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.
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.
I did think the media overreact, but I've had power outage for more than 24 hours and I'm still having it right now. My laptop has 20 minutes left and I had to "borrow" a public internet just so I could do some basic stuff and revisiting pokecommunity, etc. This just sucks.
At least you have internet! Most the people without power are also without internet - for obvious reason.
I once had to go 3 days without power in the middle of winter thanks to a horrible ice storm followed by a blizzard. Yay for lake effect snow. -_- I'd gladly be without power if I were on the coast.
I personally don't think it was an overreaction.
Keep in mind that they were predicting Irene to be a strong Cat 3 or even a Cat 4 when it made landfall in NC. It was predicted to be a Cat 2 when it hit NY. The reason it weakened was because it sucked in a lot of dry air after turning north and didn't reorganize in time.
The only reason people are considering it an overreaction was because it weakened. Considering the amount of people affected by this storm, I don't think it was an overraction at all.
Landorus, jab2033 said NC as in North Carolina, not NYC as in New York City for the area to be affected by the Category 3 landfall.