Figured I would start a thread ;)

Halfway up Gansett Bay, wind is blowing in the low 30's gusting higher. Already larger limbs are down.

Bay is coming up the end of my street (nothing to worry on where I live) but supposedly a couple streets over one of the small houses along the beach was taken out. If that is happening here - God help those on the beaches out front.

Couple pics:

the RAPTURE is here

Repent all ye

send me your plugs

I came home. Only a matter of time before I lost power with all the trees down.

Not real windy here in the valley. It's pretty nasty up on the hill.

The Sakonnet looked pretty full an hour ago, but it's a big tide to begin with. Don't think it's enough to cause any flooding though...aside from the houses down by Riverside marine. Many of them have crawl spaces just above the high water line.

-spence

Had an 8 ich twig fall on my truck this am......no damage thankfully. Overhyped rainstorm is all it is here in the south shore. I am headed out to return my batteries, candles, milk and water!

The Ocean Mist really needs a webcam,wonder how that neighborhood is holding up?

went out for Breakfeat >as usual .just tasted better

Plenty of places open .

rock & roll @ the marina ,

boats getting a good washing / be set to go when the wind swings to the west & then lays down .

With the Pats, Sox & the race last night >>>I guess its a under the covers afternon delight ><><>:drool:

:bshake::humpty::easy:

I laid in bed till 8:30 waiting for coffee and no one brought it to me, I had to get up and make my own

The wind is blowing pretty good here E.S.E. raining but not heavy,my neighbor has a couple of old trees down in his yard and that's all of the excitement I have for yous guys.
So whats the status on this storm,is it over us now or what:huh:

OK, here is a shot down the street, the bay and marsh is about 1/2 mile from were I am standing. This is were the hurricane made landfall here in NJ.:uhuh:
Not a tree down, no flooding nothing but small puddles on street!!

GO CLAMMER

So whats the status on this storm,is it over us now or what:huh:
I believe it's going to be moving NE across CT for several hours...we should get more wind until around noon and the rain tapering off by afternoon.

-spence

pt. jude report as of 9:30.
steady wind of 45 gust to 60. water never went on to calef at hi tide.
waves of 12 to 15 ft.
got to go champagne is chilled.

power out, and my dumb ass didn't save water for the toilet... Coffees kicking in... Uh oh...hope the dehumidifier is full...
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THIS SUCKS BEING HOME ON A SUNDAY (1st one in a long time)
NO FISHING SHOWS ON ESPN SUNDAY MORNING ANY MORE
Verizon took away the fishing network also :wall:

A few branches down, one dinged the jeep. Not too bad though.

I believe it's going to be moving NE across CT for several hours...we should get more wind until around noon and the rain tapering off by afternoon.

-spence

Thanks,I think I'll stay home with the fam make a good lunch/dinner and watch some movies with the kids.

End of my street couple hours ago.

http://striped-bass.com/video/sg-storm-82811.mp4

Hunkered down :rotf2: :

http://striped-bass.com/video/hunkered-down.mp4

long line at dunkin donuts,going to sit and wait to loose power.at least i got my large ice.happy hurricane everyone

Tyler has already beaten me in Madden 11, storm made my front porch wet, unable to take dogs out or paws will get damp.. isolated from storm, may have to turn to cannabilism to survive.
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The wind is blowing pretty good here E.S.E. raining but not heavy,my neighbor has a couple of old trees down in his yard and that's all of the excitement I have for yous guys.
So whats the status on this storm,is it over us now or what:huh:

We are on the east side, wind mostly till around 9pm. 40Kts in Woonsocket.

End of my street couple hours ago.

http://striped-bass.com/video/sg-storm-82811.mp4

Hunkered down :rotf2: :

http://striped-bass.com/video/hunkered-down.mp4

pretty cool squirrel vid, many would be lining that thing in the x-hairs

It hasn't been too bad so far. I woke up around 3 and it was blowing 20-30. I'd say, right now, consistently 40 with gusts over 50. We had a monster gust about 5 minutes ago that caused a brief power blip. MMA and Taylor's Point stayed dry on the AM high--we'll see what the evening brings with the wrap-around SW winds.

The rain is basically over here--it's a wind event. And it definitely stepped up a notch in the last half-hour.

This is in Bournedale, just north of the Canal and 3 miles from CC Bay.

My girl filled up both bath tubs with water just in case. So I wake up and jump in the shower and it's ice cold. She filled up one of the tubs with hot water by mistake! So she comes in and sees me sitting in the tub and says WTF are you doing! I laughed and asked if she was planning on making ramen noodles in the tub.
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6" limbs down here.
One took out part of neighbors deck, another bounced off the roof with no damage.

gusts to 50 measured w/ my anemometer.

No power in Tiverton.
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Had an 8 ich twig fall on my truck this am......no damage thankfully. Overhyped rainstorm is all it is here in the south shore. I am headed out to return my batteries, candles, milk and water!

Does this mean I can let the water out of my bath tub now ???:smash::smash::smash:

My wife filled it in case the water main broke and we had to use the toilet. I swear some of her friends are friggen geniuses :wall:

Tyler has already beaten me in Madden 11, storm made my front porch wet, unable to take dogs out or paws will get damp.. isolated from storm, may have to turn to cannabilism to survive.
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:rotf2:

once the make-up got washed off, not much to Irene.

I woulda knocked that thing off the branch at 60 yards :love:

pretty cool squirrel vid, many would be lining that thing in the x-hairs

10 Dead and 4 million without power... And I'm sure some pretty bad flooding (freshwater) in western neighboring states... I see no overhype on this one... It's a big world outside of our own backyards...
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Holy crap,just watched a big pine come down, was finishing wiring my livewell and looked out when iheard the crack, glad it went the other way. I will get the camera out and see if I can get some pics.
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But I do agree about the on the scene reporters... "There goes a branch! A garbage can just fell over!" clowns...
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A New Woodchuck door added to my back yard :smash:

Lot's of wind and rain

There are 10 Robins eating worms on my front yard right now

This is crazy

nice lake peter

It was a pine. Can't post the pictures without the desktop and don't know how with the phone yet, but we have several trees down and more to go down for sure (leaners uprooting) so far 2 nieghbors without power because of trees falling on their powerlines. One blocking th road
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There are some large tree branches down on my street in Cambridge.

Went to exchange chainsaw blade. Came back to no power. Ribs on the grill tonight. Beer in cooler already.m
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Looks like much of RI and a swath west of Brockton east to Plymouth is without power...Est 2pm before it's fixed.

Wind is picking up here.

Amazing, that last gust ripped a neighbors willow into shreds...even tossed an 8' piece about 50 yards and over our 6' fence! Wish I could have seen that...

-spence

Willows always take a beating in storms

"There are 10 Robins eating worms on my front yard right now

This is crazy"

Imagine the devastation and horror from the worms point of view.:err:

"There are 10 Robins eating worms on my front yard right now

This is crazy"

Imagine the devastation and horror from the worms point of view.:err:

Now that's funny
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Wind and rain has picked up, power cutting in and out in Pembroke. When do we start looting and burning things?
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Waited too long to start making breakfast, threw the bacon in the pan and POP, out goes the power. Had to dig out the 35yr camping Coleman, still good as day I bought it. Glad to see I haven't lost the touch. I'm starting on the beer SOON so it doesn't go bad.:)

Power is out and front trees are shaky - too late to do anything...
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jersey shore got hit hard ,
snookie had to board up her p$$$sy

Lost power about 930 in Onset wind is smoking. Just had a large branch break off and nail the house/scare the craup out of me.
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was pretty good yesterday

caught a nice 4 lb LMB and a real good snickeral

but then the rain got heavy which wasn't too bad
except lightening was extremely possible
and therefore it was time to exit....

and of course ONE lady just had to stop at the boat ramp
and ask why we were leaving, because of a little rain?. :doh:

NO WAY there aint enough wood on the planet to cover that gaping abyss :rotf2:

jersey shore got hit hard ,
snookie had to board up her p$$$sy

Snooky would be an awesome name for an "S" storm... A good blow for everybody.:D
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bad day to be a picket fence, at least 2 smashed around my house

bad day to be a picket fence, at least 2 smashed around my house
I was certain ours was going to break but the winds didn't end up being that bad...

This is impressive.

National Grid estimates that there are 1,178 individual outages across the state that affect 185,447 of the company's 480,281 customers. At 11 a.m. Sunday, the number of affected customers was 155,000. At 9:15 a.m., it had been 81,000 customers.

-spence

wind has shifted to the SW

jersey shore got hit hard ,
snookie had to board up her p$$$sy

:rotf2::rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:

Tried to get down for some surf pics... Rt 88 bridge closed...horseneck road closed at east beach road... Wind still crankin really good
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First one with my hat on it is the one I watched through the window in the garage, it could have got me if it came that direction:eek: it also could have hit the driveway where my newish log splitter, kayak and a bunch of other stuff is parked.
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More damage I'll post later when I get back out with the camera, top of an oak just missed my neighbors garage, next to his house another neighbor almost lost his shed to a tree.

One more of a leaner, same house caused power outage over the winter when one of the damn pines came down, my power supply for the desktop died because of the power surge. They are very lucky the tree that came down missed their house and their neighbors (only took out his power).
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Just came back from a coastal tour from the canal to Marion and the difference from end to end was night and day.

Still have power in S. Plymouth but looked like it was out from Onset to Marion.

Quite a few boats way up on the beach between Onset and Marion.

Marion harbor was crazy but then we went out to Silver shell beach, which is just outside of Marion harbor and it was X10.

Marion looked like a ware zone compared to where I am in Cedarville.

I'm sure some of you have probably trout fished the Deerfield and recognize this place:

http://t.co/UaOj2VG

Holy crap just got video of a couple more coming down moments after having my picture/video taken at the base of it to show the size of the split, I noticed it was leaning about 5 degrees and saw the halves moving slightly, walked over to the other tree (1st one down) and just got my phone with the video going brought to me when it started going. I hope the video is good and when I figure out how to I'll review it and post it.
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WBZ News just interviewed a woman from National Grid, she reported that some people will be without power for up to a week ... :smash: ... granted there are about 300,000 without power in MA, and she said 100,000 without power in RI and NH each

Power has been out in Wrentham since about 11:00 am
Gonna be pissed if it's not back on in time for the Raiders vs Saints at 8:00 pm on nbc

Is that the candle factory?

I'm sure some of you have probably trout fished the Deerfield and recognize this place:

http://t.co/UaOj2VG

Thank god it's not hot.

-spence

once the make-up got washed off, not much to Irene.

yep the joke's on US....

Irene was a flousey

Had to move the yak and splitter....this is the tree that came down and took half another 80' with it, moved the yak because the other half is still there and it's 80' somewhat skinny, really hope it doesn't hit the house or garage.....once again my hat for scale. Once I review the videos I'll see about getting them posted.
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Is that the candle factory?

Shelburne Falls. Beautiful spot. My Parents live near there--Western Mass go hit hard.

cccchressssttttt...~!!!!!

Here's the view from where I am now
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Out here... Earl was much worse last year. No rain at all here. < 1/4" total. Wind to 45 and those were only gusts. Last year we had some real wind over 60 sustained.

I figured I spend $1000 and one full day to prepare for this non-event. I wonder if my insurance co will re-imburse me for my trouble.:jump1:

I will not listen to the weather experts again. I will make my own forecast. 5 days ago a cat 2 hurricane with winds 125mph was going to pass over BI and up thru RI/MA...today a 50 mph "storm" went well west of NYC and did little to nothing here. Grateful yes, overhyped...for sure.

It was overhyped but it caused plenty of damage here. Just looked over the videos. I have one where I am walking from the tree with the split to the other, next video sucked because I was running from the area, next video shows the tree at about 40 degrees and shows it falling the rest of the way down. I can't figure how to post it yet.......

Been snorkeling since 10 am, saw rays, tarpon, and all kinds of fish. I'm on my second dark and stormy. Life is good in the isands. House is going to wreak if no power. Ahh wel...... stay safe...ill stay buzzed, hot and stress free
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Other than some flooding...there was no real hurricane damage, A few trees that should have been thinned out fell down, and a few streets flooded but no real hurricane damage. How many roofs were ripped clean off the house? TWC was focused on a house that was going to loose a few shingles!!! Most beaches are in decent shape. If a real hurricane ever makes it up here, you will see some damage. Poor Jim Cantore could not find a breeze to fly a kite in that storm.

The over reaction from Katrina is what caused all of this. Following that storm, Way too much gov money was spent to prepare for storms.
I thought fishermen exaggerated...weathermen are far worse. NOT ONE of the weather people would say the storm was weakening..not one. And it was breaking apart. They kept saying it was going to strengthen..it didn't.

I still think they should be held accountable for their public forecast, and then we should rank who the most accurate forecasters are...they hire forecaster's now for the best cleavage and whitest teeth. Just give me the facts and put your clothes back on.


Even Right now on CDD the headline says:
Weakened Irene still threat

IMO the gov has instructed the liberal media to follow their lead.

And don't give me better safe than sorry garbage...get it right.

Please everyone stay away from the surf, only trained meteorologists can walk against the wind and tell us how difficult it is just to stand up and inform us that the rain drops feel like needles.

New Bedford/Fairhaven is a mess. (atleast 10 boats have broken loose, im sure more by now)
Padanaram is the usual mess with boats on the beach.

Saw gusts up to 70, 40-50 sustained at Fairhaven Shipyard about 2 hours ago now.

And seriously?
Go pay Commanders or Locust for weather Sandman, you would have spent the same money for the same "liberal media" event you so seem to be obsessed with.

Don't you have googan gaffs to laugh at?

...they hire forecaster's now for the best cleavage and whitest teeth. Just give me the facts and put your clothes back on.




Would you feel that way if Giada where to broadcast the weather?:laugha:

It was blowing pretty good down here.

I have to admit that I am just a tad envious of the hum coming from my neighbors generator.
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Obama is in the FEMA bunker, making sure everything is good

I thought fishermen exaggerated...weathermen are far worse. NOT ONE of the weather people would say the storm was weakening..not one. And it was breaking apart. They kept saying it was going to strengthen..it didn't.
This just isn't true.

There was talk it might gain some strength after it hit the ocean again after NC but every analysis I saw (perhaps 8+ different sources) reported it was getting weaker after that.

Pretty much every meteorologist I saw said the legacy of this storm would be the rainfall which looks to have been accurate.

The wind forecasts for RI seem to have been pretty much on target if just a bit high.

The consensus was that while this wasn't a violent storm, the size and ability to impact a large number of people was a real danger.

While there are certainly parts of the media that will sensationalize anything to generate some interest, I think a lot of people make their own hype by watching too much coverage on cable tv and online.

It's self inflicted...

-spence

Well, it was a lucky break that the flood tide did not coincide with
the storms peak time. The poles would be gonzo.
Its still really cranking, and the surf is giant, so I am wondering what will happen with the next one.

I just spent 3 hours skimming and vacuuming my pool other than a few really small branches down we stayed lucky

Well, it was a lucky break that the flood tide did not coincide with
the storms peak time. The poles would be gonzo.
Its still really cranking, and the surf is giant, so I am wondering what will happen with the next one.

I have an update for you. High tide in Buzzards Bay is in about a half hour, and at low tide this afternoon, the water was ABOVE the mean high water mark in almost every part of the Upper Cape along the bay. And the wind is still a sustained 40 SW with gusts well over 60. Trees are down all over Bourne and Falmouth, some roads impassible due to downed trees.

I have no tolerance for bomb throwers spouting politics right now.

I just spent 3 hours skimming and vacuuming my pool other than a few really small branches down we stayed lucky

It will take me about an hour tomorrow to wash all the leaves and debris out of my boat, but 2nd the sentiment: we were lucky!

I'm sure some of you have probably trout fished the Deerfield and recognize this place:

http://t.co/UaOj2VG

Buckland looking at shelburne... bridge of flowers on other side?

would this be considered a panic??

finally got power back on here, I lost a whole day I was gonna build plugs :wall:
a few trees down and branches
the grass is covered in maple leaves and twigs

I have an update for you. High tide in Buzzards Bay is in about a half hour, and at low tide this afternoon, the water was ABOVE the mean high water mark in almost every part of the Upper Cape along the bay. And the wind is still a sustained 40 SW with gusts well over 60. Trees are down all over Bourne and Falmouth, some roads impassible due to downed trees.

I have no tolerance for bomb throwers spouting politics right now.

sorry, didn't mean to turn you into a grumpy old fart.

Worked last night, got home at 7:10 to no power this morning. Sat on the farmers porch with my son and watched all the neighbors trees swing and sway. After linch we went down to see some waves....NOT!!! Every beach access along the ocean had a cop, national gaurd or a tree in my way. Made it down a private road in Tiverton and watched some waves in the river (not the same). Then hit Fogland and Seapowett. Lots of trees down but thats about it. We got power back at around 7:30.

Power still out but back on in some nearby hoods so maybe it will be on later. Bunch of whiners calling into local radio.

Wheyahs my powah! I cayant watch my teeveeah...

Grow a set...
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This is just before it came down (1st video), at the end I must have hit stop when I heard the crack and started running
http://youtu.be/oAsX1XB1MGs
The second video contains prophanity and PANIC
http://youtu.be/3MAc4c4DgC8
The third video showing the tree falling moments after
http://youtu.be/GgDIL8xGlP4

Misquamicut Beach After Hurricane Irene - The Westerly Sun: Home (http://www.thewesterlysun.com/misquamicut-beach-after-hurricane-irene/youtube_bc78faaa-d1a8-11e0-93af-001cc4c03286.html)
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sorry, didn't mean to turn you into a grumpy old fart.

Nah, it wasn't you. I happened to be in Bourne and Falmouth today, and if someone is claiming that it never gusted to more than 45 on the Vineyard today, then I'm raising this:

:bs:

Because it's STILL gusting more than 45 in freaking Buzzards Bay.

At 4:30 PM there were measured gusts to 66 at Hyannis airport.

Still no power in sturbridge. It went out around11am yesterday. Yesterdays coffee is better than no coffee.
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Woman rescued in ocean after storm | WPRI.com (http://www.wpri.com/dpp/weather/hurricane/woman-rescued-in-ocean-after-storm)

It never fails, this lady should be put in jail or fined. You just simply can't fix stupid...

Still no power on aquidneck island. Heard a report last night its possible we wont have power until saturday. Let hope thats not the case.

Shelburne Falls. Beautiful spot. My Parents live near there--Western Mass go hit hard.

Buckland looking at shelburne... bridge of flowers on other side?

Yep. Water was supposedly going over the bridge of flowers. Unbelievable.

Further downstream they're worried about the Stillwater Bridge, which takes Interstate 91 over the Deerfield. 91 has been closed since around 3pm yesterday between exits 24 & 26. The normal detour of Rtes 5&10 was also closed, just reopened this AM. What a cluster that must've been.

And the covered bridge on Eunice Williams drive in Greenfield(the "pumping station" as it's commonly known) was knocked off it's supports but somehow didn't wash away. This bridge in Bartonsville VT wasn't so lucky: http://t.co/oCixrjk

So i lose power yesterday morning and there were about 75 power company trucks staged at a couple locations in town. This morning i drive past about 50 that are still staged, but 4 miles a way i dont have power. Something isnt adding up. i realize that when the wind is honking they cant work but there was barely a ripple on my lake when i jumped in at 430 this morning. The water temp dropped about 10-15 degrees.

Power just came on.....:uhuh:

We had mandatory evac. Sat. at 4:00. Police/Fire came around at 10:00 PM asking people to leave. Lost power 6:00 AM. Around 11:00 the tree came down across the street blocking the road. I cut some branches off so cars can be by.

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A little later my neighbor came by and we all went walking around the hood and to the beach. 2nd picture is around the corner (Emma the cutie is my God daughter). People were kayaking up the street.

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The 3rd picture is the road I walk to to go to the beach. The road ends at the beach.

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More pictures of people with canoes.


Got to the beach. Usually LI sound is as flat as a board but the seas were rough yesterday

Yeah, no wind in Fairhaven at all.

None.

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i113/lazergunpewpew/IMG_4398.jpg

Those aren't 3-4 foot rollers building in a quarter of a mile. Nope.

Sakkonet Light at about 8pm last night

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i113/lazergunpewpew/IMG_4443.jpg

This picture shows what we think of smokers in our town.

Next picture is of St. Mary's in Bport.

Last is off the road around the Marina.

I didn't take any pictures of the skate park where kids were swimming and diving into the water.

I still don't have power but the neighbor's do so I ran an extension cord for the some lights and to keep the refrig. running.

Hope everyone else was as lucky as me.

Irene just prior to making landfall in NC....

I bet they don't think they got hyped...

lots of trees down here in Orleans, still a lot of power outages, some structural damage, even a couple of small fires, from blown transformers.. and such.. not much rain, but we sure got some wind.. I, for one, am convinced that this was a "real storm".....

but, I am sure the conspiracy terrorists will say different.

Irene just prior to making landfall in NC....

I bet they don't think they got hyped...

lots of trees down here in Orleans, still a lot of power outages, some structural damage, even a couple of small fires, from blown transformers.. and such.. not much rain, but we sure got some wind.. I, for one, am convinced that this was a "real storm".....

but, I am sure the conspiracy terrorists will say different.

That's an awesome picture:btu:

Any word on the pm high tide in Buzzards bay?

Sakkonet Light at about 8pm last night

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i113/lazergunpewpew/IMG_4443.jpg

Nice shot

the ramp and breakwater there were completely underwater. was thinking about walking down past the summer homes to see what it looked like at the point but thought better of it since it was getting dark. could see waves coming up to the road too.

Raise whatever flag you want (just don't raise the hurricane flags)...this was no hurricane:

we get winds like this in Nov and throughout the winter

We never had that 747 like roar you get when a hurricane passes by. Most of the inland reporters with handheld anemometers were hard-pressed to find wind speed >15mph

This plot is the windiest place around these parts


Karl...that is a great photo.

Lost power yesterday afternoon and it's still out. Luckily we didn't have any damage to the house or property, other than a couple small branches down. We got the important stuff from the fridge into a marine cooler last night and now my biggest concerns are my pool being a huge mess and my eel tank not having power for the airator. I can't complain about anything considering some of the damage I saw on my way into work today.

Raise whatever flag you want...this was no hurricane:

we get winds like this in Nov and throughout the winter

We never had that 747 like roar you get when a hurricane passes by. Most of the inland reporters with handheld anemometers were hard-pressed to find wind speed >15mph

Most anemometers including BUZM3's can't handle instantaneous gusts and never report true wind speed.

Since my fridge died on Friday, I have been able to successfully keep things cold and frozen by placing dry ice in the freezer. If you can locate some, it works great.

Another one for PNG. Downtown Brattleboro:

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Lots of flooding here in Vermont. Some places got 9". Roads and bridges out all over the state.

Falmouth had gusts to the low 60's once the wind came SW and probably a 3 foot surge. Great Harbor in WH was wild and there is no way you wanted your boat there, but sheltered places like Quissett were fine. I left my boat in and it was fine. The tree damage was mostly limbs or dead stuff. A lot of people out driving around in the storm. Surf drive got sanded over and the herring runs all plugged.

It would be a good day to go beach combing.

I'm guessing 3-4 days before things are fishable again. Took a week after Bob.

I'm hopeful this blow will have moved those bass off chatham into Nantucket sound and set up an early september fishery we get some years.

From a buddy who did a harbor tour in NB about an hour ago, 2 boats were NOT damaged that were on moorings yesterday.

Thats one hell of a non-event.

Lots of flooding here in Vermont. Some places got 9". Roads and bridges out all over the state.

Wilmington VT:

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Block island weather buoy recorded 30 foot seas on Sunday. Pretty cool.
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Here's the view from where I am now
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do u find it annoying those arrows all over the place :rotf2:

Barrington still has no power and it could be a few days, a few people i know in Bristol and Barrington had their houses completely crushed by trees. So not that big a Joke.

do u find it annoying those arrows all over the place :rotf2:

:biglaugh:The view hasn't gotten any better:( I even tried this which only helped for a short time;)
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I have some epic pix from gansett ! WIll try to get em up tomorrow! Went and checked the OM last night! Deck and all was still intact ! Looked like it didn't fair bad at all , maybe some minor washout underneath is all! SHould have seen the break at Pt jude! Crazy mofo's out there surfin! One guy was easy 1/4 or so out , making on massive easy 20 footers! Sick , he prob rode a few an easy 1/4 mile +! I have a sick pick from a friend in willimington too! He is in his restaurant . There is about 6 " of water rushing past the window at his station!!!

power up as of an hour or so..AC feels mighty fine :smash:

No power at home but work is fine...figures. We're being told it could be 5 days or so before power is restored? NG trucks are driving around "assessing the damage", marking the damaged areas with traffic cones then leaving.

Power out for a little over 2hrs now. Got a whole barrel of leaves and sticks out of the pool. Just talked with the guy across the street he has 5 trees down. Our neighborhood got hit pretty hard. The winds really got hummin here.
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Misquamicut Beach After Hurricane Irene - The Westerly Sun: Home (http://www.thewesterlysun.com/misquamicut-beach-after-hurricane-irene/youtube_bc78faaa-d1a8-11e0-93af-001cc4c03286.html)
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Thanks for posting that Thumper - I was there with my family until 8:00 Saturday morning :err:

Still no power. Can't even find any more ice to buy.
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we are for the most part fine in westport. Drove around town yesterday and very few trees down. Only lost power for about 2 hrs. Had to struggle to pickup enough twigs in my yard to fill the wheelbarrel. Took me longer to pick stuff up in prep and put it all back than it did to clean up. Disappointed didn't even get to play with the chainsaws.
my family in Kingston got demolished. No power in whole town. Lots of trees down everywhere. Be lucky to have power back by weekend.
like I said, we lucky

I drove to NH friday to fish, no wind no waves till saturday night, quit at around midnite and took a nap. drove back to VT in the rain and was home by 7 am. Power never went out, no trauma in my life. My mother called me and one of my brothers was worried about staying at his house below a dam and went to Killington, He' s stuck there for a while, another brothers woodshop got almost washed out that is the water washed everything out around it. Downtown Brandon VT got washed out. I kinda like living in a high spot in the swamp.

Note the two power outages.

-spence

Literally just got power back, but not before I found somewhere with ice :rotf2::smash:

Got 50 lbs of ice if anyone still without power can use it.

Still no power. Can't even find any more ice to buy.
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I got 150qt cooler full, anyone in need can have if you drive to Brockton!

I got 150qt cooler full, anyone in need can have if you drive to Brockton!

see my post above...

I just heard one store had some left. drove down and picked up 50lbs and and came back to power...
really appreciate the offer. If I didnt have power right now I'd be headed to brock-vegas. lol.

we are for the most part fine in westport. Drove around town yesterday and very few trees down. Only lost power for about 2 hrs. Had to struggle to pickup enough twigs in my yard to fill the wheelbarrel. Took me longer to pick stuff up in prep and put it all back than it did to clean up. Disappointed didn't even get to play with the chainsaws.
my family in Kingston got demolished. No power in whole town. Lots of trees down everywhere. Be lucky to have power back by weekend.
like I said, we lucky

wow, really? we lost power for twelve and a half hours... tried to go out and look around, couldn't get more than a mile or so from the house... trees down in both directions... came home, waited awhile for someone to clear the trees... finally got out and drove around... new trees down, couldn't get home..:wall: Main road was still closed this A.M. at Charlotte White...big tree down...
Heard lots of chainsaws and chippers around here today, although I only needed a rake and wheelbarrow for about4-5 hrs...

Stll no power :(
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We are lucky our area has power but a lot Marshfield still out. I had a whole pick up truck bed full of twigs, branches and leaves in my front yard....some big limbs in back need to go tomorrow. Very lucky.
I went for a ride on my motorcycle just now.....BIG mistake. With no streetlights people are driving like total idiots....even streets where there's not even a signal there....stop signs you name it....it's a free for all :smash: I almost got creamed 3 times in 45 minutes. Put it back in the garage till things are back to normal.

BTW, looky at the ensemble models for td twelve... forecast to be cat 2 by Saturday... Say hello to the future Ms. Katia...

http://icons-ecast.wunderground.com/data/images/at201112_ensmodel.gif

:jump1:

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Yesterday afternoon. Allen's Pond.

corner of sowams and christine in barrington.

......got hammered last nite at the high tide, making it worse than it was from the morning high.

looking toward westend of town beach.

2 Arrested For 'Lack Of Common Sense' After Rafting Down Main Street In Manayunk CBS Philly (http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/08/28/2-arrested-for-lack-of-common-sense-after-rafting-down-main-street-in-manayunk/)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xjh9emSxVqg/Tlp2d0MMATI/AAAAAAAAWbA/gH_ou6VxJ3g/s1600/Two%2Bkids%2Bin%2Ba%2Bwave%2Bresized.jpg

Boulevard- Gloucester

Note the two power outages.

-spence

Didn't even break 29. yawn

No power for 36 hours. Tree uprooted fell on my house. Another tree broke top off and landed on yard, luckily didn't take down the power lines.

All in all , the tree on the house put it over the top as a PITA. I can do without power etc but having that tree draped over the house while I wait for a tree guy is very worrysome.

I'm online at Panera. Time for a soup and sandwich

Didn't even break 29. yawn

Considering how far we are from the center that's still pretty good. A real drop below 29 should indicate a Cat 1 landing which we certainly didn't have.
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Considering how far we are from the center that's still pretty good. A real drop below 29 should indicate a Cat 1 landing which we certainly didn't have.
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Yep, just wind lotsa wind. We've had below 29 in NE'rs

Any word on how the ocean mist made out?

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Cheferson posted about it being ok

Gloucester & inland wasn't too bad. Power out for a couple hours, that was it. Little rain, mostly wind. Some huge gusts though. Saw a couple downed trees. We got off pretty lucky, seems like.

Went out and got diner came home. Still no power. Got the generator out and ran cords and just has I thought the power comes back on after 15 minutes of running the generator.I do have a gripe about the pay TV which even with a generator no TV, atleast years ago when TV was free if you had power you had TV.
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google (news) Prattsville NY... it is basically gone...
Upstate NY and parts of VT are really hurting from the rain totals... which take a day or two to fully realize the impact...
still over 4 million without power overall...
The "impact" of this storm and the "intensity" of this storm had nothing to do with each other... I won't comment on the local channels, I barely watch them for storm coverage, but TWC absolutely HAD to hype this... How else do you get people in the Catskills/Adirondacks/Vermont to pay attention to Hurricane coverage?? So many other factors come into play... (ironically enough that does not include the new moon tides, since there was not many problems from storm surge...) The Philly/NJ area had not only the wettest August ever but one of the wettest month's <period> ever... Watching the radar and wind reports as it hit NC and VA could make you believe it was falling apart and disorganized, but if you skip all the on the scene reporters and tune in to TWC around quarter of every hour you can hear the hurricane expert guys... they were constantly incredulous that although the max sustained winds were level or occasionally decreasing the pressure remained EXTREMELY low for a cat 1 storm... Their take was that instead of using the strength signified by the low pressure to produce a strong core, the storm used that energy to greatly expand the reach of the hurricane force and especially the trop. storm force winds a great distance... Let's be realistic; we're never going to see an Andrew or Katrina up here... the sst's won't support it... and, although this one moved way slower than your average NE trop. system, they usually accelerate quite a bit once the go from N motion to NE...Watching the initial landfall on the scene reports you could definitely feel underwhelmed and question whether the storm was really still as intense as they said it was... but remember, the strongest winds, in the NE quadrant, (more accurately the right front quadrant) were offshore the whole time, until Irene made landfall in NY and, (as we in Eastern MA have seen) they continued for a long time as it pulled away... we could expect these long duration gusts because if you remember Hatteras and other NC locals were still getting close to hurricane gusts when the center was up around MD... UNUSUALLY slow moving storm for the NE... heard one hurricane expert saying he wished the saffir-simpson scale didn't even exist because it creates a false sense of security...I think we have a lot to learn from Irene and it will be one more experience to plug into the predictions for the next one... Just imagine if it had reached cat 4, dropped back to cat 3 but skirted the outer banks (which would take a miniscule difference in course) and made landfall around SoCo as a strong Cat 2... this was a very big bullet dodged... for us anyway...:smokin:

Heard more than a few times during the coverage that the highest percentage of Hurricane related deaths are from inland flooding.

Windham NY (near Prattsville)
http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/wp-content/uploads/02011/0008/Bridge__Windham.jpg

Wilmington VT
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg616/scaled.php?tn=0&server=616&filename=3g6cn.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Brattleboro VT
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg616/scaled.php?tn=0&server=616&filename=re3bd.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Windham NY again
http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wabc/cms_exf_2007/news/Irene-Windham%20bus.jpg

Don't worry, National Guard is there
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Rutland
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqpuylVpOK1qz82gvo1_500.jpg

Tannersville NY
http://twitpic.com/show/large/6cppsq

Scoharie Valley
http://twitpic.com/show/large/6d4vxn

Margaretville NY, taken by Gov. Cuomo
http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/cuomo.jpg?w=455&h=340

My brother was down in OC NJ, where she made landfall said the beach actually looked built up, but he had to backtrack twice coming down from Cherry Hill due to washed out roads, unreal.


Androscoggin in Maine also washed out sections of Rumford, I had been on 24 hours earlier on Saturday, it was a huge storm not just another TS, it has totally devastated parts of NY, VT and western MA.

I asked a bunch of people outside my office today if they lost power. They didn't know what I meant as they don't pay for power and never have?
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Just got my power back. Trees up here are so thick with leaves we lost loads of branches an smaller 8in trees. most of southern part of state had no power till last night an today. We were lucky aside fro that compared to inland.

Just got power back. That's the worse Irene did to me. No damage, just about 60 hours w/o electricity.

No significant damage seen from the Acela Express on the way down to NYC, all significant rivers are flooded, saw large trees floating out the Connecticut, large silt loads too
No sunken boats or marsh bound tubs

60 min delay in route mostly for routing around work crews, all street lights I could see were on.

We didn't have any leaves to pickup...although oddly enough there was about 400 lbs of confetti in the yard. Must have been one hell of a party.

-spence

saw large trees floating out the Connecticut, large silt loads too
No sunken boats

with large trees wandering around in LIS, there may be sunken boats this weekend.

I just got power on a few hrs ago in nw ri, not a big deal to be without power for me I just had to use the coleman stove instead of the big one. town water stayed on so we still had that. Genny kept the fridge and freezer on. only lost 2 trees. could have been worse.

Power back at 4:00 PM yesterday. Boat stayed in the marina and rode out the storm fine. I was there ready to untie and ride out in the bay but it worked out.

My biggest PIA was no power and a flodded basement. Got a basement Waterproofing company coming next week for an estimate. In 37 years in this house I never had water in the basement until we put an addition on. Now EVERY rainstorm brings water.

Got power back yesterday, went out early Sunday AM, unfortunately not in time to take a shower before chemo therapy, now I can't take one until it ends on Friday. Fortunately, we found 300' of extension cords and my neighbor hooked us up to his generator on Monday so we got the 3"in the basement pumped out, but with a pretty significant loss, including 3+ years of OTW magazines.
The major gripe? My whackjob neighbor on the other side is a yard fanatic. The water coming from the basement finally made it's way into his backyard. He knocks on my door telling me I have to stop the pump, not because it's a threat to flooding his basement, but because he took the afternoon off from work so he could get every leaf and little twig off his "pristine" yard. The day before he had taken every downed branch and twig in his yard, dragged them across my front yard and piled them up in front of my house and did the same to his neighbor on the other side, making sure there was nothing in front of his. In the past three days I bet he's logged about 10 hours on his leaf blower. I guess disasters like Irene bring out the best and worst in people. Everyone else of us bonded together and helped each other out as much as we could.

FYI - Projo has an article about Irene's effects on the SoCo beaches today, and included comments & observations from Oak himself. Interesting read.


Cheers all