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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Light rain here on the mainland at the Jersey Shore in Barnegat. Not in storm surge area.
As the dry air worked its way into the storm’s core, the winds have decreased a lot. Still, this is a very large and relatively slow moving storm with a lot of rainfall. It won’t take much wind to topple trees with the saturated ground.
A friend has a house on that river near Little Washington. Bad news
Thanks for your prayers.
Daughter is up in Baltimore way, seems to be of some notion that she’ll be just fine. Maybe.
Here in the swamps near Rehoboth and other beaches in the Delaware part of Delmarva, Gov. Markell has mandatory evacuation of all “visitors” (do they have some kind of visitor badge to distinguish?) and residents if you live within 3/4 mile from any body of water.
Obviously this sort of edict will not be enforced and this is fine. At times we all need our common sense to guide us, unlike the Katrina people who waited for Ray Nagin and that dipwad LA Governor to lead the way.
I’ve no idea how they came up with that 3/4 a mile from the water rule. Why not a full mile, just to keep down the confusion? Any body of water might seem clear enough but round these parts we’ve got many kind of manmade type of “ponds”...use to run the mills once along this area. They’re now tourist attractions of a sort, they are pretty, often with a big circle type of thing down which the water drains. There’s also a gazillion little inlets and that sort of thing. In short, I think this sort of mandate issued from on high from the Delaware Governor is very confusing. They’re all Democrats, of course, so that might explain.
It’s not much matter except by me it’s a really dumb way to run things. Most of us living round here are going to do what we do. We also have a lot of manufactured home parks in this area, as a tourist locale hosting summer-only residents. Gov. Markell says, from his mighty leadership perch....”DEMA highly recommends if you live in a manufactured home that you leave.”
I mean, if I live in a manufactured home a half mile from the beach I can stay cause DEMA only suggests that I “should” leave? If I live in a manufactured home two miles from the beach I can say cause DEMA only suggests that I leave.
I think the Governor should have said not a thing about manufactured homes is what I’m saying here. There are millions of people living in manufactured homes along the Atlantic coast; they know the danger. The government shouldn’t even get involved in this.
You makr my words, this slipshod leadership is going to come back and bite these boobs.
Weather Channel just reported tree limb on house kills man in Rocky Mount, NC.
TWC in Virginia Beach, people driving around behind the reporter. People are nuts I guess!
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Thanks for info I have a friend up there, Hampton Roads and am worried about her.
Huntington Village.
She will be fine. Eastern Baltimore County will probably get some tidal bay flooding from the wind. Otherwise, probably just some downed trees and power outages.
=).....still at work, ugh! I can’t wait to get the heck out of here and bunker down at home. Supposed to work till 2pm. Hopefully we don’t run over!
You gotta make a beer run in the storm. It’s a North Carolina thing.
Tropical storm conditions spreading northward along the Delmarva coast...
Max sustained winds 85 mph, 952mb
Moving NNE at 15 mph
Godspeed to all in Hurricane Irene's path...
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When I lived in NC, Emerald Isle was my beach. I loved the ferry to Bear Island(wonderful state park)... a great area. Have not been back there for a long time and of course wonder how it is faring.
RE Baltimore County: Isn’t is disconcerting to see storm clouds travel from east to west? They were practically making me dizzy when I was outside a few minutes ago. Only a few raindrops so far.
BTW, I just remembered that we still have a phone on a leash to plug into the wall in case we lose power and the wireless phones run out of batteries.
LOL! I should have clarified it was Virginia Beach, VA. Just showed a monster truck with a bunch of yahoos in it driving around on TWC.
LOL!!!
Praise God!
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