"All Units....Irene! I Say Again...Irene!"

I have never heard of shelters for snow storms.

They opened up schools and stuff on the fly during the big ice storm but normally everyone just hunkers down where they are during nor'easters which are basically snow hurricanes.

We may get hit with a mandatory evac if it's bad enough, but I don't know what we'll do.

Looking at it, I really think it will be a tropical storm by the time it gets here...The Weather Channel is being really melodramatic about it, but checking out various sources for info makes it seem a bit less "end of the world".

We are watching is closely though.

Tamar do you have a generator? With your needs and medical equipment, it's definitely something you should have.

too bad you don't have relatives in, like, Vermont or someplace that could put you up for the weekend.

Will be saying a little prayer for you hun.

We never get hurricanes in Tennessee. Tornados maybe, but not hurricanes.

Yeah, Tennessee's mountains would disperse that hurricane energy with a quickness.

In Alabama we got a lot of tornadoes that the hurricanes outer edges would spawn.

I read a report from a Space Station astronaut saying the hurricane looks pretty threatening from the big picture view.

I remember Gloria, was living in Charlestown MD then. We got 7 inches of rain and gusts to 75 mph.

The maps don't look good. Ten blocks of flooding from storm surge, even on a category 1 or 2. If Irene gets to a three and hits straight on, you're going to say goodbye to lower manhattan.

So this is what the terrorists have been planning, for the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks!

They sit over there in their little deserts, knowing they are totally safe from hurricanes, and think they can get away with this. But we can still strike back, with a sandstorm like they never saw!

They already stole our earthquake machine and used it against us. Now our hurricane machine?!


Hugo Chavez, you'll get yours!

We had a hurricane party during Gloria.

They are saying that the storm surge could reach as high as ten feet. I have friends in Bayonne who live only a block from the Hudson.

Everybody get aboard the Intrepid!

BTW I've been to the Intrepid - pretty kick ass!

My understanding is that the storm is weakening and that the eye has collapsed. If this thing can slow down to Tropical Storm levels quickly, it'll be a non-event.

The company I work for has its own meterologist (which I find odd, but I guess it makes sense considering the type of company it is).

They just sent out an e-mail to the company saying the storm is still raging strong and will cause significant damage as it makes it's way up the Carolinas and along the Jersey shore into CT before eventually weakening into a tropical storm. But the forecast is for hurricane-force winds between 125 - 130 mph throughout it's entire trek into late Sunday night/early Monday morning.

That's sounds pretty overblown (no pun intended). Irene is already down to 100 mph maximum winds and even those are in a very tight area near the center. You probably won't get any hurricane-force winds at all but may have sustained winds of 60 mph or so for several hours. HUGE difference.

There are few things on Earth better than a good blowjob. :bj:

Glad you're getting some compliments on your good work.

Irene is acting like Ike back in 2008- a very large storm with its energy spread out over a very wide area instead of being concentrated around the eye. The central pressure is low enough but the winds aren't "catching up" to it.

Maybe not. We can still get a foot of rain and hurricane gusts here in Delaware. The eyewall may be trying to reform (at 2300 local here on Friday night). Central pressure is at 949mb with winds still at 100 mph. The wind field will likely expand as Irene heads further north.

The rain is the real concern, with excessive flooding possible. The ground is saturated. We got 2-3 inches of rain on Wednesday and it rained today, plus we got 6 inches two Sundays ago. It won't take much rain to wash us all away.

Beware of the storm surge.
The size of the storm is decieving.
People try to evaluate the surge to the magnitude of the storm and really the size of the storm plays a bigger role in the swell than they try to tell you. Ike was a lesson in this problem.

Ike's size carried the surge of a cat three or four pushing a wall of water inland for miles, it was like eighteen to twenty feet at the coast coming across Bolivar and flat wiped out all but the strongest of buildings. The debris field was shockingly far inland and extensive for many, many miles.
I didn't head out and look initially but two months later when I went to Port Author to pick up a van I bought there were debris piles well over ten feet high that had been bulldozed off of the highways and the treelines were clearly marked where the saltwater had inundated the areas in some places eight and ten feet high in the trees. Remember, we're talking miles inland.
There are still large areas that have not been rebuilt, nothing but pilings left in rows where houses once sat upon them. Sad really.

There were some poor bastards on Bolivar that were stuck riding it out on the roof of the business that they worked in when they disreguarded warnings to evacuate. Can you imagine a hundred plus winds stuck on top of a building with no shelter? Man, that would be terrifying.

You can bet there were some crapped pants in that bunch.

Gov, Christie yesterday, speaking of the evacuation of the Jersey Shore: "I saw some footage on the news of some people on the beach at Asbury Park. Folks, GET THE HELL OFF THE BEACH!!! You've maximized your tans, it's time to leave!"

Ooohhh...maybe Irene will wipe out the cast of Jersey Shore! Bonus!

All people look at is wind speed. But even tropical storms can do catastrophic damage- Alison in Houston and Agnes in 1972 in the Mid-Atlantic.

So this flatbed truck stops in front of the house with... a house on it! My first thought was "this may be taking evacuation a bit too far." Turns out a neighbor was getting a tool shed delivered.

Five inches of rain so far. We could get a foot. Portions of lower-central Delaware (around Milford) already have 10 inches. Tornado around Lewes, DE damaged 15 homes. Power is starting to flicker here. The eye is supposed to pass by us around 2 AM Sunday morning.

We're being told if the power goes, it can be 3-7 days to get it back.

It was nice knowing y'all.

Its a cat1 not a cat4 for God's sake. Yankees are such pussies. STATE of Emergency, blah blah. Shit like this hits the south every year but when it involves the Yankees its so much more important and we have so much sympathy for them

Well, fucker....it's more dangerous up here because our buildings and infrastructure are not designed with hurricanes and tornadoes in mind because they happen so rarely.

Oh, by the way, you have no fucking idea how hard we laugh when you southern pussies cry, whine, stay home or put chains on your tires at the first hint of a flurry. Shutting down everything for 1/4 inch of snow...talk about babies.

You ain't got the mountains we do here. That makes all the difference in the world. When it snows, I can't get out of my drive (climbs about 80 feet) without a 4wd, chains or studded tires. That is just physics.

You are such a jackass.

You probably hide under the bed during thunderstorms with your teddy bear...and your bottle.