Hurricane Irene

How badly does she blow? Or is she just a load of hot air?

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a dead heart lurks in the wood of the forest

http://printable.tipjunkie.com/wp-content/printable-thumbs/a-whole-lot-of-nothing-printable-gift-ideas.jpg

unless you're in North Carolina, in a trailer

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#IRENE

all the pft pft pft NEW YORK bc pft pft pft FLORIDA going on is ridiculous. like should people just be super breezy about it, because on occasions, there have been hurricanes in other places. #northeasternstateworldproblems.

this one's different because it's us

there will be blood

this one's different because it's us affecting a lot of white people

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, August 26, 2011 11:02 AM (3 minutes ago)

fixed

A lot of white people in Florida too, iirc.

Hurricane Irene 'extremely dangerous', warns Barack Obama

assuming that's just a kanye callback

xp

Ah, didn't make that connection.

i'm catching paranoia fever
it's exciting and scary

Wait, isn't Florida like 3/5 white non-Hispanic?

Whaddya have, a hot date or somethin', Dr. Morbius?

I have films to see, goddammit.

I am going to enjoy the image of you sitting at home spinning one of these, Morbs:

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/jbutler/VRinERSCS/Zoetrope.jpg

I have a different image of you, spinning.

if that was a zing it was (a) kind of funny but (b) mean and sort of unnecessary.

nah, joeks boyo

u know like I'M 150 YEARS OLD

it's also kind of hawt

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/1983_Topps_Ernie_Whitt.jpg this dude to thread

haha

http://cdn.tncdn.net/dyn/230/978/089/5779250.jpg

i'm catching paranoia fever
it's exciting and scary

On my trip to Kmart on Wednesday night, the only other guy there who seemed to be stocking up for the hurricane had a cart load of bottled water and bb guns.

I'm feeling like rather than scramble for bottled water I'm just gonna take a big clean plastic bin from work and fill it with tap.

Also should note that I had about 5 seconds of "shit, I'd better get out of line and go back and get one of those" thoughts when I saw him.

Whoa mandatory NYC evacuation for everyone in a Zone A. Have to be out by 5pm tomorrow. Jeezus!

well that's a mess.

whoa

http://gothamist.com/2011/08/26/nyc_starts_mandatory_evacuation_of.php

this shit is giving me a headache for realz

tomorrow would be my regular grocery trip since today is payday and i haven’t gone in over a week. now the stores are gonna be packed with a bunch of people freaking out. I almost want to wear a sign that's like "gtfo of my way this is my normal shopping day"

is sayin this now - GET OUT OF THE GRAOCERY STORE!!

time to bug out of work and get that bottle o' Stoli

hurricane irene ryan says morbs otm

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John Seabrook, stuck on what to write about:

Somehow, that doesn’t seem likely. As blue staters, we have come to associate the death and devastation caused by Katrina more with failed political leadership than with the fury of a big storm. And since 9/11, hurricanes seem less threatening precisely because you can prepare for them. You can study their projected track, clock their wind speed, and predict the time of landfall—all from the comfort of your den. In an age of sudden events that change the world in an instant, the approach of a hurricane seems old-world stately, like a transatlantic crossing on an ocean liner. We prepare for the unthinkable (or think we do); and blithely shrug off the known. One day, although maybe not this Sunday, we’ll learn.

It never ceases to amaze me how certain items, such as 'D' batteries, almost instantaneously sell out just about everywhere.

those are the batteries used in most portable radio

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Luckily I have a little mini-flashlight that takes 'AA' batteries, since those are still easy to find.

I have films to see, goddammit.

moot point since most of the theaters this weekend seem to be closing on acct of the storm

I've got a crank flashlight.

and also, yeah, subways

Events including a concert by the Dave Matthews Band on Governors' Island have been postponed, street fairs and other outdoor activities have been scrapped to clear the streets for emergency vehicles.

Dave Mathews Band: name your reasons why they are so windblown and flooded

I like her tight, revealing skirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6v6QfitkD0&feature=player_embedded

there is one branch down on my entire street, djp. there have been a few summer thunderstorms worse than irene around here. i.e. i left the empty trash can out in the yard and when i checked on it after the storm it was standing in the same place, with only a leaf sitting on top.

one day they're going to say "you know what, we're gonna stop fronting on this storm cuz nothing is going to happen" and then 300 mph winds will scoop all of the landfill out of Back Bay and drop it in Malden

Still no power in woodsy Maine, even though all signs of the storm besides very full rivers are cleared away. No estimate yet from the power company ad to when it might be back up.

Going to make a water and gasoline run in a few hours.

Still no power, but I have running water. Plus part of the highway i use to go to work caved in. This is a joke.

that is insane, literally nothing happened to anything near where I live other than some other ppl losing power for a couple of hours

Hurricanes are erratic like that. My parents' power would get knocked out for two weeks while their neighbor on the left side got his back in ten hours. Goddamn electrical grids.

yeah the damage is so widespread and we're low on the priority list as far as the NY/CT area goes

xxpost I heard about that Morristown highway collapse from someone at work today! Crazy. Glad your water is on tho.

Vermont is totally screwed right now--have people been following this? whole roads are still closed, or in some instances whole roads have disappeared, a great independent bookshop in brattleboro lost 100% of their stock, etc etc

Yeah, Vermont is the horror story of the whole thing. Crazy, nightmare shit.

http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-08-30-the-one-inch-escape

Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,
Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, [ 5 ]
Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream,
Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun,
Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice
Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest [ 10 ]
The rising world of waters dark and deep,
Won from the void and formless infinite.
Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing,
Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd
In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight [ 15 ]
Through utter and through middle darkness borne
With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend, [ 20 ]
Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe,
And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou
Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain
To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;
So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, [ 25 ]
Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more
Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt
Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill,
Smit with the love of sacred Song; but chief
Thee Sion and the flowrie Brooks beneath [ 30 ]
That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow,
Nightly I visit: nor somtimes forget
Those other two equal'd with me in Fate,
So were I equal'd with them in renown,
Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides, [ 35 ]
And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old.
Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move
Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird
Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid
Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year [ 40 ]
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose,
Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine;
But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark [ 45 ]
Surrounds me, from the chearful wayes of men
Cut off, and for the Book of knowledg fair
Presented with a Universal blanc
Of Nature's works to mee expung'd and ras'd,
And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out. [ 50 ]
So much the rather thou Celestial light
Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers
Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence
Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight.

that p much means the opposite of how i'm feeling but it's about light and i love that hymn a lot

And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou

I'm still without power.

my hometown: "Hurricane Irene caused historic flooding in some New Jersey communities, none hit harder than Cranford, N.J."

we're #1?

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/31/7540439-in-cranford-nj-entire-lives-piled-high-on-the-sidewalk

certain parts of the town (the streets near the rahway river) are still underwater

I got my power back! Yay!

i'm doing the best I can

heckuva job, etc etc

Would you believe I spent a year covering Cranford, NJ for a chain of weekly papers? A proposed flood control system (I think it involved some pumps and conduits) was a constantly debated issue -- no idea what came of it though. IIRC some locals opposed spending taxpayer money to protect people who insisted on building their homes right on a river, and others felt the protection wasn't worth it with the 'minimal' risk. Others also were afraid of eminent domain, even though I think they only needed to use it to, like, cut across the corner of a few peoples' lawns (not actually to take their houses).

sounds about right

― FEMA Director (brownie), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^ killin it

thx hoos

got my eye on Katia

Katia is the name of my filly.

life has returned to normal and my coworker is on the most boring conference call of all time

one residual effect from irene for me is that my digital clock in my room now runs about 17% too fast - a minute for it takes about 49 seconds of real time

so, life is really short.

How are you gonna know to go to bed when the sun sets so late?

^^^ koan

i always use my cell phone as an alarm anyway - for the time being this is just amusing

one residual effect from irene for me is that my digital clock in my room now runs about 17% too fast - a minute for it takes about 49 seconds of real time

― frogsb (k3vin k.), Thursday, September 1, 2011 8:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is blowing my fucking mind

right now it's 9:13 am

it's really weird

how did the hurrican possibly cause this

idk! the power was out for 3 days and when i reset all my clocks this one started acting strangely

Thats what I was wondering.

I still dont have power from this storm.

Sorry, Bill. Who else needs to check in?

That sucks Bill.

i've probably got 25 friends without power still

Damn, that really stinks!

I called my insurance company today to tell them that my home in Arkansas had roof damage and the operator replied, "From the hurricane?"

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lol :/

i dunno what i'd do without power right now

I would sweat like a mother fucker and probably also cry.

good luck, Bill

:/

Wow, sorry for all the NJ ilxors who are still off the grid. That would really try me.

Here is an interview with the librarian of the CCS Library in White River Junction VT (mentioned upthread) about the flood and the evacuation of the books:

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_sunday_interview_caitlin_mcgurk/

I got it back Sunday afternoon. A week without power. It's difficult, but if that's the worst thing that ever happens to me, i live a charmed life. Luckily it was cool for the first few days, started to heat up Friday.

Glad it returned! A week is tough, though after four days you get resigned to the fact.

i have spent the ENTIRE DAY cleaning my folks' home movies. this shit was worse than i thought.