[NautiNurse]

Please use common sense when posting graphics--keeping in mind there are FReepers who use dial-up access to the internet, and many have java limitations (e.g. satellite loops). In other words--links are better than posting the graphics.

Howlin's warning to those using generators after the storm (IF YOU READ ANYTHING ON THIS POST, READ THIS)

For all of you out there who use generators and ANY kind of gas, PLEASE USE A CO DETECTOR -- and, yes, even if you use it outside. I lost my only child to carbon monoixde poisoning 5 and a half years ago! Do NOT let it happen to you or anybody you love!

[NautiNurse]

New thread

On/Off Hurricane Ping list, mash ---> .

[Gabz]

Adding howlin's warning to the openning is a GREAT idea.......

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

All of you folks in the path in Ernesto stay safe!

[tarheelswamprat]

I posted this prayer request on the previous thread, and NautiNurse has graciously allowed me to repost it here:

My cousin Jack has has been taken to New Hanover Medical Center in Wilmington this evening for emergency heart surgery. They are waiting till the hurricane passes through but need to operate as soon as the storm abates. I ask my FReeper friends to remember him in your prayers, and thank you in advance for you kindness.

[rock_lobsta]

Take care, all my FRiends in the Carolinas, and stay dry.

Meanwhile, the suicide watch at TWC goes on high alert...

[Alia]

NC *Ping*

Please FRmail Constitution Day OR TaxRelief OR Alia if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.

[Moose4]

Morning NN and folks. Thanks for putting these threads together, they're a huge wealth of information!

Well, as we await the arrival of Tropical Annoyance Ernesto here in Richmond, things are gray, dingy, and a little drippy. Not bad here yet, but most of southeastern Virginia and the Tidewater are under flash flood warnings as a big, nasty rainband is sweeping northwestward over the area, kind of toward us. The Morehead City, NC radar shows a very ugly line of thunderstorms sweeping up the Outer Banks, south to north and parallel to them (everything from Cape Hatteras clear up past Duck and Corolla looks like it's under a red blob right now). The worst of the storm is still way down in North Carolina, with what passes for the eye (maybe) crossing over I-40 about 6:35 am between Goldsboro and Kinston

Thoughts and prayers are with the people down there in that end of NC, we remember Floyd and Fran and all the rest and what they've done to eastern NC.

I don't know when this thing's supposed to hang a bit of a left, right now it still looks like it's drifting northeast or NNE. If it turns north it's going to run right over Richmond. All the worst of the yellow and red is far to the north and east of the center, though, meaning that unless it really decides to visit the Blue Ridge, Tidewater, the Northern Neck, the Middle Peninsula, and the Bay are going to get very wet today.

}:-)4

[theDentist]

I'm in Norfolk by Military and Norview and the flooding is 10-14 inches in places... cars stalled in the middle of it... Gusting winds...

[DoctorMichael]

Thanks for the links and Thread.

Its supposed to go directly over Charlottesville, VA (where I am).

Yesterday was gloomy with a light mist of rain all day, increasing as the evening came. Now (Fri. AM) its a nice steady rain (no downpour as of yet).

We actually need this here in central Virginia as the reservoirs were extremely low, and there was talk of water rationing all summer. My lawn was looking 'burnt' and yellowed from the semi-drought we've been under the last month.

A nice steady rain suits me fine.

[StoneColdTaxHater]

I'm sorry did I miss the storm? Must have been global warming

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

It's raining like a sumbeach here in beautiful downtown Bumpass. Not a whole lot of wind so far. Glad to see the rain - when you live on a well, you always like to see rain.

[sasha123]

In Central Maryland it's been just a rainy,windy (20-25mph) dreary day. Not too eventful, and definitely not as bad as the storm we had in June. A tree fell over at my husbands office. The roads are wet, but don't seem a problem. Some schools let out 1-2 hours early. Other than that, it's been fine here. Nothing to get too excited about. The remnants of Tropical Storms seem to pass this way often.

[ContraryMary]

What a bust Ernesto was here in NJ. We got a little rain overnight. Some off and on rain is expected during the day. They've even canceled the high wind advisory.