IRENE 2011

[Dan Stokes]

We got out of Dodge (well, Wilmington, NC) and headed for Winston-Salem, which is almost at the far western edge of NC.  Hung out with Mr. and Mrs. Redhotrcing (Luke and Greta) and their pups.  Our two fuzzy sons had a great time and the pup got in lots of wrestling.  Anyhow, we came home yesterday afternoon and found a bit of vinyl siding blown loose and a fragile willow tree down in the back yard (nowhere near the house).  No damage for us otherwise.  There's lots of tree shrapnel spread around pretty much everywhere in town and a car dealer had the tin roof blown off the service shop but all in all Wilmington survived pretty well.

Dan

[Joe Timney]

Scrap Metal

[Captthundarr]

Hi all, Amy and Me servived the storm. It made land fall approx. 22 mi. to the northeast of our home in Swansboro, NC at 7:43 am sat. No damage just a but load of pine tree junk and pine gernades(pine cones) Power left at 8:43 am sat and is not projected to be back on till thrusday which means no A/C. Got a generator to run the ceiling fans and keep the malted beverages cool. a small 110v window unit is being hunted down by Amy at this moment, can't sleep when its 85 deg. at 2:30 in the morning and sweat is running in all of my cracks. Thnaks for the concern Phit.

[theazoldcrow]

 
 Glad to hear your o.k.!  Here in Arizona we sleep in conditions like that all the time......Don't like it either!  "But, it's a DRY heat"  It's still HEAT!

[Bob Wanner]

As usual, it seems the media focuses on the cities and vacation beaches, and once the storm is out, so are the idiots standing on the beaches telling us it's raining.
Southeastern NY in the Catskills is a real disaster area, whole towns flooded out, where's the 11 O Clock Bubble Air Head Blonde Newsie ? Oh, I'm sorry, Muffy and Buffy had their McMansion in The Hamptons washed away, again, darn those Army Corp of  Engineers.
Rant done, What's Maxton look like ?
BW

[DahMurf]

Checking in! Thanks for the heads up Lynda!
We did just fine with Irene. In fact, the Thunderstorm on Thursday was far more severe with limbs down in the yard & a power outage. Luckily we have enough junk around the house that things like that don't phase us. Lots of camping equipment, generators, power cords, flashlights, water bottles. Just the norm for us!

We didn't loose power at all with Irene. Heck the little creek that runs behind the house didn't even fill into the lower yard over the weekend. Flooded on Thursday! I went by the Rappahanock River today, a few miles from the house but a significantly lower elevation, which routinely floods and is subject to the tide, and it was normal to low. The biggest risk around here was downed trees and luckily the giant trees in our front yard seem to be pretty stout!

Thanks for asking, we're doing great!

Debbie, Todd, Amanda & Josh

[roadracer]

Bob, a friend of mine that lives outside of Maxton said things weren't bad there from Irene.  They have been seeing some heavy down pours from some thunderstorms lately though.  Speaking of that we had a storm last evening that dropped a lot of rain, hail and wind on us.  Big snow, tornado, record days over 100 degrees, earthquake, hurricane and hail storm.  2011 has covered most of it for us here.

[Cajun Kid]

Bob, a friend of mine that lives outside of Maxton said things weren't bad there from Irene.  They have been seeing some heavy down pours from some thunderstorms lately though.  Speaking of that we had a storm last evening that dropped a lot of rain, hail and wind on us.  Big snow, tornado, record days over 100 degrees, earthquake, hurricane and hail storm.  2011 has covered most of it for us here.

2011 North Carolina "Chamber of Commerce" weather / Carolina Blue Sky's... NOT[size=10pt][/size]

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Storm has left, the sun is out! A tree fell on top of our car port...it's JUNK!!! Thankful nothing was under it. Lots of limbs down. We spent the night in the basemen...too many big trees around the house. Flooding everywhere. We are safe...all is good.

Easy fix for an ole tin-knocker like you Joe! 

Just make it out of 10 ga this time!