Hurricane Irene

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  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    My power just came back on-- lost it around midnight last night and SO glad it's back!! A bunch of people got hit moderately hard around here (I go to UMD) and a lot of people around here still don't have power.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,546
    We lost power for 13 hours and spent about 15 minutes in the cellar waiting out a tornado warning. And had a good amount of water in the cellar thus morning. But I slept easily thru the night. And weather is now beautiful and looms like it'll stay that way.

    Yea the hurricane in NY thing was out of control hyped. It was a lot of rain that's for sure. And I'm sorry for everyone who was really flooded or had trees fall down or, god forbid, died. But honestly it wasn't that bad.
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  • BoltOfLightnin'
    BoltOfLightnin' South Jersey/Florida Posts: 719
    After staying up most of the night waiting for a tornado to knock over the big tree in our back yard and the power to go out I was happy that everything was fine in my area. That is until around 6PM last night...that's when our power out. WTF? It was so bizarre. It came back at one point, but kept flickering off about every 25 seconds (yes we were counting) for like 5-10 minutes...then off completely again. Finally went to bed and woke up around 12:30 and it was back on. Weird.
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  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    BoltOfLightnin' wrote:
    After staying up most of the night waiting for a tornado to knock over the big tree in our back yard and the power to go out I was happy that everything was fine in my area. That is until around 6PM last night...that's when our power out. WTF? It was so bizarre. It came back at one point, but kept flickering off about every 25 seconds (yes we were counting) for like 5-10 minutes...then off completely again. Finally went to bed and woke up around 12:30 and it was back on. Weird.


    It might have been from some of the flooding. Or the power might have been turned off in your area so they could fix something.

    I work for one of the power companies and we are in full restoration mode, sending in every crew we can to Eastern PA and NJ
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    21 dead up and down the coast ...

    its amazing the weather is so nice today
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  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    21 dead up and down the coast ...

    its amazing the weather is so nice today


    nature can be cruel like that.

    millions are without power, rivers still cresting today causing more flooding, a lot of people are in a bad way.
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    21 dead up and down the coast ...

    its amazing the weather is so nice today


    nature can be cruel like that.

    millions are without power, rivers still cresting today causing more flooding, a lot of people are in a bad way.


    yea the power situation is bad...dam trees are always the worst thing in these situations

    where i work in downtown manhattan was a river yesterday...today..not a puddle..wild
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,211
    My power wen't out on Sunday 2am and it's still out today .....Lot's of trees down in the town i live in ...
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,100
    josevolution wrote:
    My power wen't out on Sunday 2am and it's still out today .....Lot's of trees down in the town i live in ...
    Similar situation for me...went out early yesterday...still out.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,224
    Same here. Lost power 5am sunday, still off. Some of the roads are still not passable. Hundreds of trees and power lines down. Upper westchester county is a frigging mess.

    Other than a bunch of spoiled food, and some stir crazy kids, we are doing well.
    Put a nice dent in the handle of Dewar's :lol::lol: The wife and I actually had a nice romantic evening once the rugrats hit the hay. ;)
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,081
    The Juggler wrote:
    eeriepadave wrote:
    The Juggler wrote:
    hurricane floyd was worse. this was essentially a really bad rain storm with some wind. lots of flooding though, obviously.

    couple tornado "warnings" that never materialized. power went out for a couple minutes then came back on.

    looks like all the reports of the shore being washed away were overblown....your juggler's vaca is still set for friday :mrgreen:





    ....looking forward to 24 hour coverage of 6 inch snowstorms later this year :roll: :thumbup: :wave:

    yeah my feelings exactly. Least around here it wasn't too bad. I know a lot of people lost power, luckily i wasn't one of them (knock on wood). Bring on winter!!! NOT! ;):lol:

    the local news media blows. they love this kind of shit.

    last night i saw a reporter out on some street interview some dude and his girlfriend who were riding a motorcycle on their way home from the bar. this was around midnight. the reporter was appalled that they were out on the streets despite all the warnings. the guy goes "it's really not that bad at all. it was worse out in ambler. but this is really no big deal here..."---then the reporter kind of gets into an argument with him. she's like "well the mayor of philadephia disagrees with you, we've been covering this for 24 hours and it is only going to get worse! yada yada yada...."

    :lol:

    yes but what if those dbags had to be rescued. it was fn stupid for those people to be out and there was no point to them being on the road other than macho bullshit - 'oh look at me im out in the storm like a dumbass'. also tell that to the family of the 20-year old woman who was killed driving in jersey when her car ran into a flooded area. it's real easy to point fingers after the fact when things don't turn out as bad as predicted but with the number of people in the path of this storm the evacuations and warnings were what was needed. IF things had hit at the worst case scenario you could have been looking at Katrina like problems in the Northeast. so instead of talking about overhype and complaining about the warnings I'd say just be thankful that it wasn't as bad for you as it could have been. and if you lived in vermont and upstate new york you would probably have a different attitude today. just because it was't bad for you doesn't mean it wasn't bad for some.
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    pjhawks wrote:
    The Juggler wrote:
    eeriepadave wrote:

    yeah my feelings exactly. Least around here it wasn't too bad. I know a lot of people lost power, luckily i wasn't one of them (knock on wood). Bring on winter!!! NOT! ;):lol:

    the local news media blows. they love this kind of shit.

    last night i saw a reporter out on some street interview some dude and his girlfriend who were riding a motorcycle on their way home from the bar. this was around midnight. the reporter was appalled that they were out on the streets despite all the warnings. the guy goes "it's really not that bad at all. it was worse out in ambler. but this is really no big deal here..."---then the reporter kind of gets into an argument with him. she's like "well the mayor of philadephia disagrees with you, we've been covering this for 24 hours and it is only going to get worse! yada yada yada...."

    :lol:

    yes but what if those dbags had to be rescued. it was fn stupid for those people to be out and there was no point to them being on the road other than macho bullshit - 'oh look at me im out in the storm like a dumbass'. also tell that to the family of the 20-year old woman who was killed driving in jersey when her car ran into a flooded area. it's real easy to point fingers after the fact when things don't turn out as bad as predicted but with the number of people in the path of this storm the evacuations and warnings were what was needed. IF things had hit at the worst case scenario you could have been looking at Katrina like problems in the Northeast. so instead of talking about overhype and complaining about the warnings I'd say just be thankful that it wasn't as bad for you as it could have been. and if you lived in vermont and upstate new york you would probably have a different attitude today. just because it was't bad for you doesn't mean it wasn't bad for some.

    you freak out over 6 inches of snow don't you?

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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,081
    The Juggler wrote:
    you freak out over 6 inches of snow don't you?

    :lol:

    nope not at all. there is no comparision between 6 inches of snow and a hurricane. a hurricane is a hell of a lot more dangerous, deadly and more descructive than snow. snow is an inconvenience mostly, especially in our region.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,100
    Still no power and the kid's first day of school tomorrow has now officially been cancelled...and his dentist's office is still without power so his 4:20PM appointment today appears to be a no go....he's gonna want hurricanes every week.
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  • Mcam55
    Mcam55 Posts: 1,407
    My street looks like a warzone. Trees and power lines down everywhere, both ends of the street are blocked off. Only way out is going down this side road that leads me miles away from anywhere I need to go. Huge Branches fell in my yard and the power has been out since 11am Sunday. Looks like its going to be a week before that comes back on. The traffic lights have no power so its a clusterfuck on the roads...and my basement flooded.
    Solid weekend.
  • 81
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    pjhawks wrote:
    IF things had hit at the worst case scenario you could have been looking at Katrina like problems in the Northeast.


    the Northeast is a soup bowl?
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,081
    81 wrote:
    pjhawks wrote:
    IF things had hit at the worst case scenario you could have been looking at Katrina like problems in the Northeast.


    the Northeast is a soup bowl?

    nope but this impacted 55-65 million people with huge amounts of water-ways impacted including 5 major cities. Just because it didn't turn out to be as bad as possible doesn't diminish what it could have been. If the storm had hit at a 75+ mile per hour winds and over a foot of rain you would be talking about minimum the loss of power to millions upon millions of people and travel basically shut down throughout the east coast (as it was for 2 days already) for days upon days. i would suggest you take a look at New York city and Long Island on a map to see what a historic storm surge would have done there, luckily it wasn't so bad. and as diminished as the storm was it still looks like over a million people lost power even with the reduced strength of the storm. so yea with those numbers a stronger storm could have had those same like implications.
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    edited August 2011
    pjhawks wrote:
    The Juggler wrote:
    you freak out over 6 inches of snow don't you?

    :lol:

    nope not at all. there is no comparision between 6 inches of snow and a hurricane. a hurricane is a hell of a lot more dangerous, deadly and more descructive than snow. snow is an inconvenience mostly, especially in our region.

    we got a tropical storm dude...or a "hybrid noreaster" dependong what weather guy you were listening to :lol:
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    81 wrote:
    pjhawks wrote:
    IF things had hit at the worst case scenario you could have been looking at Katrina like problems in the Northeast.


    the Northeast is a soup bowl?


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  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    The Juggler wrote:
    pjhawks wrote:
    The Juggler wrote:
    you freak out over 6 inches of snow don't you?

    :lol:

    nope not at all. there is no comparision between 6 inches of snow and a hurricane. a hurricane is a hell of a lot more dangerous, deadly and more descructive than snow. snow is an inconvenience mostly, especially in our region.

    we got a tropical storm dude...or a "hybrid noreaster" dependong what weather guy you were listening to :lol:

    who won...Irene or the earthquake??

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