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For those living on the east coast, get ready!

I live in NYC and people are really getting ready for this.

Hurricane Irene tracker:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/hurrica ... 1/Irene?hp

I have my weekend job tomorrow in the city. They have a 10-foot flood water warning along the river, especially the Hudson; the MTA stated that they might implement a full or partial shutdown of the train/bus services; power outages are expected; and I have to tend to my house in case one of the trees in the backyard fall or the basement floods. They want me me to come in and offered to book me a room in one of the hotels there for the entire weekend (no extra pay - Oh, the stereotypes I can think of about Jewish bosses)...and I have my NCLEX in 1 week. HA! Fuck that, I'm staying home.

Oh crap.. Mother Nature going crazy?!

Just stay safe!

Corporate just told me this is gonna be a huge issue because they expect me to come. My reply: "Okay. No. Sorry. Can't miss 2 days study. No extra pay. No thanks, I don't want to stay in a hotel. No transportation - flood warning. What? Big problem? no. kthxbye."

^ Well, you have the right to say "NO" when you feel it is appropriate.. Really!

Blehhhh, I live in Boston and were expecting 16 inches of rain and power outages for multiple day(s)

Monday is gonna be hell trying to get to work.

I want a hurricane where i live... its 106 right now -.-

M3K0S wrote:I want a hurricane where i live... its 106 right now -.-

Believe me you don't want one .

i dont want 106 degree weather either

But hurricane is way too much for temperature decrease .

Rain can solve that .

Between 106 T and a hurricane, I'll go with Irene.

Indeed. I've lived through cat 1-5 storms. Personally anything below a cat 3 i'm pretty calm with. Anything 3+, nope going to nearest shelter and hiding. Shit gets insane. The storm itself isn't too bad, it's the insane amount of twisters that pop out of them.

I don't think it'll hit the northern states too bad considering hurricanes weaken a lot once it makes landfall. I'll be surprised if it regains strength past a cat 1 status. The danger is just how closer big cities are to the coast where a storm surge from a cat 1 could be disastrous.

Best of luck to everyone in Irene's path.

Nature, me thinks u need a tampax.

GL to those in the NE.

Just passed us in Fl today, and it brought some cool weather and was nice for awhile :<

In north VA/ DC area here, hopefully we get a glimpse of the storm, i wanna know how it is (nothing too serious like cars blowing and shit though)

A (pussy) earthquake and hurricane in the same week, we are in luck.

Just cars underwater lol.

Good luck everyone, stay safe.

Noooo I live in zone C where there is flooding risk!!!

shouldn't be to bad in Maine, just a lot of rain and such, but still hurricanes are pretty unheard of up here, though by the time it gets here it probably will only be a tropical storm, but still consistent 50 mph winds is pretty unusual for here.

Hope everyone stays safe!!!

But ya im here in oregon i kinda want some rain lol

Good luck boys. Never have, and hopefully never will experience a natural disaster - I was lucky.. For any of you who heard about the devastating earthquake/flooding in Australia, it missed the city I live in by about 1 and a half hours or something. It like jumped over the top of us, and went further down south.

I live on the west coast and it's been around 90 degrees and clear skies for the past week, then last night we had a massive thunderstorm and it poured like crazy and insta flooded our streets and had quarter sized hail for a few minutes. Didn't last that long, but it was brutal. Then today it was back to being 90 degrees and dry clear skies.. That shit came outta nowhere.

East Coast? Oh fuck.

Already had Irene as Category 1 in Puerto Rico it rained like a motherfucker and nobody had electricity or running water for 2 straight days. Good luck with her now she definately screwed us -.-"

Well, in Australia, it's raining, but just coz we got shitty weather atm. (I know you guys got it worse) :p

CrimsonNuker wrote:East Coast? Oh fuck.

Don't worry, the Rideau River isn't big enough for the hurricane to reach Ottawa. We'll just get a lot of rain.

Wow that was lame

Somehow, this doesn't feel like a hurricane at all. There's a few branches on the street but that hardly warrants shutting the city down. When I used to live in another place, we would walk around as if it was regular rain during a Cat-2. For a Cat-3, we'll probably let it pass but no businesses will close down because of some rain. State of emergency my ass...

from twitter:

ChrisGrace wrote:Irene downgraded to a tropical storm. Typical: you think you're hot shit, then you come to NYC and you're not as big a deal as you thought.

Best tweet ever!

inky wrote:Somehow, this doesn't feel like a hurricane at all. There's a few branches on the street but that hardly warrants shutting the city down. When I used to live in another place, we would walk around as if it was regular rain during a Cat-2. For a Cat-3, we'll probably let it pass but no businesses will close down because of some rain. State of emergency my ass...

Same here in Brooklyn, not much wind/rain. There's been worse and this really isn't much.