Goodnight, Irene

I'll see you in the AM.

I refuse to drive 400 miles (800 miles round trip) to avoid this Hurrinothing. I've already endured an earthquake this week, I can certainly handle some wind & rain.

I'll be on my deck.

With my cats.

See you then, Irene.

For the rest of y'all, I'll see you Live as soon as I can

Good luck Voodoo. Let us know if you come out of this alright.

Being a resident of Jersey, I support VoodooGirl.

I'm on the Jersey shore in the burbs.

I just did something tonight that I haven't done in ten years in this house: I threw the deadbolts on my front and back doors. Don't want the wind to force them open.

Live in D.C. Near ground zero of the quake. Irene is not scary at all.

Im in conneticut, in a homeless shelter near the beach. Lol i hope they open up another one otherwise ill be flying this weekend. Literally haha. nah i dont think irene is gonna hit too hard, might just kiss the coast. But people are really making a big deal out of this. Im sure we're all gonna be just fine. Be safe all. better have a few battery packs saved up for your laptops or a generator so you can still play coh lol.

As someone down in Atlanta who's only hearing hype about the whole thing and seeing a vague wall of grey cloud whenever I look to the north, I'm beginning to be a little concerned that the last post I see here was at just after 8am...

Anyone with a connection up there able to let the world know it's all gonna be okay?

Pretty sure it's just an issue of no one wanting to post in here that the last response was from 8am. To those the hurricane applies to, I think they're boarding up. To everyone else, hurricane doesn't apply so they probably won't post about it.

I can say a lot of the people I called at work said they were busy getting ready for the hurricane. And since they had time to spare on the phone, I'd say they're pretty safe.

I taped my cats to the window with the X's so they can watch debris fly by. I figure if they like watching birds they'll like watching lawn furniture fly by.

BTW, the rain is just beginning to the downpour and the wind is slowly, slowly coming. The supermarkets were packed and devoid of yesterday, at 9AM they were packed and devoid of everything.

That's when I remembered: I own an obscene amount of tupperware, two bread makers, and a 3lb bag of rice. I've spent my day cooking and baking bread.

I live on the south shore of Long Island. My town was in the evac south (South of Sunrise Highway) but we decided to stay.

Fortunately the hurricane wasn't as bad as they predicted, in my area anyways.

Some neighboring towns got hit much harder than we did.

We lost power briefly Sunday 3:00am but it came back on within a minute. Our cable and internet held out until Sunday late afternoon. It's been offline since. What really sucks is that there's service a few blocks from my house. There's no ETA when service on my block will be restored. So that means no CoH until it's fixed

I've been tethering my cell phone for internet here and there but my phone gets super hot if I leave it going for too long.

The railroad on my branch is still suspended. I had to catch a ride to work with my brother this morning - meant getting up 90minutes earlier than usual, and being at work an hour early. Ugh. Not sure how I'm getting home lol

tl;dr

Hurricane wasn't as bad in my area. I'm safe. No internet/cable. Trains not running.

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I came out completely unscathed. Though, it's still going to take a long time to drink all the water stored in the bathtubs.

that was a hugre hurricane...Irene isnt scary enough lets call it Lucifer next time....
Huge Lucifer heading for the east coast...see scary

East coast of NJ. We will not have power back until Thursday (earliest) or next Tuesday (latest)

>That feel when you're living in Texas, still in the middle of a drought and heat wave
>East Coast is getting hit by a hurricane

Wanna trade? I miss the rain.

Actually its so if the power and water go out, he can flush the toilet.

Being a long time hurricane vet, coastal plain reservoirs and water pipes are usually right in the hurricane path as well, storing water in bathtubs and sinks means you'll have it to use for toilet, washing, etc, and if you have no other storage, drink and cook (with some boiling) if your water supply gets contaminated by debris or shut off.

I live on Long Island. Luckily my area was ok. however, there are areas that, according to LIPA our monopolized power company, may not have power back on until September 28th.

Northern Connecticut here, and potentially out of power until Saturday.

There are currently (at the exact time of this post) 363750 people served by one power company that are out of power, or 29 percent of their customers, with 1786 of them in my town alone and 8 downed trees within a mile of my house.

I'm running on a generator. Fun times.

To Hurricane Irene,