Lost another big tree afew minutes ago. Luckily they have all landed in the yard so far.
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Hurricane Irene
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Black Phantom
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Geoff
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I'm not seeing enough rain to have trees come down. I lost power for 45 minutes this morning but, other than the storm surge in the harbor, this is no worse than a nor'easter.
billski
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This was thought through and prepared a long time ago. We had some pretty bad flooding about 10 years ago. we have a pretty complete water evac system in the basement. French drain, sump, main sump, backup pump, battery backup pump, submersible pump, water detector with auto-dialer to cell phone and finally paid-up FEMA flood insurance.. The only thing missing is a generator, but the probability of sustained outages is quite small. Entire thing tested twice per year and then again yesterday. Believe it or not, we even built a FEMA disaster kit.
Freaked out, no. Frankly, it didn't cost much at all, when you do it in advance.
We had some idiot plumber install the backflow preventer bass-ackwards, and had another foot in the basement several years ago. All of that has been replace.
As I mentioned yesterday, we boarded up three cottages on the NJ shore on Friday, just three hours short of the mandatory evac, all powered by reeb.
Black Phantom
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Pardon me, butt what is reeb? :dunce:
drjeff
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Best way to describe Irene at my house in CT is that we've had basically a 6+ hour long thunderstorm like event (without the thunder and lightening) this morning! Waves of heavy wind gusts and heavy rain, then some lulls. I've got a few trees down and have been without power for 3 hours (apparently my town is now 100% without power 
) what concerns me though is some of the posts on facebook that i've seen from my year round Mount Snow area friends - some MAJOR flooding in the Dover/Wilmington area and they still have a few more hours of heavy looking rain on the radar to go
) what concerns me though is some of the posts on facebook that i've seen from my year round Mount Snow area friends - some MAJOR flooding in the Dover/Wilmington area and they still have a few more hours of heavy looking rain on the radar to go
Geoff
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reeb is beer spelled backwards.
Best way to describe Irene at my house in CT is that we've had basically a 6+ hour long thunderstorm like event (without the thunder and lightening) this morning! Waves of heavy wind gusts and heavy rain, then some lulls. I've got a few trees down and have been without power for 3 hours (apparently my town is now 100% without power
was gonna say, good thing you weren't planning on heading to your other home today.
Black Phantom
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I thought my man billski was straitedge.
Time for a Dark n Stormy and a walk to the water. Rain seems to have let up for a bit.
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Took for ever trying to embed, but here is flooding on 100 in Jacksonville, Vt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDnehoSIhJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDnehoSIhJg
drjeff
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Holy crap!!!!! I'm guessing that the Honora Winery isn't open today! Stay safe!!
Sotto
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Made it though the storm here in New Milford without loosing power so far. The Housatonic River is flooding the banks and Route 7 is underwater. Talking to some of my co-workers at Metro-North there was a mud slide crossing the tracks in the Bronx.
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Just heard that the water is to the eves of the roofs in Wilmington, yes that is right, roof level.
UPDATE: just saw some pics and it isn't quite roof level, but 2/3rds the way up and DOT's is nearly getting swept away with the backside of the building buckled in.
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Wow, that's pretty crazy. things are pretty cool over here.
Report your damage!
Report your damage!
Ski Diva
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Flooding in Ludlow, VT, not too far from me:
Abubob
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Here in central NH the lights flickered - there was another mighty wind gust - somewhat heavy rain - we made lunch on our electric stove - watched two episodes of House on DVD - there was a less mighty wind gust - the rain stopped. Just waiting for the sun to come out. Might have time for a barbecue. :smile:
But family in CT haven't had power all day and it obviously looks like VT and NY got the bulk of the rain.
But family in CT haven't had power all day and it obviously looks like VT and NY got the bulk of the rain.
riverc0il
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I know it is serious in other areas but not even a top ten worst storm of the year in Ashland, NH. Never really heard the wind pick up and the rain is already over. It might have been really heavy for a half hour but otherwise it was a typical heavy storm just of long duration. We have a field below our house along the Pemi and the river is running fast and full with only moderate flooding of the field. I'm heading out for take out. Complete bust for this area.
threecy
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I don't know if I agree with that. Anecdotally it seems like the worst of the summer here. Neighbors measured 4" of rain in only a few hours, and our lawn that was seeded a few months ago washed out late this morning. Pemi is still rising, and friends upstream in Lincoln are reporting flooding.
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riverc0il
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I was counting the winter, as far as bad storms. And I have driven in two storms in the past two months that were worse. As far as storm damage from wind, rain, and snow.... not too bad. But it seems I need to retract my overall statement as flooding is now becoming a problem in the area. A dam just broke on Route 49 and in the past hour our lower field has flooded worse than I have ever seen.
threecy
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Hearing reports of evacuations in Campton (on the way to Waterville Valley) due to the dam.
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