Wow, we got nothing but some rain and light wind overnight and this morning and I’m 10 minutes from where the eye hit land.
Windy as hell right now though.
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.[/quote]
X2
heard that some rivers won’t crest for a few more days.
we’re already watching some t-storms that just moved off the west coast of Africa. already has circulation. starting out just like Irene.
I know that most of you could care less but the people of the southeast and gulf states watch all this carefully. shouldn’t be an issue for at least 1-1/2 weeks. getting into prime hurricane season.
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.[/quote]
X2
heard that some rivers won’t crest for a few more days.
we’re already watching some t-storms that just moved off the west coast of Africa. already has circulation. starting out just like Irene.
I know that most of you could care less but the people of the southeast and gulf states watch all this carefully. shouldn’t be an issue for at least 1-1/2 weeks. getting into prime hurricane season.[/quote]
It is prime time indeed. So many of these storms fizzle out though so its hard to get concerned yet. Hopefully the gulf coast escapes without a scratch this year. For the charity minded, imagine a storm like this hitting a third world country in the carribean, where many buildings are made from mud brick and straw. Hurricane relief efforts are legit.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Irene was a paper tiger…no flood, no power loss no nothing…at least for me.[/quote]
She was no paper tiger. In New Jersey at least, she’s had every bit of her teeth. Flooding here is reaching unprecedented levels, power was off for about 15 hours, trees falling, downed powerlines… it has brought nothing but misery.[/quote]
Shit Im in Staten Island, about 5 miles from Perth Amboy (I live near the outerbridge crossing) and it was really nothing more than a bad storm…the worst wind has been as I type this, ironically enough about 2 weeks ago I had a flood in my basement due to a rainstorm yet nothing during Irene.
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.[/quote]
X2
heard that some rivers won’t crest for a few more days.
we’re already watching some t-storms that just moved off the west coast of Africa. already has circulation. starting out just like Irene.
I know that most of you could care less but the people of the southeast and gulf states watch all this carefully. shouldn’t be an issue for at least 1-1/2 weeks. getting into prime hurricane season.[/quote]
It is prime time indeed. So many of these storms fizzle out though so its hard to get concerned yet. Hopefully the gulf coast escapes without a scratch this year. For the charity minded, imagine a storm like this hitting a third world country in the carribean, where many buildings are made from mud brick and straw. Hurricane relief efforts are legit.[/quote]
heard the gulf water temps were up this year like the caribbean. hopefully the steering currents keep them away. know you don’t need a hurricane but a good size tropical depression could help the drought.
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.[/quote]
X2
heard that some rivers won’t crest for a few more days.
we’re already watching some t-storms that just moved off the west coast of Africa. already has circulation. starting out just like Irene.
I know that most of you could care less but the people of the southeast and gulf states watch all this carefully. shouldn’t be an issue for at least 1-1/2 weeks. getting into prime hurricane season.[/quote]
know you don’t need a hurricane but a good size tropical depression could help the drought.[/quote]
x2. Its amazing that some parts of the country would love for the weather to calm down and rain to stop while places like where I live are going through the worst drought in written history for our region. Its getting really bad here. Agricultural is rapidly dying and some small towns are in dire situations.
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.[/quote]
X2
heard that some rivers won’t crest for a few more days.
we’re already watching some t-storms that just moved off the west coast of Africa. already has circulation. starting out just like Irene.
I know that most of you could care less but the people of the southeast and gulf states watch all this carefully. shouldn’t be an issue for at least 1-1/2 weeks. getting into prime hurricane season.[/quote]
It is prime time indeed. So many of these storms fizzle out though so its hard to get concerned yet. Hopefully the gulf coast escapes without a scratch this year. For the charity minded, imagine a storm like this hitting a third world country in the carribean, where many buildings are made from mud brick and straw. Hurricane relief efforts are legit.[/quote]
heard the gulf water temps were up this year like the caribbean. hopefully the steering currents keep them away. know you don’t need a hurricane but a good size tropical depression could help the drought.[/quote] we’ve had our fingers crossed! How is everything in sc btw?
[quote]DougTalmage wrote:
Wow, we got nothing but some rain and light wind overnight and this morning and I’m 10 minutes from where the eye hit land.
Windy as hell right now though.[/quote]
Were you near Duck or Nags Head?
[quote]DougTalmage wrote:
Wow, we got nothing but some rain and light wind overnight and this morning and I’m 10 minutes from where the eye hit land.
Windy as hell right now though.[/quote]
I went out around 6 PM to check the pool skimmer, very windy! We had some wicked wind and heavy rain in the wee hours of the morning. Rained more around 4 PM, I’d guess it at 3" maybe total.
We got hit pretty bad down here in Southern Maryland. It’s over now and we got by with only moderate water damage.
I realize this hurricane was hyped up, but I’m thankful it wasn’t as strong as they were predicting.
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.[/quote]
X2
heard that some rivers won’t crest for a few more days.
we’re already watching some t-storms that just moved off the west coast of Africa. already has circulation. starting out just like Irene.
I know that most of you could care less but the people of the southeast and gulf states watch all this carefully. shouldn’t be an issue for at least 1-1/2 weeks. getting into prime hurricane season.[/quote]
It is prime time indeed. So many of these storms fizzle out though so its hard to get concerned yet. Hopefully the gulf coast escapes without a scratch this year. For the charity minded, imagine a storm like this hitting a third world country in the carribean, where many buildings are made from mud brick and straw. Hurricane relief efforts are legit.[/quote]
heard the gulf water temps were up this year like the caribbean. hopefully the steering currents keep them away. know you don’t need a hurricane but a good size tropical depression could help the drought.[/quote] we’ve had our fingers crossed! How is everything in sc btw?
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just a few trees and limbs down, we just caught the western bands. not sure about further up the coast.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]DougTalmage wrote:
Wow, we got nothing but some rain and light wind overnight and this morning and I’m 10 minutes from where the eye hit land.
Windy as hell right now though.[/quote]
Were you near Duck or Nags Head?[/quote]
Actually in Brooklyn
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]silverblood wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If you are near rivers keep your cars up high and continue conserving water just in case. All the rain up north now may pay you a second visit in the form of a river leaving It’s banks. These storms aren’t always over when they are over. The next few days are the critical time period as power remains off, resources and medication start to run dry and the body counts can be conducted. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. If you are an animal lover, leave some extra pet food out for lost and scared pets with no familiar scents or landmarks to follow.[/quote]
X2
heard that some rivers won’t crest for a few more days.
we’re already watching some t-storms that just moved off the west coast of Africa. already has circulation. starting out just like Irene.
I know that most of you could care less but the people of the southeast and gulf states watch all this carefully. shouldn’t be an issue for at least 1-1/2 weeks. getting into prime hurricane season.[/quote]
It is prime time indeed. So many of these storms fizzle out though so its hard to get concerned yet. Hopefully the gulf coast escapes without a scratch this year. For the charity minded, imagine a storm like this hitting a third world country in the carribean, where many buildings are made from mud brick and straw. Hurricane relief efforts are legit.[/quote]
heard the gulf water temps were up this year like the caribbean. hopefully the steering currents keep them away. know you don’t need a hurricane but a good size tropical depression could help the drought.[/quote] we’ve had our fingers crossed! How is everything in sc btw?
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just a few trees and limbs down, we just caught the western bands. not sure about further up the coast.[/quote]Good deal. Hopefully those limbs needed to be trimmed anyways.
My area did not lose power and not too much damage for me, but at work hooboy we’ve sold over 40 car chargers at the store today because the a lot of the people lost power. I’m so happy I didn’t lose power the last time I did my house burned down when the power came back up.
just got power back after 40 hrs, awesome
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
We got hit pretty bad down here in Southern Maryland. It’s over now and we got by with only moderate water damage.
I realize this hurricane was hyped up, but I’m thankful it wasn’t as strong as they were predicting.[/quote]
what county? i grew up in calvert. family there said a tornado touched down in their neighborhood and took down trees on top some homes
some of these look fake, but still… http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/frightening-hurricane-irene-destruction-photos
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
We got hit pretty bad down here in Southern Maryland. It’s over now and we got by with only moderate water damage.
I realize this hurricane was hyped up, but I’m thankful it wasn’t as strong as they were predicting.[/quote]
Glad to hear you and the family made it thru alright. We got hit about the same on this side of MD. Stay Strong,