Hurricane Irene

[flipsta_lombax]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Yeah, I never said it wouldn't lol I'm just saying where I'm at, it's ****in boring haha

Be "****in" greatful you're not one of the 1 million right now without power and of the 6 dead.

[Plan_Bsk81127]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Im in upper Delaware, but nothing much has happened yet here, just a light wind and some rain.

[ichliebekase]

Re: Hurricane Irene

It's actually peculiar that we still have power because a friend a few streets over lost power already. But we have a generator just in case either way.
And yea, looking at the radar and it's saying that we're in the yellow/orange and it isn't doing much. That's what Frankie was trying to say before. So either the radar is incorrect or it truly isn't much to worry about.
Also, you can't really go off of meteorologists' predictions much anymore. They have said that this storm would be a category 4 and a tropical storm within the same day. I say just ride it out and don't be stupid.

My mom just walked in saying that it was thundering but I haven't heard it yet. Probably because Frankie's FFR music and tapping is too loud :X

Stay safe.

[MrGiggles]

Re: Hurricane Irene

I drove through a few heavy storm bands just now, just the occasional 15 minutes of extreme heavy downpour, I was crawling along CT-15 at 20 miles an hour because the visibility was so bad. Town curfew set for midnight and a tornado warning added to a long list of other warnings.

wheeeeeeeeeeeee brb gonna watch ponies all night marathon

[psychoangel691]

Re: Hurricane Irene

yup, tornado warnings all over Jersey now too.

[TC_Halogen]

Re: Hurricane Irene

The only area that Irene was forecast to be a category 4 was off the eastern coastline of Florida, parallel to Jacksonville. That never happened - it kept category 3 wind-speeds for a while, then suddenly started decreasing at a pretty gradual rate (wind shear, possibly?).

This was also when the Northeast was expected to get hit with wind-speeds of 100-110 MPH, when the hurricane was first forecast.

Also seems like that tornado threat that was mentioned earlier is going to be much more widespread - there's already warnings out for the southeastern portion of PA/southwestern portion of NJ.

[Plan_Bsk81127]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Tornado hit in lower Delaware, someone my mom knows beach house was completely destroyed from what I was told.

[megamon88]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Thankfully I live in Ottawa so I won't be getting hit. Best of luck to those affected though.

Also

wheeeeeeeeeeeee brb gonna watch ponies all night marathon

Come to the bronystate stream

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hurricane Irene

It's better to act rather than be dumb, do nothing and wait for something bad to happen. 3 people died in NC when Irene hits the coast as a Category 1. Betcha those 3 thought the same thing.

It's suppose to hit Long Island directly with Cat. 1 sustained winds. Storm surges late this evening +high tides + 10-15+ inches of rain = flooding. If you're feeling brave buddy, best wishes to you.

I have family in Nassau county. I really hope they'll be alright.

It's actually up to 10 or so right now... which is actually really, really incredibly low.

I'm not saying hurricanes aren't powerful. They'll certainly kill you if you happen to get hit by a tree branch or if you brave the weather and end up in a car accident. But this just goes without saying.

There's a huge difference between overreacting to ignorance and fear and doing nothing. The best way to treat a situation like this is to take it at face value. Yes, it'll be a decently strong force that will break trees and probably wreck quite a few houses/buildings and shatter windows/etc. It'll cause a decent amount of flooding. But it's not like it's the end of the world, and there are very simple precautions you can take to maximize your safety.

You can spend like ten minutes learning a bit about the raw data and the historical/statistical implications and you'll find that (in my opinion) there's a huge level of overreaction compared to the level of damage this thing will actually inflict. It'll be a large inconvenience, but protecting yourself here is easy. It's not like we're getting hit with the shit you get over in, say, Hong Kong.

[psychoangel691]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Welp the heavy rains are starting here and we already have like a small river running down our road lol.

[MrGiggles]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Wow wtf I just lost power already the storm is so far away this third-world power grid shtick is awesome

Great big boom came with the power loss, it was prob a tree since I didn't see any lightning. Now I get to be hot and bored for the next 36 hours.

[MrGiggles]

Re: Hurricane Irene

**** YOU OBAMA we all know it's his fault

[Frank Munoz]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Wow wtf I just lost power already the storm is so far away this third-world power grid shtick is awesome

Great big boom came with the power loss, it was prob a tree since I didn't see any lightning. Now I get to be hot and bored for the next 36 hours.

That's what happened to me XD.
Mine was down for 6-7 hours

[Nyokou]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Nothing happened to my family really, just light outage. Wasn't really worried in the first place... they don't live near any tall trees or anything. Which was the cause of like 2 deaths down in VA. Maybe 3.

[Nurotasama]

Re: Hurricane Irene

Wow wtf I just lost power already the storm is so far away this third-world power grid shtick is awesome

No loss of power where I had to evacuate to.

The lower section of the apartment building where I live, though, is submerged in water. And they had to cut power to the surrounding area out in west Hoboken due to multiple fallen power lines in the water.