Hurricane Irene

Anyone here of Tropical Storm Irene? Its going to turn into a hurricane tomorrow and may become a monster..... Watch out for her....

I.. dont...need...to lol

Same I live at the top of the US. LOL!

Well I live in MA but the meteorologists are saying it'll travel north towards new england and may still be at hurricane force

Really? Sweet. Never been in a hurricane. As long as it doesn't come on a Wednesday night, or saturday or sunday. That way I won't have to work during it lol

McGuire, if it hits ya, you'll be working. Trust me.

Worst I've been in is the aftermath of Hurrican Dennis. All the rain came up here and we got terrible flooding, worst I've ever seen.

A. O'Reilly wrote:McGuire, if it hits ya, you'll be working. Trust me.

Well I highly doubt it's going to be like Katrina force by the time it gets up here. It'll die down a lot by then. Probably just going to be rain. Maybe some wind & thunder. I hate working in rain, everybody drives 10x times worse in rain.

Yeah no kidding, and having to wait hours to change and by then your clothes are already dry. haha

^ Ya! People do drive slow in the rain though, sometimes even worse than when it's snowing!

Slow? Whereever you live, I'm moving. People drive 20 under the limit in the sun, ten over in a rain storm, and as fast as they can in a blizzard... Every time we get a lot of rain, two people at least die in MVAs, simply because people DO NOT KNOW how to drive in the rain, or anything that isn't sunny... Or really ever.

Yeah, ain't that the truth. I hate the snow, our county is nothing but mountains so it's going to be fun in the winter.

NYC is worse haha. They never know how to drive lol especially in washington heights. WH is like the Dominican Republic of NYC and they sure as heck can't drive.

Well Burke, you guys are used to snow. Here, we get it, but people still drive stupid. We have long winters here.

hurricane irene now a category 2 expected to be a cat. 3 tomorrow! Its a monster and may hit the carolinas

:O! Wow, that is pretty close to me

Send it my way, we got like one inch total of rain since May. Same with Texas

sbooth wrote:hurricane irene now a category 2 expected to be a cat. 3 tomorrow! Its a monster and may hit the carolinas

You know, I'm not even kidding anymore, I am actually seriously looking forward to it. Kind of a once in a lifetime experience living in North Jersey. Should be interesting. I'm sure during an afterwards I'll never want one to come ever again, but I'm actually looking froward to it

Same here haha.

Supposed to be category 4 by the time it hits me. Yay.

That's it man, I'm moving to North Carolina! It's boring here, just some thunder.

Preparing to face Hurricane Irene Saturday/Sunday....come Home to work lol. Wish me luck it's expected to be a cat 2 and directly hit us in jersey.

Shoot, I worked Katrina for 18 Straight days. That was fun not!. Good luck in dealing with it.

Yeah well, my dads the chief *cries then facepalms then hits her head against a wall* k I think in ready now. LOL

Yea i to was in New Orleans after Katrina for a Month and oh lord i loved the idea of going but hated it when i got there.

Yeah. We used to party all night. Now we roll up our sidewalks at 9

One things for sure...when in done I'll be hitting the bed and be asleep before I land on it. Lol

lol, its hitting me first..well second. expected to come here tomorrow morning so...SECOND! If I had a car, I would mark up a truck at the station Im at but my parents would most likely not take me.

I personally still think it's being hyped up way to much, for NJ at least. I'm not doubting it, I still need to see what happens, but I still think it's just being hyped up to much.

I mean, I know they're preparing for the worst, but look at it this way:

Town I work in, 10 miles away, is under a Hurricane warning. Town I live in, 10 miles from the town I work in, is under a tropical storm warning, and the town I live in just declared a local state of emergency. Town I work in with the hurricane warning, has not as far as I know, but idk, I haven't been checking.

Still better to be prepared, I and im sure Brondum, remember Katrina. I know that was being NON prepared and look at what happened. so if nothing happens then great.

No we were prepared. I don't work for the NOFD. I work in the suburbs. Our dumb parish president evacuated us and our pump operators. If any of our are remotely familiar with our geography, you know that the water doesn't recede. so we need the pumps to work. They wanted to leave us in 4 commercial busses on the side of the road! We would have been fine had the governor allowed FEMA to enter the state. They made the situation so much worse.

Well all I have to say is good luck and be safe guys! I'm safe here in Indiana.

Yeah, be safe! I'll be in Michigan not having to worry about it. LOL!

That theres some high winds! Looking outside and its raining sideways haha.

Well, as per Union County Fire Mutual Aid, all cover assignments and mutual aid is cancelled until the storm passes unless it's a major emergency, like heavy fire, or building collapse, or anything with heavy life involvement.

Basically, if your house catches on fire in the county today into tomorrow, you are screwed unless it's a major fire.

Here's a recording of the dispatch announcing this.

http://www.edispatches.com/orgs/general/2011-08-27-122228-UnionCountyMA-D237.mp3

jeez lol that really sucks. Good luck to all those on the east coast. Stay safe!

McGuire, that's exactly what I meant when I said raining sideways haha. I was looking for that vid too.

storm is coming 2 am tomorrow...BRING ON THE CALLS!!!!

Good luck!

you no what that hurricane flooded all of queens,staten island,part of manhatten,nj,and it really had some gusty winds to it too.

Wasn't bad at all for me here in NJ. Some wind, some flooding, some rain. Trees down, Power lines down, I never lost power though, other parts of town did.

Fire Department pumped water out of a ton of basement, had 2 fires, and the town I work in had 117 Fire calls over the past 24 hours.

Honestly not bad at all. As I predicted, they hyped it up way to much and it's not all they expected it to be.

Better to be safe than sorry, I always say.

Phones dead and powers out. I lost power bout 2am yesterday.Firehouse has been on generators and we have heavy flooding and many parts of town without power. Hope to be on soon! Spent my whole morning evacuating people

f*ck this storm >.> Woke up 2 days ago to water in the garage. Pumped it out last night, going to get the leaf blower today and blow dry it. This birthday fucking sucks

Dang! I forgot it was your B-day so if it means anything right now, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! It sucks that you had to do that since at my house, power went out for a day and a half but I have no cable and I don't care. Others have it worse such as Ewan and worse Vermont!

I have heard 21 people confirmed dead so far, the emergency services are working their butt off, but luckily England wasn't hit.

Wow...and it's sunny over here! Ewan, happy birthday and good luck! Everyone else, please stay safe!

Twenty something people die, and people are complaining saying that it turned out to be nothing. How many people have to lose their lives for it to be something important. People anymore just think of themselves. Like the people I pick up. Take the only ambulance out of the county for stupid crap. .