Hurricane Irene

[plasma1896]

never seen a guy shit in his pants on live tv

[dakshdar]

Rode out Isabel when I lived in Norfolk in '03. That was a Cat 5 that I think hit Hampton Roads (Newport News, Norfolk, Va Beach area) head on. No power for 6 days, work/research (at NASA Langley) was closed for a week. I drove around the day after the storm, almost no traffic lights were functioning, it was pretty chaotic. I think I spent half the time during day at the mall/movie theater downtown (they had power because they're lines were underground) in Norfolk. Weirdest was going to bed at 8:30 each night. Only light I had was a propane lantern.

Here's a shot of what the water level looking like at the Air Force Base/NASA Base where I was working:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hurri ... _water.jpg

Good luck everyone out there.

[shel311]

still remember having 3 of these hit us in a 5 weeks span about 7 years ago.....pretty directly too

That was madness.

Gotta love our drunken drive through your apartment complex trying to avoid down power lines and trees and all that good stuff. That was a genius move there that we made.

[dakshdar]

Parts of Manhattan are built on landfill??? what the fuckkk

What's the one thing they aren't making any more of? Land. Unless you're in Dubai, where they like doing shit like making islands.

[Hoos]

Rode out Isabel when I lived in Norfolk in '03. That was a Cat 5 that I think hit Hampton Roads (Newport News, Norfolk, Va Beach area) head on. No power for 6 days, work/research (at NASA Langley) was closed for a week. I drove around the day after the storm, almost no traffic lights were functioning, it was pretty chaotic. I think I spent half the time during day at the mall/movie theater downtown (they had power because they're lines were underground) in Norfolk. Weirdest was going to bed at 8:30 each night. Only light I had was a propane lantern.

Here's a shot of what the water level looking like at the Air Force Base/NASA Base where I was working:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hurri ... _water.jpg

Good luck everyone out there.

Yup, that one sucked. I went 7 days without power.

[buckeye76]

My brother is stationed in Norfolk. Yesterday they got the ship out to sea. His wife and daughter evacuated yesterday inland aways from what I was told.

[Dcane7]

Yeah I talked to my parents earlier today and they were on their way to an aunts in the western part of the state lol. My mom wanted to stay but my dad said they were getting outta dodge lol. I'm on the peninsula.

[plasma1896]

be safe all you guys in that path

[NCSUholmey]

been overcast and raining for almost the last 24 hours here, power blinked a couple times but nothing major. It dropping to a CAT 1 helped keep damage lower than what they thought a few days ago

[plasma1896]

Played around with live weather at 3am est

maryland- heavy rain and 31 mph winds

navy - heavy fog and 21 mph winds

army- down pour and 18 mph winds