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

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 Mvcrash

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

Thank you. I had to turn off the Today Show this morning when they got to their ridiculous segment about "Was Irene over-hyped" and "Were evacuations necessary?"

Maybe I'm a little more passionate about that subject as a Floridian who was in Ft. Lauderdale during Andrew, but still; of all the catastrophic disasters, hurricanes probably offer the most warning. Flippin' heed it and be thankful if it just winds up being an inconvenience.

Glad to hear all of our affected SRP members reporting in.

I finally got my power back on yesterday evening. It was out a whole week and some others still don't have theirs back.

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.