Hurrican Irene, Eastern Seaboard, BE READY!!

http://www.scemd.org/

http://www.scemd.org/News/11newsreleases/082511NR4.pdf

Also, check the links I sent in eariler about television stations in Charleston, South Carolina.

 

LOL... Nope he was delivering in North Charleston, S.Carolina. They didnt have an evacuation in effect except for asking people on boats and the shore line to move inland. They just had a tropical storm warning. I stayed up all night and monitered the weather for him while he slept. Woke him at 4am so he could get an early start to his delivery point. He called me when he got to the delivery point and said the weather was fine. I then went to sleep and have just "revived" again. I am fixing to call him and see if he got unloaded and where he is at now.

Hope your brother is ok???

 

Ok... Just talked to Kittyfoot and he is unloaded and trying to head for home! He is on I-26 just south of I-95 stuck in a traffic jam due to a wreck. He is gonna take I-26 to I-20 and head back to good ole Louisiana. He did say that water was backing up into the low areas in North Charleston but not over the roads or anything. Just in the low areas.

 

http://www.ready.gov/america/beinformed/hurricanes.html

There are some radio comments that Washington, DC may have a delayed arrival on Monday for the business week. I wonder how much damage will be done and how much things will be messed up around that town. PEPCO's president has come on TV and says that electric power will be off for days if not for weeks.

SEPTA - Mass Transit for Philadelphia, PA is shutting down ...

http://www.septa.org/service/weather.html

WMATA - Mass Transit for Washington, DC ... THINKS ... it can stay running ...

http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=5020

MTA - Mass Transit for New York, New York is shutting down ...

http://www.mta.info/nyct/

 

NY officials also said that they will shut down their bridges when wind speeds reach 60 mph.

 

Ride? hell no ! I'll take the left seat and see if I have what it takes in skills.

Crazy? no! Crazy would be flying a Cessna into a storm. Their bird is designed to do this so it's all on you.....

Bring what you got !

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44273340



Also, Mayor Bloomberg has ordered the MANDATORY evacuation of 300,000 people from low lying areas of New York City. My guess is that this includes the former World Trade Center site, near the Battery in Lower Manhattan.


http://www.nyc.gov/html/home_alt.html

 

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=678&sid=2515021

 

The wind has picked up even here in East TN. You can see clouds being pulled towards the hurricane. It's amazing how much power is in one of them things.

It looks like it turned a little towards the better if you can say that. It's a little more east than projected.

I bet Obama ain't buckled down in the White House.

 

You are correct.

He is in Rhode Island at the Vineyard, till Saturday.