Hurricane Irene

ubarose wrote:

billyz wrote:

Josh Look wrote: Pretty sure that's true, Barney. I know parts of NY _HAVE_ been evacuated. I'm fairly certain that there were evacuations where Matt Loter lives as well.

WTF? Exactly what kind of weather are they expecting that far North?

We are expecting flooding along the coast and waterways, boat and marina damage, power outages from downed trees knocking power lines, roads blocked by flooding and downed trees. We have had a very wet summer so the water table is already high. The ground is soft and saturated so trees are going to go down if we get any kind of strong winds.

Just heard that they have lost power in parts of the New Haven, CT area.

OOof. Is this a usual thing when it comes to strong hurricanes?

only if there has been a ton of rain which I guess there has?



billyz, what's this business about not wanting to play games together? Sounds fun. But we like different games, no?

Black Barney wrote: only if there has been a ton of rain which I guess there has?



billyz, what's this business about not wanting to play games together? Sounds fun. But we like different games, no?

Hell, I'll play anything. Is it just mr or are we not getting anything up here yet?

We're not done with Irene yet in NJ, but when we are, we'll pass that girl along.

Hark! is that the rolling of thunder I hear in the distance?

billyz wrote:

Black Barney wrote: only if there has been a ton of rain which I guess there has?



billyz, what's this business about not wanting to play games together? Sounds fun. But we like different games, no?

Hell, I'll play anything. Is it just mr or are we not getting anything up here yet?

it got downgraded pretty quick to a 2 and then to a 1 so we weren't going to really see much of it up here. I slept through the night without incident. My Bernese Mountain dog, Eva, woke me up at 7 am which she rarely does so I thought for a second she was trying to wake me up cuz of one of those weird animal instinct things where she senses upcoming danger and wants to warn me (there's a few cool stories circling around about behaviour of some animals in zoos before Irene hit).



anyway, she just needed to pee

We've still got power. The town I'm in is nothing but trees, so I'm a bit surprised. The rain and wind is starting to really pick up though, so who knows for how long. It's Dragon Age until it goes out, board games by candlelight when it does!

Ain't shit happening to me, kinda disappointing since the tattoo party I was going to last night got rescheduled for nothing. They did evacuate most of the area around us late last night, but we live near the top of a big hill so we're fine for anything but a huge tsunami, though its possible we become an island for a bit. Lost power for a few minutes and it was kinda windy, but meh. The bar we went to last night was packed, so it seems most people are like us and don't really give a shit. One of the dogs did shit on the foot peddle for the Rock Band drums cause he/she didn't want to go shit outside, so that's some pretty serious damage done!

Lots of NYC was told to evacuate and totally didn't. Another party I was planning on hitting up still went on without incident in Brooklyn. I hear a bunch of streets are flooded now though, but nothing totally crazytown.

i keep hearing all these magical stories of bars that have Rock Band setups and I have yet to see one. I would love that. I finally found a video game cafe-type place where I could play RB3 and RB-Beatles for free while sippin' a latte and that makes for a great break when the workday is crap

My father refers to this as the 25-year-tree-stress-test. Clear out that substandard foliage.

I think Irene swept right by Mahopac, NY about about two hours ago. Isn't that where Zev is based? Glad that she seems to have run out of steam.

Zev is in Mahopac. My father lives nearby and I am pretty sure he's without power.

I lost power for about 4 hours in southern NH. Since I didn't know how long it would last, cranked up the generator when it first went out. That thing is well worth the initial investment I made 10 years ago. Probably have used it for close to 15 days total over the years.

Went out for a drive. Very quiet. A lot of places had power, but were closed.