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East Coast Timing Association => ECTA General Chat => Topic started by: Bob Wanner on August 27, 2011, 12:55:55 PM
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Irene due in NYC area later today, but it's been drizzling since 9 am here 34 miles north of the border of the City. Some observations....
Hypocritical how the newsies stand on a windswept torrential rainy beach and call the surfers insane.
The Mayor of Monmouth NJ said emergency services would not respond to your house if you stayed there after you were supposed to leave ,"Mandatory" . Yeah, right.
Like Joe Daly said, there's literally hundreds of thousands of people supposed to move, "mandatory"
I'm already tired of all this and it ain't yet really started !
Gonna go out in the big shed and count race tires ( there's my son's old college mini-fridge, plugged in, Sam Adams is waiting).
Bob W
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I think Joe Daly and I got it just right. We flew away from Irene and are headed for the salt of BUB 2011. What could be better?
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What with getting home from Speedweek to stinky water (ground hog in the well that has taken several days to get out from bottom of a 40 ft well and try to clean up the water) and work, didn't get to the racecar until this morning. Was washing salt off when the rain started mildly about 1100, now only moderate rain, bit of breeze (maybe 20-30mph) and the power went out at 345. So to the generator and sit. Can surf Landracing though! :)
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Jack, roll the race car outside and let mother nature help wash the salt off...
Be safe,,,,
Charles
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Captthunder, been worring about y'all all week -- hope you made out & your power is back on soon (can't imagine it didn't go out). I don't know how many people understand that Swansboro is on the "bottom" end of Emerald Isle (Antlantic Beach). I can't reccomend anyone's car hauler as shelter-- God hates mobile homes and trailers. Raleigh got pretty much what Greg did--power off about ten hours for us. A couple of bags of ice kept the freezer good. Best of luck everybody.
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Getting heavy rain here in Mass. today. Got to get to the cellar and start vacuuming up the water.
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Jack, roll the race car outside and let mother nature help wash the salt off...
Be safe,,,,
Charles
Well, we rolled it part way out, washed some, rain started and then winch wouldn't quite get it back in so pretty much thats what happened, Charles. We got home late Saturday and were working in yard etc to get things back in order. Saw black clouds coming. Hey, we are going for a Sunday drive in the thunderstorm!! Friend said, "you are kidding, right?" Washed the trailer and truck thanks to mother nature. We had avoided the heavy stuff on way home that had blasted the midwest. Currently we are like most of the rest of the east coast with 400K/1200K service area out of power. Gonna be a while. Stay safe everyone. Hope all ok. We are in camp out mode. :)
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Looks like it'll be good night Irene after today. The sun is already out in NJ and even Brooklyn, rain practically stopped there too. Still raining and windy up here about 50 miles North. Lots of power outages, especially north of here , I don't envy the linemen.
Today is that rainy day I said I'd clean out or catch up on that indoor thing I've been avoiding all summer. OR, I could stay glued to the Tube, watching the newsies/weatherhypers desperately trying to keep our attention. NOT!!
BW
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Jacksoni, thanks for the up date.
Anyone have a report on the Todd Dross area of Virginia?
FREUD
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Jacksoni, thanks for the up date.
Anyone have a report on the Todd Dross area of Virginia?
FREUD
IIRC they are in Frederickburg or vicinity. Found this:
http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/citybeat/2011/08/25/severe-storm-wreaks-havoc/
Certainly some impact but they are enough inland not severe I think. Perhaps they will chime in.
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Thanks so much. I am just concerned about them and didn't think far enough ahead to Google any info.
I also need to thank you for the Treit Build diary. A post with you started the entire process: first on Landracing.com and then
Target550.com. Jon Amo built the target550.com site and we didn't use it very well until Ray Therat came on board.
The Target550.com has had 1.7 million hits so far this year and it all started with you in July, 2007 on Landracing.com
THANX AGAIN,
FREUD
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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.
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Sun's out here too, but everything is soaked . My son and family down from just north, 2/3 of next county up, Putnam, still without Electricity. Since 2 am.
My daughter plunked down major $$ for a rental on Nantucket, they are there. Girl has a harder head than her father.
Sorry I did not ask about Joe T and our neighbors down the coast, I realize Irene ran over Delmarva.
Good news Joe, your basement don't leak ?
Between the big snow of last year and Irene, I guess the shop is a keeper too ?
Bob W
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Joe and Donna......come on out. 78F, blue sky and 56 miles to Hume's. I'll pick you up, transport and feed you.
By the time you inspect Treit's car and return home the tree limbs will have rotted into compost.
Oh remember, it rains here every day and there is no birth control. The weak kids drown on their way to school.
FREUD
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Cleaned up around the house Sunday. Sunny an 93 degrees. What a difference a day makes. I feel for the folks on the Outter Banks. Highway 12 breached in up to 5 places. Looks like trips to Hatteras will be by ferry only for a while.
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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
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Scrap Metal
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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.
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:cheers:
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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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]
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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! :cheers:
Just make it out of 10 ga this time! :-D