing is important to me.
This would be my third hurricane in this area, so if it stays a hurricane I'd say at least a little worry is justified.
I just got a new camera so I may go out and try for some cloud pics.
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2011, 01:23:25 AM »
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One of the projections I saw today had the eye passing over Central Long Island then over Ct between New Haven and Bridgeport  that is just where I am :o  I am less than a mile from the water too.  The only thing I worry about is my tent garage ripping though.  Other than that I make it a point to be ready for most things all the time and my work in construction is a big help.  I already have generators , a chain saw, tarps and all the other emergency stuff all the time. As for water the entire area here was designed to be gravity feed from reservoirs I do have some but I have never seen the supply disrupted.  For power like I said I have two generators I use for work and I am on the same grid as the local hospital.  Our mayor has urged people in the flood prone  areas right on the beach to evacuate and put numbers on the wind gust reach 55mph nobody will come out :zombiefuck:  Where they come up with these numbers I have no idea but 55mph gusts is nothing.

Unless you're trying to fight a fire with the possibility of live wires coming down around you and storm debris being blown about.  Ditto for EMT and police.  Most of the time they send the fire trucks out of harm's way ahead of time.  Losing one to flood or storm damage is way expensive and inconvenient.

They are out in worse a lot the only difference is this is a named storm.  He mentioned 55 mph gusts not sustained wind also we had 60+ mph gust last week and actually get them fairly regularly by the beach. 
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2011, 01:54:32 AM »
Actually they are saying the winds will be sustained.
Irene was just downgraded to a category 1. If it makes landfall in NC they are saying that will weaken it.
And they are saying the real problem is what I have been saying - stupid people doing stupid things and clearing out the gene pool.
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2011, 02:01:23 AM »
Thinking of you guys in the next few days and wishing you and your families safe and hoping your lives are as least affected by its passing as can be hoped.
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #24 on: August 27, 2011, 02:04:27 AM »
Our mayor said if the gusts are over 55 they will not go out, I would understand sustained winds but even so it was close to that during one of the blizzards and they were all over the place.  I think we will get the usual,  some flooding and trees down with some beach erosion thrown in for good measure. 

My town is one of the places local news crews set up for these things :2thumbsup:
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #25 on: August 27, 2011, 02:06:01 AM »
Quote from: Al Swearengen on August 27, 2011, 02:01:23 AM
Thinking of you guys in the next few days and wishing you and your families safe and hoping your lives are as least affected by its passing as can be hoped.

 Thank you, little Aussie mate, you take care too.  :hug:
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2011, 04:23:14 AM »
Watched some stuff on the news about this and thought of people that are on here. Hope you get through it safe and sound.
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2011, 05:41:51 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on August 27, 2011, 04:23:14 AM
Watched some stuff on the news about this and thought of people that are on here. Hope you get through it safe and sound.

 Thank you, I hope we all do too.  :)
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Re: In the Path of Hurricane Irene
« Reply #28 on: August 27, 2011, 06:11:58 AM »
Hope all you guys stay safe.
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