It looks like your area is going to get the remnants of Irene. I will say a prayer for you that everything is OK.
I am on standby at the moment. Some very close friends of ours home is on the outer banks and is right in the eye of the hurricane. Their home is 1/3 mile off the beach. They have evacuated to SC. I have the bus loaded and will fill it with tools and head out on Monday if their home is damaged badly or flooded. I plan on towing the car up and driving home but may fly back instead.
If Irene stays on course it could really cause some serious damage in NYC and NJ. I hope anyone who lives in this area will be safe. Thoughts and prayers go out to all of you who maybe close.
Chris
Preparedness plans here include:
1.) drawing some potable water
2.) putting the freeze thingys in the freezer so we can put items in a cooler if we have to
3.) fill the Aladdin oil lamps so the wicks will be saturated and ready to go
4.) put lawn furniture in the barn
5.) retract the awnings if the wind dictates it.
6.) pick up some batteries today.
I don't get too worked up about stuff like this.
If wi probly just be. TS when it get there. I got all worked up when nob canme to town in the 80s extra lines on my boat ect. Turn out to be just some ei d and rain.
Pegasus went and left key largo so I gueeseit a welcome to me for him.
We were living in Charleston in 1989 when Hugo struck in September. The hardest thing to get was ice. May want to put an extra bag in the freezer.
The bridge to the islands is a rotating type. A police officer, speaking in the paper, said he had just driven over it onto the mainland when the bridge breaks let loose and the thing started spinning. When we got back it was at a 45* angle with part of it laying in the water. They wouldn't let anyone back on Sullivans Island or Isle Of Palms for about two weeks. Home owners were pissed but anyone that was caught was arrested. Just saying Chris, they may not let anyone back as soon as Monday. Chainsaws were in high demand and hard to find.
The biggest hassle was being without power for 3 weeks. A tree knocked down our service line and the power company wouldn't hook back up until a certified electrician came out and reattached everything back to the house. Of course electricians were in great demand and short supply. If you have over head wires Bobbin you may want to check for branches above them.
When we got back from evacuating to Columbia SC, the first place we stopped was our shop. We rented one unit of a seven unit shopping center. When we looked through the front window it was a disaster. When you looked up toward the ceiling you could see sky. We were out of work for 6 weeks. The phone literately rang off the hook.
The amazing thing was our house. It sat on 3/4 acre with about 30 big trees (oaks and pines). We lost half of them, but not one fell on our house. We had an old Datsun 210, a big ole pine tree fell smack dab down the center of the car. Crushed it like a soda can.
Our neighbors (native Charlestonians) stayed and rode out the storm. They said they were in fear for their lives, trees crashing down all around them. They said they would never do that again
When they say MANDATORY EVACUATION, don't try to be a tough guy, leave.
When Charlie hit here in 04 trees were all over the place I seen heavy metal sign I beam twisted right over to the ground Power out and places giving out water lilucily my
sop was just to the left of the eye and it was ok the storm was small but cat 4
Kody, we had the power lined buried when we built the barn so everything is underground in our yard. The lines down the road are pretty clear, too, but power outtages aren't uncommon for us. Usually, though, it's in the winter when we can easily get hit with an ice storm. We have two very nice woodstoves and plenty of wood so the house won't freeze. We have a chainsaw and a pond so water for toilet flushing is easily available. ;)
We don't live on the water and we put a lot of thought into drainage (our lot is very low) when we were building. A few places in the yard will accumulate water but it will be gone within 24 hrs., I have little sympathy for the millionaires with fancy homes in places where they shouldn't have built in the first place. Pisses me off that my insurance rates are affected as a result. If I had my way Federal Flood Insurance would go "bye-bye" tomorrow!
I'm on the shore in jersey near asbury park. They have gone nuts closing things up here. As of 8pm tonight they are closing the parkway southbound and have removed all tolls today to try to keep the shore traffic flowing away from the coast. Went to the ,market last night and it looked like a hurricane hit there. Not much left. Antlantic city expressway is being closed eastbound as are the interstates. I'm as prepared as I can be with supplies and hope it takes a turn to the east but they've got everyone running up here. Better yet I have a wedding to go to tomorrow , I hope they postpone it. Bum deal there for sure.
Im in southeastern VA. I hope everyone stays safe.
We had a busy season back in 04 afger charly they just kept commi g at Florida
After putting up shutters I was up all night watching. The dtorntrack online watching for thenline to move a little tis wau or that.
I hope you all are safe but get some work out of this
At the end of the season that would be nice
i'm thinking of you guys, i hope everyone is ok.
on the plus side it's gotta be good weather for canvas repair work :-)
Rich
Quote from: fragged8 on August 26, 2011, 05:04:09 pm
i'm thinking of you guys, i hope everyone is ok.
on the plus side it's gotta be good weather for canvas repair work :-)
Rich
I guess its kinda like our "consolation prize"
Quote from: scarab29 on August 26, 2011, 11:27:50 am
I'm on the shore in jersey near asbury park. T
That's ironic. Last night I was watching the weather channel and they were interviewing your Mayor. The beach and business area was a complete ghost town.
Interesting you have had the same Mayor for 14 years. :) He must be a good one.
Bobbin:
Our friends who live on the outer banks have no insurance. The costs are to prohibitive so they are self insured. If his house is destroyed then he will have to write the checks. He was #2 at Western Union so should be able to write them. But it is still heartbreaking to lose so many of your personal things. Family mementos and heirlooms cannot be replaced. Homes and furniture can.
Alot of the coastal dwellers ( millionaires ) are self insured. The cost for insurance is out of this world. I have heard some have investment funds that they put would be insurance premiums into and if damage occurs they pull from that fund to repair their homes.
Chris
I had just moved here beforehrricsne Charley Charlotte harbor took a direct hit. Indodnt know when moving how busy I'd be. There was work everywhere I'd go see one place that called me and all the neighbors came out and called me over after. That was a good year
Just for anyone that dosent know 50 mile one way or another can make a big difference
Charley was a small storm with 145mlh winds. Being on the front right side of the storm is worse with the couterclockeise winds and forward motion. Stronger winds and the storm surge on the left side less wind my home and shop were bolth left of the eye and had little dammge. I did have a stop sign in the corner in front of my house blown over on a 45* angle I couldn't push p so no kid hithere heard on a bike. Of course on the right side of the eye I saw stop signs twisted. Off and hoses blown out.
Living in the Ohio valley, we don't experience hurricanes. However, ones that hit the gulf coast (Mississippi, Louisiana) will often dump a large amount of rain up here. 4 years ago though, when Ike hit the gulf we had a cold front come through here and the hurricane rode that front all the way up here never losing strength. 70 mph winds with 100 mph gusts. I've been through tornados before that is destructive, but neve experienced sustained winds for hours like that. Power was out for two weeks. At the time I was a maintenance Foreman at a local hospital. For that reason we were running on generator power, so I loaded up our 24' camper and we lived in it Plugged into my maintenance shop.
The one thing I remember was I walked outside of our house during the brunt of the wind and a piece of vinyl siding from somewhere blew by and put a large scratch on my forehead. I just went back inside and took a nap ??? Anyway, my wife is from Florida and hurricanes were a way of life for her growing up. I think I'll keep our spring tornados and leave you costal professionals to the big winds!
Kyle
We were told to evacuate Long Beach Island yesterday. (Sat on the beach through the earthquake - felt like a bumpy plane ride). We left early enough to avoid the major traffic, and got home to the Hudson Valley in record time. Now we are all battened down, shop (fortunately, for once) is on the 2nd floor, lawn furniture secure, generator primed and ready (DON'T want to lose the sump pump!) and we are awaiting the deluge. We are about 70 miles north of NYC and are supposedly on the edge of the hurricane. We'll see....
Well o hope all goese well for all of tou on the eastcoast new said a man was killed from a falling tree
far from the coast also.
Ingres up as a kid in CA and saw a few quakes also as a kid I didn't know enough to be scared
Our thoughts are with those affected by Irene
Stay safe
From downunder
Allan
QuoteOur thoughts are with those affected by Irene
Stay safe
From downunder
And from up in the great white Noirth.
Yar i was a 14 year old kid growing up in Darwin Northern Territory when cyclone tracy hit Xmas 1974.
evacuated several days later by QANTAS
our house was levelled at the upstairs floorboards
the rest blew away
we survived in the station wagon under the house, tropical style house was on stilts
strewth
what a disaster
was really pizzed orf that my new electronics kit had just blown away with my other presents, tree, and everything else gone and destroyed around the joint
took years to rebuild Darwin eh.
Actually think Slim Dusty wrote a song about it all too.
Hey remember Bob Dylan"s song blownin' in the wind?
Yo, he's survived eh? Havya seen his latest song "Things have changed"?
You can get the guitar tabs for it, seems it's mainly in G minor and C 7 bar chords. Fantastic vid clip!! 60+ and still ragin". Hey, you could check it out on you tube sometime when the wind stops blowin' maybe.
Anyway, loosen up. Best advice recollected from that particular time, about the time of cyclone tracy, is to shelter around the bathroom / tiolet/ laundry door areas, that is, where there is a lot of plumbing works holding the frame of the house together. We sheltered in the bathroom most of the time being before the eye of the cyclone came over, then we scuttled downstairs and all hid in the family car. Lucky!! Think the wind settled down for about ten minutes. It was real eery like. And sorta like a bombsite. Then it picked up and the car was buffetting around the joint with crap flying into it and tumbling about the place. Wow, saw my bedroom wall blow away before me, a tree fell through the roof heapsa lighting strikes yowza, stuff whistling down the road away at a staggering rate of knots beforehand too!! Crazy! Trust that you don't get to see it! The wind really shrieked. With big mobs of bangs and clatters. My parents and us 4 kids, me the oldest, survived in that old station wagon. Lucky it had lots of steel and was pretty heavy! When we moved back, about a year later, then lived in a house that looked more like a bomb shelter! No more stilts, they kinda went out of fashion.
ex consequenti, "by way of consequence": from out West.
Hope all works out well for you Yanks hailing from New York anyway.
Stay cool.
Seen that you dodged it on the news this morning, or was that just New York, I assume everything went alright as the news is not jumping all over it.
Needles, it was the Hoodogurushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBUk7RoRdE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBUk7RoRdE)
although a big windfield it looks like it turned into a big rain event the flooding
needles sounds like you've been there
This was a station just down the road from my house in 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVkMwo26smk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
yo
thank God and thank the uni-verse all is ok for the yonkers and that things have winded wound up
wow how was that gas station being blown apart!
Those crazy storm chasers sure like living on the edge! yikes
thanks scotty that song wasn't quite what i was thinkin' of,
like dave faulkner's pants 'though...
the bloke sure has talent
and, you gotta real good collection of australiana youtubes up your sleeve mate
here's bob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BKTDSHrqqY
http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/bob_dylan/things_have_changed_crd.htm
stay cool after school
Quote from: needles eye on August 28, 2011, 05:52:23 pm
yo
wow how was that gas station being blown apart!
here's bob:
stay cool after school
145 mph winds
145 mph winds
that's nature riled up
crikey, did your boat turn into an aeroplane? or submarine?
ya house was ok?
We had a lot of flooding in Vermont, not much wind. My town was lucky and the flooding was minor, in some towns people were evacuated due to the high water. Lots and lots of bridges out, some people stranded because of washed out roads.
Bet it's a long way "out of your way" to get around washed out bridges, huh?
"The long way" to my house is a lot longer and I remember how inconvenient it was when an important bridge was washed away some years ago. It was a drag.
QuoteBet it's a long way "out of your way" to get around washed out bridges, huh?
Rodger that! We had some flooding here in the spring and while the city of Brandon did well when the Assiniboine river breached, alot of outlying areas (especially the Souris river valley south of us 30 miles) were hit with alot of road closures and washed out bridges.This being prairie farmland there is only a gravel road every couple of miles if your off the main highways.One particular bridge that washed out meant that farmers with land on both river banks (and Mikes boat would not fit sideways on that river) had a 3 hour trip to feed their cattle even though they could read their brands from the other side. There are a number of people who live in one small community and work in the one "just up the road" or the armed forces base who went from a 10 minute commute to over an hour.
I've got 3 bridges to leave my home
I've sold the big boat Darren just have a small one now
http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy102/Mike8560/seacraft/ce31a258.jpg
Well thank God the winds slowed by the time it got here. Rain was pretty bad and flooding everywhere specially at high tide . A few trees down and some places still without power today but getting back online. Could have been a lot worse , tidal flooding was like 1.5 feet less than our 92 storm here that everyone remembers. Tornado landed in the midst of all this a mile from my place but did'nt get me !!
Okay; that one you could turn on the souris and even wind her up on the Assiniboine LOL