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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We were in Jackson, Tennessee in the spring of 2010, the weekend when Nashville was flooded. During the night, the weather alert radio was going off so often with hail, tornado and flood warnings that our cousin pulled the plug on it. There was nowhere to go, and nobody could get any sleep, so we just shut it up. The next morning we drove on the last open road out of the county heading to St. Louis. I'd never seen such flooding in my life. Fields and roadways turned into lakes, and water was everywhere as far as we could see. As we drove, we heard reports of water rescues, hospital evacuation, and tornado warnings just south of our route. Nature is powerful and quite sobering.
Good .. you’re set for food for tomorrow,
long as the fridge holds it all. Stay safe,
and God bless.
Yeah, what you said. ;-)
I know that we typically only run about 2500KWH in a month (maybe 3500 in a really, really hot summer month, or a bitterly-cold winter month).
That comes to maybe 4KW per hour on average, or thereabouts, over the course of a month.
But the refrigerator only comes on for a few minutes at a time, and then stays off sometimes for a few hours. The washer and dryer aren't on continuously, the dishwasher, maybe an average of 90 minutes per day.
And the heat pumps, thank God, are not on that much. And the electric furnace thingy in the heat pump is only on in the worst weather, for limited periods.
But when those suckers are on, boy do they suck juice.
sitetest
Reuters
updated 2 hours 2 minutes ago 2011-08-28T04:15:44
Hoboken orders evacuation of shelter after flooding
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“Hoboken faces worst case scenario. Flooding has begun. Moving Wallace Shelter residents to state shelter in east Rutherford,” the mayor’s tweet said as Hurricane Irene approached the region.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44302969
Not good.
Lost power here in monmouth county about seven miles from Sandy Hook.
((hugs))
(((((Hugs)))))) Wonder if we will have our little shore place after this.Could cry but decided to drink.
Of roughly 235,000 homes serviced by BGE in Anne Arundel County, MD, approximately 90,000 are without power from the grid.
Good luck to you.
Really seems to be winding down here — I hope!
LOL - you bad influence, you. I am off to bed. Laughing.
I think Irene has died this hour, but leaves a real mess and a non-cohesive broken storm front drifting almost aimlessly. Be interesting to see if the purveyors of weather-godism post the validations of their models.
Hysterias fuel the most godawful of religions. Cults spring up in strange places.
No reports yet,just heard it touched down.
You have good sense and probably read instructions, not everybody does.
I'm a retired electronic tech and a relative called me to look at his fried 12KW, tried to run the central air and everything else, kept resetting breakers (all electric house).
A neighbor ruined the engine on his 7.5 by not changing the oil after running just about 24/7 for 3 weeks (just kept adding oil, never changed it).
Think he learned his lesson with the price of a new 14.5 HP OHV Briggs engine.
We taped our windows in Saudi, a bunch of nurses & techs, for defense against compression. The SCUDS came over every clear night, which was often. The Patriot missiles would hit them and that was worse; well. . . for the windows, at least- they did keep the SCUDS from hitting us.
The Fox News woman commented that tape (masking, as we used) might not be helpful in this strong wind as the type of compression- severe wind- would be so that the entire window could go through.
Our sons really enjoyed the camp at Treasure Island Scout Reservation. Unfortunately, after two rounds of flooding, the local BSA council couldn't afford to keep restoring the camp and decided to close it in 2008. We were very sad to have it close, but if they had made repairs, I expect this storm would have wiped it out again.
Thank God for your wonderful son. So, the water’s being pumped out .. whew! He didn’t want to bring the whole crew in for a family sleepover with y’all? Coulda been fun.
;)
Hope Mary is sleeping like a rock so she’s all relaxed.
God bless you all thru the night ..
No not yet.
So I just looked forward to see what comments he would have made about Katrina.
Very interesting! A chapter is devoted to it, which starts with a quote:
"A lie will go around the world while the truth is pulling its boots on."
and then the first paragraph reads:
Tropical storm Katrina intensified to a category 5 hurricane on August 28, 2005, while it was still several hundred miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. Expecting landfall in the next 48 hours, the new NORTHCOM commander, Admiral Tim Keating, began issuing orders and alerts to military units across the United States. He deployed an advance headquarters to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and created a staging area for FEMA at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The Department of Defense activated a hurricane operations cell in the Pentagon to monitor developments. Search-and-rescue aircrews were alerted that they might soon be needed. Navy ships with relief capabilities were ordered to proceed to the area.
(my underlining)
(((((Hugs)))))
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