Hurricane Irene IV
It's bucketing down now, but I still have power. Then again, the storm is moving very slowly. The eye is due to make landfall on Long Island around noon tomorrow. According to CBS:
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Irene's sustained winds were topping out at 80 mph while the storm was moving north-northeast at a 17 mph clip. It was centered about 195 miles south-southwest of New York City. Although forecasters say Irene will be moving over cooler waters, it is still expected to stay a hurricane until landfall again near Long Island, N.Y., about midday Sunday.
Then again, a report by the Sydney Morning Herald says that Hurricane Irene has torn into New York, hammering Manhattan's skyscrapers with fierce winds and threatening to flood the financial district after killing at least nine people along the US east coast.
It isn't supposed to be here yet. But who knows?
A lot of people have lost power already--more than 36,000 in New York City and the suburbs..
No news interrupting my TV shows yet, however. And I've seen that happen often enough with blizzards and such.
Right now I'm just hanging on and hoping that it's not going to be as bad as everyone says.
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The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Irene's sustained winds were topping out at 80 mph while the storm was moving north-northeast at a 17 mph clip. It was centered about 195 miles south-southwest of New York City. Although forecasters say Irene will be moving over cooler waters, it is still expected to stay a hurricane until landfall again near Long Island, N.Y., about midday Sunday.
Then again, a report by the Sydney Morning Herald says that Hurricane Irene has torn into New York, hammering Manhattan's skyscrapers with fierce winds and threatening to flood the financial district after killing at least nine people along the US east coast.
It isn't supposed to be here yet. But who knows?
A lot of people have lost power already--more than 36,000 in New York City and the suburbs..
No news interrupting my TV shows yet, however. And I've seen that happen often enough with blizzards and such.
Right now I'm just hanging on and hoping that it's not going to be as bad as everyone says.
This entry was originally posted at http://gehayi.dreamwidth.org/432818.html. Please comment there using OpenID.