Hurricane Irene hype is in full swing.
About where are you and how are you feeling?
I’m in DC and it’s my experience through a dozen or so of these that nothing is going to happen. It’s going to rain. It might get a bit windy. The apocalypse it most certainly will not be.
Just north of Baltimore, here.
We’ll get lots of rain and probably some decent wind. I imagine my power will go out for a few hours (which happens anytime someone even looks at the powerlines funny).
I’m not too concerned. I’d rather have a hurricane than a snowpocalypse.
I am concerned (in NJ but inland-ish), but I am more concerned by the potential panic of other people than I am by the effects of the hurricane itself. If the reaction to the recent earthquake in these parts is any indication people around here have a tendency to freak out when nature they aren’t used to hits them.
Me too. (Location, and degree of concern)I am concerned about minor flooding at work. The street I’m on has terrible drainage, we get water up to the curb in heavy rains.
At home I feel well prepared for even a prolonged power outage, which if it’s like the umbrella principle, assures that we won’t go without power for more than 30 minutes, or only during normal sleeping hours.
I voted: I’m in NJ, NY or further north from there and I’m not worried
As my location states, I’m in northern VT. We’ll get high winds and lots of rain, but nothing that major…and personally, I’ll do super-fine. Most of the city is on a big hill over the lake, so only close to the lake will have to worry about flooding, which isn’t many residential areas. I live in a condo association, so not a lot of trees in my immediate vicinity to smash my windows.
I’ll just stay inside on Sunday and drink…which is to say, the same as all my Sundays.
North-Central Jersey, about a half an hour’s drive from the Jersey shore.
I’m concerned. I’m from Michigan, never experienced a hurricane and have no idea what to expect. I’m spending today doing the disaster preparedness thing and preparing to evacuate if necessary.
I panicked at first, but then I calmed down and now I just want to make sure we’re prepared.
I’m in FLorida. We dodged the bullet, sand it’s actually nice here today. Irene sucked out the heat.
I’m also in DC and not worried, although PEPCO robo called me to say that the power will probably go out and they don’t know when/how to fix it, pretty much PEPCO’s approach to a slightly windy day. I’m gonna get a couple of gallons of water and make a run to the liquor store in case my office is closed on Monday and I have to “work from home.”
St. Mary’s county, MD here - SMECO is pretty good about keeping the power on, but still, this is a biggie. And everything is electric, including the well pump, so loss of power will be inconvenient in the short term, and really bad in the long term - as in our saltwater aquarium could go downhill fast.
For the short term, we’ve got enough no-cooking-required foodstuffs, and I’ll fill the bathtubs with water for flushing. beyond that, we’ll figure it out. And guess we’ll see how strong the trees in our yard are. At least in our neighborhood, the powerlines are underground.
I’m a little concerned about loss of power, as I really rely on electronics for entertainment. I’m far more concerned about my long weekend next week. I’m planning on getting away to a little coastal town which I hope won’t get washed away.
I’m in Delaware and I’m shitting myself.
I live in Manhattan and I’m not concerned for myself, (though I am flying out of the country Monday night, so if the subways get flooded that could be a problem) but I am worried about the house friends of mine have out on Fire Island.
We’re in tornado alley. We shit ourselves every year between March thru May. No problems in Aug or Sept.
We had a lot of deathes this past Spring from several tornados. Close to a 100 IIRC.
I’m in Philly and I personally have no real reason to be worried. I don’t own a property and while my street floods terribly, I’m on the second floor of a sturdy concrete building.
I expect it’s going to be a disaster (5"+ of rain!), but it probably won’t hurt or kill anyone I know. I kind of enjoy terrible weather, honestly, even though I don’t want anyone to be hurt and I am sad when people have property damage.
I’m surprised that you are comfortable looking at a relatively narrow band of experiences and asserting that it’ll always be like that…especially considering the biggest east coast earthquake in like 70 years just hit the other day.
With that said, I don’t think the roof’s going to blow off or anything, but I am very worried that we’ll lose power for an extended period of time or that a tree will fall on my car.
I live in Connecticut, roughly 30 miles inland and on the land side of a ridge at 300 feet above sea level. I expect lots of rain, a fair amount of wind, possibly hail and the power to go out.
We have propane, fire wood in case I want to turn my house into a sauna cooking on the wood stove, plenty of assorted food and not only a hot tub as a reservoir for water, we filled a 55 gallon food service plastic drum specifically with potable water and chlorine shocked it. [ hot tub we tend to use to water the animals, easier to scoop water out and then refill it when we get power back] and we have fuel for the generator. Oddly enough mrAru was planning on doing routine maintenance on the generator this weekend anyway, then the hurricane decided to come for a visit.
I’m in central NC; pretty sure I’ll be fine, but I’m trying to be prepared for a power outage. I’m more worried about my friends and family in the Northeast.
You don’t have an option for “annoyed.” I’m in NY/NJ, and I know from experience I will probably be without power for some time, which is annoying.
The trains, subway and PATH will probably be down (flooding, trees across tracks) and I will have to try to get a bus to work.
The only thing that really concerns me is one of my neighbors’ big ol’ trees taking out my roof or windows, but there is not a hell of a lot I can do about that.
I’m mildly worried. Not raiding the local supermarkets for more than the weekly groceries, but watching the upcoming weather forecasts more than I normally would.
We don’t usually get more than some heavy rains from the tail end of hurricanes here and I’m hoping that’s all we get this time–but after an earthquake it’s kind of hard to predict things-as-usual.
I’m in suburban Philly and I am concerned. Our neighborhood tends to lose power rather easily and sometimes it takes them 24 hrs to restore it. We have property with lots of tall trees in our backyard.
We have lots of candles. We have cleared everything off the deck except the BBQ grill. We live on hill, so I don’t think we will be flooded, but we will have the water running by the property as it runs downhill. We have food, the cats have food. I will stop tonight at the store and grab a couple of bags of chips and stuff like that.