Hurricane Irene

How badly does she blow? Or is she just a load of hot air?

http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/20110822/gilyaneh20110822132341090.jpg

a dead heart lurks in the wood of the forest

http://printable.tipjunkie.com/wp-content/printable-thumbs/a-whole-lot-of-nothing-printable-gift-ideas.jpg

unless you're in North Carolina, in a trailer

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#IRENE

all the pft pft pft NEW YORK bc pft pft pft FLORIDA going on is ridiculous. like should people just be super breezy about it, because on occasions, there have been hurricanes in other places. #northeasternstateworldproblems.

this one's different because it's us

there will be blood

this one's different because it's us affecting a lot of white people

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, August 26, 2011 11:02 AM (3 minutes ago)

fixed

A lot of white people in Florida too, iirc.

Hurricane Irene 'extremely dangerous', warns Barack Obama

assuming that's just a kanye callback

xp

Ah, didn't make that connection.

i'm catching paranoia fever
it's exciting and scary

Wait, isn't Florida like 3/5 white non-Hispanic?

Whaddya have, a hot date or somethin', Dr. Morbius?

I have films to see, goddammit.

I am going to enjoy the image of you sitting at home spinning one of these, Morbs:

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/jbutler/VRinERSCS/Zoetrope.jpg

I have a different image of you, spinning.

if that was a zing it was (a) kind of funny but (b) mean and sort of unnecessary.

nah, joeks boyo

u know like I'M 150 YEARS OLD

it's also kind of hawt

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/1983_Topps_Ernie_Whitt.jpg this dude to thread

haha

http://cdn.tncdn.net/dyn/230/978/089/5779250.jpg

i'm catching paranoia fever
it's exciting and scary

On my trip to Kmart on Wednesday night, the only other guy there who seemed to be stocking up for the hurricane had a cart load of bottled water and bb guns.

I'm feeling like rather than scramble for bottled water I'm just gonna take a big clean plastic bin from work and fill it with tap.

Also should note that I had about 5 seconds of "shit, I'd better get out of line and go back and get one of those" thoughts when I saw him.

Whoa mandatory NYC evacuation for everyone in a Zone A. Have to be out by 5pm tomorrow. Jeezus!

well that's a mess.

whoa

http://gothamist.com/2011/08/26/nyc_starts_mandatory_evacuation_of.php

this shit is giving me a headache for realz

tomorrow would be my regular grocery trip since today is payday and i haven’t gone in over a week. now the stores are gonna be packed with a bunch of people freaking out. I almost want to wear a sign that's like "gtfo of my way this is my normal shopping day"

is sayin this now - GET OUT OF THE GRAOCERY STORE!!

time to bug out of work and get that bottle o' Stoli

hurricane irene ryan says morbs otm

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9oxJRFGq39iE1MLk5-87JF4LZhzFUGibUzp8bgTTe1-KgnTVAEg

John Seabrook, stuck on what to write about:

Somehow, that doesn’t seem likely. As blue staters, we have come to associate the death and devastation caused by Katrina more with failed political leadership than with the fury of a big storm. And since 9/11, hurricanes seem less threatening precisely because you can prepare for them. You can study their projected track, clock their wind speed, and predict the time of landfall—all from the comfort of your den. In an age of sudden events that change the world in an instant, the approach of a hurricane seems old-world stately, like a transatlantic crossing on an ocean liner. We prepare for the unthinkable (or think we do); and blithely shrug off the known. One day, although maybe not this Sunday, we’ll learn.

It never ceases to amaze me how certain items, such as 'D' batteries, almost instantaneously sell out just about everywhere.

those are the batteries used in most portable radio

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqhspq2FPe1qf05yko1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqhspq2FPe1qf05yko1_500.jpg

Luckily I have a little mini-flashlight that takes 'AA' batteries, since those are still easy to find.

I have films to see, goddammit.

moot point since most of the theaters this weekend seem to be closing on acct of the storm

I've got a crank flashlight.

and also, yeah, subways

Events including a concert by the Dave Matthews Band on Governors' Island have been postponed, street fairs and other outdoor activities have been scrapped to clear the streets for emergency vehicles.

Dave Mathews Band: name your reasons why they are so windblown and flooded

I like her tight, revealing skirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6v6QfitkD0&feature=player_embedded

The hurricane symbol with the "2" by her skirt looks like a buzzsaw about to cut into it.

lol, is that the girl from Real World Seattle? xps

YES! Lyme Disease Irene!

Weather-Woman fetishists rejoice

Broadway, Open!

^^^ the password to open her skirt

he chest often obscures the weather map
http://www.examiner.com/celebrity-headlines-in-portland/sarah-long-meteorologist-wgme-13-news-portland-maine

lol, NYC friend on facebook says one of her co-workers "doesn't believe" in the hurricane.

http://www.mountwashington.org/about/trustees/photos/long_sarah.jpg

lyme disease irene looool. word

xpost makes sense to me. after all, have you noticed how much of the information from this "hurricane" comes from the government? and don't you think that all of the so-called scientists who are "analyzing" this storm financially benefit from it???1

lol at ilx sheeple herd-mind

haha

between us, guys, this hurricane is Dubya's revenge

surely someone has made the gay marriage > hurricane link by now

This hurricane scam is just a way for meteorologists to shake us down for money.

topless hurriance Irene hour!

OK, Moving Image is closing Saturday and Sunday. Now I'm upset.

Good 'ol Ron Paul-

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) told NBC News’ Jo Ling Kent today that there should be no national response to Hurricane Irene

stay safe brobocops

Ron Paul is crazy and doesn't understand what a federal government is, but at least he's consistent.

juuuuuuuuuuuuuust startin to get cloudy here in fairfax

Oooh. Be safe, a hoos.

You know what? That was stupid. Why does everyone always tell people to "be safe"?? No, I'm going to go suck on a downed power line, what were YOU going to do?? What a silly thing to say.

tbf hoos has been known to be unsafe

Be impetuous and careless, Laurel! ;)

Yeah but he's gonna do whatever he's gonna do anyway. He's not gonna be, like, "Oh shoot, Laurel said to be safe, I should leave my cell phone at home or at least think twice before I go get soaking wet in a hurricane" just because I posted to tt.

this thread is better read backwards

OK then, stay drunk brobocops

glad I'm on the third floor

in Ohio

1st floor here

in scotland

be safe

tv weatherman is comparing hurricane to a tiny ballet dancer

think it's the cnn one! that was a really bizarre analogy

this hurricane is like... a priest on a football helment balancing on top of a water cooler in the middle of an indian summer

hurricanes are like a ballet with their life threatening winds and torrential downpours

at least the ballets i've seen

It never ceases to amaze me how certain items, such as 'D' batteries, almost instantaneously sell out just about everywhere.

― o. nate, Friday, August 26, 2011 4:31 PM (1 hour ago)

yep i went to like 20 stores today before giving up. need 'em for my flashlight

LED flashlights, guys. it's the future

i have one!

should take this to the bragging thread

at least the ballets i've seen
http://download.lardlad.com/framegrabs/1F03/023.jpg

brownie that's awesome youre living in the future you wont regret it

posting from my flashlight tbh

how much trouble is bloomberg going to get in when the subways are shut down for a little rain and stiff breeze?

i dunno it's supposed to be a category 1 hurricane! nothing to sneeze at imo

hell, Hurricane Ike hit cleveland after traveling from Texas and I was without power for four days

it wasn't a hurricane obv when it hit Ohio but still

The thing about hurricanes is, especially if you're in a city with waterfront, is storm surge. A Cat-1 hurricane would deliver a significant amount of water into lower Manhattan if it whips up the Atlantic enough.

more of a hurriLAME by then tbh

what was lame, it hit on a Sunday night and this happened

Pittsburgh 10
Cleveland 6

that doesn't sound lame at all

posting from my flashlight tbh

brownie, you're doing a heckuva job!

i'm here with my Arabian horses

hopefully you guys in the path of Irene can "hoof" it out of harms way

if not w/e

heh heh

Oooh. Be safe, a hoos.

― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Friday, August 26, 2011 9:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

actually i was gonna go to a show tonight but now i'm opting against it

this is good advice

Home Depot – no flashlights
CVS 1 - no flashlights
CVS 2 - no flashlights
Target - no flashlights
local convenience store - no flashlights

no portable radio heah

Park Slope crisis behavior: Mommy #1 holding tot, Mommy #2 filling unoccupied stroller with groceries.

this is really fucking up my weekend

classes canceled monday!

my mom's supposed to move my little brother into school on sunday. lol?

Ocean Pkwy still normal at this hour... Mister Softee is tinkling away.

(that is not about my urinary health)

oh my god morbs

rip nyc... a couple people might miss you, somewhere.

http://vimeo.com/28213770

seriously dying laughing

This is why we should all have emergency preparedness kits before the emergency!

man, i'm like so over all this east coast emergency stuff.

me too. in between the earthquake and the hurricane an apartment in my building caught on fire and i was evacuated for 3 hours in the middle of the night.

gross

lol

You can trust that video, it's the BBC.

my dad's a meteorologist, just talked to him for a while about forecasting etc

he says here in dc metro we can expect tstorms through the night tonight, real shit starts tomorrow afternoon "and it'll go downhill fast." the worst of the worst will be overnight saturday into sunday, and by sunday afternoon "conditions will improve" which is weatherman for "the rain will continue but it won't be dangerous & floody anymore."

the biggest concern for me personally is that my house is surrounded by tall and famously unstable trees. in the snowstorm in january the weight of the snow took down a tree which in turn took out a powerline right in my front yard and we had no power for four days. all my roommates went to their local parents houses, i just stayed in my room with some extra sweaters & blankets and read by candlelight and shit. that's less of an option if a tree falls on the house in the middle of the night in the storm. so here's hoping.

thankfully i'm downstairs, so at least my shit will stay dry, barring any flooding. we do have an infinitesimal creek in the backyard. so. here's hoping.

yeah my building is in fuckin' tree city, which is pretty unnerving.

my dad called me tonight and gave me a bunch of advice and i was kinda like "uh dad you're the one that lives a block from the baltimore harbor and was flooded for hurricane isabella, i'll probably be fine up on the third floor pretty far inland"

Residents riding out the storm should not tape windows; it does more harm than good, federal officials say.

Can anyone speak to this?

I grew up in Alabama so I'm not sweating this at all. Which means that a tree will fly and wreck the car, the power will be out for a week, and the Potomac will rise up and turn this building into an island. And I won't be able to go outside for a cigarette.

My dad just told me, re taped windows, "all that'll do is make sure you've got one big piece of glass flying across the room at you."

haha, makes sense tho.

read by candlelight and shit.

^^this is gangster

and yeah thirding the tree anxiety, i'm completely surrounded by them

My dad just told me, re taped windows, "all that'll do is make sure you've got one big piece of glass flying across the room at you."

Yes. Also: leaving a window open in the house will not "relieve the pressure" when tropical storm or hurricane-force winds blow through it.

What abt window a/c units? Take em out? (Ours are smallish, 50 lbs max)

all that'll do is make sure you've got one big piece of glass flying across the room at you

I thought that taping was more preferable than a billion shards of glass.

home taping is killing the hurricane industry

http://solitarywatch.com/2011/08/26/locked-up-and-left-behind-new-yorks-prisoners-and-hurricane-irene/#entry

it's probably actually impossible to evacuate rikers

i mean hopefully yeah they don't abandon them in sewage, but

home taping is killing the hurricane industry

― Peanut Butter... in my chocolate? (brownie), Friday, August 26, 2011 9:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^_^

yikes xp

Con Air II

thankfully i'm downstairs, so at least my shit will stay dry, barring any flooding. we do have an infinitesimal creek in the backyard. so. here's hoping.

hoos just so you know you're welcome to come hang out here if you wanna ride it out in a place at relatively high elevation (by district standards) with underground power/few famously unstable trees/much more famously equipped liquor cabinets etc

how much trouble is bloomberg going to get in when the subways are shut down for a little rain and stiff breeze?

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, August 26, 2011 5:34 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

bloomberg...does not control the ny subway system...

did declare mandatory evacuation which is actually a bigger deal, wonder how many people are actually going through with it

"Towerstream says it will provide free wireless internet in Manhattan from 6 p.m. Friday until the end of the emergency"

you don't need to tape windows, but you can put sheets over your windows and this way the glass won't shatter into your face.

disgusting savages have cleared out all the milk and bread

every grocery store was trader joes today

Ha otm

what does that mean

buncha yuppie white ppl going anywhere they can to stock up on supplies?

yeah i've barely ever been to trader joe's so i was like 'are they usually crowded? or out of stuff?' (xpost)

lol same

are tj's in dc and baltimore not madhouses basically every day of the year? (or do you guys not go? or do they not exist.)

usually crowded and out of stuff ime on a normal day

I have never been to one outside of ca/ny but even the tj's in my medium-
sized hometown are generally like that, not as bad as the big urban ones, but they still run out of basic stuff every day and moving your shopping cart around the store is like driving a car in india or something

there is no trader joe's in baltimore but the one in baltimore county didn't seem too wild the handful of times i went into it in college

I thought Trader Joe's sold better wine and beer than other grocers...?

dunno about that either, no grocer can sell wine and beer in maryland

in ny only one of the half-dozen tj's has wine, and it's technically not part of the same tj's cause it's one building away

the wine is good and cheap, the beer selection is pretty limited but good

cause it's one building away (so it can sell liquor as 'not a grocery store')

I can already hear the waning enthusiasm of our local weathermen as they realize Irene may weaken considerably before reaching NYC.

which means brotherlovesdub will accuse them and us of being Chicken Litttles.

If anyone's bored, the Wiki pages on various hurricanes makes for great reading.

i'll take either 'you were right' or 'brotherlovesdub OTM'. whichever you prefer.

chris christie is playing up the Giuliani v. 2.0 schtick right now ... happy as a pig in mud.

ya yo idk the tj's here are stocked ok although being full of white ppl

My sensation when going to trader joes is always just disorientation at having been transported to a land where trader joes is the only brand and checkout employees are trained to make a cheerful comment about at least one of my grocery items

Skit just got real

Washington Post weather blogger less worried:

8 a.m. Update: A weakening but large Hurricane Irene made landfall near Cape Lookout, N.C., around 7:30 a.m. as a category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds near 85 mph. The National Hurricane Center reports a wind gust to 84 mph at Cape Hatteras, N.C., with a sustained wind of 59 mph. A more impressive report indicates a sustained wind of 90 mph and gust to 110 mph at Cedar Island Ferry Terminal.

Closer to home, rain has overspread the Va/Md/De beaches and is moving into Southern Maryland. Just an isolated shower in the metro area next 1-2 hours - so take this time to secure loose items outside - before rain chances increase. Conditions should really start to go downhill by late afternoon, with the worst rain and winds and probably some power outages this evening and overnight. That said, this looks no worse than a moderate impact event locally, with major impacts from the Chesapeake Bay eastward.

@CornbreadCeleb
A Panda Bear in 3D
So all y'all running to get sand bags..what are you going to do with them? You work at target, u don't know bout sand bag logistics #DCIrene
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SAND BAG LOGISTICS

This weather blog is bringing it. Not many updates a day but substantial as hell when they do:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

The storm surge and wave action from Irene is likely to cause the greatest damage, and this will be a historic coastal flooding event for many regions of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. A storm surge of 8.5 feet was reported this morning in North Harlow, NC, and three feet in New Bern, NC. Significant wave heights (the average height of the largest 1/3 of the waves) reached 27 feet at Onslow Bay, NC this morning, and wave heights along the New Jersey shore Sunday morning during the time of high tide are expected to be 15 - 20 feet, according to the NOAA Wavewatch III model (Figure 2.) A storm surge of 3 - 6 feet is expected near Atlantic City, NJ Sunday morning, during the time of high tide. With 15 - 20 foot waves expected on top of this storm surge, there will be tremendous damage to the coast and low-lying structures. Storm surge is also a major concern for New York City. The latest NWS forecast is calling for a 5 - 8 foot storm surge in New York Harbor, which would easily top the flood walls protecting the south end of Manhattan if the storm surge occurs at high tide. High tide is near 8 am Sunday morning. A research storm surge model run by SUNY Stonybrook predicts that water levels at The Battery at the south end of Manhattan will peak at 2.2 meters above Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) at high tide Sunday morning, which would be about six inches below the top of the flood wall (which is 5 feet above mean sea level.) Waves on top of the surge would likely spill over the top of the floodwall in this scenario, and cause some flooding in southern Manhattan. Andy Revkin's Dot Earth blog has links to a storm surge animation for New York City done by the SUNY Stonybrook group. Climate Central has a nice satellite image showing which parts of New York Harbor are below five feet in elevation. Storm surge heights of up to eight feet are predicted in Western Long Island Sound, and 3 - 6 feet along much of the New England coast from New York to Massachusetts. This is going to be a damaging coastal flooding event for this stretch of coast, though perhaps not as damaging as the one New Jersey will experience.

ya weather underground fuckin rules

I'm a new fan for sure.

they're evacuating nearby areas. never been so glad to live in a walkup.

i talked to my mom this morning. she works for FEMA and was gettin me all hype "do you know where your power shutoffs are to shut off your gas and electricity in case of flooding, do you have your clothes and electronics off the floor, do you have a go bag with tools and food and water and clothes packed"

my roommate points out that having a meteorologist dad and a FEMA mom is pretty useful in a hurricane.

is it really gonna be that bad in dc?

haha i was gonna say! (xpost)

now a dry lull in Brooklyn, serious rain apparently 3-5 hrs away

doubtful as i understand it, i just have some peculiar dangers in my situation that are makin me take the "i might have to leave for a few days" scenario a little more seriously. and my mom, being FEMA, always thinks worst case scenario.

we keep getting these five minute squalls of full on intense rain and then nothing. it's spooky.

A) i live in a basement room with a nearby door that's not well insulated from outside.
B) trees around that might fall on the upstairs shit given high winds, it's happened before.
C) small creek in backyard

xp

^^ thought that said "small creek in basement"

tornado just wrecked 5 houses in va beach

http://a.yfrog.com/img612/8537/nnwty.jpg

otm

finally -- some hot hurricane debris!

the debris is floppin' in the wind

isn't that Culture Club's bassist as the reporter?

HURRICANE IRENE
Starring
Culture Club's bassist as THE REPORTER
Some Dude's Dick as THE DONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8-LM0wsMBY

that is the first time I have ever seen the mayor of my state

weird, it was my impression that you could see him from most parts of jersey

man ten points off for using "maximized" in that context

I preferred thinking of him as looking like http://theassociation.blogs.com/the_association/images/c0001418_1357254.jpg xp

ugh he is such a piece of shit

the gov i mean

nobody wants to play it too safe

i just mean in general he is terrible

All told, the storm could affect 50 million Americans from North Carolina to New England, leaving residents in major markets such as Boston and New York City more concerned with hording canned goods than checking out “Our Idiot Brother.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/27/idUS422760330620110827

that headline should really win some sort of academy award:

Thanks Hurricane Irene, Weekend Box Office Plunges 20%

yeah dudes, Weather Underground is the only weather site that i ever go to. most trustworthy and nerdy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8L1UXcEPCI

guess i'm just gonna go to a friend's apartment

wow i'm bored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtWRuvjzq8E

HERO

you don't have to say that every single time someone shows their dick

indignant weather channel schmuck overlooking the fact that he isn't really serving any purpose standing around like a jackass out there either

if weathermen didn't insist on reporting from right out in the middle of a crazy storm the world would be deprived of so many youtube bloopers

when I see reporters reporting from the hurricane I always think "put on a damn hat ya nut"

the cat is the real hero of that video.

^^^^

N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue says Hurricane #Irene 'pounded the state all night,'

hot!

just hope irene don't end up with dixie crabs

nice ti see dick AND pussy for once on TWC

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqlh6e8oRA1qzma4ho1_500.png

So, like, how does nyc generally find out about it when the tap water has become non-potable due to flooding? Does the city announce it? Or if there's flooding of any degree do you just stop drinkin' tap until you hear otherwise?

do you have a brita? not super hard to play it safe w/ that one if you do.

i have a brita but the filter is like a year old : /

lol @ philadelphia mayor m. nutter on tv right now saying that possible power outages may last from seven to fourteen days. not sure if knows what city he's mayoring here.

Union Pool and Goodbye Blue Monday are still having shows tonight. Pondering braving the storm out of curiosity

Union Pool and Goodbye Blue Monday are still having shows tonight. Pondering braving the storm out of curiosity

GBM is not terribly far from me. Nor is Lone Wolf, nor is Beauty Bar Bk. I dunno. Would have to ride bike in the rain.

i'm sure if there is anything wrong with the water in NYC there will be three ile threads and blanket media exposure within minutes, don't sweat it

kinda doubt that a brita filter, year old or fresh out the cellophane, is gonna be a good call to purify water tainted by sewage

why the hell did I pay $20 for this shit then

man the sky is like SLATE out here
i have wasted a whole day fretting about this shit
http://troll.me/images/spiderman-ho/come-at-me-bro.jpg

Quick, iatee, go write a negative review on Amazon.

Brita vs. Amoebae

brita must make bank, I can't even think of a comparable water filtration company, everyone I know has brita. I wonder how much it actually costs them to make one of those replacement filters.

FORKS OTM

well, tub stopper doesn't work, so there went "fill it" strategy

i filled the tub and forgot i had the water running.
terror moment like fifteen minutes later with oh shit did i forget something?
ran in JUST as it was reaching the rim
i feel like that may have been the luckiest i'm getting this week.

made u a hurricane spotify playlist

/originalthoughts

http://static.whatsontv.co.uk/images/09526_113132_irene_prison.jpg

Jumping Jack Flash dude xp

i am sharing with people now via the magic of social networks

http://www.nndb.com/people/715/000024643/doug-henning.jpg

so forks, there's a tornado watch tonight for Hudson County.

Weather Underground latest update sounding more sanguine about NYC. Top winds in the 40-55mph range.

Damnit.

Finally getting some rain now. Maybe this won't be a complete disappointment after all. Our cat will be pissed if we made her evacuate Hoboken for nothing.

rain coming down, neighborhood pretty much completely empty
it's just creepy honestly. storm is not serious at all atm

Hoboken for Nothing would make a great band name.

Didn't they say the bad shit was supposed to go down overnight?

This is just the nose of it, i think the middle of the night through the morning is when we can expect the worst.

It won't make its 2nd landfall in ny until tomorrow (which I guess means at least midnight?)

by which time i will be suitably drunk to handle any crisis

what i need, tbh, is for the cable to go out (but not the power, ideally), as i am supposed to work from home tomorrow

I hope it doesn't do significant damage, but I also hope you guys get enough of it to have fun with the experience.

"May you live in just interesting enough times"

prefer 3ft snowstorms, i guess -- also it's prettier

major lolz @ the idea that a brita is actually capable if making impure water potable.

lost all faith in brita today

brita must make bank, I can't even think of a comparable water filtration company, everyone I know has brita. I wonder how much it actually costs them to make one of those replacement filters.

― iatee, Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:44 PM (1 hour ago)

Pür

Not http://www.condomdepot.com/content/product/large/pjur_back_door_glide_depot.jpg

I stayed through Rita, and I wish I could tell you hurricanes are fun. Things got exciting around 2 at night, but then the wind grew so loud I thought a train was about to come through my windows. The windows were shaking and I thought they were going to blow out any second. I could hear loud crashing sounds outside and I looked out once to see the top of a tree in the wind. My cat was running in circles around the apartment, peeing everywhere. I passed out after quickly drinking two bottles of wine. The worst part was the next 3 weeks with no electricity.

xp lol

Get a SteriPEN. fucking amazing.

dag poor jacobsanders' cat

@Jacob, where were you during Rita?

I've gotta step out for a couple hours, but I'll come back w/my Rita and Ike stories.

Rita, I gotta say, was one of the 'fun' hurricanes in Florida -- the one between Katrina and Wilma through which we missed a day of work and got nothing but terrible rain.

DJ R.A. Glide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpF4h_wj4k

Wait I mixed hurricanes, it was Ike I stay through, not Rita. I was working in Beaumont,Tx. My apartment was facing north with another apartment in front of it, which I think is what save me. The apartment in front of mine had everything stripped off of it. The windows were blow out and a tree was through right wall.

all those tenses and articles were lost...like tears in a hurricane...

unnecessarily dickish, soz

should have been 'tears in hurricane'

flooding here and power starting to flicker (philadelphia): apparently a tree came thru my bubbie's dining room, and now they're telling us nobody should go outside. good luck everyone :)

Dang.

wots a bubbie

Okay, I stand corrected. I have a couple hours before I step out.

Anyhoo

RITA

At the time I was living w/my older sister outside Houston in the s/w-side suburbs. This was a few weeks after Katrina, which was still very much in the news because most of the evacuees were here living in the Astrodome and other unused buildings or in apartments, rented housing, or with family members spread out all over the metropolitan area. So, when it was certain a similar storm would hit us, people got scared.

Really, really scared.

No, I mean like batshit, "the world is ending" scared.

It was supposed to come in late on a Friday. By Wednesday (the memory is hazy) hysteria had started. I work--then as now--in the RTVB department of a community college, and spent my afternoon that day packing computers and wrapping up network cables before the school went out lock-down. Afterwards I went and got some supplies at Wal-Mart. It wasn't ultra-crazy because (A)they didn't have alot of stuff left, and (B) seemingly most of the community had other plans to deal with the storm.

Namely, getting the fuck out of Dodge.

By Thursday, most local businesses had closed, and much of the community were in cars parked on major thoroughfares stuck in traffic in a mass exodus. I know because I was near one, and could see them from my house. My family (me, sister, mom and dad who actually lived in Houston) were invited to stay w/family in Austin, and had gotten as far as packing valuables before we actually listened to the news about how it was taking anywhere between 24 & 36 hours to merely get out of the area code. And then there were the reports of people getting stranded, hurt, or killed along the way. So like it or not, we were staying. I filled up the tub, and--in a rare case of triumphant slovenlyness--filled the umpteen empty plastic bottles I had lying around with water so we'd be covered. I stowed the plants, picked up loose stuff on the property, all that jazz.

Thursday was fucking torture. I had every tv on the news, waiting for updates from the Hurricane center. I won't go into details, but I was really wigged out. I barely slept and had trouble eating. There was a shelter near by, and was ready to check in.

Friday was nearly as bad, but that afternoon things started to change. If you recall, Rita was originally projected to hit south Texas. Gradually those conditions pushed landfall up the coast and they weren't stopping. By Friday afternoon--merely a half day before it was supposed to hit--word came down that we wouldn't get direct hit. A few hours later it'd been decided that we'd barely feel the effects, aside from coastal communities and cities to our east.

It ended up coming in at Sabine Pass, on the Texas/Louisiana border. I didn't see much effects outside of some rain. If you looked at my house, you couldn't be faulted for thinking my mailbox received storm damage, but what really happened is my neighbors had a party the previous Saturday, and one of their guests peeled out, ran into it, and tore up a patch of my front lawn in the process.

Saturday morning we unpacked everything, turned the tvs off, and listened to music on the radio instead. The problem now was that most of the metropolitan area was shut down, and because of traffic issues, people who'd run were asked to wait a few days before returning, so Houston was basically a ghost town for a few days. We found an open restaurant Sunday morning and ate greedily with fellow "stayers".

It took a week or so for the city to get moving again. I actually didn't get called back to work until 10 days later, so come October I was pretty broke for a bit. We never had drink the water I'd saved (the plants feasted tho). The last pre-storm mail brought me copies of the Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang and Traffic's Gold which I listened to whenever I needed a break from the news, and I still associate those cds with the experience.

I'll save the Ike story for later. It's both better and worse, depending on your pov.

Wait I mixed hurricanes, it was Ike I stay through, not Rita. I was working in Beaumont,Tx. My apartment was facing north with another apartment in front of it, which I think is what save me. The apartment in front of mine had everything stripped off of it. The windows were blow out and a tree was through right wall.

Oh wow. I was over there some time (several months) later and stuff was still screwed up.

yeah at this point it's really just about i need this nonsense to be over so i can go back to life please.

Enjoying the Ford Models coverage.

Just went for a short walk to get some stuff for the morning and give the dogs a chance to pee one more time. It's feeling pretty real out there about now.

4. Don't go anywhere, particularly to the east. If your area is not flooding, stay inside and hunker down.

this is making me laugh

from "survival tips" on philadelphia newspaper website

"Hunker Down" were the words in H-town during Ike.

dog will not pee at all

particularly to the east

so like, don't walk into the delaware river?

I am visiting my mother's house right now in TX before i go to work just outside Baltimore. All night my Mom has been glued to the television, telling me, "You might not be able to go to your next job, it's going to flood Maryland." I'm supposed to be there in a week, is it really looking that bad?

no

I imagine road rail and air travel's gonna be a mess for a week at least, if nothing else.

well, pepco does suck ass; not sure if they're responsible for baltimore's power tho

My Jeep can drive through at least 3 feet of water.

''Sex and the City'' star Sarah Jessica Parker says she's fully prepared to face Hurricane Irene hitting New York as she has stocked her home with emergency storm supplies.

The hurricane is moving up to the America's East Coast.

Parker, 46, and husband Matthew Broderick have made sure they won't get caught out when the bad weather arrives and it's predicted to hit the Big Apple over the weekend, Daily Express reported.

"We are "battening down the hatches" of our New York home and are well equipped with water, flashlights and batteries in case the hurricane knocks out the power to our property," she said.

oh, that's the gal from sex and the city? i love that show!

so WNYC is saying that the peak winds tomorrow will be around 50 mph. Smells like a dud, unless there's some downtown flooding. (The 'landfall' is around 10am.)

im drunk im gonna fight punch this hurricane in the face

In Brooklyn at 2am, so far, meh--the trees are swaying.

Ike sucked, and keep in mind that we live in 360 miles away from the nearest ocean. That fucker came in sat on top of us for three days.

Usually a front moves through, all the trees blow this way and then we all come out of our houses, holding lanterns like at the end of Night on Bald Mountain. Not with Ike. The tops of the trees just went around in circles, we had water coming in through the tops of our windows (the first and only time in this house), and it just wouldn't go away.

This is the Irene thread and I hope all you Easterners are safe and sound. Just hope that that shit keeps on moving and doesn't decide to sit a spell on your ass anytime soon.

It's moving briskly along. Here in the DC area the rain seems to have let up. Winds aren't kidding around.

"Nine dead as NY cops Irene's fury" sez the paper headline here. this same headline's been there for 24+ hours, with the body count being added up as the day progresses, never mind most of which were from fallen trees in other states. They're really overplaying it as a major disaster.

(well, I hope it is overplaying it!!!)

it's raining here in the suburbs of boston, but it's not even as bad as it was earlier in the night

TORNADO WARNING YAHHH

Am I right in guessing we're not hearing from anyone in NY and surrounds now cos power/wireless is out? :/

they've all been swept up in a tornado

lol taibbi's dad is out on long island doing hanging onto a tree field reporting

Am I right in guessing we're not hearing from anyone in NY and surrounds now cos power/wireless is out? :/

― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:56 AM

i don't know what constitutes "now" in that sentence, but it's 4:14 am over here & in nyc, and the only reason you're hearing from me is because i'm an idiot who stays up until 4:14 am

Haha, you idiot.

Wait. That means it's 3:14 over here. Shit.

:-)

Still have power and wifi. Went to sleep assume others did too, only woke up because Mrs. Redd told me about tornado watch.

expecting the eye over ny at around 8am, 17 mph winds bbc news just said.

that's kite flying weather!

The TAF from La Guardia indictes that the strongest winds will be after 1400 UTC i.e around 5 hours from now, NE 55 knots gusts 65 knots, then veering NW from 1700 UTC and easing.

KLGA 280755Z 2808/2906 09040G50KT 5SM RA BR SCT010 OVC020
TEMPO 2808/2810 2SM RA BKN010 FM281000 08050G60KT 1SM
+RA BR OVC009 FM281400 05055G65KT 2SM RA BR OVC006 FM281700
32045G55KT 4SM -RA BR SCT009 OVC015 FM282000 28030G40KT
P6SM SCT015 SCT250 FM290100 30018G28KT P6SM SKC=

Yeah that 17mph figure is from a few hours ago in the past, not a few hours into the future

15 foot waves at OC and i'm not there. waaahh

My first night posting from an iPhone ... this is pretty cool. The internet in your pocket.

And it even works during power outages

WABC-TV
49K w/o power in NYC
and I think the number I saw for people w/o power on Long Island was 180K

i talked to my parents in brooklyn. they're on high ground and don't seem very concerned. i worry about the cat, who can get scared in bad weather!

63mph gusts on LI
60mph gusts in Central Park
70mph gusts in Battery Park

Set my alarm for 6 so as not to miss the storm, but it's still just a. raining, and b. windy out. In fact it's doing less of both than it was at 1am when I went to bed.

Set my alarm for 6 so as not to miss the storm
Yeah me too. not as bad out as I thought it would be

I'll check again at 8.

I guess the worst has passed here in Annapolis. Anyone want a bottled water?

a tree fell in my neighbors' yard (NC) and some traffic lights were out on the drive home—also the chain restaurant I just started working at got a potential order of 1000+ box lunches for power company maintenance crews going out into the field, and I spent all night friday setting them up JUST IN CASE—then they gave the order to the store a couple towns over, and I spent all night saturday breaking them down again #comeonirene

potential order?? that's bullshit, how are they even allowed to 'potentially' order food

Now trending on Twitter in New York

#nothingwrongwith
Kingda Ka
Chris Rock
#UFCRio
Anderson Silva
Seriously Funny
#007
Comedy Central
Tornado Watch

\o_o/

It appears a lot of people watching Seriously Funny on Comedy Central and Mixed Martial Arts has overtaken hurricane panic on Twitter ca. 8 a.m.

it's almost like twitter is filled with people with short attention spans

potential order?? that's bullshit, how are they even allowed to 'potentially' order food

― iatee, Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:12 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

that goes double in the (likely) event that 'whoever is responsible' = 'my manager'

eerily calm here -- apparently the eye just crossed Coney, ie about 3 miles from me

otoh, my sister's power has been out for 4 hours: lol Connecticut

70k ppl in nyc without power also

or 80, I heard

winds down to trop storm level

and here in pennsylvania at nine am...the ground is wet. the horror...the horror...

Stay safe strongo. Might wanna roll up your trousers?

don't get me wrong, i am pissed it doesn't look like "waterworld" out there right now because it means i still have to go to work.

Weeeeird. Is Brooklyn in the eye right now, because it's totally decent out there.... Almost....SUNNY.

That is the case.

East Rutherford NJ, home of the "New York" Giants/Jets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6q3_GWM1o&feature=player_embedded

We still have power, anyway!

Power = yes
Water Pressure = yes
Water quality = ?i assume ok?
Kitchen ceiling leaking yellow water all over our clean dishes last night = yes

The Jonathan Fire*Eater of natural disasters.

Standing outside, it's a little windy and there are loose leaves everywhere but that is all. Not even raining. People out getting coffee and walking their dogs.

Is it the eye?

NYT sez some knee-deep water in lower Manhattan... cars floating from their parking spaces.

Pretty sure this is the calm before the second half but I think the second half is gonna just be a bunch more rain and not-catastrophic winds. Yeah I'm walkin the dogs right the fuck now.

The map I'm looking at makes it look like the rain is nearly done in NYC.

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/11218

WNYC reports ppl out and walking, playing tennis in W'burg/Greenpoint.

are the members of Vampire Weekend safe?

local ABC affiliate showing parts of Long Beach underwater.

WABC shows people flooded out of their homes in Elmsford, Westchester County, being rescued by raft.

Greenpoint has a scattered dogwalking with a 30% chance of joggers.

this bullshit looks ovah. now where the fuck can I find the Sunday Times?

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/mixedcomposite.asp?region=a5&size=2x

yeah guess that's it for ny

I'm in ct and it's pretty violent outside tho

Does that upstate stuff swirl back around, though?

ya but only via state politics

bware the eye - GET OUT OF NEW YRO!

patiently waiting for the eyeball of god. feel worst for people in springfield, some of them still bumming from their tornado damage this summer.

i mean, i would feel bad if people hurt by tornado got storm damage too. you know. that would feel kinda mean. even for god.

so the hurricane is inland now and just sitting on new york?

putting its feet on the table.

Its sitting there like a Manhattan bitch who siestas at the table, puts down his chalice and says "Blood of christ!" before showing off his peacock display of rain and wind!! Alert Joan Rivers!

okay, jersey city where i'm at is totally fine now. Sun's out. Storm's gone. We got no flooding on our block. Totally spared.

we lost power several times overnight but somehow its on this morning.

house next door had one of our trees land on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qRJeIhW89s

If only there was some sort of middle ground between complete and total blizzard unpreparedness and total Bloombag chicken little hurricane hysteria

if only there were some way that politicians could predict weather patterns better than forecasters

you're gonna disagree with me whiney, but i think this was well handled given the lack of clarity as to how serious this was gonna be.

Even "we don't do looting here"?

considering what's at stake, overpreparing is always better than underpreparing. from everything we knew yesterday, there was absolutely a chance that this was going to be a major disaster.

subways are still probably gonna be fucked for a while.

my internet and cable just came back on after being down for about 15 hours. aside from that, really not an especially intimidating amount of rain or wind here, if i didn't know it was a hurricane i wouldn't have guessed looking out my window.

lights flickered and reset the clocks a couple times but no real power outage at any point, thank god.

my internet and cable just came back on after being down for about 15 hours.

I was wondering why there hasn't been any polls started on ILX in a minute...

The question is, will subways still be fucked at 8am tomorrow.

hey guys what are the odds of the internet going down in brooklyn? would love to go a while without any jizz-themed zings.

absolutely xp

they've pretty much already announced as much? like perhaps they'll be running midday but def not for the morning commute.

Saw the public statements but figured they were just being conservative, and that since it's clear here already, they'd start early on putting it all back together.

Yeah my work declared Monday an off day yesterday morning. Might see a movie if transpo is back up by early afternoon.

Just attempted to embed a certain Barry Manilow song but Youtube keeps crashing my browser...

Even "we don't do looting here"?

my parents e-mailed to say they're fine -- they didn't get any water/power outages, and the only damage to the neighborhood was a downed elm tree. stores are still closed but ppl are out and walking around.

Even "we don't do looting here"?

didn't here this one; link?
― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, August 28, 2011 10:52 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh, it was all over the news, didn't you hear?

the reason i've been kinda smug about the hurricane this whole time is that nyc just doesn't *get* heavy natural disasters, as a general rule. it gets tragic terrorist attacks (once in a very long while, i hope), but weather-wise and earthquake-wise and wildfire-wise, it's been safe from truly bad shit. people were doing what they were supposed to do to stay safe this time, but they didn't need to buy up entire bodegas.

if you have extra food and water that you can afford to let go of, please donate it to a shelter or food bank!

(i know that other parts of the coastal northeast are different and my heart goes out to anyone who has to deal with flooding and/or power outages today.)

My friend in NW Mass is being flooded out right now -- she lives down the street from a creek, which I assume is like 10' over its banks at this point.

it's nice and quiet in watertown. how is it elsewhere in boston. markers? djp? enbb? CAD?

frogbs?

eh I don't think anyone can really be smug about natural disasters in 2011. places that used to get them pretty bad have been getting them *really* bad on a fairly regular basis. and places that used to be safe aren't really safe. a nyc hurricane might be a one-in-a-century disaster but it's not a joke.

still windy as fuck around me, 40-50 mph. prob not leaving the apt today.

it's nice and quiet in watertown. how is it elsewhere in boston. markers? djp? enbb? CAD?

― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's fine here dude! no water in the cellar and power remains on.

forks:

For the second day in a row, the mayor dismissed the notion that some might take advantage of evacuated neighborhoods. Asked about any reports of looting, the mayor replied, "This is New York. We don't have that sort of thing."

via WSJ

eh I think that's just urban cowboy swagger, it's not like the guy didn't live in the city during periods where there was looting

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2011/08/28/irene-in-photos-no-timeline-for-transit-service/#comments

w/r/t train service

yah, that's a dumb comment.

eh I think that's just urban cowboy swagger, it's not like the guy didn't live in the city during periods where there was looting

get one 1977 blackout

"WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO RE-OPEN SUBWAY??"

- whiney g weingarten

Power's out in the Maine woods. Not surprised at all as the wind from a big sneeze seems to rip trees out of the ground.

Pretty bad flooding in Philly

just realized one of the smaller trees behind my building was ripped out of the ground and knocked sideways. kind of surprised, never heard anything loud or even noticed especially strong winds yesterday.

so for some - MOnday = party beer movies and chicken day

"WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO RE-OPEN SUBWAY??"

- whiney g weingarten

lol

my parents' basement in new jersey got completely flooded - heater and furnace destroyed, washer/dryer/fridge are floating. backup generator still working but sump pump gave way. no rain anymore but water's still rising, it's now about two steps from coming into our kitchen. parents currently poring over homeowners' insurance to figure out how the hell to proceed. less importantly, back shed that contains some of my belongings that i didn't bring out west with me is probably also flooded and presumably everything inside it is wrecked.

fuck.

pls review mta in 140 characters or less

can i stop hunkering down yet? the cat really wants to go outside.

my brother lost power in hudson apparently. probably for the best. quiet him down a bit.

Power outage in Maine sounds brilliant...provided you don't die or lose your home. Just sit around reading books with a flashlight and radio.

sorry donna!

wow, donna, sorry. Good luck to your parents.

That oughta shut you whiners up.

tbh did not know Maine had electricity in the first place xps

oh yeah, you can do a lot with maple sirrup and beaver tails.

This storm has made me thankful that this country has the infrastructure it does. Weaker storms could do worse in weaker places.

oh jeez jo3, I'm super sorry and I hope the damage isn't too bad :( More importantly, I hope everything is ok w/ yr 'rents.

Also how the hell did everyone wind up in Philly? Do you guys all live there now or something? How bad does it look over there?

Chicago has had at least a couple of storms the past two summers that have topped 80mph winds, with all the attendant danger/damage. This past July, we had one overnight storm that dropped something like 5-7 inches over the course of two hours, breaking the city's single day record in just that short time. Thousands without power, plenty of flooding. I know folks whose basements were flooded for the first time in 25 years. This stuff is happening more and more all over the place. The difference in this case is that at least the east coast got a several day heads up.

Its becuase of climate change but don't tell the Republicans that

it's the chemtrails, stupid

the red chinese are sliding over the mexican border as we type. ignore at ye peril

http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/9246/wm/pd2926309.jpg

my hometown:

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/291883_710781750565_5400704_35870031_301150_n.jpg

i forgot my jelly at my friend's place, shit

sorry for your loss frogsby

Losing power in Maine isn't bad this time of year, but it sucks eggs in the winter.

Rain has paused but the wind is still at a near howl. Always a bit unnerving to watch 100ft pine trees sway like drunken sailors.

Sorry to hear about your parents place Donna. That sucks.

losing power sucks when your basement floods and your sump pump runs on ...power

basements flood all the time around here. its normal. also normal to get the kind of rain we got last night/today. glad it wasn't worse. feel bad for people in bad situations. glad more people weren't hurt because of this. we are moving tomorrow. we definitely get an A+ for timing. and i'm also really glad to not be doing last minute packing and cleaning by candlelight.

dude, j0e, really sorry about your folks.

oh j0e, sorry sorry!

I still don't get 5 days to restore power to the parts of NJ and cT that are down....

Of course the gay bar in Park Slope has reopened at 2pm. Maybe I'll walk there tonight.

parts of Hoboken and JC look pretty fucked -- glad you're dry, forks.

the bridge of flowers is underwater up the road in shelburne. flooding. river highest its been in years.

i got hella lucky.

"The (MTA) was waiting for high winds to die down before sending out workers for a full inspection of the system. The subway’s 13 underwater tunnels, where officials had expected some degree of flooding, have not been examined yet, officials said."

No way the subway comes back before Monday afternoon/night.

man, Philly doesn't look good. i should give the folks a call.

raining again here, so no walks in the park yet.

PATH service back at 4 am apparently

doesn't really reflect on the chances of the subway being up, tho

tehresa, any news of how your apartment did?

A small tree has finally given up and gently come down on my street in DC, some time this afternoon in the breeze.

donna rouge, I'm sorry - it must be even worse to lose stuff if you aren't on the spot and can't inspect the damage. Hope your folks get some quick resolution from the insurance people.

oh man downtown brattleboro completely flooded. best wishes to them. i feel for my record store brethren on the main drag.

http://www.wptz.com/r-video/29006698/detail.html#.TlqZVWErciM.facebook

Bikes out to Canarsie Pier to see if storm was making exciting waves, to which answer was No, but now we're stuck in a McDonald's waiting out heavy rain.

raging...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za-6bEsvnLA

well, i'm gonna be flying back east in two weeks anyhow, so i guess i get to do in-person damage assessment when i stop over in nj for a night

and thanks all for the kind thoughts

Knocked out the electrical power here (near Wash. DC) for almost a day yet the wind or rains were never that bad; didn't see any fallen trees when I drove around, but electricity was out just about everywhere nearby yesterday, and internet and mobile phone service was spotty. Looking better today.

is your power restored?

yes, as of 2 hours ago for the first time since late last night (and it was out earlier yesterday as well)

Hope everyone's getting through this - just heard from some friends whose homes are flooded, etc.

Scott, that's insane about Brattleboro and Shelburne Falls! Power's out in Albany, but sump pump still working (powered by municipal water pressure). Moved everything outta the basement yesterday anyway.

Phew, it's windy out there!

i jogged around my neighborhood (central ct) & the largest & most frequent things knocked down appeared to be those free-standing bball hoops. although it did appear that most of the area has the power out, as i saw several generators running & traffic lights out. happy 2 b living in a condo w/ a backup generator

Specific subway updates from the Post

I asked my boss if she'd heard anything official about the office opening tomorrow, and she said nothing has been decided, company-wide, and we should keep trying to come in tomorrow morning. As if, lady!

That's a laff coming from someone who sometimes works from home if it's raining.

man, serious flooding here too all around. seeing all the pictures on facebook. not gonna go driving around to look. deerfield hit hard as well.

Seeing the images from Vermont. So horrible.

"Power's out in Albany, but sump pump still working (powered by municipal water pressure)"

does that work well? I'd love to have that ability

No one's discussing it much, but the Outer Banks looked pretty horrible: a whole chunk of road washed away.

i jogged around my neighborhood (central ct) & the largest & most frequent things knocked down appeared to be those free-standing bball hoops. although it did appear that most of the area has the power out, as i saw several generators running & traffic lights out. happy 2 b living in a condo w/ a backup generator

whereabouts in ct? i gotta fly up to hartford for work (i work in windsor/bloomfield) and i'm wondering if it's worth trying to get up there tomorrow morning at all

that brattleboro video is fucking crazy - i know exactly where they're standing recording that :/

No one's discussing it much, but the Outer Banks looked pretty horrible: a whole chunk of road washed away.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:44 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

of course not! there was rain in new york! priorities!

I didn't worry too much as ilxor nijoli no longer lives there.

xxp Latham: I didn't know about the electricity-free sump pump until this morning. Landlord showed us how/that it works; similar principle to a toilet. Good luck in Maine (Portland?)!

obama missed some killer waves on the vineyard. he should have stuck around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCsxwAOt1I&feature=player_embedded

Reminds me of the one dumb-ass who drowned in the "tsunami" that hit the Bay Area in March.

ugh, so crazy. it might have felt like it at first, but western mass did not get off easy today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_GESfXHbo&sns=fb

whereabouts in ct? i gotta fly up to hartford for work (i work in windsor/bloomfield) and i'm wondering if it's worth trying to get up there tomorrow morning at all

― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:47 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cl&p map shows only like 15% outages in bloomfield & windsor & i dont think any major roads anywhere around here are impacted.....id think youd be fine but idk

power's been out for me for over 12 hrs now - i wouldn't really care since the gym's closed anyway but it's about to be too dark even to read

Scott, shit, my friend is in Williamstown!

She hasn't checked in since around noon, when her street was slowly flooding.

Man, those floods look as bad as the ones we had up in QLD last year (which were insane).

Still no power in the Maine woods. I'm sitting in my idling car in my driveway, charging my phone enough to get me through the night.

Too windy to prop open the shed and run the generator. But at least I'm far enough from the lake that flooding isn't an issue.

I never lost power but when I went out today some buildings and traffic lights just a few blocks away had no power still, which was surprising. Also when I tried to go to a drive-thru near home and the power was out, I headed somewhere else a little further out and got pulled over and ticketed. So I have at least one thing I can blame Irene for indirectly causing that made my day worse, I guess.

now it gets really windy? okay.

Hearing some crazy shit from White River Junction. Water must be rising more even now.

Yeah Portland. My dad just got such a system. I alwatys just have to hook up a generator when power goes out. But I may try to rent the place out so looking for a better way

I don't know if y'all are familiar with the Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction VT, but I guess their library building, an awesome old firehouse, might be a total loss. Students and staff were able to evacuate all of the books first in the middle of the night. A fucking freight container floated down the river and hit the bridge next to the library.

Holy shit, Jon! I'm so glad the second sentence included the words "able to evacuate all the books" because damn.

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/james_sturm_ccs_schulz_library_building_potentially_lost/

sounds like they came out okay somehow, that's a blessing

my archival training speaking here but in addition to the human and structural costs i invariably also worry about the cultural costs of natural disasters - minor in the scheme of things but my mom told me that my dad's home movies were in our now-totally-flooded basement, and i'd been looking forward to inspecting them to make sure they've held up after forty+ years

insurance-wise my folks are getting at least enough to pay for a new heater, which is good, and some of our outside family members are pitching in to help defray other costs. the insurance company also set them up with a cleaning company to take care of our basement, which is very good because i can't fathom my parents trying to tackle that mess themselves

I've been picking up branches for two hours. Anyone want enough branches to build a lean-to big enough for a family of four?

Gutted to see the damage in the Upper Valley area of VT/NH. Puts my whining about no power (still out, by the way) in perspective.

Nate Silver asks if Irene deserved the hype.

the narrative was 'nyc gonna blow away!!' and the fact that the city got off relatively okay makes it easy for the media to ignore how bad other places did get hit.

okay okay okay okay grosses tthing ever:

http://www.boston.com/news/source/2011/08/during_irene_tv.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed2_HP

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/08/28/2011-08-28_fox_weather_reporter_tucker_barnes_gets_covered_in_sewage_reporting_on_hurricane.html

OMG after seeing that video this weekend I am now completely disgusted.

"It's got kind of a sandy consistency... it doesn't taste great"

horrifying

Oh no! I thought it just sea foam and as such, it seemed almost charming. :(

Yeah, thats what I thought when I saw the video yesterday too!

I rather stupidly escaped a high and dry part of Brooklyn to Western Mass, where we had down trees and serious flooding. A small creek or river near us became a massive gusher, formed an entirely new path over someone's field and began rushing over the main road (luckily there was a back-road way out). I'll post a pic later.

omg is he going to be ill or what?

Man, I am sorry for the folks who are getting nailed by this thing. NYC was unscathed but this storm was no joke. I have a friend in Boston who has been w/out power since Saturday night. :(

the power in my hometown was supposed to be out until the 4th but it appears some places have it up and running now - phone, internet and tv are still out, though

nothing's too nasty for TV 'journalists', yay!

He seemed to be trying too hard to convince us that he thought "it doesn't taste great," ya know?

My power has been out since Saturday night. Morristown, NJ.

next time stay out of the fucking way you dill bag journalist

otm

(swells with pride)

that video is awful and hilarious

btw it is crazy to me that ppl in Boston have been without power for multiple days, my area of Somerville was barely touched

Had a tornado dream last night (residual Irene stress I guess).

sup, haven't had power for 2.5 days, won't for maybe another week, showering by pouring a gallon of water over myself when i don't go to a friend's place on campus, gonna shave at school tomorrow, 'mounted' (taped) a flashlight onto my wall so i can read at night, getting really sick of PB&J, send money/food/help thx

I hope your gluteal cleft can remain somewhat cleansed

there is one branch down on my entire street, djp. there have been a few summer thunderstorms worse than irene around here. i.e. i left the empty trash can out in the yard and when i checked on it after the storm it was standing in the same place, with only a leaf sitting on top.

one day they're going to say "you know what, we're gonna stop fronting on this storm cuz nothing is going to happen" and then 300 mph winds will scoop all of the landfill out of Back Bay and drop it in Malden

Still no power in woodsy Maine, even though all signs of the storm besides very full rivers are cleared away. No estimate yet from the power company ad to when it might be back up.

Going to make a water and gasoline run in a few hours.

Still no power, but I have running water. Plus part of the highway i use to go to work caved in. This is a joke.

that is insane, literally nothing happened to anything near where I live other than some other ppl losing power for a couple of hours

Hurricanes are erratic like that. My parents' power would get knocked out for two weeks while their neighbor on the left side got his back in ten hours. Goddamn electrical grids.

yeah the damage is so widespread and we're low on the priority list as far as the NY/CT area goes

xxpost I heard about that Morristown highway collapse from someone at work today! Crazy. Glad your water is on tho.

Vermont is totally screwed right now--have people been following this? whole roads are still closed, or in some instances whole roads have disappeared, a great independent bookshop in brattleboro lost 100% of their stock, etc etc

Yeah, Vermont is the horror story of the whole thing. Crazy, nightmare shit.

http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-08-30-the-one-inch-escape

Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,
Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, [ 5 ]
Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream,
Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun,
Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice
Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest [ 10 ]
The rising world of waters dark and deep,
Won from the void and formless infinite.
Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing,
Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd
In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight [ 15 ]
Through utter and through middle darkness borne
With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend, [ 20 ]
Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe,
And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou
Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain
To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;
So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, [ 25 ]
Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more
Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt
Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill,
Smit with the love of sacred Song; but chief
Thee Sion and the flowrie Brooks beneath [ 30 ]
That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow,
Nightly I visit: nor somtimes forget
Those other two equal'd with me in Fate,
So were I equal'd with them in renown,
Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides, [ 35 ]
And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old.
Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move
Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird
Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid
Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year [ 40 ]
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose,
Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine;
But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark [ 45 ]
Surrounds me, from the chearful wayes of men
Cut off, and for the Book of knowledg fair
Presented with a Universal blanc
Of Nature's works to mee expung'd and ras'd,
And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out. [ 50 ]
So much the rather thou Celestial light
Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers
Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence
Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight.

that p much means the opposite of how i'm feeling but it's about light and i love that hymn a lot

And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou

I'm still without power.

my hometown: "Hurricane Irene caused historic flooding in some New Jersey communities, none hit harder than Cranford, N.J."

we're #1?

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/31/7540439-in-cranford-nj-entire-lives-piled-high-on-the-sidewalk

certain parts of the town (the streets near the rahway river) are still underwater

I got my power back! Yay!

i'm doing the best I can

heckuva job, etc etc

Would you believe I spent a year covering Cranford, NJ for a chain of weekly papers? A proposed flood control system (I think it involved some pumps and conduits) was a constantly debated issue -- no idea what came of it though. IIRC some locals opposed spending taxpayer money to protect people who insisted on building their homes right on a river, and others felt the protection wasn't worth it with the 'minimal' risk. Others also were afraid of eminent domain, even though I think they only needed to use it to, like, cut across the corner of a few peoples' lawns (not actually to take their houses).

sounds about right

― FEMA Director (brownie), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^ killin it

thx hoos

got my eye on Katia

Katia is the name of my filly.

life has returned to normal and my coworker is on the most boring conference call of all time

one residual effect from irene for me is that my digital clock in my room now runs about 17% too fast - a minute for it takes about 49 seconds of real time

so, life is really short.

How are you gonna know to go to bed when the sun sets so late?

^^^ koan

i always use my cell phone as an alarm anyway - for the time being this is just amusing

one residual effect from irene for me is that my digital clock in my room now runs about 17% too fast - a minute for it takes about 49 seconds of real time

― frogsb (k3vin k.), Thursday, September 1, 2011 8:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is blowing my fucking mind

right now it's 9:13 am

it's really weird

how did the hurrican possibly cause this

idk! the power was out for 3 days and when i reset all my clocks this one started acting strangely

Thats what I was wondering.

I still dont have power from this storm.

Sorry, Bill. Who else needs to check in?

That sucks Bill.

i've probably got 25 friends without power still

Damn, that really stinks!

I called my insurance company today to tell them that my home in Arkansas had roof damage and the operator replied, "From the hurricane?"

http://cstest.avid.com/emoticons/emotion-18.gif

lol :/

i dunno what i'd do without power right now

I would sweat like a mother fucker and probably also cry.

good luck, Bill

:/

Wow, sorry for all the NJ ilxors who are still off the grid. That would really try me.

Here is an interview with the librarian of the CCS Library in White River Junction VT (mentioned upthread) about the flood and the evacuation of the books:

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_sunday_interview_caitlin_mcgurk/

I got it back Sunday afternoon. A week without power. It's difficult, but if that's the worst thing that ever happens to me, i live a charmed life. Luckily it was cool for the first few days, started to heat up Friday.

Glad it returned! A week is tough, though after four days you get resigned to the fact.

i have spent the ENTIRE DAY cleaning my folks' home movies. this shit was worse than i thought.