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Hurricane Irene Live Thread
NHC NOAA ^ | 26 August 2011 | NHC/NOAA

Posted on 08/26/2011 9:40:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: tcrlaf

60 mph winds are nothing in NYC. We have blizzards practically every other year, endless nor’easters that wreck havoc and shake the buildings, so I am not concerned about my little apt. in NYC.

Now if the hurricane is as bad as the hysterical newscasters say, I suppose it’s the end of the world.


181 posted on 08/26/2011 12:07:44 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Run, Sarah, Run! Please!)
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To: freekitty

Did you NOT see the LOL, guess you can’t take a joke huh.


182 posted on 08/26/2011 12:08:27 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: redgolum
I planted 12 as well (Beefsteak, Early Girl and Brandywine). I've picked about 6 this week for salsa and gave another 4 away so still have about 25 left that need to be made a sauce out of or they'll rot. I have I'm guessing about another 20 or so looking pink and over 50 still green plus more tiny green ones and more flowering. I've averaged about 25-40 the past two weeks and have been able to keep up with it, but wanted to get most of them the end of the season for canning as I love to can in the fall. This is my first time planting tomatoes so don't know what good yields are and only three of my plants got over 5 feet and the others are under that so that may explain why I'm not getting as many as I should.

Do you can your tomatoes whole or do you make a sauce out of them and then can? Just wondering as this is my 1st year canning tomatoes.

183 posted on 08/26/2011 12:10:11 PM PDT by MissyMa
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To: americanophile

The wind isn’t as big a problem as the rain and surge will be around NYC. Yeah, they may well get hit with borderline hurricane winds in some areas depending on the storm track, and there will be minor structural damage and broken windows and endless pictures of flapping street signs and ripped awnings.

But Irene will also push several feet of water up from Jamaica Bay and Long Island Sound and the Hudson and East Rivers into low-lying areas, in addition to a possible 8-12” of rain on top of a fairly wet summer. No, it’s not going to be the end-of-the-world scenario that the media is hyping. But you’re probably looking at widespread loss of power and disruption of transport due to bridges being closed and subways being knocked out or flooded, in a city of 5+ million people. They’re overreacting, because that’s the media and it’s what they do. But I seriously doubt it’s going to be pleasant or fun up there if Irene gets anywhere close to NYC, which it probably will.

}:-)4


184 posted on 08/26/2011 12:11:23 PM PDT by Moose4 ("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
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To: Niuhuru

Nice to know I got a refill on cartridges from my dad.

But I really doubt where we are we’d have any “looting”, much less real damage. Although I must admit I’m actually 50/50 about it. I’m just glad my nephew came home from Ocean City on his own recognizance before they made evac mandatory. (Sorry for the tangents...!)


185 posted on 08/26/2011 12:11:46 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Nick Danger; Interesting Times

Hey Nick, IT said he was going to make some margarita’s still haven’t seen mine, sigh. Guess I’ll just open that bottle of Merlot, I’ve been saving...


186 posted on 08/26/2011 12:11:48 PM PDT by dixie sass
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To: Guenevere

I do not camp..........

Other than that, we’re all set.


187 posted on 08/26/2011 12:12:23 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: alancarp

Maybe SS got on his butt telling Mr President we need get out here LOL!

I could imagine Aunt Esther smack Obama around


188 posted on 08/26/2011 12:12:54 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: alancarp

Maybe SS got on his butt telling Mr President we need get out here LOL!

I could imagine Aunt Esther smack Obama around


189 posted on 08/26/2011 12:13:08 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: alancarp

Storm feeder bands are an awfully way inland, looks like all the way up to Greenville.


190 posted on 08/26/2011 12:14:20 PM PDT by dixie sass
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To: the OlLine Rebel

my comment was not the plight of those in harms way

it was agreein to my response poster that the media is milkin this for every dime

Chris Janzing attacked Dubya an hour ago as feckless as compared to the asshat with his putter in his hand

I pray for those in this hurricane’s path but hold no quarter for dumbasses like you who assume


191 posted on 08/26/2011 12:17:34 PM PDT by advertising guy (if a politician from either party was to say hello to me, it should be law I can shoot em)
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To: Guenevere
paper plates,styro cups, plastic utensils, paper bowls

Styro cups are appropriate for coffee. Beer requires plastic Solo cups.

192 posted on 08/26/2011 12:17:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse (TSA Tit for Tat--Yukari Mihamae--thank you!)
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To: Niuhuru
I doubt there will be looters on Madison and mid-town 5th Avenue where the stores you hint at (Harry Winston, I suppose, Tiffany's) are located. It's basically a nonresidential area and the people who DO live there are very wealthy, indeed.

They are shutting down the subways so I doubt inner city hoodlums are waiting to invade. (Oddly enough, I've never heard of an inner-city hoodlum robbing Harry Winston's!) Now if the apocalypse DOES happen, looters will probably rob their own neighborhoods. That, sadly, now happens in every American city.

193 posted on 08/26/2011 12:18:49 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Run, Sarah, Run! Please!)
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To: Gabz

Got the windows boarded, paper everything, plenty of water and non-perishables? I hope you won’t need any of it since it looks like she is moving inland now, or rather won’t need much of it. Hope y’all don’t see any flooding.


194 posted on 08/26/2011 12:20:41 PM PDT by dixie sass
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To: NautiNurse

a bag of fritos is an excellent survival aid too...the oil starts fires easily and one frito can be reused 4 times


195 posted on 08/26/2011 12:21:41 PM PDT by advertising guy (if a politician from either party was to say hello to me, it should be law I can shoot em)
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To: rockabyebaby

Speaking of jokes, I’m surprised I haven’t seen this one yet.
What do you call a woman with one leg shorter than the other? Ilene.
What do you call an asian woman with one leg shorter than the other? Irene!


196 posted on 08/26/2011 12:22:41 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: americanophile

This is not about toppling buildings. Far more likely is that skyscraper windows will be blown out and city streets will be pelted with glass shards.


197 posted on 08/26/2011 12:23:12 PM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: MissyMa
We usually make sauce out of all of them. My wife and I love homemade pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, and salsa!

One thing you can do is get a vacuum sealer and cut up and seal some tomatoes till you have enough for a batch. They won't keep like canned tomatoes, but they will keep for a week or more better than just on the counter top.

198 posted on 08/26/2011 12:25:47 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: advertising guy

Name-calling and hard heart, huh? Thanks. I was listening to you right up...until the end.

Is the media in overkill? Sure - they always do. It’s not just us Easterners.

Your statements did more than just talk about the media. You make it seem it’s all just a joke, we’re all just paranoid, and I don’t appreciate that. “..some rain and wind..” That wasn’t “assumed”.


199 posted on 08/26/2011 12:26:51 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Palladin

I sat in my car for my lunch hour, as usual, to listen to my talk radio and there was bloomturd and the rest going on and on. Reporters kept asking the same damn questions (he got a little testy).

I was in a panic (I’m on Long Island), but after NYC’s press conference I started getting ticked off. It’s like they are trying to cause a panic on purpose!

I survived Hurricane Gloria in 85, here on the Island and that was a Cat 4.

By the time this thing reaches us, it will probably be a 1 or 2. I think we’ve have a few recent thunderstorms that were probably a 1 or 2, lol.


200 posted on 08/26/2011 12:29:45 PM PDT by NoGrayZone ("Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being beheaded." Andrew Klavan of PJTV)
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