Hurricane Irene Live Thread

NHC NOAA ^ | 26 August 2011 | NHC/NOAA

[NautiNurse]

Approximately 65 million people are likely to be directly impacted by Hurricane Irene as the storm takes aim at the densely populated Eastern Seaboard. Evacuations are underway for high flood risk areas.

Mass transit cancellations, schedule changes and road/bridge closures are occurring throughout the storm warning areas. Please check with local news and Emergency Management Operations to determine the recommendations for your immediate area.

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WWAY 3 Wilmington NC
WRAL Raleigh NC
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WTVR Richmond VA
WUSA Washington DC
WBAL Baltimore MD
CBS Local Baltimore
WPVI Philadelphia
WTXF My Fox Philly
WABC NYC
WTNH New Haven CT
WHDH Boston

[NautiNurse]

Thanks for checking in. Awesome generator! Please provide updates when you can. Annapolis is such a lovely area.

[bvw]

Of course you do. And those are questions. Bureaucracies are super-gases. Not only do they seek to fill all available space, the tear apart all competing things to fill their space.

Once again, I asked you questions. Simple ones. Please answer if you can.

[Tea Party Hobbit]

I remember the rented cruise ships that weren’t used. I don’t think I’d heard about President Bush sending Navy support ships.

[janipa]

A cricket has started to chirp.

[daniel1212]

See why, be patient and get your soap out:

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=pan&prevzoom=zoom&num=6&frame=0&delay=15&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&ID=BOX&type=N0R&showstorms=10&lat=42.65642548&lon=-71.69310760&label=Townsend, MA&map.x=400&map.y=240&scale=1.000&centerx=400&centery=240&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&lerror=20&num_stns_min=2&num_stns_max=9999&avg_off=9999&smooth=0

Also helpful (http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx?location=USMA0081&weather=hdRadarSmoothPaletteA (choose radar under layers and as titan under overlay, and then loop bottom right)

[sissyjane]

My eyes... It was me! So glad my young grandaughters were playing in the living room.

[bvw]

Stories “Treme” leaves out. Showtime, baby.

[deepbluesea]

Hi FRiends! Thoughts with everyone tonight in the path of this thing, from here in Rita & Ike landfall country...hoping it continues to weaken.

My boyfriend & family are out in Howard Co MD (sort of by Columbia), hopefully most of this skirts on by them - but they have a chainsaw somewhere in case they need to cut themselves out of their neighborhood in the morning lol!

They haven’t had too much bad yet, some gusts & heavy rain, some blips but still have power. Guess worst will be there in a few hrs though.

Hope the Bay will be okay - they have a bit of family down in Cambridge on the water (though I think they may have got out.)

We have been shaking heads at the drunk nuts in VA Beach making cameos behind the weather guys on TWC, if they were smart they would quit drinking and go in, ditto all the ppl driving around there in the weather!

Everybody batten down the hatches and get the candles ready, may be a long night. Thinking of yall in TX.

[randita]

Stu Ostro: Vivid, unusual water vapor satellite image of Irene, and [for anyone interested in technical meteorological geek stuff] its outflow which is combining with a mid-latitude jet to produce a right entrance region! (All of which is helping to facilitate the storm staying potent.)

[Miss Didi]

Does Geraldo not use an umbrella on purpose...just to appear like he’s out bravely standing in a terrible hurricane??? Wear a cap, put up your hood...do you think the drenched rat effect is more charming?

[Interesting Times]

We lost power an hour and a half ago. Generator is running.

Still on here. Hope they get to you soon.

[daniel1212]

The aforementioned sites do have options for more than one track if that helps. http://www.wral.com/weather/hurricanes/page/5878513/

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/interactive-tracker.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=1

[NautiNurse]

You are off topic for this thread. Take your kooky conspiracy garbage out of here now.

[MagUSNRET]

Given hurricane force rain,...it just MAY wash some of the SMUG off of him.

[rdl6989]

He looks like a fool.

[REDWOOD99]

Deja vu? Bopped him yesterday too, didn’t ya?

[MagUSNRET]

Type casting at it’s finest

[AUsome Joy]

Thanks. The map looked to me like you were getting about 12 inches, but if you had that much at 5:30 it seems like you are going to get much more. Hope you keep your power. Praying for you guys to be safe.

[LostInBayport]

My eyes... It was me! So glad my young grandaughters were playing in the living room.

Just when you think it's safe to turn on the TV...even the Weather Channel has gone smut! LOL

[daniel1212]

MBTA suspended service beginning at 8am Sonday