HURRICANE IRENE

[SparrowHawk]

+1. I lived through Hurricane Agnes, and although I barely remember it, it scarred my childhood. We lost a ton of old family photos, and couldn't live in our house for months during the cleanup.

That's right we both lived in PA and I remember that your area got clobbered. Agnes was a nasty old broad.

 

[700UW]

JFK, LGA and EWR slated to close at noon and the MTA shutting down mass transit.

 

[Art at ISP]

Thanks for all the good wishes folks. We're all set for this--the only thing I regret not doing is getting a generator, but will do after this is over.

Of course it's like closing the gate after the cow gets out, but it is what it is.

Jim, they are still predicting a minor Cat 1 when it hits, with the eye now predicted to come ashore about 20 miles west of me. Thankfully we're on a hill, so I won't be too worried about flooding.

Stay safe everyone...

 

[700UW]

Keep us posted Art, I still have lots of good friends in Valley Stream, Franklin Square, and West Hempstead.

Keep safe, drink a few hurricanes, get some good pics of the eye and hunker down, we just had a death announced in NC from a tree falling on someone.

I remember when Belle hit, we were without power for like five days in Valley Stream, good thing I worked at R&O in West Hempstead and we had commercial power, so I brought all my food to work.

 

[SS255]

Jim, they are still predicting a minor Cat 1 when it hits, with the eye now predicted to come ashore about 20 miles west of me. Thankfully we're on a hill, so I won't be too worried about flooding.

Stay safe everyone...

Better to be on a hill than across the street from a raging river (which is where we were when Agnes hit). 😉 I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Irene passes you by without much fanfare, and without knocking out the electricity.

For all of you who are in the eye of the storm, PLEASE stay safe!

 

[BoeingBoy]

Jim, they are still predicting a minor Cat 1 when it hits, with the eye now predicted to come ashore about 20 miles west of me.

My money's still on strong tropical storm by the time the eye reaches you - 70 mph sustained winds with gusts at CAT 1 speeds. Irene is leaving the Gulf Stream behind and night means no solar heating till morning - both will tend to weaken it. Still, a strong tropical storm is nothing to sneeze at.

Jim

 

[700UW]

I dont think they are so concerned about the winds, its the rain and flooding.

 

[SparrowHawk]

 

[Art at ISP]

Good morning all,

The eye of the storm passed over NYC around 9:30AM. The rain in my area, about 35 miles east, is just about done, but the wind is still blowing pretty hard.

Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm before she hit NY, but the winds are still formidable, and the south shores of NY and LI have been hit by flooding, due to the storm surge hitting during high tide.

The wind has now shifted from southeast to northwest, and I would imagine we will be facing tropical storm strength gusts for at least the next 4-6 hours-then the cleanup can begin.
Thankfully we did not lose power (although that still may happen), and other than a puddle in the basement, we're dry.

Hope everyone else made out as well as we did--but it's not over--stay safe and stay dry everyone.

 

[SparrowHawk]

The media in many cases hypes these events for ratings so it's often hard to know when a warning is really a warning. I remember a few years back PHL was supposed to get hit with this massive Blizzard, up to three feet of snow, high winds and all the gloom and doom the media could muster. Shot's of empty store shelves and the like.

Total snow fall in PHL? ZERO Inches. However that was the year CLT got clobbered with an Ice storm that was supposed to come north and be our blizzard but it wandered off to sea instead.

I am however happy to hear that when it hit a major population center is was downgraded to a tropical storm. I, for one can not imagine the potential damage if Irene had roared into NYC as a Category 3.

Glad to hear all is well Art, I was worried you lose a few trees.

 

[SS255]

Thankfully we did not lose power (although that still may happen), and other than a puddle in the basement, we're dry.

Hope everyone else made out as well as we did--but it's not over--stay safe and stay dry everyone.

Great news, Art!

 

[Iclubbabyseals]

Your an idiot

Let me get this straight.

You are holding yourself as a "elite" or "smart dude" yet you mistype something as obvious as "Your" vs "You're"

Now, who is the idiot, diamondcutter? Are you Lyle? Who has yet to write a coherent CBS message?