OT: Hurricane Irene and Impact on Northeast

I live in the middle of Manhattan in a first floor walkup. Kind of nervous....

Too late to get renters insurance?

I'm way safe here in western NY....... if it gets anywhere near here, it'll just be another annoying rain storm by then. However, all my family is back east in ME, RI and CT so my thoughts and prayers are with them.

Seriously, to all my "brothers and sister" Patriots fans on the East Coast.... STAY SAFE. Don't mess around.... Hurricanes are nothing to EFF with.

Be safe all.

You can't buy insurance for a pending storm, something like a 30 day wait period. Don't worry, a 1st floor walkup in NYC ain't gonna get flooded unless it becomes a Cat 4 or 5 and the storm surge hits at high tide. Relax now and suffer slowly as the Jets decline.

EDIT: I'm wrong. Just read up on this and anyone within the storm surge zones should take this seriously. This puppy hits at new moon when high tides are highest. Looks like it's a slow mover which means more time to build up a surge and the probability of hitting at or near high tide is very high.

Razor's Edge said:

Remembering Hurricane Donna, 1960, makes you old, hell I was around for Hurricane Carol 1954, heck, I even remember when Hurricane Carter was jailed and released

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Old?......yea,I remember "Carol" in 1954.I was 4 yrs old and a giant tree fell on our 3rd floor balcony......FYI....They retired the name "carol" after this storm.....Now THAT'S,a hurricane!:rocker:

IcyPatriot said:

For the record Belichick said he can only discuss Irene when she is here.

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Now that is one statement I will not be surprised to hear from our coach

Hopefully McCourty will intercept it and take it out to sea where it belongs.

I was just a wee lad when Hurricane Carol hit NE. That was,I guess, was the last bad one to hit up here. This one,at present, does not seem to pose the threat that Carol did.

I hope that all my fellow Patriots fans on the East Coast, West Coast, and the Dixie highways back home, get though this safely and with no damage.

Was a kid living in Arlington Heights when Carol hit. Knocked down most of the trees in the lot next to our house. No power for days. My Dad worked in Boston shielded from the wind and could not believe the devastation in the burbs when he got off the bus on Route 2.

Here's the evacuation zone map for NYC

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/downloads/pdf/hurricane_map_english.pdf

I got tickets to hear the BSO play the Ninth at Tanglewood Sunday afternoon.....That ain't gonna happen now i'm sure.

My wife and I are now actually discussing taking the kids and getting out of Maryland for the weekend and staying with family up in NE. Hell, Cat 1 is better than Cat 2.......

.......not to mention the possibility of aftershocks down here during the hurricane.

italia44 said:

Old?......yea,I remember "Carol" in 1954.I was 4 yrs old and a giant tree fell on our 3rd floor balcony......FYI....They retired the name "carol" after this storm.....Now THAT'S,a hurricane!:rocker:

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I was 7 years old for Carol.. it scared the shyt out of me, hit at night the whole apartment shook all night..the roof leaked and looked like clouds on the ceiling.. lost power for about a week.. had to go to the car to listen to the radio for my father.

What a mess it took a long time to clean it up.. people make light of hurricanes, they are powerful beasts and the longer they last the more damage.

Here's the best current computer models of the projected track

Hurricane Irene : Computer Model Hurricane Forecasts : Weather Underground

DarrylS said:

people make light of hurricanes, they are powerful beasts and the longer they last the more damage.

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Some people (like myself) might make light of hurricanes because we've been around them quite a bit. It's the same way that Californians were chiding the east coasters about our little earthquake, or the way we dump on Georgians for not being able to handle a little snow. It's all part of the game.

PatsWickedPissah said:

Here's the best current computer models of the projected track

Hurricane Irene : Computer Model Hurricane Forecasts : Weather Underground

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Looks like it's going to head right over our house, or slightly to the west, giving us its best shot. It'll be my wife's first hurricane.

Razor's Edge said:

Remembering Hurricane Donna, 1960, makes you old, hell I was around for Hurricane Carol 1954, heck, I even remember when Hurricane Carter was jailed and released

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well you're just plain old then. i'm merely "internet" old.

i swear, every once in a while i read someone talking about their childhood and it's about britney spears or 9-11 and i feel ancient.

shmessy said:

My wife and I are now actually discussing taking the kids and getting out of Maryland for the weekend and staying with family up in NE. Hell, Cat 1 is better than Cat 2.......

.......not to mention the possibility of aftershocks down here during the hurricane.

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Some quick notes from a person who's lived through many Florida hurricanes...

Category 2 is usually nothing to panic about, especially if you don't live directly on the shore. Unless there are weak trees hovering over your home, you shouldn't generally have any problems. Just be sure that you've got enough drinking water and that you clean/fill up your bathtubs as well.

If you've got a generator, test it early and be sure you've got gasoline for it.

Category 3 is usually where people start to pack up in real numbers. Not everyone leaves, but it seems to be the category that gets the exodus started.

Slow moving hurricanes suck, because the flooding screws everything up and makes the roads dangerous, even if there's not a lot of wind damage.

I don't know if any of that will be helpful, but take it for what it's worth.

TomBrady'sGoat said:

well you're just plain old then. i'm merely "internet" old.

i swear, every once in a while i read someone talking about their childhood and it's about britney spears or 9-11 and i feel ancient.

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What made me feel old was a message board thread "What video games did you play as a kid?"

But then, when Bob Dole ran against Bill Clinton in 1996, and each candidate was asked what his favorite TV show was as a kid ... well, by the time there were TV shows, Bob Dole was not just an adult about but a disabled war veteran who had started his post-military career.

Deus Irae said:

Some quick notes from a person who's lived through many Florida hurricanes...

Category 2 is usually nothing to panic about, especially if you don't live directly on the shore. Unless there are weak trees hovering over your home, you shouldn't generally have any problems. Just be sure that you've got enough drinking water and that you clean/fill up your bathtubs as well.

If you've got a generator, test it early and be sure you've got gasoline for it.

Category 3 is usually where people start to pack up in real numbers. Not everyone leaves, but it seems to be the category that gets the exodus started.

Slow moving hurricanes suck, because the flooding screws everything up and makes the roads dangerous, even if there's not a lot of wind damage.

I don't know if any of that will be helpful, but take it for what it's worth.

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Thanks.

We do have tall trees around our house. We are about 50-60 miles inland from the Bay, but they are right now evacuating all of Ocean city, MD.

I wonder what the odds are that VA/MD get earthquake aftershocks during the Cat 2 hurricane.

Hoping this doesn't hit us hard. We have lots of trees here in Columbia MD.

Do remember that trees in NE are not used to these potentially stronger winds. They are fine up to about 60-70. 80 and above you will get alot of pines going down.