Re: The Official Irene Go The Hell Away Thread
Posted: August 26th, 2011, 11:33 pm
Stevo, The Great Skalootie and I are in Efland. VDB cooked a killer good dinner : )
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Yay! Glad that y'all are safe, and together.DukePA wrote:Stevo, The Great Skalootie and I are in Efland. VDB cooked a killer good dinner : )
WXII has their's in Morehead. She interviewed a storm freak early this morning that had driven in from Texas.OZZIE4DUKE wrote:
WRAL is showing the reporters at Atlantic Beach and Wrightsville Beach. Not too bad so far.
Is there anyone you can call to see if your house is OK?CameronBornAndBred wrote:Watching live feed from home, witntv.com. Landfall was 14 miles from my home. They are reporting that you can smell sap in the air from broken limbs and trees.
Why are you posting and asking CB&B the question instead of asking him directly? I thought he was staying with you? ;) ;)Very Duke Blue wrote:Is there anyone you can call to see if your house is OK?CameronBornAndBred wrote:Watching live feed from home, witntv.com. Landfall was 14 miles from my home. They are reporting that you can smell sap in the air from broken limbs and trees.
For me to know and you to find out.devildeac wrote:Why are you posting and asking CB&B the question instead of asking him directly? I thought he was staying with you? ;) ;)Very Duke Blue wrote:Is there anyone you can call to see if your house is OK?CameronBornAndBred wrote:Watching live feed from home, witntv.com. Landfall was 14 miles from my home. They are reporting that you can smell sap in the air from broken limbs and trees.![]()
Sounds like when Fran blew through central NC in 1996 with 75-80 MPH winds and 9+ inches of rain in< 24 hours. We lost power though about 1 AM that day. Very scary indeed.CathyCA wrote:You want to know what woke me up this morning? My ears popped. It hurt! Do you suppose the drop in air pressure did that?
We're getting lots of rain and wind. The back yard looks like a pond. I have no idea how much rain we've gotten, but it's a lot. Debris keeps hitting the north side of the house. I can see lots of leaves and small tree branches all over the yard. I think that the wasp nest is fairly well protected from the wind, so it will likely still be there after the storm passes.
My gutters aren't handling the rain. I probably should have gotten them cleaned out prior to the storm, but I just got them cleaned out this spring.
With regard to my bathtub. . . although I filled it last night, it is holding only about 2 inches of water this morning. Apparently, I have a slow leak in the stopper mechanism. I'm not sure if that's worth fixing or not. The next time I need to save water for a storm, I'll do it in those huge plastic buckets that we used for the kids' toys when they were little.
This isn't the worst hurricane I've ever seen. We still have electricity, cable/internet/telephone, air conditioning, refrigeration/freezer, microwave. It's still VERY scary.
Your ears popped? Wow! Definitely the low pressure! For your tub drain leak, get a ~3" wide flat rubber stopper to put over the drain plug - no more leak!devildeac wrote:Sounds like when Fran blew through central NC in 1996 with 75-80 MPH winds and 9+ inches of rain in< 24 hours. We lost power though about 1 AM that day. Very scary indeed.CathyCA wrote:You want to know what woke me up this morning? My ears popped. It hurt! Do you suppose the drop in air pressure did that?
We're getting lots of rain and wind. The back yard looks like a pond. I have no idea how much rain we've gotten, but it's a lot. Debris keeps hitting the north side of the house. I can see lots of leaves and small tree branches all over the yard. I think that the wasp nest is fairly well protected from the wind, so it will likely still be there after the storm passes.
My gutters aren't handling the rain. I probably should have gotten them cleaned out prior to the storm, but I just got them cleaned out this spring.
With regard to my bathtub. . . although I filled it last night, it is holding only about 2 inches of water this morning. Apparently, I have a slow leak in the stopper mechanism. I'm not sure if that's worth fixing or not. The next time I need to save water for a storm, I'll do it in those huge plastic buckets that we used for the kids' toys when they were little.
This isn't the worst hurricane I've ever seen. We still have electricity, cable/internet/telephone, air conditioning, refrigeration/freezer, microwave. It's still VERY scary.
That night, a co-worker and I were unloading carsdevildeac wrote:
Sounds like when Fran blew through central NC in 1996 with 75-80 MPH winds and 9+ inches of rain in< 24 hours. We lost power though about 1 AM that day. Very scary indeed.
When in doubt, reboot! But I'd get rid of that router. It's obviously been infected by carolina cooties!shereec wrote:Well, I have been unable to open crazietalk for about 10 days. It wasn't my firewall (thanks for the suggestion, Ozzie) and I had been procrastinating calling my provider's help desk (I hate having to call technical support). Our power has been blinking here close to downtown Raleigh all day, then totally went out for about 30 seconds causing everything, including my router, to reboot. As soon as I got back online, I was able to get in.
So thanks, Irene, for one piece of help, but please move out quickly. We have a place on the Pungo River outside of Belhaven, NC (my grandparents' home) and I'm anxiously waiting to hear how bad the damage is. John went down last week to batten down the hatches and bring back the riding mower. He'll probably go back early next week to assess. In the meantime, I'm sending stay-safe vibes to all of you down east and hoping for nothing too insurmountable.
Now back to catching up on my crazietalk reading.
Yes.CathyCA wrote:We lost power for about 5 and a half hours. That's so much better than the 5 days we were without power when Fran blew through Raleigh in 1996.
It's still raining here, and it's a little breezy. I stepped out and took a few pictures of my new back yard pond about an hour ago. We have tons of branches and leaves down in the yard. I realized that I don't own a rake, so I'll be heading out to WalMart upon dawn's early light tomorrow morning to buy a few rakes.
My wireless internet keeps going out. Christian is able to stay online but he's hard-wired in to the internet. Do you suppose it's my wireless router?
I've been watching it, and I think it's my SuddenLink modem. The router's lights are lit up correctly. The modem's lights keep flickering out. I'm calling SuddenLink tomorrow to get a guy over here to replace my modem. I'm hard-wired in to the internet now on my laptop, but I can't go on like this forever.CameronBornAndBred wrote:Yes.CathyCA wrote:We lost power for about 5 and a half hours. That's so much better than the 5 days we were without power when Fran blew through Raleigh in 1996.
It's still raining here, and it's a little breezy. I stepped out and took a few pictures of my new back yard pond about an hour ago. We have tons of branches and leaves down in the yard. I realized that I don't own a rake, so I'll be heading out to WalMart upon dawn's early light tomorrow morning to buy a few rakes.
My wireless internet keeps going out. Christian is able to stay online but he's hard-wired in to the internet. Do you suppose it's my wireless router?