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.

: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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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.

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.

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...

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:jump1:

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Yesterday afternoon. Allen's Pond.

corner of sowams and christine in barrington.

east beach road washout
 

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

looking toward westend of town beach.

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Boulevard- Gloucester

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

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)
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Wilmington VT
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Brattleboro VT
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Windham NY again
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Don't worry, National Guard is there
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Rutland
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Tannersville NY
http://twitpic.com/show/large/6cppsq

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

Margaretville NY, taken by Gov. Cuomo
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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.