Hurricane Irene

[aussiefriend]

So gross, and no one told him!

[sally]

OK I'm lying. I would never suck up a quarter with the vacuum cleaner, but I do the pennies and occasionally a dime if I don't feel like bending down.

[Maggot]

anyone who is too good to pick up a quarter off the floor I wouldn't trust.

I'd suck that bitch up with the vacuum cleaner. My husband has a fit when he hears me doing that, but he's not the one who cleans the house day after fucking day.

If you gave your kids piggy banks no quarters would be left behind. Now if I could tape pennies to all the toys I might win here.

[Lady Cop]

Darwin strikes again



PA
A Harrisburg man who was camping out in East Hanover Township with 19 other people was killed early Sunday when a tree fell on his tent and on top of him, according to Trooper Tom Pinkerton, state police spokesman.

Pinkerton said that the 59-year old man, part of a group camping out on McLean Road off of state Route 443, was in his tent with an unidentified female when the tree fell.

"This is believed to have been the cause of his death,'' yep, a tree falling on you might kill you. Pinkerton said, adding that the victim was discovered at 5:42 a.m. "The female suffered head injuries and is at Hershey Medical Center.''

Pinkerton said that the tree remained on top of the man because the rainy, windy weather and the remote location of the incident makes tree removal difficult. Dauphin County Coroner Graham Hetrick also was on the scene.

[Cracker]

-- Hurricane Irene had led to the deaths of at least 21 people in eight states as of Sunday evening:

CONNECTICUT:

_ In Prospect, one person was killed in a fire that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said was apparently caused by wires knocked down by the storm.

FLORIDA:

_ In Volusia County, 55-year-old Frederick Fernandez died Saturday off New Smyrna Beach after he was tossed off his board by massive waves caused by Irene. The Orlando Sentinel reports the high school teacher had a large cut on his head, apparently from hitting the sea floor.

_ In Flagler County, 55-year-old tourist James Palmer of New Jersey died Saturday in rough surf. Family members say they lost sight of him after he waded into the surf in North Florida. He was pulled to shore and his wife attempted CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

MARYLAND:

_ In Queen Anne's County, Md., 85-year-old Anne Bell was killed when a tree knocked a chimney through the glass roof of the sunroom where she and her son were sitting. They'd gone out into the sunroom after the power went out in her Queenstown home. Bell was struck by debris, causing severe trauma.

NEW JERSEY

_ Celena Sylvestri, 20, of Quinton, called her boyfriend and then 911 early Sunday seeking help getting out of her flooded car in Pilesgrove, police said. Her body was found eight hours later in the vehicle, which was about 150 feet off the road, police said.

NEW YORK

_ A man in his 50s was electrocuted in Spring Valley when he tried to help a child who had gone into a flooded street with downed wires. The child was in very serious condition at Westchester Medical Center's burn unit, said a spokesman for the Rockland County Emergency Operations Center.

_ State police said they recovered the body of a woman who apparently drowned after she fell into Onesquethaw Creek in New Scotland, near Albany.

NORTH CAROLINA:

_ In Nash County, a man was killed after a tree limb fell on him outside his home Saturday morning as outer bands from the storm brought near hurricane-force gusts inland.

_ Goldsboro police say a 15-year-old girl died Saturday afternoon after the SUV carrying her and family members collided with another SUV at an intersection where Irene had knocked out power to traffic lights.

_ Authorities in Pitt County say a man was found dead in his home after Irene's winds toppled a tree onto his house.

_ Another man in Pitt County drove through standing water, went off a road and died after striking a tree on Saturday.

_ A mother in Sampson County died Saturday morning when a tree fell on a car carrying her and two family members.

_ New Hanover County deputies on Sunday afternoon recovered the body of Melton Robinson, Jr., who had been missing since falling or jumping into the Cape Fear River as storms from Irene reached North Carolina on Friday night.

PENNSYLVANIA

_ Michael Scerarko, 44, was killed Sunday when a tree fell on him in his yard. Scerarko, of Stroudsburg, pushed his son out of the way, but could not get out of the way himself, police said.

_ A 58-year-old Harrisburg man was killed Sunday morning when a tree toppled onto his tent, state police said. The man was one of about 20 people at a party on private property in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, some of whom who decided to sleep outside.

_ A man in a camper was crushed by a tree in northeastern Pennsylvania's Luzerne County, state emergency management officials said. Police found his body shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday.

_ A motorist was killed when he lost control of his car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Carbon County, skidded over an embankment and hit a tree. State officials attributed the accident to the storm.

VIRGINIA:

_ Newport News authorities report that 11-year-old Zahir Robinson was killed when a large tree crashed through his apartment shortly after noon.

_ In Brunswick County, a tree fell across a car Saturday afternoon, killing 67-year-old James Blackwell of Brodnax. The driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

_ Chesterfield County police say a man died at a Hopewell hospital Saturday after a tree fell on a house that he was in.

_ A King William County man killed when a tree fell on him as he was cutting another tree on Saturday night.

[Lady Cop]

all sad. and 3 preventable, just sheer dumbass stupidity. by people old enough to know better.


Vermont

Hundreds of Vermonters were told to leave their homes after Irene dumped several inches of rain on the landlocked state. Gov. Peter Shumlin called it the worst flooding in a century, and the state was declared a federal disaster area.

"We prepared for the worst and we got the worst in central and southern Vermont," Shumlin said Monday. "We have extraordinary infrastructure damage," including communities that were cut off, hundreds of roads closures and the loss of at least three historic covered bridges.








here on Cape



Boston

[Mommabear]

My backyard is flooded almost to the house and a small portion of the front yard is also. I live in a flood zone so I was expecting that. There are 5 trees down. Electricity was also out when my family got back home today. We drove around and got a generator and then hubby went to get gas. Of coarse, as soon as he left the electric came back on. House is in good shape though.

I had been hoping that all this rain would put out the fire in the Dismal Swamp. It didn't. Damn fire is still going. I have been waking up to the smell of smoke for over a week.

[Lady Cop]

Mommabear, i looked up the Great Dismal Swamp Wildlife Refuge...wonderful place. i can't believe the fire is still burning after all that rain! what's happening with the animals? the fire has had little or no publicity, how bad has it been? losses?

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/greatdismalswamp/


The swamp supports a variety of mammals including otter, bats, raccoon, mink, grey and red foxes, and grey squirrels. White-tailed deer are common throughout the refuge and, although rarely observed, black bear and bobcat inhabit the area.

[Lady Cop]

i knew Cracker wouldn't be disappointed:

neanderthal scumbags.





Two men have been arrested in Virginia Beach after they were caught on camera looting from a storm-damaged home as Hurricane Irene whipped through the area.

Patrick McGuire, 29, and Charles Andrews IV, 22, were arrested and charged with burglary and grand larceny in connection to the theft. alcohol and an iPod speaker system were stolen from the home on the 3200 block of Sandfiddler Road - a block from a home the men shared in the beach town.

[Mommabear]

Mommabear, i looked up the Great Dismal Swamp Wildlife Refuge...wonderful place. i can't believe the fire is still burning after all that rain! what's happening with the animals? the fire has had little or no publicity, how bad has it been? losses?

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/greatdismalswamp/


The swamp supports a variety of mammals including otter, bats, raccoon, mink, grey and red foxes, and grey squirrels. White-tailed deer are common throughout the refuge and, although rarely observed, black bear and bobcat inhabit the area.

I woke up one morning and ran around the house looking for a fire because all I could smell was smoke and my smoke detectors were not going off. I then went outside to find what was burning and I couldn't tell where the fire was coming from but I knew it was big. I ended up calling my husband at work to find out what was happening because I couldn't find anything about it.

A lighting strike started the fire on Aug.4, I think. Over 6000 acres have been destroyed. There is damage to roadways and ditches. There are signs on some of the roadways warning of dense smoke and I believe there have been heath issues and traffic accidents because of it.

As far as the animals, there are moving anywhere they can. I am hearing from a person that works at the U.S Training Center that the compound is being over run with Black bears. There was even a momma and her cub spotted by the main office building.



There is part of this article http://hamptonroads.com/2011/08/hurrican...swamp-fire

Fire officials took to the air Sunday afternoon to assess conditions. They spotted at least 30 areas where smoke was still billowing from the 6,000-plus-acre fire, which is not unusual, said John Bearer, a spokesman for the Southern Area Type 2 Incident Team, in charge of the fire.

But there was good news to come out of Irene, too.

No visible flames were spotted, and the fire - which was considered 35 percent contained on Friday before the storm - did not appear to have spread, Bearer said.

Also, between 10 and 15 inches of rain from the hurricane were recorded at the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, he said.

"We have puddles all over the place," Bearer said. "There's time to get water into that soil."

He likened it to water hitting a sponge. For the rain to help, it needs to soak into the deep organic peat, where the fire has been smoldering.

[Lady Cop]

Thanks Mommabear.


this made me very proud:

The dedication and respect shown in this story is the reason why our military is the best in the world. Despite the crazy weather yesterday in Arlington, Va., as a result of Hurricane Irene, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was not forgotten.

"A lone Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), walks his tour in humble reverence during Hurricane Irene in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Aug 27. Members of The Old Guard have guarded the Tomb every second, of every day regardless of weather or holidays since April 6, 1948."

[Lady Cop]

the aftermath.
Irene was not so minor.
here are MANY photos of destruction.
NY, NJ, Vermont.
i can't get over how a landlocked state like the beautiful Green Mountain State Vermont could suffer such damage from a 'cane, you just don't expect that.

links:


lots of pictures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...es-44.html


http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/30/irene.v...?hpt=hp_c1

[IMaDick]

President Barack Obama warned that the aftermath of the storm could be more painful than the storm itself but promised the government would do everything in its power to help people get back on their feet.

As the damage of the storm is estimated to cost between $7billion and $10billion, it is believed it will also help the economy as it will help create much-needed jobs.

Thank you for the storm, Not just any president could get re elected because of an upswing in the economy from a disaster.

But Obama is going to try.

[Cynical Ninja]

President Barack Obama warned that the aftermath of the storm could be more painful than the storm itself but promised the government would do everything in its power to help people get back on their feet.

As the damage of the storm is estimated to cost between $7billion and $10billion, it is believed it will also help the economy as it will help create much-needed jobs.

Thank you for the storm, Not just any president could get re elected because of an upswing in the economy from a disaster.

But Obama is going to try.

At least Obama didn't hide in his treehouse like Bush did after Katrina numbnuts.

[Cracker]

i knew Cracker wouldn't be disappointed:

neanderthal scumbags.





Two men have been arrested in Virginia Beach after they were caught on camera looting from a storm-damaged home as Hurricane Irene whipped through the area.

Patrick McGuire, 29, and Charles Andrews IV, 22, were arrested and charged with burglary and grand larceny in connection to the theft. alcohol and an iPod speaker system were stolen from the home on the 3200 block of Sandfiddler Road - a block from a home the men shared in the beach town.

Them are white trash. You can tell because they have inbred eyes.

Should we just outlaw hoodies? Will crime end if there aren't any hoodies?

[Lady Cop]

over 8000 homes still have no power here on the Cape. people with wells reliant on electric pumps have to go to various fire stations to get water. power will not come back on until maybe sunday. :(
people are PISSED OFF.

Vermont is a real mess.

emergency airlift operations brought ready-to-eat meals and water to Vermont residents left isolated and desperate.

Dangerously-damaged infrastructure, 2.5 million people without power and thousands of water-logged homes and businesses continued to overshadow the lives of residents and officials from North Carolina through New England, where the storm has been blamed for at least 44 deaths in 13 states.

But new dangers developed in New Jersey and Connecticut, where once benign rivers rose menacingly high. New Jersey ordered new evacuations.

In Connecticut, the Connecticut River was 23 feet above flood stage on Tuesday afternoon and still rising.

In Vermont, officials focused on providing basic necessities to residents who in many cases still have no power, no telephone service and no way to get in or out of their towns.

On Tuesday night, 11 towns were cut off from the outside.

[Lady Cop]

another casualty. a shame.

Arlington National Cemetery officials say a 220-year-old oak tree at the grave site of President John F Kennedy was destroyed in Hurricane Irene last weekend.

The historical 'Arlington Oak' stood through the construction of Arlington House, the pre-Civil War home of Confederate General Robert E Lee, and the creation of the cemetery in 1864.

The majestic tree, among five fallen at the national cemetery, shaded visitors to the Kennedy grave site for 48 years.

Steve Van Hoven, who is in charge of the cemetery's trees, said: 'It is truly unfortunate to see it's now gone - that tree had a significant legacy here at Arlington."



JFK grave





The Custis-Lee Mansion



The ancient 'Arlington Oak', pictured here, was present throughout the history of Arlington National Cemetery, including the construction of Arlington House, the pre-Civil War home of General Robert E. Lee, and the creation of the cemetery in 1864.

The 19^th-century mansion stands amid more than 250,000 military grave sites on a Virginia hillside rising above the Potomac River and overlooking Washington, DC.

But when construction began in 1802, the estate was not intended to be a national cemetery - but a living memorial to George Washington.

The first president's adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, hired English architect George Hadfield to design the estate.

The Greek revival structure which Hadfield designed took Custis 16 years to complete.

[JsMom]

Hurricane Katia and Tropical Storm Lee


...LEE STALLS JUST SOUTH OF LOUISIANA...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA...MISSISSIPPI...AND ALABAMA...

...KATIA BARELY A HURRICANE...



http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

[Maggot]

Baaaaaa........

[Lady Cop]

(CNN) -- Waterlogged Vermont and northern New York braced for more rain a week after Tropical Storm Irene destroyed roads and sent floodwaters cascading into homes and businesses.

A flash flood watch for the region has been issued for Sunday evening through Tuesday morning, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.