Posted on 08/26/2011 9:40:24 AM PDT by 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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I apologize for being so tardy with our status, but all is well on my island. Some trees and branches are about, around 10 boats broke loose, there are some houses who lost power but we fared very well.
The best part was my dog having a swim on Ditmar St. Not Ditmar St. beach, but Ditmar Street! I walked in the water up to my knees, and she willingly followed. The tree huggers were aghast, said I should get home quickly to de-contaminate and give the dog a bath too!!! OMG! I’ve been swimming in this water for 55 years, and it’s better now than it ever was for whatever ails ya.
So that’s why I’m so late with this. Been out all day having a wim here and there, checking things out, chatting with neighbors, and like that.
Thanks much for your local update from another slice of paradise!
Ooooops, didn’t mean to be rude, thank you thouworm for your concern, and I’m glad you enjoyed my rant. So enjoy this: some of the kids on Ditmar St. grabbed a surfboard and had great fun. The memories are still in the making!
PS: wim = swim
Yay for electricity! And hot showers, hot meals, hot coffee...
Glad to hear you are doing well!
Mmmmmmmm, that crik loks delicious. Went to Methodist camp in CT as a kid, love the woods up there, birches, pine stands...
“The dry crik near my house is now raging. No liberals jumping in, yet.”
They don’t know how to have fun.
Obama is/will be scoring big time positive points due to Irene.....sad IMHO.....
Did you see the Obama/Big Sis presser just now? No teleprompters! However, Big Sis kept looking up, raising her eyes to the absent teleprompters on either side. Looked very weird.
The most frightening part of Irene for me, those who went through Irene beg otherwise...prayers to them....
very weird indeed; Big Sis has no independent mind; that’s why she was chosen.
Good to hear you are safe and intact and enjoying another day of liberty. Thanks for the update.
nothing personal dear but 3-5 inches of rain is not remarkable..high but not a whole lot compared to comparable events...
Camille West Virginia rains in 1969 were 20 inches
Katrina rains up to 15 inches
Nashville floods 2010...15-24 inches
Grandaddy of all was Mitch who lingered over NE Central America and dumped SEVENTY FIVE inches of rain in 3 days...now that is remarkable and then some
I do appreciate your diligence but I am not alone in seeing hype in this storm from jump street
not that it helps those few folks actually impacted
a 3 foot surge is less than high tide in many spots worldwide that are further from the equator
Rain has stopped on the east side of New Hampshire; wind has abated to a gentle breeze. Several of my tomatoes have some bent stems...corn is listing to starboard. Sunny for the next seven days, though...time to repair the damage.
Central NH 1730 report - it’s over. That was it?
I don’t understand the track after Coney Island. The “center” is supposedly still in Western MA near Stewartstown (near VT line). But there were very strong sustained winds at Rye Beach NH from 1-4pm (36G51) and the radar says that the heavy rain bands have all moved North into Canada. Our rain ended by 1500 and winds are near calm now, but the barometer is still falling (28.97) consistent with the idea that the low is still getting closer.
It’s almost like, after crossing Long Island, the wind went East and the rain went North. A funny storm, for sure.
The tree guys just finished cutting the trees out of our power lines, so MuniElectric should be along to turn the power back on any day now. Except for a few branches this was a big nothing.
Thank heavens we have a President who can tame monster hurricanes.
I saw snow in Woodstock Vermont in 1987...big snow too..about 10 inches....35 days later in the year than today
imagine that?
we never get snow in Middle Tennessee before November...usually even early December
my wife was Brasilian ...all she wanted to do was make snow angels....
I love New England...when I was a Manhattanite...it was my go to place...Stockbridge VT, extreme northern NH and Maine..
I actually deer hunted in Vermont...can u still do that?
A lot of internet hobos at the various free wireless places like Starbucks today, all with laptops, pads and such tap, tap tapping away.
Still no power at home, but where I live we lose power a few times a year, and at least one multi-day outage a year. It’s the fault of the bucolic-ness of my county. The trees are to blame. They get old and having no retirement home to wander off to, they stand there throwing off dead limbs and falling over onto live power lines. Bad trees!
I learned there was a “line-tornado” (a micro burst) in the development just a quarter mile NW that took out two mature oaks and one of them in the throes of death agony ripped off someone’s roof.
Wow! The trees have fall colors already up your way? That’s really early this year.
Sure can.
Went over to Chincoteague to check on out of town friends’ places. Lots of water, downed branches, but the major crisis appears to be the fact that most of the stores are closed and those that are open are all out of beer.
We were heroes to a couple friends because we anticipated such a problem and had a cooler full in the back of the pickup!
Hubby is no hero to me though, he conveniently left water wading footwear at home, so I was the one slogging through ankle deep marsh water around one place........he’ll pay!
All kidding aside, all places we checked out were just fine, even with the high water.
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