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Irene Check-In
How's everyone faring?
Things are really starting to pick up here (we're about 60 miles inland) and our roof is already leaking in a few places. 
There are tornado warnings up for the counties on either side of our county. I think it's going to be a long night.
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Re: Irene Check-In
Oh gosh, that's really scary. ::still thinking of everyone::
We're pretty much in the clear now. We're West of the emergency line so all we really saw were strong winds and a few spurts of heavy rain. Still, I've seen a couple tree limbs down around town. I think a couple areas of town lost power.
That being said, our local weather channel has pictures up of some of the coastal NC areas and it doesn't look good. Whole adult trees were knocked over, taking the surrounding ground with it.
My parents now think I live in the danger zone. In one summer we've been hit with a tornado, earthquake and hurricane. If we get more than 10 inches of snow this winter I think people are going to start thinking the end really is near.
i hear NC got it pretty bad... i am freaking out... the town is on a curfew til 5 am tomorrow so i cant have anyone check my house til then... and my town is an hour and 15 min inland
It's been raining all day, but the wind picked up in the past few hours. Dying down again.
Luckily I still have power but it's been flickering. My parents haven't had power most of the day so I'm thankful I decided to stay home.
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I'm about as far from Irene as one can get (thankfully), but I've been thinking about those of you in Hampton Roads today. I know you spent most of the day with Irene sitting right on top of you. Hope you all are safe and sound.
Those of you getting the storm tonight/tomorrow are also in my thoughts. Stay safe!
ps. SMW-That totally sucks about the roof and tornado warnings. Man, you've gotten babies first earthquake and first hurricane out of the way in quick succession!
BFP#2 2.5.11 (EDD 10.15.11) DS born 9.28.11 due to Pre-E
BFP#3 10.2.12 (EDD 6.12.13) MMC 11.24.12 @11.5w, had passed in 7th week
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Clicked on this board by old habit.....but just wanted to say I'm glad everyone is safe over there. We are still in really heavy rain bands and the wind is just starting here, but otherwise thats it.....so far. The roads in the area are a mess though, apparently really flooded and closed. Stay safe, ladies....and I miss you!!
Photo bomb, yeah!
I'm ok. I had power until 10am yesterday, and we were only without power for about 12 hours. So in my area they have done a good job getting power up as fast as they can. My internet was out before the power was out yesterday, and it back on this afternoon.
I don't have any problems with the house. I will have to have our fence fixed in at least one spot. I am very thankful that that is all that happened. I did see a lot of large trees that were either broken or completely up rooted. I did see some houses that lost shingles, siding or had trees fall on them. I didn't venture out much besides my normal route.
There are still areas without power near me, and schools are closed tomorrow because of power outages and damage.
It's so gorgeous outside today it's hard to believe we just had a hurricane; until you see the downed limbs and trees and the usual yard debris.
Then there is my w-e-t fireplace because the water was leaking in through there all day long and we had to constantly empty out buckets of water. We wonder though if that was because we just had the townhouse leveled on Tuesday (yep, the same day as the earthquake) and that it caused some damage to the fireplace. Haven't even thought about checking out the attic. Probably should.
Fortunately, the longest we were without power was late last night for about 3-4 hours max.
BFP#2 2.5.11 (EDD 10.15.11) DS born 9.28.11 due to Pre-E
BFP#3 10.2.12 (EDD 6.12.13) MMC 11.24.12 @11.5w, had passed in 7th week
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~All AL'ers welcome~
We're ok. Today, my internet finally came back on. We were able to get back into our house yesterday afternoon. We got about 2 inches of water in our basement from the creek spilling over. Our pump and sandbags really helped.
Our screen door was ripped off and blown around the corner. DH found it in a tree. I think that was possibly a tornado. We were under a warning at about 11pm Saturday night. They haven't confirmed a touchdown so maybe it was Irene. Who knows. All in all, we were pretty fortunate here. Some of my neighbors who blew off preparing to get drunk are in a lot worse shape. We're still dealing with a lot of road closures in the city, mostly due to downed trees and flooding. Travel is a lot better today though so we should be back to normal pretty soon.