Irene hurricane
Is anybody in danger because of the Irene hurricane around New -York ? I wish all the best for everybody and the quick passing of the danger.
¿Hay alguien, quien es en peligro por causa de hurricane Irene alrededor de Nueva -York¿ Deseo todo bueno a todos y el pasado rápido del peligro.
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Hurricanes seem to follow me on vacation, whether Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, S.C. and even a flight around Hugo when departing Mexico in 2008.
But this is the first "hometown" hurricane that I remember. We are in a high rise in the downtown section of the city and I hear that public transportation and even the bridges might close. 
I guess we'll let you know Monday how things work out for us. 
Thanks for asking! 
The Philadelphia area should be reaching a peak in wind and rain throughout early Sunday, for about a 12-hour worst exposure.
I don't feel unsafe where I am, but my internet connection is getting clobbered every few minutes.
I seem to have an Intermittantnet here ... 
My family is in Massachusetts, on the coast, so we're hoping that she passes on by without any damage.
We experienced Irene when it passed through the Caribbean as a tropical depression and then a storm. Even at that stage it was still a serious threat. 
Hope New Yorkers will keep safe and heed the warnings.
We're in the path for it to hit us as a a category 1 hurricane on Sunday morning but we are not in a flood zone of our town so we are not facing mandatory evacuation. We're expected to have storm conditions late tonight. We have water, food, and lots of candles.
It's very strange around here because we don't get storms like this and people don't really believe it will be bad. On the other hand, the store shelves are empty of milk canned food and batteries.
We all balked at hurricanes coming our way until 2004 - When Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne destroyed a lot of our homes here in Central Florida. Take a look at Jeanne's path and how she went out to sea and then decided to turn around to visit Walt Disney World.
We take them a lot more seriously now. Of course, I now own a generator that I haven't used - ever. I hope it stays that way!
Good luck to everybody in the path...
I really hope nobody suffers too much through this. Its not just the physical suffering of course, but also the damage that can be done to homes \ businesses etc.
Things like this bring home to me how lucky we are over here in the UK. We don't tend to suffer anything like the problems our friends over in the Americas do.
Take care!
I live in an area where hurricanes are rare and earthquakes even more so.This week we got both .
Hurricanes seem to follow me on vacation, whether Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, S.C. and even a flight around Hugo when departing Mexico in 2008.
But this is the first "hometown" hurricane that I remember. We are in a high rise in the downtown section of the city of Philadelphia and I hear that public transportation and even the bridges might close.
I guess we'll let you know Monday how things work out for us. Thanks for asking!
The hurricane Is very dangerous!
We have many other valued members of SD on the east coast...including Sanlee, Samdee and Yesero. Please keep them in your prayers, too. I'm sure there are many more, along with many, many loved ones of SD members who would appreciate any and all prayers for safety. The good news is that everyone has had enough time to prepare how best to deal with this. I'm sure that there will be great property loss, but if folks use their common sense the loss of lives should be avoided. Stuff can be replaced....people can't.
Well, I'm in Western Massachussets and we had to evacuate the village in which I live. The Deerfield River runs right through town. I went down about 10 AM to see what was up, and within 1 hour the river had come up 2', and it was already high. I estimate it is up at least 9', and it looked like at least 3 or 4 houses in town would be swept away. There is a power line over the river and the water was so high that the branches from a tree that was being swept downstream hooked the power line, and the telephone poles holding it up on either side of the river both snapped right off. There is a dam on a nearby lake in danger, and that whole town has been ordered to evacuate, and all the roads are closed except to emergency and evacuating vehicles. The major bridge in the center of town is certainly in danger of being swept away. We' re safe though, went down to the "big city" of Greenfield. It's pretty amazing how something could pass from non-dramatic to dangerous in an instant. No wind, just lots of rain, and then this.
