Hurricane Isabel and ENWorlders

[Gnome Berzerker]

 

[Angcuru]

*Kills Hurricane Isabel for putting him in a bad mood hence the not working on the story hour KILL KILL*

 

[DaveStebbins]

You people should try living through New Yorkan Nor'easters mid winter.

Sorry for the potential hijack, But Arthur, I live in Erie, PA and went to school in Buffalo. Mid-winter New Yorkan Nor'easters don't scare me. I doubt they'd even close the schools here.

Best wishes to everyone affected by Isabel. All it did here was soak me on my walk to work this morning. It rained all day and we lost power at the office for about an hour.

-Dave
11 or 12 feet of snow here last winter and no school closings...

 

[Jeph]

!

I lost power for a day and a half. Got it back 15 minutes ago.

(and the first thing I do is surf the web at 11:00 at night! Typical. )

 

[Buddha the DM]

I was sent the following picture in my email today. This is the storm from roughly sea level earlier today.

<img src="http://24.58.109.160/images/hurricane.jpg" width="350" height="262.5">

or for those of you that want an uncompress version of the above pic go to:

http://24.58.109.160/images/hurricane.jpg

 

[Mirth]

Funny enough, I took a vacation in Atlantic Beach just this last weekend. Left on Monday and a few days later I see a weatherman standing right where I was swimming getting blasted by wind and rain so hard the camera has to be wiped down every 8 seconds so they can get a clear shot. It's been sunny and warm back home here in western NC.

My uncle lives in Richmond and his house was hit by two trees last night. Totally demolished. My cousin was home when it happened and had to be rushed to the hospital because of glass fragments that shredded his knee.

One of my best friends lives in Virginia Beach, my sister-in-law lives in Baltimore and my parents-in-law live in DC. I don't what the situation is with any of them since the power situation has cut off communication. I'm just hoping no news is good news.

As for Arthur Q, I'll say this nicely since Eric's Grandma is here. My kin have lost both home and blood to Isabel. Show some friggin' respect. If you can't, please don't post to this thread.

Jay

 

[Uzumaki]

one of the nice things about living in chicago, is that we don't get the east coast's hurricanes, or the west coast's earthquakes.

Ah, but you have to weather the blizzards and this season's Bears.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Sorry for the potential hijack, But Arthur, I live in Erie, PA and went to school in Buffalo. Mid-winter New Yorkan Nor'easters don't scare me. I doubt they'd even close the schools here.

Best wishes to everyone affected by Isabel. All it did here was soak me on my walk to work this morning. It rained all day and we lost power at the office for about an hour.

-Dave
11 or 12 feet of snow here last winter and no school closings...

They dont scare me either, but on average they certainly do more damage then a Catagory 1 huriccane.

 

[Hand of Vecna]

About half of Raleigh was in the dark during the storm, but my power only flickered during the day, and was out from 9-9:30pm (and my lving room ceiling leaked, but that was fully expected). Classes at NCSU were cancelled Thursday, and the Acquisitions Dept. at the Library closed at Noon, so I only worked 4 hours Thursday (the Library itself stayed open all day, regular hours). Everything was back to normal Friday, though we were still under the Adverse Weather Policy (i.e. you're expected to come in, but if you can't, it won't be counted against you... if you're a student; if you cannot come in to work, you still need to make it up at a later date, though for some inane reason we can only make up time lost due to adverse weather during weeks that have Holidays....).

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

We got hit pretty hard here in Charlottesville, about 1/3 of the town is still without power, me included. I'm at a public computer at UVA, and don't plan on having power at home until tomorrow, or maybe even Monday. Everyone I know is safe, but there were 5 deaths in the area from Isabel. The town got hit hard, really hard. One of my good friends has trees down all over his back yard, and is lucky that their house wasn't hit. My fiance's parents lost the small vacation/fishing home they bought 2 years ago on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. When the storm was coming, they were worried that the storm might cause damage to the place, but they didn't expect to lose it. The woman who manages the property for the owners spent 3 hours clinging to the top of a tree with water up to her neck when her house was blown away underneath her. Thankfully, she survived, but has nothing. No home, no job.