Hurricane Irene Page 2

Started by 2Cool4Mewtwo August 25th, 2011 8:16 PM
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For those of you who think people are overreacting...the East Coast (or at least the Mid-Atlantic) hasn't seen a hurricane since Isabel in 2003. That was devastating, and it was only a category 1. Irene is expected to move through as a 2. It's similar to Ike (2008) in both sheer size (it's over 600 miles wide) and intensity, and Ike was a disaster of historic proportions in Texas. And Irene is expected to move up the coast pretty much right on the edge of the water, meaning it's not going to lose much strength.

Irene's expected to directly pass right over where I live tomorrow. Heavy, torrential rain starts tonight and goes through Sunday morning, with 10-15 inches quite possible. They're calling for up to 90 MPH winds. And to top it all off, the heart of the storm is expected to move through pretty close to high tide, meaning that the storm surge is going to top off already high water. Everything is in place for this to be a really really devastating storm, if not disastrous...probably the worst storm we've experienced in my lifetime.
Isabel was stronger than a category one and stronger than Irene at landfall.
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It's getting pretty bad here. The wind is absolutely wicked and it's been raining cats and dogs. The eye is a little over 100 miles south of us, so we're not even getting the hurricane conditions yet - and won't until tonight. Crossing my fingers that we'll keep power, but I'm not optimistic.

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Ugh, this is awful. I'm sooo freakin' out, due to having a number of friends in it's path. @[email protected] Bugs me because it's like "I'LL HELP YOU D8", but then I'm stuck in freakin' Kansas, and we can't do anything to stop it anyway. I'm just hoping that things don't get too bad. If Virginia and surroundings states lose power, then.. ugh. At least people will have cellphones for a time, but eh.


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I'm in New Jersey, I'm awaiting it's wraith at the moment...
Same, though its raining pretty hard right now. Waiting for the wind.

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The power went out for an hour at about noon, I hope since we're supposed to be getting the worst of it tonight, that we wont lose power. We lost the water during that hour too. Mom says if that happens again, she wants to leave the house and go to a hotel where there is running water for the night.
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Ugh I live in Virginia and I had to exactness to Martinsville, but I just ate really good homemade food at a restaurant that cost really good for me and family and friends totaling nine!

Omg did you see what was on the news!

The News Reporter was standing out in Virginia talking about how Virginians aren't taking the hurricane seriously and a guy walks out of his home behind the cameraman and pools his pants down and the agency or whatever that delays stuff on tv by seven seconds so they can censor it couldn't censor the guy pooling his pants down and showing his junk on tv. ROFL XD

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Fortunetely I don't live in the U.S but I hope everyone is okay over there!

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It was raining this whole day. Not extremely hard, but it wasn't a light drizzle either. No thunder or lightning either. Glad there weren't any power outages.

Buut my sister said that it'll get worse where I live tomorrow. Hopefully that isn't true, but it probably will be.
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there have been 10 reported deaths as of this postand hundreds of thousands have lost power...sure looks awful but imagine if it had come as a level two instead of weakening to one...hope there's no more deaths.
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I'm in New York (Long Island, to be specific) and it's raining men, hallelujah! really hard. The winds are pretty fast, but they're still kicking in. There's also some lightning and thunder. I just hope that no one in my area gets harmed so that they can just continue with their lives if they take precaution.

The power here keeps restarting, but it doesn't go out for us, it seems.

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Wonder what New York is going to look like tomorrow. Right now it's just empty and rainy.
I'm going to bet money on that besides broken windows, trees, power lines - you know, the stuff that a normal strong storm would do, nothing will be that different.
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I live in Queens, New York City, which is right next to the heart of New York City, Manhattan, and I must say, I didn't go through much, really. Other than it raining all night, no destruction, no power outages, or any of the like for me. I haven't gone outside yet, so I dunno about the flooding in my area, but I don't live in ANY of the zones placed in New York City (my school was in Zone A though, downtown Manhattan, which is where it was supposed to hit hardest and get flooded... fingers crossed for late school). I slept through the whole thing, and I must say, personally, it was nothing. I do know that this thing caused massive damage down south though, along with a ton of flooding elsewhere in NYC, and my heart goes out to them.
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it just passed me, actually. on friday we were getting rain bands and small gusts of 50 mph wind, but there wasn't massive destruction. my uncle lives in new york city, he said the earthquake wasn't that bad for him, and he's excited about the hurricane (he LOVES storms). i'm still very worried about him though.
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Steven

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The hurricane already passed NYC. Just goes to show that my prediction of almost nothing happening and that this was overhyped so much was completely true.

The only thing I have heard so far from Irene is inland flooding and power outages along with very minor damage. No major damage, a death toll of 11 I believe is very low for a hurricane, although still sad.

This storm wasn't strong at all. It was overhyped. Now everyone is just staring at themselves wondering why worse didn't happen.
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Ahh thank god thats good then, I have a few friends over there. and i havn't heard from them in a few days. Lucky over here. In england we hardly ever ever get tornados.
Tornadoes and hurricanes are two completely different things.

This is a tornado. A tornado, at the strongest possible scale is probably a kilometer wide.

This is a hurricane. They can become the size of states/countries depending on the size of the states. That hurricane is obviously way bigger than a single kilometer.
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The hurricane already passed NYC. Just goes to show that my prediction of almost nothing happening and that this was overhyped so much was completely true.

The only thing I have heard so far from Irene is inland flooding and power outages along with very minor damage. No major damage, a death toll of 11 I believe is very low for a hurricane, although still sad.

This storm wasn't strong at all. It was overhyped. Now everyone is just staring at themselves wondering why worse didn't happen.
The media always seems to overhype these things...among other things.Lucky you guys didn't get the worse case scenerio :)any date on when New york will open up it's subways?
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Hey, guys, remember Harold Camping? The guy who predicted the Rapture/End of life on Earth while the internet laughed at him and held parties?

Read this.

http://judgementday2011.com/

"Hurricane Irene just another sign the Rapture is near"
"Earthquake and the floods prove end of the world is near"
"Earthquake in D.C. shakes the East Coast -- Another Sign of the End of the World"

Are you serious? This is both laughable, sad, and maddening at the same time.