Irene

[ivanhoe]

Now that Irene has passed us in NY we are wondering about how villagers dealt with the threat?

At what time did you feel that it would not pass too close and what was it that helped with this decision?

As perspective residents we want to learn how to correctly react to this type of event.

Thanks...
(you lucky dogs...we're dying to get there)

[scrapple]

We kept a close eye on www.noaagov.org for our information.

[Virtual Geezer]

I was listening to the streaming scanner Skyware reports on my smart phone which were very interesting. I tried to get them on the PC but was unable to.

VG

[momesu]

Now that Irene has passed us in NY we are wondering about how villagers dealt with the threat?

At what time did you feel that it would not pass too close and what was it that helped with this decision?

As perspective residents we want to learn how to correctly react to this type of event.

Thanks...
(you lucky dogs...we're dying to get there)

I hope you did not have too much damage from Irene. I was joking with friends at church, here in MD this morning that I had to hurry and get to FL and TV becasue I couldn't handle the stress of anymore hurricanes......it was a real noisy nasty night here last night!
Suzanne

[obxgal]

Having lived in the Outer Banks and gone through Cat 1, 2 and 3, I never felt we were in any kind of danger down here. Didn't even consider it a threat to this area.

I did watch as much coverage as to what was happening because my daughter still lives up there and we have many friends in the area. She's a 911 operator and is still on stand by for the next few days.

Over the years we've found that the "weather" channel and new stations over dramatizes things quite a bit. IMHO

[tainsley]

Having lived in the Outer Banks and gone through Cat 1, 2 and 3, I never felt we were in any kind of danger down here. Didn't even consider it a threat to this area.

I did watch as much coverage as to what was happening because my daughter still lives up there and we have many friends in the area. She's a 911 operator and is still on stand by for the next few days.

Over the years we've found that the "weather" channel and new stations over dramatizes things quite a bit. IMHO

Agree completely! Glad your daughter is fine. My daughter decided to stay at her house in VA Beach. Good decision because we are still without power 25 miles away!

[senior citizen]

Now that Irene has passed us in NY we are wondering about how villagers dealt with the threat?

At what time did you feel that it would not pass too close and what was it that helped with this decision?

As perspective residents we want to learn how to correctly react to this type of event.

Thanks...
(you lucky dogs...we're dying to get there)

I HAVE BEEN THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING. Being inland doesn't necessarily protect one.........as our state learned yesterday.

As far as moving to TV, hubby said we would have a generator installed first thing, but would like to hear other ideas as well.

Re Vermont's "tropical storm" Irene...........

For all of Sunday, we were inside nice and dry........only had one huge gust of wind...........never lost power at all. However, we were in a “bubble” for sure, not fully realizing what was happening in the rest of our town and state........as we were watching the coverage of the entire east coast.
Everyone is asking whether or not we should “rethink” our possible ultimate retirement to Florida, given the fact that they have more hurricanes, however, Gracie might have been on to something..........Florida didn’t really feel Irene, did it? Vermont is devastated at the moment. Upstate N.Y. also.

In the evening as we were watching the hurricane assessments from up and down the east coast, they said that Vermont had cows and cars floating down the rivers . Apparently, although we thought everything was fine.........as we are in the higher hillier part of town, other parts of Bennington were experiencing flooding, evacuation, bridges being washed out, roads being washed out.............Rt. 100 which goes up the middle of the state through the mountains is closed.........Rt. 9 from Bennington to Brattleboro is closed........bridges washed out. Other roads as well, closed.

At the same time, immediately aftering hearing this, our 6 year old grand daughter Caroline called to check in to see if we were o.k. as her family had just heard the news as well on their television. She had seen cars floating down the rivers, etc. I told her she can rescue us in her little kayak.....but assured her that we were just fine. She thought that Grandpa’s big boat would be better for rescue; she’s no doubt correct as ever since it arrived on the scene, our torrential rains have increased up here.......I do call it Noah’s Ark. No school this week ; it was supposed to begin.

Brattleboro was flooded, Waterbury, plus many other towns.............but across our Bennington border into the farmlands around Albany, N.Y. they are also devastated with flooding, bridges washed out, N.Y. Thruway closed in certain sections..........same thing re the cows and barns floating down the rivers, people stranded on second floor and third floors of their homes........(big farmhouses), ...........just devastating flooding up this way.
Dams breaking, threat of others that are weakened. I believe I just heard that 265 Vermont “state roads” are damaged. Some towns isolated.
Again, we were VERY LUCKY.

As our Governor of Vermont just said, we are not used to tropical storms up here. Northeasterns and blizzards, but not hurricanes.

Our house is fine, thank goodness.............just a small patch of soggy carpeting from the torrential rains. Hubby has been sucking it up with the
rug shampooer and dumped about 6 containers so far. But it’s just damp, not ankle deep or knee deep or thigh deep like some people with flooded basements. This level is “below grade” partially, with windows........just some soggy carpet. Could be worse. There are people with water up to the ceilings of their basements...............from the flash flooding and heavy rains.

I just did fill up our large jetted tub with water.........with a pail beside it, in case we have to use the water to “flush” the toilet. A major water main break in town. They say we have water for two days and we should conserve. Hopefully, they will fix it soon. Our water supply is gravity fed from the mountains and we’ve been fine through other power outages..............but this is a water main break.

So, as we were sitting, thinking...........”This is is?”...........it really was doing damage throughout our state. A young woman was washed away in Wilmington while looking at the raging waters...............our Governor has said that Vermont’s mountains and rivers are a fact of life and do flood down into the valleys...............however, he said this is unprecedented and it’s like the COLORADO RAPIDS..........meaning the rivers’ power to destroy things......as it rushes with flood waters.

We are just beginning to hear the news of damages in Bennington...........low lying areas flooded, etc. People evacuated by boats.
Last spring, northern Vermont had flooding, but this is no doubt worse..........still danger of large trees coming down from the saturated grounds.............We had fastened all the deck furniture and situated it so that it would not BLOW AROUND.......everything is fine.......just a lot of leaves on our deck......and backyard........but so far no trees down that I can see so early in the morning. IN Florida, the palm trees sway with the winds...........up here in the north HUGE OLD TREES have fallen on homes, on cars, etc........underminded by totally saturated grounds.

LAST WEEK WE HAD AN EARTHQUAKE WHICH SOME BENNINGTON FOLKS FELT.............we did not.
In the bigger scheme of things.............we were the lucky ones. Just heard from cousin in Raleigh N.C. who had some power outages, nothing major, but her mother in law and father in law, who had thought of going to their beach home at the Outer Banks, decided not to and it’s a good thing they did not go.........the one road onto the island is totally gone..........they would have had to be evacuated by boat.

[EdV]

I got prepared last Tuesday by wheeling my generator outside, putting fresh gas in and running it for about 15 minutes.

This of course is the reason that Irene bypassed Florida. :a040:

[obxgal]

Tainsley happy to hear your daughter had no problems. Sorry to hear your electric is out, so is my daughters. She drove home to Columbia last night and saw that 5 trailers going into town were totally gone, due to a tornado that touched down in her area. Other than no electric and a few tree limbs down in the back yard, her house is in good shape not even a shingle missing.

senior citizen the main route to the Outer Banks (rte 158) is open. The Outer Banks is closed to all but essential personnel, according to the county. They are stopping everyone at the bridge and turning them around.
The only road that has a breach in it is the one leading to Hatteras Island and that's always been a trouble spot. Plus they have no electricity at this point on Hatteras

[islandgal]

Here is a link to see these difficult-to-comprehend press photos:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/hurricane-irene/100138/

[philnpat]

We scheduled a trip to TV with my daughter-in-law and grandkids last week. We watched the computer models of the projected storm path and decided to go as planned as the models showed the path to be east of Florida. We had a wonderful time in TV and returned to upstate NY Monday afternoon. Our neighbors teased us, telling us that they never knew anyone from NY going to Florida to avoid a tropical storm!

[senior citizen]

We scheduled a trip to TV with my daughter-in-law and grandkids last week. We watched the computer models of the projected storm path and decided to go as planned as the models showed the path to be east of Florida. We had a wonderful time in TV and returned to upstate NY Monday afternoon. Our neighbors teased us, telling us that they never knew anyone from NY going to Florida to avoid a tropical storm!

That is something for the books........you and I know what happened to upstate New York. Our Vermont senator and governor are saying it's climate change and global warming.......Vermont's seasons have certainly gone crazy the past few years. Not predicatable as they once were. Glad you had an enjoyable escape. Not so for the Manhattan folks who decided to weather out the hurricane in Prattsville, N.Y., thinking they were escaping harm.

You went in the right direction !

[buggyone]

What did I do to prepare for a hurricane that had all of it's tracks shown on television as being way off of Florida? Nothing out of the ordinary.

I always have 2 cases of bottled water that I rotate on a regular basis, a pantry with plenty of cans of food, plenty of beer and wine, a flashlight with a supply of batteries, a 30 day stockpile of daily meds, cash (hidden), and I try to keep the car at least half full of gas.

That is not out of fear of any particular storm but just something to be prepared with in case it is needed.