Goodnight, Irene. Be safe!

"She's Gonna BLOW, Captain"

 

Be Safe, Irene -

 

Goodnight, John-boy ~

 

 

/ And I was concerned with my home in Fl this hurricane season,  yet she follows me up the coast to visit :(

Downgraded:

 

6 p.m. - Irene to weaken before making landfall

Hurricane Irene is expected to weaken overnight, dropping to Category 1 status before making landfall in Morehead City Saturday afternoon, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service said.

A Category 2 storm on Friday, winds speeds are expected to dip from 100 to 90 mph as Irene cruises up the North Carolina coastline tonight and Saturday. A Category 1 storm is one that has sustained winds between 74 and 95 mph.

The meteorologist, Sandy LaCorte, said the eye of Irene was centered 180 miles southeast of Wilmington, marching north at a rate of 14 mph.

Irene is becoming progressively weaker because it has encountered shear on its journey up the East Coast. The storm was a Category 3 on Thursday, and was downgraded to a Category 2 Friday morning.

Beyond its strength, Irene is especially worrisome to many on the East Coast because of its uncommonly massive size. According to Ron Steve, also a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Wilmington Office, Irene covers an area of approximately 170,000 square miles, or about the size of California or Iraq.

- Brian Freskos , N.C.

 

She's Gonna, Blow Over insofar as here in R.I., other than torrential rains of up to 12 inches ...

Best wishes to everyone in the path. Hope you and your loved ones are OK.

And this makes me thankful for the 118° F highs I've been dealing with. Drink more water and you're alright. A hurricane is something else.

I hope we'll be safe here in Virginny.  The tropical storm portion should affect us with rain and then the higher wind gusts later.  This might mean that tree roots will get water logged and then some trees will topple from the wind.  Newer neighborhoods have their utilities buried, so there's less chance of outages.  However, older neighborhoods closer into the city have above-ground utilities and more established trees that exceed 100 years old.  Those areas are ripe for power outages.

 

114 F heat?  Wow.  Even though it's currently 70 F, humid as all get-out and starting to mist, the idea of that temperature has me sweating already.

 

 

One of the enduring troubles in the aftermath with Hurricanes , moreso especially  deeper in the South, is with the power being out ( as was my Brothers experience in '92 with hurricane Andrew in Hollywood Fl ) and having no air conditioning in sweltering heat and humidity for 5 days or up to a week (Homestead Fl. '92 ) .   

 

Suppose the hype is better than some being unprepared and may actually save some pain incurred otherwise from this unpredictable monster storm .
 

 

You got that right, Spanky. It's nasty-living without AC in the tropics. Concerns me way more than falling trees, but all five already blew over during Kat, so there's that. I have considered doing some landscaping with some of those little Mr. Miyagi trees, though. Not too much trouble if those topple.

 

Good luck, all.

 

Edited by Samgotit - 8/27/11 at 8:39am

I was just reading on one of my local trash forums that someone was asking for a "free" generator on the Freecycle site.  Umm ... yeah, right!