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| 27 AUG 2011 at 5:59pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Camaroboy1968 (27 AUG 2011 5:31pm)
Tomorrow I will be spending the day with Irene
Lucky me. [img]http://www.justadventure.com/yabb//Smilies/umbrella_grin.gif[/img]
OMG... Please let us know as soon as you can if you're ok, once it's over, CB! [smiley=shocked.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 27 AUG 2011 at 5:59pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | She'll be spending the night at our house here in NJ first. We've boarded up our windows, secured everything that could blow around, and have lanterns and supplies in case (or should I say when) the power goes out. Right now we're getting rain from the outer edges and a bit of wind.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 27 AUG 2011 at 6:32pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | I have friends in Moorestown N.J and they thought the rain would be more of a problem than the wind. I find it extremely scary and worry about them.
They also have a summer house on Long Beach Island (I think it's called) right next to the beach. Hopefully they still have it in one piece after Irene has passed.
[smiley=scared.gif]
Temporary guest in your life.
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| 27 AUG 2011 at 6:53pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | It appears Irene will be paying a weekend visit here (southeastern PA) as well. Not nearly as dangerous as what you folks on the coast are facing, of course. Y'all batten down and stay safe, you hear?
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| 27 AUG 2011 at 7:39pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6693
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
To CB, Lady K, Andromus, and any of our other members who may encounter this monster named Irene:
[size=24]Stay safe and please keep in touch if you can.
Cheers, Terry
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| 27 AUG 2011 at 8:13pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Jelena! How nice to see you around again! I've often wondered how things are going with you these days. The last time you posted on here, you had just started with your new job as law secretary at the court.
Well, I do hope all our members and friends and family of our members will be staying safe with Irene doing a tour.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 27 AUG 2011 at 8:31pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | My parents were supposed to fly to New York this morning on holiday, but their flight was cancelled.
4 days in New York, 3 in Miami and a weeks cruise in the Caribbean.
Thye did manage to get the flight and hotels etc changed at short notice so now they are flying straight to Miami tomorrow for a week there and the weeks cruise.
Damn shame as they were looking forward to New York.
Stupid Irene. >
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 12:19am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Jelena,
They evacuated all the barrier islands starting yesterday. This is the kind of storm where the bay and the ocean meet, and the land inbetween suffers. Years ago I lived in Manahawkin, which is inland a few miles from Long Beach Island, so I spent a lot of time there. I now live about 20 miles northwest as the crow flies.
Lucien,
All public transportation in NYC is shut down. They don't want the power to go out while people are riding the subway, and general flooding is going to be a big problem. It has been raining here in NJ since noon (8 hrs.) and the wind is just starting to pick up. We won't feel the full brunt of this until the wee hours of the morning. I think it's going to be a long night.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 12:43am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Looks like we wont even get any of the heavy rain alot of hurricanes usually send our way...last I heard anyway.
I hope you all stay safe and dont suffer to much damage. I also worry about our favorite family vacation spot, the outer banks.
Please post as soon as you all can.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 1:16am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | What Terry said. Good Luck chaps and don't forget your brolly. :-* :-*
[IMG]http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7236/floodeditorialsidebarae.jpg[/IMG]
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 2:38am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Whats a brolly? :-?
Maybe umbrella? :-?
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 7:16am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | You got it in one Helen. I'll educate you lot eventually.... :-*
Just been watching the streakers - now that's how to celebrate a hurricane!
And you have stupid people there same as us: they head to the beach and then wonder why they get swept away. [smiley=shaking_head.gif]
But.... a storm 800kilometres long. That's the distance from Adelaide to Melbourne. That's a whole day's drive. That's HUGE.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 12:02pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (27 AUG 2011 8:13pm)
Jelena! How nice to see you around again! I've often wondered how things are going with you these days. The last time you posted on here, you had just started with your new job as law secretary at the court.
I'm doing just fine, loving my new job.
Well, I do hope all our members and friends and family of our members will be staying safe with Irene doing a tour.
So do I.
Temporary guest in your life.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 2:19pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Well, the worst is past us. We had tornados touch down about 10 miles southwest of us around 10:30 PM, but the severe thunderstorms preceding Irene passed us by. The hurricane itself was most severe around 4:00 AM here, but we still have power. Our oak trees lost a lot of leaves and branches, but fortunately none of the debris was large enough to do any damage. Two larger branches shook the house when they landed on the roof but it seems that the shingles are still intact.
Irene is now officially a tropical storm, which will still pound New England's coastline with rain and high surf, but we're out of danger here to the south.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 2:37pm |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | So glad to hear it wasnt as bad as we thought LadyK. Now I keep my fingers crossed for the rest of the coast.
Caroline, I can never figure that out either, you know a BIG storm is comming but people still do stupid stuff and head to the beach, guess they want to see how big the waves are. [smiley=shrug.gif]
I havent seen any streakers though.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 3:27pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | The bulk of the rain seems to be gone here also, though there's still a lot of wind. My neighborhood fared well from the looks of things, lots of leaves and smaller branches down, but no fallen trees or the power outages that I'm hearing about elsewhere in the county. One death in the area that I know of, but that was of some fool out camping who had a tree fall on him.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 3:54pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | As far as people doing stupid things, some of the Weather Channel reporters are in that category. There was one guy on the beach at Nag's Head, NC, doubled over in the wind. Granted it's a wide beach, but all it would have taken was one rogue wave to wash him away. It bothers me that they spent the whole time telling people not to do something that they were doing. Also, they periodically showed amateur videos, and asked people to send them in if they had them, but to stay safe. Yeah, right! If you're on the beach during a major hurricane taking videos, then you are not safe.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 4:18pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By LadyKestrel (28 AUG 2011 2:18pm)
Well, the worst is past us. We had tornados touch down about 10 miles southwest of us around 10:30 PM, but the severe thunderstorms preceding Irene passed us by. The hurricane itself was most severe around 4:00 AM here, but we still have power. Our oak trees lost a lot of leaves and branches, but fortunately none of the debris was large enough to do any damage. Two larger branches shook the house when they landed on the roof but it seems that the shingles are still intact.
Irene is now officially a tropical storm, which will still pound New England's coastline with rain and high surf, but we're out of danger here to the south.
Good to hear!
Temporary guest in your life.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 8:17pm |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | We havent heard from CB yet, hope things arnt to bad where he is. (Dont know exactly where he is)
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 8:33pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | CB is from Connecticut, based on the link he posted. Hopefully he's doing fine, looks like his state got hit hard, but at least the bulk of the storm has moved on now.
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 8:44pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | CB is New England somewhere, I think the Killingly area, Connecticut, IIRC. Let's hope the worst case scenario is just that their power might be out for a while? Well, let's hope not even that.
Glad to see that Andromus and LadyK seem fine.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 28 AUG 2011 at 11:19pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6693
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
Coastal Connecticut was hit pretty hard as Irene came ashore there at peak high tide and they saw some significant flooding with hundreds of large trees downed and lots of power outages.
Good news is that reports of serious injury or death have been minimal from North Carolina all the way up through the New England states. New York City really dodged the bullet too and as mentioned above, the storm has since been downgraded with far lower wind speeds and relatively mild flooding.
The biggest concern right now seems to be restoring power to many residents and resuming flights, etc. in a timely manner.
Hopefully, CB is okay. However, if he lives in Connecticut, the power may still be out in his area. So let's be patient while awaiting word...
Cheers, Terry
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| 29 AUG 2011 at 12:03pm |
StilerJourneyman
Posts : 1464
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, TN
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By LadyKestrel (28 AUG 2011 3:54pm)
As far as people doing stupid things, some of the Weather Channel reporters are in that category. There was one guy on the beach at Nag's Head, NC, doubled over in the wind. Granted it's a wide beach, but all it would have taken was one rogue wave to wash him away. It bothers me that they spent the whole time telling people not to do something that they were doing. Also, they periodically showed amateur videos, and asked people to send them in if they had them, but to stay safe. Yeah, right! If you're on the beach during a major hurricane taking videos, then you are not safe.
There was one standing around in Sea foam, talking about how it tasted, etc.
Sea foam most likely mixed with raw sewage...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=df9_1314529907
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| 29 AUG 2011 at 1:26pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | ...and maybe it's not just power that might be a problem with our North-Eastern members. Telecomms etc. such as cable and phone lines may be out, I believe.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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