Hurricane Irene: Are you in its path?

[VWL Mom]

Be safe everyone!

[Mousehead35]

To all my fellow east coasters, stay safe and please be smart! Hang in there everyone !!!!

[Mfarquar]

Stay safe everyone! Hopefully, Irene will lose some steam, but my old home of NJ/NY seems to be in for a bumpy ride. We'll see how New England fares later on tomorrow.

We left NYC today to come home to MA and it was a spooky scene. All mass transit at a standstill and signage on buses rewritten as "Hurricane Shelter" because these were the only areas they were serving.

Thoughts and prayers for everyone!

[NJGIRL]

We were in Ocean City NJ for three weeks and our last day was supposed to be Saturday. Thursday night we were on the boardwalk and they were disassembling the ferris wheel and boarding up the shops! I knew then it was a good idea to leave early. We left very early Friday before the masses made their way out.

OC floods very easliy. One day we had only 1 hour of heavy rain and the roads were flooded over my knees so I can't imagine how much water they have today.

[VWL Mom]

How's everyone making out?

We lost power for about 7 hours, parts of our town have been evacuated, but we're high enough that flooding isn't an issue. So far the winds have been kind.

[Mfarquar]

We're lucky so far as well! Flickering electricity (may go out later). Raining hard, some serious gusts of wind here. Supposedly a strong tropical strong now, but CNN has an interesting bar graph that shows when wind guests are in the Category 1 area.

I think we're going to luck out and I'm crossing my fingers that we'll keep electricity (my mother-in-law has already lost it though). It's ok if my work wants to lose electricity through tomorrow though

[BrerGnat]

We were spared the worst of it. If we had been only a few more miles east, we would have been in a worse situation. We didn't lose power, but we had a very noisy night with some unrelenting wind for about 12 hours. Woke up to a sunny day and just a few downed trees in our neighborhood. Nothing major.

[Jessie]

Things seem to be okay here. Apparently we've been hit with the worst of it so far. No lost power (hoping it stays that way) and no bad tree damage aside from some limbs here and there.

[buzznwoodysmom]

Glad to hear everyone seems to be doing well so far.

[Stitchahula]

From what I've been hearing the town I live in made out better than some of the towns around me. mostly what I've heard is trees down, power outages but nothing major around her. We lost some big limbs on our tree and our neighbor lost part of her fence but I think we escaped pretty unharmed.

[barnaby]

Things are OK for me in SJ. Sadly, there were some deaths, a girl got caught in flood waters and died.
But for the most part, it was not as bad as forecasted. Some serious flooding in the Shore towns, but the winds damage seems less then anticipated.
All in all, I am very thankful because I knew quite a few people who could've had a rough time, but thankfully are OK.

I survived a earthquake and a hurricane.....in the same week.

[Katzateer]

I survived a earthquake and a hurricane.....in the same week.

It certainly as been an interesting week!

We finally have our power back on- so glad to get my computer working again. Just heard that 1/3 the state of PA was without power during the storm.

[MstngDrvnDsnyLvr]

New Bern, NC here - only 50+ miles in from where the eye hit land at Cape Lookout NC. We were without power for a day and a 1/2 but were lucky with no flooding in our yard. Also for all the trees that dropped branches, none hit the house.
Today and tomorrow have been and will be spent on debris clean up.

Hope everyone else fared well also.

[January-2007]

We only lost power for about an hour so we made out okay. DS didn't like the light going out in his room while he was sleeping so it was a long hour, but today was just beautiful.

[Disney Doodle]

Glad to hear that many of you have been spared the worse. My son was due to fly in to Boston on Sunday, but his flight from Heathrow, London was cancelled. His flight has been re-arranged for Wednesday and it does mean he will now have a shorter time there, but at least he will be safe and flying in better conditions.

[Mogie]

My town in NJ across the River from NYC has about a foot of water in the streets but flooding here is normal in big rain storms. Over all the storm was a let down. Lost power last night, but the local Chili's had the Yankee Game on