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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1000: August 28, 2011, 12:35:19 PM »
Three trees down in my neighborhood.  Two uprooted, one cracked.  Couple of big branches down too.  No property damage, thankfully.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1001: August 28, 2011, 01:37:38 PM »
I got some drizzle and a light breeze pretty much.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1002: August 28, 2011, 02:25:56 PM »
It blew like stink from midnight until 4 a.m. in Gaithersburg. We have lots of trees, so I was up all night listening and watching for a white oak or poplar to come crashing through the roof. I almost got everyone up to move the basement at 3:30, but then the train-roar wind started to abate.

 I've never seen it blow that hard when there were leaves on the trees.

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« Reply #1003: August 28, 2011, 04:25:10 PM »
Checking in from Upstate NY.  We have rivers and reservoirs cresting over dams.  Four counts so far and one of those dams actually completely failed and doesn't exist any more (in Berkshire County, MA).   That seems to be our biggest of our concerns up here.  I live about 300 yards from the Hudson river but up about 150 feet in elevation from the river level.  

We also have a report of a mudslide taking out a small neighborhood in Troy, NY.

Winds have remained below 40 MPH for the most part.  The occasional gust reached near 50 but the winds have been kind to us.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1004: August 28, 2011, 05:04:23 PM »
The one in Berkshire county - on the Housatonic?  Those damns are important in holding back PCBs from the GE plant in Pittsfield. something like this is how the contamination in the Hudson became so bad.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1005: August 28, 2011, 05:18:09 PM »
Life without power sucks. I had no idea what to do...

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1006: August 28, 2011, 05:45:43 PM »
Life without power sucks. I had no idea what to do...
READ A BOOK!

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1007: August 28, 2011, 06:04:13 PM »
READ A BOOK!

I did, my summer reading, but all my summer reading books suck.

And I read a ton, specifically fantasy, but I wasn't in the mood to do so.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1008: August 28, 2011, 06:26:57 PM »
I did, my summer reading, but all my summer reading books suck.

And I read a ton, specifically fantasy, but I wasn't in the mood to do so.

Clean your room


Walk the dog


Give the cat a bath


Create cold fusion



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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1009: August 28, 2011, 06:29:41 PM »
Winds really picking up now.  Lights flickering.


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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1010: August 28, 2011, 06:43:57 PM »
Life without power sucks. I had no idea what to do...

When Ike hit, my apartment had no power for a week. We trashed all the dairy and most of the meat before the hurricane hit and then took pillows and books and moved onto Rice campus. My roommates and I stayed with friends for seven days before power was restored, and when we got back the fridge clean-up was - well - (and despite the pre-'cane cleaning) there are no words to describe it. Every window and every door stayed open for the rest of the day and we all sat outside on the back porch waiting for the place to be tolerable again.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1011: August 28, 2011, 07:22:46 PM »
OPM in DC is Unscheduled Leave/Telework:

http://www.opm.gov/status/index.aspx


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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1012: August 28, 2011, 09:21:19 PM »
Life without power sucks. I had no idea what to do...

light some candles and break out the Ouija board, or go on every message board you can find and nag about the power utilities slowness in restoring your power. :)

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1013: August 28, 2011, 09:22:24 PM »
the storm I noted above should be at least a tropical depression by tomorrow, several models show it following a similar track to Irene and hitting the U.S. east coast around labor day.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1014: August 28, 2011, 09:23:23 PM »
I had an elaborate plan worked out for staying online for up to 12 continuous hours if the power went out here, but it never did.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1015: August 28, 2011, 09:43:53 PM »
I had an elaborate plan worked out for staying online for up to 12 continuous hours if the power went out here, but it never did.

Good thing you hit TubeGalore early, huh?

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1016: August 28, 2011, 09:51:23 PM »
 :hurr:

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1017: August 28, 2011, 10:01:27 PM »
light some candles and break out the Ouija board, or go on every message board you can find and nag about the power utilities slowness in restoring your power. :)

I went with the latter ;)

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1018: August 29, 2011, 05:04:56 PM »
Euro model shows Hurricane Katia hitting the U.S. east coast a week from Friday.

Still early though....

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1019: August 29, 2011, 05:53:19 PM »
What is this trash right now? I thought it was supposed to be sunny all week :rant:

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1020: August 29, 2011, 06:12:58 PM »
the national guard tries to drive through a flooded road in NJ, not their finest moment:


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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1021: August 30, 2011, 08:54:24 AM »
The one in Berkshire county - on the Housatonic?  Those damns are important in holding back PCBs from the GE plant in Pittsfield. something like this is how the contamination in the Hudson became so bad.
Discussion upthread of a dam failure in Berkshire County.  Turns out the dam was not on the housatonic, it was on a trib of the Westfield River, which flows into the Connecticut.  Also, it had not failed as of yesterday. It was in danger and there were precautionary evacuations.  

The town was Becket.  Not Beckett.  Not completely analogous to Strasburg, VA, and the 9/6 starter.

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1022: August 30, 2011, 09:25:10 AM »
the national guard tries to drive through a flooded road in NJ, not their finest moment:



I was hoping they could turn around and empty a few rounds into the jackass commentators- too bad jersey isn't treated like kandahar

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« Reply #1023: August 30, 2011, 09:36:19 AM »
I was hoping they could turn around and empty a few rounds into the jackass commentators- too bad jersey isn't treated like kandahar

This seems like a completely appropriate response and not at all an overreaction :roll:

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Re: The Weather
« Reply #1024: August 30, 2011, 10:13:41 AM »
This seems like a completely appropriate response and not at all an overreaction :roll:

Did you watch the vid? They were being complete jerks.