Hurricane Irene

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Originally posted by 55mom:

Thanks for sharing the hurricanes, but I've had my fill. You can keep 'em!

I think over the years you guys have been hit worse than here, where I live anyway.

Stay safe everyone!

The tornadoes of April 27 here in Alabama changed my life. Not from damage to my house, but from my awareness and preparation for natural disasters. Over a week with no power and all that entails will humble you, and change your thought process. I am praying for people experiencing this hurricane now. My son is at USNA Annapolis, and my HSBBWeb friend Bear lives in Maryland, I hope they are riding it out OK.

I'm 30 minutes outside of Philly. Can't believe my power is still on. Good luck New England.

Reporting in from CT'and we have no power. Looks like Irene decided to take a tree down in our driveway and snapped all the wires off our house. Mostly our town is without power and many streets are flooded. Good news is it is supposed to be a beautiful day tommorrow for cleanup.!! Stay safe...

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That's the attitude to have Mom! Stay safe.




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An opinion from across the pond.

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No power (and therefore no water), tree down against the house, power lines across some roads, but really not that bad overall. Mere incovenience.

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Whew!

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Are the widespread power outages due to actual damage or a proactive shutdown by the power company? I heard the generation plants were shut down.

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Originally posted by biggerpapi:
Are the widespread power outages due to actual damage or a proactive shutdown by the power company? I heard the generation plants were shut down.

In NC the power outages are due to damage. CNN reported a plant went off line in Maine due to a transformer being hit by debris.

I'm a bit concerned about G---62. There was a lot of damage to the island.

and Vermont might be sliding into the Atlantic soon. golly.

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"...and Vermont might be sliding into the Atlantic soon. golly."

Slip slidin' away?




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Gotta' love her!



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on the nh coast,we had the wind side of the storm, not so much rain. power outages due to trees, could be a day or two till every one has it. all in all, not that bad.

My brother in NJ had nothing while my friends a bit further north had extreme flooding.

I heard this morning 11 have died.

If they had not given out warnings more could have been killed.

I don't get why people in the outer banks stayed in their homes and now stranded and have to be brought food and water.

Kill Devil Hills got pounded.

Lots of rain, and not so much wind here in Northern NJ. Basement had water coming in through the floors for the 2nd time in 20+ years (last time was hurricane Floyd). Our power stayed on, but many around us still have none. My son and I spent Saturday night with a wet vacuum and mops to keep the water contained to a small area and away from the boiler. Lots of people had it much worse, then losing a nights sleep. Many within 5 miles of us where taken away from there houses by boat. They remain in my prayers.

Over 4 million lost power. Here in MD we had 820 K lose power, second most to VA. I think about half have been restored. My county still has over 80 K without power. No school today, and I know that my son's school still doesn't have power. They expect all power to be restored by this weekend. My power went out briefly a couple times, but never lost it so I'm lucky. I got a small roof leak but I can live with that. Got about 6 inches of rain in about 18 hours here on top of already saturated ground. Quite a few downed trees and some flooding, but nothing close to Isabelle in 03.

We are getting slow, steady, post IRENE damage reports here in Texas. I have two aunts and one cousin on the Island, they did pretty well in Amityville.

Prayers to all dealing with the power loss, wind, and water damage.

Our thoughts are with you as you recover and rebuild!

Chris Powe & Family
GED10DaD

ECU is closed. Dorms damaged and trees knocked over, electric out. Flooding near the ball field, but I can't find out if it spilled over. (I'm thinking not)

Tornado warnings again tonight. aaack

I'm glad this mess is over with and I hope the cleanup goes well. It could have been worse than it was and there are 21 families that will never be the same. Keep praying for the ones who need it.

Finally got cable back (therefore internet) All of mine are OK, lowest level of house flooded, not too bad compared to others here on the Westside...for those familiar w/ area, Colington, Bay Drive in KDH, Kitty Hawk Village, Kitty Hawk Landing, Martins Point, Manteo, Manns Harbor,Wanchese, stumpy Point, bad flooding. Hatteras Island bad soundside flooding and new inlet just north of Rodanthe.Crazy thing we never lost power.Spent the last two days scrubbing/disinfecting. No idea when school will start. They started to let tourists back in today, many are upset that they didn't keep them out at least one more day....oceanfront up this way is good and that's they'll be hopefully. A few sightseeers around and it makes people angry. They have enough energy to go look at others misery, but not enough to volunteer to help out...errrrrrr! Here's a link to some pics, many in my neighborhood (most) http://youtu.be/z0n_WeK3aqc Thanks all for your concern.