Hurricane Irene

[IndianBird]

I'm 30 miles west of Morehead City which is likely where the eye will come ashore in NC. Time to hold on tight.

[areobee401]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Irene won't be coming here until Sunday. They are predicting the storm will be worse when it hits New England. They haven't asked my part of town to evacuate yet. I'm leaning toward leaving early Sunday morning and heading to my mothers. She lives in the mainland , while I'm right on the coast.

Everyone stay safe over these next couple of days.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: Hurricane Irene

You may want to stick around, PPM. With the shift west, I got a feeling we (DMV) are going to get hit pretty hard, and then the path is pretty much straight up 95. I don't know when you'd want to hop on the road and ride along with it. Not to mention, there are plenty of trees and areas that can be flooded along the turnpike. If you can help it, chain yourself in somewhere in DC and wait until it's gone past NYC... and gone for good.

Yea, I made the decision earlier to just stick around here for a few days longer. Since it makes more sense to deal with it HERE as opposed to going back and dealing with the worst of Irene up there.

Everyone else be safe and be careful out here this weekend.

[Knight165]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Well this is a first.
1-Everyone getting off of work any time this weekend(FDNY) is required to either be available to stay, or get someone to cover for you. This is all weekend long.
2-Mandatory evacuations of some areas of N.Y.C.(this one is a direct result of the horrific response by N.Y.C. to the late snow storm this year......IMO this is a total CYA move. Whatever though)
3-The Rockaways are being evacuated and the Fire Companies that cover the area may be pulled off the island as well(this one would really surprise me. I can't even fathom such a thing)

M.K.
Knight165

[IndianBird]

Been raining steady for 3 or 4 hours now. Breezy, but nothing severe yet at my house.

[Bullit]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Well this is a first.
1-Everyone getting off of work any time this weekend(FDNY) is required to either be available to stay, or get someone to cover for you. This is all weekend long.
2-Mandatory evacuations of some areas of N.Y.C.(this one is a direct result of the horrific response by N.Y.C. to the late snow storm this year......IMO this is a total CYA move. Whatever though)
3-The Rockaways are being evacuated and the Fire Companies that cover the area may be pulled off the island as well(this one would really surprise me. I can't even fathom such a thing)

M.K.
Knight165

Thats crazy. I hope you all pull thru ok. I was actually thinking about you guys this morning.

Keep you head above water and we will be praying for you. We are waiting for it to hit now. We live in Williamsburg Virginia and expecting the nastiness tomorow .

[19]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Outer Banks are being POUNDED.

Unreal.

[superjames1992]

Re: Hurricane Irene

The fact that Irene looks like she will skirt the coastline more than it looked like yesterday could be unfortunate news for those further north.

The storm isn't quite as strong as projected as far as maximum wind speeds go, but Irene has a huge wind field, so the effects of the storm will be felt over a very large area.

[jb12780]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Well this is a first.
1-Everyone getting off of work any time this weekend(FDNY) is required to either be available to stay, or get someone to cover for you. This is all weekend long.
2-Mandatory evacuations of some areas of N.Y.C.(this one is a direct result of the horrific response by N.Y.C. to the late snow storm this year......IMO this is a total CYA move. Whatever though)
3-The Rockaways are being evacuated and the Fire Companies that cover the area may be pulled off the island as well(this one would really surprise me. I can't even fathom such a thing)

M.K.
Knight165

The best was Bloomberg trying to speak spanish at his press conference yesterday, that was hilarious.

[SidVish]

Re: Hurricane Irene

I just saw this on CNN.

What Irene could do to New York. It's really scary.

Let's hope this doesn't happen.


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[canes21]

Re: Hurricane Irene

The show I watched the other day on the History channel had similar predictions. With New York City being so flat and close to sea level, storm surges would wreak havoc and sever flooding would not be surprising at all.

[SidVish]

Re: Hurricane Irene

The show I watched the other day on the History channel had similar predictions. With New York City being so flat and close to sea level, storm surges would wreak havoc and sever flooding would not be surprising at all.

I had no idea how vulnerable NY was to flooding due to its topography until now.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: Hurricane Irene

I just saw this on CNN.

What Irene could do to New York. It's really scary.

Let's hope this doesn't happen.



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[SidVish]

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It's a video from cnn.com explaining how the flooding would be terrible if a category 2 or 3 hurricane hit NY.

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[Knight165]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Thats crazy. I hope you all pull thru ok. I was actually thinking about you guys this morning.

Keep you head above water and we will be praying for you. We are waiting for it to hit now. We live in Williamsburg Virginia and expecting the nastiness tomorow .

Thanks....I hope all these towns/cities along the coast can laugh about this Monday.

....another crazy first.

The New York City Transit system will shut down operations at noon tomorrow.
SHUT DOWN.

Never in my wildest dreams.


M.K.
Knight165