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Old 08-25-2011, 03:07 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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5pm Hurricane Irene Update:

Staying steady with strength...slowly increasing speed..Movement now NNW. Tropical storm force winds extend 290 miles from center. Hurricane force 80 miles.

Hurricane Watches and Warning out for East coast from NJ southward for now.



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Old 08-25-2011, 03:10 PM
 
Location: Coastal Connecticut
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My house is new and the basement has never gotten any water in it whatsoever. I'm still worried. Should I invest in a sump pump? Again on 50' hill .5 mile from coast.
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Old 08-25-2011, 03:14 PM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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i urge anyone who lives within on the coast to evacuate. I live in Alabama and I saw the raw power from Hurricane Ivan back in 2004. these things are nothing to play with.
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Old 08-25-2011, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Live in NY, work in CT
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5pm update shows a track that is fully INLAND after Maryland (my link below, Cambium's above still shows it hugging the coast from MD to CT). Assuming what my link shows, while this would put us east of the center meaning still a lot of wind, it would weaken the storm (indeed, it now shows a Cat 1 in southern NJ, whereas previous updates had it as a Cat 2 there and Cambium's post even shows it as a Cat 2, not 3 when it hits NC). I wouldn't be surprised if it's a "strong Tropical Storm" when it gets here, maybe like Floyd:

More flee ahead of Irene as track forecast shifts - Weather - msnbc.com

(not to "pooh-pooh" it though, I'm not saying it will be a "routine thunderstorm", just wonder if it will really be the "storm of the century" that people my age and below tell their grandkids one day).

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I was 16 when Gloria hit. It was bad from what I remember.
I have 2 shop vacs ready to go........
I was 1 month shy of 18 and a freshman in college up in the Albany area.....so I saw a lot of rain and some wind but missed a lot of it. But southern Westchester being west of the center I remember when I visited home the following weekend it was a lot of downed trees and some people lost power earlier in the week, but just that. Of course, I imagine those in Suffolk County LI or the CT coast east of Bridgeport probably had a different experience......
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Old 08-25-2011, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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500 year floods. 100 year Tornado outbreak. 100 year Eathquake/Tsunamis. Why not 100 year Hurricane.
Irene will be retired after this.

Here's the 1821 Disaster.
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Old 08-25-2011, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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A good look at the Wind Swath.

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Old 08-25-2011, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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Signs.

Earthquake hits the Northeast 9/5/1944.
On 9/12/1944 the Great Atlantic Hurricane Hits. NYC had 10 inches of rain.

And it was a 5.8 in 1944 as well
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Old 08-25-2011, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Central Connecticut
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Signs.

Earthquake hits the Northeast 9/5/1944.
On 9/12/1944 the Great Atlantic Hurricane Hits. NYC had 10 inches of rain.

And it was a 5.8 in 1944 as well
Hmmm thats weird... history repeats
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Old 08-25-2011, 05:20 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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Unconfirmed pressure drop to 946...She's strengthening. Possible Cat 4 tomorrow. Gulf stream is warm..No shear to break it apart. Outter Banks of NC need to get out. Drive West 300 miles stay for couple days...
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Old 08-25-2011, 05:27 PM
 
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Stop with the hyperbole Cambium. Were talking about a fast moving tropical storm moving through on a Sunday afternoon. I predict less power outages from this than last March's Nor'easter. Ridiculous.
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