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. . . thoughts on Irene . . .

Good luck to all those in possible harms way.

In Charlotte we are not even predicted to have rain....

Be as safe as possible, and as mentioned, things are just things; life is most important and once everything is done with that's all that matters.

Walker
 
I'm right in the path on the WRONG side of the storm (close to where the eye is like to pass)...done what I can to prepare (everything outdoors that could be a projectile is now inside)...thankfully on high ground, but still within 5 miles of the shore. I fear that Sunday will be a bumpy ride...getting my chores and walking in today. So far, it's encouraging that the wind speed is coming down, but Gloria and Bob created enough of a mess in recent memory to know what the clean-up will likely be like. Thank goodness we trimmed and added cables to a shade tree in our yard earlier this year.

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/hurricanes/#!/2011/Irene?hp

Hang in there folks!
 
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So far so good.......
It has been raining here pretty steady since about 10 last night. Lights have flickered a few times but have not lost power yet. We are getting sustained winds of around 20mph with an occasionaly gust. The worst of it is still about 3 hours south of us so I expect we will lose power around then. It has been fairly dry so the flooding in my neighborhood should be minimal and not get into any homes. I suspect those closer to the coast will see some pretty high water. Low areas of Norfolk will probably not fare to well.

The Kenwood KT-8300 is playing like a champ. Not a flicker of static or noise despite the all of the wind and commotion outside. :thmbsp:
 
Just lost a tree in the backyard.
Center of the storm is about an hour away and the wind has realyy picked up.
Looks like we have already got about 5-7 inches of rain with another 3-5 predicted yet to come. Several streets around us are now closed due to flooding.
 
I'm about 100 miles north of NYC and the rains been getting heavy at times here for the past few hours with no wind yet. Just outer band stuff. The real fun begins in maybe 12 hours. From what I've been seeing so far it looks like it's going to slide right up the Hudson River before going over New England. I wish I'd cut those tall trees back earlier this summer.
 
Just got off my shift in the network operations center where I work at midnight. We monitor literally thousands of various networking circuits, mainly in the US, but there are some pretty big circuits we monitor running across the world too. Everything from lowly DSL to 10 gigabit, be it copper or fiber. You name the carrier, we deal with them.

We were busy, although we're typically pretty busy on Saturday evenings, this was a bit more than usual. Ran on the cusp of being overloaded, and did have to call in the oncall tech as we were having a hard time keeping up. I would have thought the majority of it was due to Irene, but that really wasn't the case. Seemed we had more problems in Texas than the east coast.

When I got to work (4 PM CDT) I checked where Irene was, not paying too much attention to her exact location, but an hour or two later I recall we lost a circuit in Norfolk, and at that point the eye of the hurricane wasn't too far from there. The northern reaches of the rain was just entering the NY area. Actually, for whatever reason, I didn't expect the hurricane to reach as far inland as what I saw.

We lost some circuits in several marinas along the coast, but those seem to drop when you look at them cross-eyed. I'm sure that there will be more of an impact when flooding comes into effect. Central offices flooding are a _big_ problem, and I'm sure that will happen.

Reminds me of the flooding in the Nashville area last year. Lost some circuits, called the carriers and worked with them over a period of several days to get repairs done. A few in particular I remember where we were looking for an estimated time to repair, and found out that the central offices were either completely under water, or in one case, the whole building where the central office was located was gone.

I hope everyone in the path of the hurricane is as safe as possible.

Fsck! I just realized that I bought Delirium Nocturnum as opposed to Tremens. Damn bottles look too much alike and I wasn't paying attention. Nocturnum is a nice beer too, but Tremens is one of my favorites. Needed a few Belgian beers after that experience.

John
 
merrylander said:
Goodbye Irene, blew your head off but this old house gave you the New York State bird. All is well that ends well.
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hahaha .... good work ....
this thing is over us (Albany, NY) right now as I speak... moderate rains, moderate winds and the powers still on ... so far so good ....
 
Thank God, that wasn't terrible for my family. I'm very sorry that others were not so lucky. :(
6" of rain, only a few big gusts, so not even any limbs fell. The power never even went out.
My only fear was either the big 50' maple across the street or the 50' linden next door falling onto the house, but the wind never got strong enough.
Had some major road flooding (U.S. 20) due to a river right next to it, but the state just reopened it.
School opening has been delayed until Tuesday.
 
Coming home from New England, Lauriann & I "skirted" it, but we were in rain/wind about all day. When we were in Virginia, it was about in Maryland, the clouds/sky were BIZARRE looking. Mind you, we were at the outer limits of the storm, but still, Wow....
 
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