About to be hit by a hurricane guys wish me luck

[Jetsetlemming]

In one day, starting at around 2AM sunday morning, going on for about 12 hours, I'm gonna be underneath Hurricane Irene as it heads up the atlantic coast. Just a couple days ago we had our first noteworthy earthquake in a century and now we get a once in a century hurricane over us. Hopefully the hurricane goes as easily as the earthquake did (my couch just wobbled back and forth for a couple seconds).

This does however give me a great excuse to stay in the weekend and play Deus Ex (assuming my power stays on).

[Minos]

Stay safe man

[Serenius]

As long as your place was built to withstand hurricanes and you put up shutters, you'll be good. Went through three of those things down in South Florida awhile back. Just hope you have a generator, because if your home is structurally sound, the only part that sucks is being without power for a few days/weeks.

[Jetsetlemming]

As long as your place was built to withstand hurricanes and you put up shutters, you'll be good. Went through three of those things down in South Florida awhile back. Just hope you have a generator, because if your home is structurally sound, the only part that sucks is being without power for a few days/weeks.

My place isn't built withstand jack SHIT. It's about 80 years old and Pennsylvania doesn't get earthquakes or hurricanes or tornados or any shit like that. We get mild floods sometimes, and that's it. My house doesn't even have shutters, just storm windows.

Also no generator. This is kinda a short notice hurricane, very inconsiderate.

[FrieChamp]

As long as your place was built to withstand hurricanes and you put up shutters, you'll be good. Went through three of those things down in South Florida awhile back. Just hope you have a generator, because if your home is structurally sound, the only part that sucks is being without power for a few days/weeks.

My place isn't built withstand jack SHIT. It's about 80 years old and Pennsylvania doesn't get earthquakes or hurricanes or tornados or any shit like that. We get mild floods sometimes, and that's it. My house doesn't even have shutters, just storm windows.

Also no generator. This is kinda a short notice hurricane, very inconsiderate.

In that case you're only left with one option: rock.

[mjens]

Good luck man. I think you shouldn't stay there, there's an evacuation as I know...

[Thrik]

Yeah I think I'd be fucking off for a few days if I were you.

[Tisky]

Yeah, you should:

[Serenius]

As long as your place was built to withstand hurricanes and you put up shutters, you'll be good. Went through three of those things down in South Florida awhile back. Just hope you have a generator, because if your home is structurally sound, the only part that sucks is being without power for a few days/weeks.

My place isn't built withstand jack SHIT. It's about 80 years old and Pennsylvania doesn't get earthquakes or hurricanes or tornados or any shit like that. We get mild floods sometimes, and that's it. My house doesn't even have shutters, just storm windows.

Also no generator. This is kinda a short notice hurricane, very inconsiderate.

Then it's probably a good idea to consider evacuacion, señor. Good luck weathering it out!

[Jetsetlemming]

With nine hours to go, the reports for the local weather is looking like 50-70mph winds and heavy rain from midnight to 6AM local time, sunday morning. Predicting lots of downed trees and power lines.

Going without power sucks At least the pump in my basement to protect against flooding has backup batteries.

[2d-chris]

it's coooming

in all seriousness take care, duck and cover

[Froyok]

Yeah, be careful !

[-HP-]

So you decided to stay? Anyway, good luck dude, hang tight!!

Man... the US has some serious volatile shit weather from time to time, I'm 26 and the worst thing I saw here in Europe was strong rain, lol.

[Jetsetlemming]

I'm 23 and this WEEK had my first earthquake and hurricane.

I can't afford to run. No car, and they shut down public transportation, and the outer edge of the hurricane goes all the way to harrisburg, over two hours' drive away (if I could drive).

I've made a giant crock pot full of beans/rice/beef for cooked food during the potential power outage (my stove uses electricity to spark fires for the burners, but I can circumvent that with matches to reheat stuff). Put plastic sheets over the bigger windows, like the living room bay window. I'm feeling confident.

Also apparently the last time any hurricane at all hit our area was in 1989, 22 years ago. Power was off for seven days. Hopefully this time shit goes better.

[Duff-e]

If you're in NYC don't worry nothing is going to happen. Everyone is just jerking off to disaster porn. The evacuation and MTA shutdown is just Bloomberg covering his ass after fucking up the blizzard last winter.

I would only seriously be worried in a rural area.