Comments | gehayi: Hurricane Irene IV

gehayi

Hurricane Irene IV

Aug 28, 2011 02:34

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 ( Read more... )

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lazy_neutrino August 28 2011, 07:20:28 UTC

Thinking of you.

smurasaki August 28 2011, 07:46:03 UTC

I hope all you get is rain and the power stays on.

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gehayi August 28 2011, 15:07:32 UTC

Ditto!

erastes August 28 2011, 13:55:29 UTC

hope you are ok. I wonder why people talk about the eye? I mean that's the centre of it, so you get bad well before the eye, the eye is calm and then you have the same bad afterwards!

keep safe and be glad you arent in NY!

gehayi August 28 2011, 15:00:32 UTC

I'm very glad that I'm not in NY! All those skyscrapers and high winds? Yeah, not a good combo.

I'm okay. We lost power for a couple of minutes this morning shortly after I woke up, but no more than happens in any rainstorm that goes on for three solid days.

sparkfrost August 28 2011, 19:31:27 UTC

From what I've been reading, Irene has been downgraded to tropical storm. Still lots of power outages due to heavy winds, but not nearly the damage that was predicted.

Best of luck, I hope your power stays on!