Hurricane

Earthquake first of the week, Now Hurricane coming the end of the week.
At this time we are going to be west of the Eye of the storm when it passes by.
I have the Wildcat strap down with two 3" racheting cargo straps and four 3' ground anchors.
We are ready to ride it out.

I know this weather is crazy!

We are ready, but I have not strapped down the camper though....

Prayers will go up for all our Wildcat friends and their families along the east coast. Please post when you can so we know you're OK.

TC

Frank and Tom and everybody else who is on the East Coast, I hope you aren't close enough for the surge. We lived at 75 ft elevation on the MS Coast, about 10 miles from the Gulf. Got some mighty strong winds when we lived there, and I know that is a major cause of concern for you. Really hoping all goes well for all of you.

Tater

Ready here as well. Got woken up last night from the 4.7 aftershock at about 1 am. Will see what the hurricane brings.....

According to the latest track, the eye will pass over Temple Mountain in south central NH about mid-day Sunday. We are about 50 miles east of the track in Windham, but we are being told that by the time Irene gets here she will be more on the order of a tropical storm, with winds from 39 to 60 mph. We're all battened down here; got the 10K generator ready to go, all deck furniture stacked and lashed down and some of the more fragile plants ready to move in to the house.

Due to the close proximatey of some very tall trees to the Cat, I'll be moving her out to the front yard by the street. For those of you who are suburbanites, or city dwellers, we have 2 acres and a pie shaped lot that is almost 900' deep, with 190' of frontage. House is set back almost 200' from the road.

At 11:00 pm 8/27/11 wind gust up to 45mph and 3.75" of rain. lights flicking. have not lost power as of now. We are OK at this time here in southeastern Virginia. 60 miles west of Va Beach water front

Hang in there Frank....

We are just cloudy with just a little wind. I did go out yesterday and put plastic over the refrigerator & HWH vents on the camper, also the exhaust vent for the stove fan.

So, we are just sitting and waiting, 2 bathtubs filled with water, all outside stuff in the garage.

Take care everyone.....

Spoke too soon, its 11:54 and its starting to rain, looks like its out of the East.....

@ 5:40 Lots of hard rain with some wind, trees are swaying some, but not to the point of breaking, yet. Still have electric, so far.....

Frank and Mike(SHOOTER), how you guys making out?

Thanks all for keeping us posted. If we don't here from you, I'll assume your electricity has gone out.

Tater

Scruffy and Tater wrote:Thanks all for keeping us posted. If we don't here from you, I'll assume your electricity has gone out.

Tater

At 8 o'clock central, they said that over 900,000 residents were without power. And that's just in Virginia and a small portion of North Carolina. Lots more to come.

TC

Watching the radar at 12am ,,, looks like ya'll are about to catch the eye of the storm over maryland / delaware. Hopefully it'll pass pretty quick with no flooding or wind damage.

Wind and rain just starting to pick up a little now. I don't think this will be a big deal here in southern NH. Let's hope anyway

Crazy rain here in southern Maine on the NH line...

It comes and goes but all in all no big deal...YET...

Nice warm rain too...might have to go for a motorcycle ride to the beach...

Wish you guys would send some of that rain our way. We have not had a drop since May.
If the news agencies are correct, most areas on the East Coast came out better than expected. Glad to hear that. Stay safe.

Frank wrote:At 11:00 am (< had post pm. I posted it wrong it was to be am) 8/27/11 wind gust up to 45mph and 3.75" of rain. lights flicking. have not lost power as of now. We are OK at this time here in southeastern Virginia. 60 miles west of Va Beach water front

I spoke to soon. At 11:30 am 8/27/11 lost power. No damage here. We are OK here.
Trees down at other places around the area.
Mike & Tom how are U'all doing
I hope U'all are OK and all the rest of the Wildcat owners affected by the storm.

Well, the storm is pretty much over, we lost another Bradford pear tree, 3 down, 1 to go. Lots of little tree limbs all over the place with leaves everywhere. We went out this AM for breakfast and the creeks are all overflowing their banks, 1 house has a tree uprooted and of course, it landed on the house, lots of roof damage. Currently, the wind is blowing from the west, maybe 25 MPH, with a little rain here and there. I did walk around the house and all looks fine. Looks like tomorrow will be chainsaw time......

Surprisingly, we did not loose electric at all.

Hope you all are also doing fine.

oldelmer1 wrote:Well, the storm is pretty much over, we lost another Bradford pear tree, 3 down, 1 to go. Lots of little tree limbs all over the place with leaves everywhere. We went out this AM for breakfast and the creeks are all overflowing their banks, 1 house has a tree uprooted and of course, it landed on the house, lots of roof damage. Currently, the wind is blowing from the west, maybe 25 MPH, with a little rain here and there. I did walk around the house and all looks fine. Looks like tomorrow will be chainsaw time......

Surprisingly, we did not loose electric at all.

Hope you all are also doing fine.

Great news Tom!!

TC

Tom,

Like you, we did not lose our electric, phone or cable today. For us in this little corner of NH, Irene was a fizzle. I think we might have had a few gusts up to 45 mph and it did rain quite hard last night.

All we have, now that Irene is on her way to Canada (eh), are some gusts in the 20 - 25 mph range.

We feel quite blessed that there was no damage here and our hear goes out to all those who have lost power, homes to flooding or loved ones. We pray that none of our forum friends had too much trouble with this whirly girl named Irene.

I'm glad it's over and downgraded. Now the cleanup begins.

Tom, all 3 trees down were Bradford pears? That's a shame - they are so beautiful when they are blooming and have such a pretty shape. Sorry you lost them.

Tater

Ugh...about ten minutes after my last post power went out....Its still out at home...I'm at my office here in Rochester NH.

There are about 125000 customers in Maine with no power and about 80000 in NH still without power...

parts of Rochester are without power still...

We went seven days two winters ago without the juice during the December icestorm... no estimate on my home town yet on when we can expect it back....

The storm was really a flop around here other than the no power situation...Norhern NH in the white mountains and part of Vermont have been hit VERY hard by flooding...

Shrowang,glad you guys are all set I figured you would be in tough shape... aren't you in western NH

Tonight I have to go around and pick up all the lawn darts!

Tom, sorry about your trees, but as we have found out here in Okla. they are a beautiful tree but can not stand the wind. We had one in our front yard, beautiful but along came a typical Ok thunderstorm down went the tree!

We made it ! Nothing to bad in my area,just strong wind. We had no damage and did not lose power. Oh yeah the CAT is in good shape. I keep it at a storage lot.

Scruffy and Tater wrote:
Tom, all 3 trees down were Bradford pears? That's a shame - they are so beautiful when they are blooming and have such a pretty shape. Sorry you lost them.

Tater

Yes, we had planted 4 of them in our backyard years ago. We spent the afternoon with the chainsaw and the mulcher, got probably half mulched up. Hopefully we will finish up tomorrow.

I guess its good that we at least get to recycle it for our flowerbeds.

Highwayman,

We live in Windham, which is exit 3 on I-93. We're in Rockingham county, so we were far enough east to miss most of the storm.

We really feel for those folks in VT. The pix on the TV of the rivers up there were frightening. They lost three of their historic covered bridges. On shot showed a covered bridge and then in the blink of an eye, it was gone; just dropped into the river. WOWser!

Mike I am glad you missed most of the storm. I saw the coverage of the covered bridge being destroyed sure was a sad sight. Take care Jim

Hey all I'm back...what'd I miss???

Just got power and Internet back...

I have had no TV and very little news other than what I could get on our local radio station.

I knew it was bad in VT but not being able to see any pics on the news my imagination was running wild... now after seeing the videos WOW it wasn't far off...
I had no idea! we dodged a bullet here on the coast...wow...

Glad to be back.

THEHIWAYMAN (aka Tim) wrote:Hey all I'm back...what'd I miss???

New Koozies!!!

Glad yur back!!

TC