Storm Thread: Photos, Jokes, Vids, & Panics

[JackK]

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.

[ecduzitgood]

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...

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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)


Wilmington VT


Brattleboro VT


Windham NY again


Don't worry, National Guard is there

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Rutland


Tannersville NY


Scoharie Valley


Margaretville NY, taken by Gov. Cuomo

[striperman36]

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.

[WESTPORTMAFIA]

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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[stripermaineiac]

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.

[flyvice11787]

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

[striperman36]

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.

[spence]

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

[likwid]

Originally Posted by striperman36

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.

[Smulax]

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.

[piemma]

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.

[Jimbo]

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.

[SirWinston]

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