Thread: Irene is coming to the East coast ~ anyone else in it's path?

ugh... this looks just... not good

It was pretty much a non event here. Some rain and wind. I hope others get the same treatment.

RT 12 - the only road on Hatteras Island was breached in at least one place. Flooding has been described as 'Epic' - for whatever that's worth.

'Epic' flooding breaches Outer Banks highway :: WRAL.com

From what I can gather at this time Villages of Avon and Rhodanthe got pretty wet, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras not so much. Still it appears Hatteras might be cut off for a while.

Relatively calm for me last night, more wind than rain today. What a light show coming from Jersey though, must've been power lines bursting? Didn't seem like lightning from my vantage point. Biggest inconvenience? No 3G access tonight. I'm very grateful. I hope everyone else did as well

yea att phone service is down.. but i lost power just on and of a few times.
Lots of trees down... BIG trees that wiped out power and phones lines everywhere.

Bassguy.. I saw some pretty nasty pics from downtown where water was pretty high in the streets.

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

It was pretty much a non event here. Some rain and wind. I hope others get the same treatment.

Same here in Woodley Park, although it was pretty much what they said it would be - lots of rain and people without power (although our power is on). My thoughts are with those in the hard hit areas.

Originally Posted by Earthdawn

ugh... this looks just... not good

Great picture tho...

Ok, now I'm starting to worry.

jmbbabson hasn't checked in, and I've not heard from Jim and Sharin on Hatteras Island since Saturday Morning. All cell calls are pumped immediately to Vmail and two of the four websites that post daily fishing reports haven't posted... the other two are down.

I know the road is severed in a few places, but storms much more severe than this last one has never resulted in this much lack of communication.

I lived there for years... I know they're doing what they always do... and it's only because I'm not there doing it with them that really irks me 'cause they can't tell me what they're doing... lol.

I'll bet the fishing is epic!

At least I know they're eating well.

Here's something to watch while we wait...

sorry i didn't check in earlier guys! it was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it got up here so it was just a pretty good rainstorm which turned into lots of wind up here west of boston. lots of trees and debris down in some places and major power outtages across the state. monday morning had 500,000+ people without power. we were without power for about 12 hours on sunday but it came back before monday morning

glad to hear everyone seems to be ok

Jersey has some serious flooding from the rivers. The water levels here in NJ broke records so we are still dealing with that. My house was fine lost power for only a moment and had no water problems.

The serious part of Mother Nature is that when you take her for granted, she'll bite your ass everytime. Better prepared than not.

Hope all is well.

Originally Posted by jmbbabson

sorry i didn't check in earlier guys! it was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it got up here so it was just a pretty good rainstorm which turned into lots of wind up here west of boston. lots of trees and debris down in some places and major power outtages across the state. monday morning had 500,000+ people without power. we were without power for about 12 hours on sunday but it came back before monday morning

glad to hear everyone seems to be ok

Nice to hear from ya.

Yea, I knew it wasn't the 'storm of the century' or anything, but it was a slow mover and pretty juicy. We got plenty of rain here and were well out of her beat down path.

TS Katia forms... something to watch.