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

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

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricaneirene; irene; livethread; storm; tropical
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To: thouworm

I apologize for being so tardy with our status, but all is well on my island. Some trees and branches are about, around 10 boats broke loose, there are some houses who lost power but we fared very well.

The best part was my dog having a swim on Ditmar St. Not Ditmar St. beach, but Ditmar Street! I walked in the water up to my knees, and she willingly followed. The tree huggers were aghast, said I should get home quickly to de-contaminate and give the dog a bath too!!! OMG! I’ve been swimming in this water for 55 years, and it’s better now than it ever was for whatever ails ya.

So that’s why I’m so late with this. Been out all day having a wim here and there, checking things out, chatting with neighbors, and like that.


2,321 posted on 08/28/2011 1:31:37 PM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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To: clyde260

Thanks much for your local update from another slice of paradise!


2,322 posted on 08/28/2011 1:34:42 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
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To: thouworm

Ooooops, didn’t mean to be rude, thank you thouworm for your concern, and I’m glad you enjoyed my rant. So enjoy this: some of the kids on Ditmar St. grabbed a surfboard and had great fun. The memories are still in the making!

PS: wim = swim


2,323 posted on 08/28/2011 1:36:03 PM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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To: RedMDer

Yay for electricity! And hot showers, hot meals, hot coffee...


2,324 posted on 08/28/2011 1:37:00 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
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To: clyde260

Glad to hear you are doing well!


2,325 posted on 08/28/2011 1:40:23 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: clyde260
The dry crik near my house is now raging. No liberals jumping in, yet.



the reporterettes are reminding us to recharge our cell phones cuz the power could still go out. (hartford ct area)
2,326 posted on 08/28/2011 1:51:04 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Mmmmmmmm, that crik loks delicious. Went to Methodist camp in CT as a kid, love the woods up there, birches, pine stands...

“The dry crik near my house is now raging. No liberals jumping in, yet.”

They don’t know how to have fun.


2,327 posted on 08/28/2011 2:00:04 PM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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To: clyde260

Obama is/will be scoring big time positive points due to Irene.....sad IMHO.....


2,328 posted on 08/28/2011 2:05:08 PM PDT by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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To: yield 2 the right

Did you see the Obama/Big Sis presser just now? No teleprompters! However, Big Sis kept looking up, raising her eyes to the absent teleprompters on either side. Looked very weird.


2,329 posted on 08/28/2011 2:11:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
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To: NautiNurse

The most frightening part of Irene for me, those who went through Irene beg otherwise...prayers to them....


2,330 posted on 08/28/2011 2:21:52 PM PDT by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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To: NautiNurse

very weird indeed; Big Sis has no independent mind; that’s why she was chosen.


2,331 posted on 08/28/2011 2:26:25 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: clyde260

Good to hear you are safe and intact and enjoying another day of liberty. Thanks for the update.


2,332 posted on 08/28/2011 2:30:10 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: wardaddy

nothing personal dear but 3-5 inches of rain is not remarkable..high but not a whole lot compared to comparable events...

Camille West Virginia rains in 1969 were 20 inches

Katrina rains up to 15 inches

Nashville floods 2010...15-24 inches

Grandaddy of all was Mitch who lingered over NE Central America and dumped SEVENTY FIVE inches of rain in 3 days...now that is remarkable and then some

I do appreciate your diligence but I am not alone in seeing hype in this storm from jump street

not that it helps those few folks actually impacted

a 3 foot surge is less than high tide in many spots worldwide that are further from the equator


2,333 posted on 08/28/2011 2:39:30 PM PDT by wardaddy (I support Bachmann...or Palin should she enter...but I am not a Palin Harpy...know the difference)
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To: wardaddy

Rain has stopped on the east side of New Hampshire; wind has abated to a gentle breeze. Several of my tomatoes have some bent stems...corn is listing to starboard. Sunny for the next seven days, though...time to repair the damage.


2,334 posted on 08/28/2011 2:44:13 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: thouworm; NautiNurse

Central NH 1730 report - it’s over. That was it?

I don’t understand the track after Coney Island. The “center” is supposedly still in Western MA near Stewartstown (near VT line). But there were very strong sustained winds at Rye Beach NH from 1-4pm (36G51) and the radar says that the heavy rain bands have all moved North into Canada. Our rain ended by 1500 and winds are near calm now, but the barometer is still falling (28.97) consistent with the idea that the low is still getting closer.

It’s almost like, after crossing Long Island, the wind went East and the rain went North. A funny storm, for sure.

The tree guys just finished cutting the trees out of our power lines, so MuniElectric should be along to turn the power back on any day now. Except for a few branches this was a big nothing.

Thank heavens we have a President who can tame monster hurricanes.


2,335 posted on 08/28/2011 2:46:13 PM PDT by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I saw snow in Woodstock Vermont in 1987...big snow too..about 10 inches....35 days later in the year than today

imagine that?

we never get snow in Middle Tennessee before November...usually even early December

my wife was Brasilian ...all she wanted to do was make snow angels....

I love New England...when I was a Manhattanite...it was my go to place...Stockbridge VT, extreme northern NH and Maine..

I actually deer hunted in Vermont...can u still do that?


2,336 posted on 08/28/2011 2:56:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (I support Bachmann...or Palin should she enter...but I am not a Palin Harpy...know the difference)
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To: Jim Noble

A lot of internet hobos at the various free wireless places like Starbucks today, all with laptops, pads and such tap, tap tapping away.

Still no power at home, but where I live we lose power a few times a year, and at least one multi-day outage a year. It’s the fault of the bucolic-ness of my county. The trees are to blame. They get old and having no retirement home to wander off to, they stand there throwing off dead limbs and falling over onto live power lines. Bad trees!

I learned there was a “line-tornado” (a micro burst) in the development just a quarter mile NW that took out two mature oaks and one of them in the throes of death agony ripped off someone’s roof.


2,337 posted on 08/28/2011 3:02:10 PM PDT by bvw
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Wow! The trees have fall colors already up your way? That’s really early this year.


2,338 posted on 08/28/2011 3:18:31 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
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To: wardaddy
I actually deer hunted in Vermont...can u still do that?

Sure can.

2,339 posted on 08/28/2011 3:20:23 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: NautiNurse

Went over to Chincoteague to check on out of town friends’ places. Lots of water, downed branches, but the major crisis appears to be the fact that most of the stores are closed and those that are open are all out of beer.

We were heroes to a couple friends because we anticipated such a problem and had a cooler full in the back of the pickup!

Hubby is no hero to me though, he conveniently left water wading footwear at home, so I was the one slogging through ankle deep marsh water around one place........he’ll pay!

All kidding aside, all places we checked out were just fine, even with the high water.


2,340 posted on 08/28/2011 3:28:11 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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